Old World - The funny screenshots thread

[PiR]

I hope you divorced!

 

[cairnsy44]

I should have. but his family was not pleased, so I waited....he died shortly after. Karma is a beeyotch.

Same game, male leader, and I had my cousin come tell me she was in love with me.

 

[Chris41336]

I've never had cousin proposals! Lol Do you have to play on random leader for that to occur?

 

[cairnsy44]

I've never had cousin proposals! Lol Do you have to play on random leader for that to occur?

nope! I was like, "who is the person in love with me?" I hovered over her name and see "(your cousin)" next to her name. yikes.

 

[jguy100]

Funny new event!

 

[Forster]

Back then, nothing wrong with it.

 

[Zaarin]

nope! I was like, "who is the person in love with me?" I hovered over her name and see "(your cousin)" next to her name. yikes.

It's really only the past 100 to 150 years that cousins have been considered too consanguine/incestuous in Western cultures. Before that, they were ideal marriage candidates because it kept the wealth in the family. In some cultures they're still considered ideal marriage candidates. (Here's a fun one: in societies with Iroquois kinship terminology the children of your parents' opposite-sex siblings [your cross cousins] are marriageable but the children of your parents' same-sex siblings [your parallel cousins] are considered your siblings.)

 

[PiR]

The output of shields per turn of this guy becomes crazy.

 

[Zaarin]

The output of shields per turn of this guy becomes crazy.

*cries in Persian*

 

[PiR]

*cries in Persian*

You got that right

 

[Zaarin]

You got that right

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I don't know which is more confusing: that Roma is the holy city of Zoroastrianism or that Byzantion is the holy city of Judaism.

 

[Solver]

Better yet, Roma is Greek here. And Alexander's ultimate defeat of Persia happens, it seems, in northern Italy.

 

[PiR]

Assyria had Southern Italy, Persia Northen Italy. The 3 of us started very close from each other while Carthage started in Portugal and the rest of the map was barbs

 

[jguy100]

Babylon started in Portugal. Don’t know who this Carthage is you speak of!

 

[PiR]

yeah, I mean, geographically it didn't compute, so my brain remapped your Nebbie as a Dido male

 

[PiR]

still 20k points and i'll get that cognomen and i'll get that achievement to detroy Persia as Alexander the Great B-)

Although I think he could be called the Great right now:

 

[Solver]

Yeah but how many horses did he tame?

 

[MrRadar]

Well, well, my dear bitterromantic hubby, so nice of you to call on me once in twenty years, to know me better. I do hope, after this pleasant stroll, we'll have tea together some time, in another twenty years or so, if you're still around. At this rate we may even hold hands before a century passes...

(yes, I do realize that at that age and being severely ill just might have something to do with this sort of affairs, but still, there was some pent-up rage to vent )

Quick update:
Next turn it appeared that the sight of my sort of person was too much to bear for him. Well, the joke's on him, try to know who you marry before you marry. What? Yes, call of the tea, he won't be coming on...

 

[MrRadar]

Previous turn Persia declared war on us. This turn both the Persian King and my ruler character die simultaneously. Couldn't the old bastard wait a bit with the declaration? So typical for the older folks to ruin life for the young generation and then peace out scot free. This game is a bit too realistic

I just don't understand why the new Persian Queen organizes the acceptance ceremony in an Egyptian border city, which does not have any temple, btw:

 

[MrRadar]

...the border wall, and Persia will pay for it! (...loud cheering...)