New Wonder: "The Groans of the Britons"

here are the files.


i thought this would be a cool wonder of sorts. i was gonna use it in a project
i was working on a while back, but never got around to finishing it.

could come in handy though.
the zip contains the pedia icons, buildings-small/large pcx, and a tech icon that
could be used for any number of things, but might be handy for the wonder.

also here's a potential pedia entry (most of it from Wikipedia ) :
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#BLDG_Groans_of_the_Britons
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^Initiates the possibility of a diplomatic victory.
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^The [Groans of the Britons] is the name of the final appeal made by the post-Roman
population of Britain for assistance against foreign invasion. It describes a people
in extreme danger and was an attempt to persuade the late Western Roman Empire to
send troops across the English Channel to help defend its former subjects.
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^Dated around 446 AD the message is recorded as being a last-ditch plea for assistance
to Aëtius, military leader of the Western Roman Empire.
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^Rome had withdrawn troops from Britain around 407 AD and the civilian administration had
been expelled by the natives a little later, leaving the inhabitants to fend for themselves
during increasingly fraught times.
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^A portion of the plea reads:
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^"To Aëtius, thrice consul, the groans of the Britons... the barbarians drive us to the sea,
the sea drives us to the barbarians, between these two means of death we are either killed or drowned."
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^"Barbarians" refers to the Saxon settlers who had been living alongside the Britons since the 430s.
The reference to being pushed back from the sea may refer to Pictish and Irish raiders.
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^The Saxon troubles continued for many years until the Battle of Mount Badon in the late fifth century
which ushered in two generations of peace.

I like it . It could arguably sit as a diplomatic victory possibility for the Anglo-Saxons; not sure if the Iceni could use it too...

thanks...i thought it was pretty unique lol, hope it's useful.

Very clean, well done. I would have used it, would it have come a year ago

thanks....it took some doing to not have it so pixilated lol

Nice idea - something a bit different! I don't know what effect it would have, though, given that it achieved nothing whatsoever in real life...

hahaha yeah.....it really did achieve nothing at the time,
it's really sad actually how Rome bullied it's way into Britian,
forced their culture, and administration upon the natives,
then abandoned them in their most dire hour of need. (jerks)

anyway....i like rob's idea of using it as a diplomatic
victory possibility for the Anglo-Saxons.