Recent content by Shibbyman

Any one know any good books on the Crisis of the Third Century specifically focusing on the Gallic Empire or Romanitas vs regional identities (please no Gallophile histories if possible).

http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/vikingorkney/genetics.htm The last section is interesting. It says that the further you get from Scandinavia, the higher the disparities between "viking" Y-chromosones (male) and "viking" mitochondrial (female) lines become...

I know, that's the point I'm making. A lot of people in this thread seem to be thinking that though...

Would it be possible that the prevalence of the trait in Europe is due to founder effect, a population crash in Ice Age Europe or any something similar without large scale inbreeding if the trait had occurred earlier enough for there to be a significant population of heterozygous carriers?

If existence is inherently evil and we survive off the destruction of other beings, aren't we doing a good thing by putting the other beings out of their misery?

I knew it'd be something REALLY simple like that. Thanks, warpus.

hello, I'm just starting to use VB08 and I've run into a confusing error. I tried to run some code in the form: if strName = "Bob" Or "Robert" then inCounter = intCounter + 1 End if (i.e. using a check for the contents of the string "strName" as a parameter for the loop) But it...

The mesopotamians are guilty for invented agriculture which allowed for established ruling elites to be formed and thus ALL empires. In conclusion, Iraq is guilty; I say we invade them to teach those imperialist bastards a lesson! I've always thought that calling possessions "colonies" when no...

I've got it working (I'm not sure what fixed it because I added some units and fixed some strange looking lines in the .WBS file). There is now just a problem with getting a few civs working (they didn't show up but I think that might be due to a lack of units for them as well). Thank you so...

This is one my first maps and all has been going well up until now. All of a sudden, I can't load up the map without getting the "You have been defeated" message despite the fact that the map has cities placed (I checked the WBS in notepad) so I have no idea what I have done wrong. Could...

Well, they were nomadic herders... Yay historical accuracy?

I wouldn't mind that, actually, if only to make colonies interesting. It would be great to see a "new world order" of nations to pop up European colonial mismanagement. There could be an event at the end of the 19th century (representing nationalism) that would lower stability amongst colonial...

In regards to UHV's, does controlling a vassal that owns a particular region have the same effect as owning a region directly? I'm worried because, playing as Germany, I vassalised the Ottomans and it's getting close to 1870.

I understand that much of it, but I just wanted to know what the importance of the Angles was. I've done some research since I made this post and it turns out that Bede was born in a region that he claimed was settled by the Angles. Which would explain the importance he gives to them. Also...

I've been wondering recently why, considering the numerical importance of the Saxons settlers in early England compared to that of the Angles along with the historical importance of Wessex (West Saxons) in unifying England and the importance that English monarchs have generally placed on tracing...