Recent content by manio curio

nice stuff as usual @Hickman888, any reason for not building walls to fend off the barbarians?

I'll make an edit on the cities situation from what I have already said. Venice and Milan need tiles in France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia to grow properly. If you are playing with rome, no problem at all, by the time france and hre spawn you will have enough culture points to keep a good...

You are right about the tiles making Italy, Milan and Venice need to control chunks of France, Switzerland, Austria or Slovenia to grow enough. It should be fixed. Nice catch I never realized it.

I Played with both Genoa and Venice in RFC Europe and many of their colonies were barely average cities productivity wise. With the map used in DoC it would be way worse since the cities would be more cramped, thus with fewer tiles available at their disposal. With the current DoC map Sicily...

Have you ever played with Italy on DoC or any submod? And RFC Europe? Just curious

I think the map resolution wouldn't really allow it, you would have a 2 cities civilization in the south, not the greatest. In RFC Europe they were able to set up Venice and Genoa with a good gameplay experience and they had a much more detailed map available.

Just to be clear, in my opinion the cataphract should be shared among the Romans and the Byzantines. The comitatus can be shared with the germanic tribes. It is a little controversial but there have been researchers who suggested that the Germanic warbands, who were initially let inside the...

I would suggest the cataphract to be included among Rome's unique units since it was employed by the Roman army in general, not just by the Byzantines after the fall of the western Roman empire. The dromon instead was introduced after the fall of the Roman empire, thus it should be unique to...

I would argue Messana can grow even faster if the player doesn't assign the fish resource to Rome. However both Messana and Syracuse production plateaus to lackluster values. In conclusion they are useful on a Rome game especially if you implement despotism and sacrifice plenty of population to...

I would argue a lot of the issues are due to the map resolution, you can only put so many productive cities in France, Italy and so on.

Game details: v1.17.4-669. if it helps I downloaded your release of July 7th 2025. Let me know if more info is needed.

That is a very good point, moreover Jesus was a reformer of Judaism in his preaching, later on his followers split up with the rest of Judaism and Christianity was 'born'

Your perspective contradicts the old testament in several parts, again nothing wrong with that, but to say that biblical scholars would agree on it can only be true if such biblical scholars are handpicked between a subgroup of non religious ones. Ancient Israel being pagan is biblically...

Yours is a secular perspective, nothing wrong with that, but it is not a universal one. My comment was aimed at raising an objection from a biblical perspective, since the Jewish identity is strongly correlation to the Jewish faith. The original comment mentions the lack of a Jewish civilization...

From a Jewish perspective it would be a catastrophic choice since it would defy quite a lot of biblical passages. If there was something that angered God was the worshipping of the Baals, plus the Hebrews would descend from Abraham who was Ur, outside of Phoenicia.