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12-14-2017, 06:08 PM | #22 |
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Re: Alternate history - What could tech 3 Gaul look like?
The contex is couterfactual and historical medieval Gaelic poets seem relevant to the TL3 part. I was making a comparison to later Gaelic history and suggesting parallel development. When I said "historically they had an interest in literacy" I meant that in our history the poet class did.
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Re: Alternate history - What could tech 3 Gaul look like?
Not implausible. But they'll probably have to initially catch the spark for writing from somebody other than the Romans, in this case.
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Not sure if you can throw gaels and continental celts together. They were much more advanced, strong influenced by greeks and latins (even before the conquest) and partly very different (Like the city-states of the celtiberians or the magistrates of the Aedui)
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Seleucids did rebuild most of Alexander's Empire. They were Zorastrian and collapsed before existence of Christianity. While they had plenty of exposure to Buddhism, they only had minority Buddhist populations because the Persians preferred Zorastrianism.
Without Rome, the Seleucids would have conquered the Eastern Mediterranean, as it was Rome who broke the Seleucids in the Roman-Seleucid War. The consequences of their lose was to deprive them of the wealth of their Asia Minor territories, which left them vulnerable to rebellions in the rest of their empire, and to force them to pay a crippling endemnity, which left them unable to afford to defend themselves against the Parthians. The Seleucids lost sixty percent of their territory in the twenty years after their lose to the Romans. A successful Seleucid Empire might have been the trigger for a civilized Gaul. Gaul would have just been too far away to conquer, but it would have been worth unifying into an allied nation to contain the Germans to the north and the Carthaginians to the west (as well as giving the Seleucids a trading partner). You might have seen the Seleucids send advisors, mercenaries, and treasure to one of the more civilized tribes and had them conquer the rest of Gaul (and possibly Belgae, Brittannia, and Iberia). The resulting Gaulic Kingdom would have probably had an Occitain flavor. |
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Re: Alternate history - What could tech 3 Gaul look like?
No, I do think that the terms 'light', 'medium', and 'heavy' should relate to armor and shields. Light infantry should have an average DR 1-2 with small shields. Medium infantry should have an averge DR 3-4 with medium shields. Heavy infantry should have an average DR 5-6 with large shields.
Light infantry should have a one-handed weapon with an attack that deals a minimum of +0 damage. Medium infantry should have a one-handed weapon with an attack that deals a minimum of +1 damage. Heavy infantry should have a one-handed weapon with an attack that deals a minimum of +2 damage. Alternatively, infantry can go with two-handed weapons. Light infantry should replace light shields with two-handed weapons with one attack that deals a minimum of +3 damage. Medium infantry should replace medium shields with two-handed weapons with one attack that deals a minimum of +4 damage. Heavy infantry should replace heavy shields with two-handed weapons with one attack that deals a minimum of +5 damage. |
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Re: Alternate history - What could tech 3 Gaul look like?
This type of categorisation does not help organise tactics nor strategy. The convention was set up the way it is for commanders to better deploy their troops, not to satisfy our sensibilities.
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