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October 14th, 2003, 07:49 PM
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Re: Drow theme
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Ulm is based on Germany. Ulmians are tall, not short, and they don't have beards. There is actualy a place called Ulm in Germany.
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Wtf? Is this a joke? Ulm with those various heavy infantry is based on Germany?
Pardon me, but what are we talking about?
German tribes had some dumbass barbarians in the early ages, they were owned bigtime by the various other barbarians like the Huns. .
I doubt that germany ever had heavy infantry in the medieval ages at all. [Holy Roman Empire was not Germany at all..]
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October 14th, 2003, 07:55 PM
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Re: Drow theme
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Wtf? Is this a joke? Ulm with those various heavy infantry is based on Germany?
Pardon me, but what are we talking about?
German tribes had some dumbass barbarians in the early ages, they were owned bigtime by the various other barbarians like the Huns. .
I doubt that germany ever had heavy infantry in the medieval ages at all. [Holy Roman Empire was not Germany at all..]
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Ulm has a Kruppstahl thing going on.
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October 14th, 2003, 07:57 PM
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Germany hardly existed before the unification. Ulm is not based on early tribes. Think teutonic knights etc.
Besides, all nations are fantasy creations. None are meant to be replicas of existing nations. Byzans rarely fielded Arch Teurgs in battles.
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October 14th, 2003, 08:42 PM
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Adding elves would make it too similar to other fantasy games. I'd like to see more nations with historical themes, like what we have at the moment.
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October 14th, 2003, 09:49 PM
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Re: Drow theme
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Strange, I didn't know that the germans were dwarves (Ulm is not supposed to be dwarves).
R'lyeh is mostly based on Chtuhlu.
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I mistook ULM for D&D dwarves
what is Chtuhlu?
Is there a theme for african tribes in DOM-II?
What about the Arab nations at 700-1400? they were very powerfull. they can make a very interesting theme.
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October 14th, 2003, 09:59 PM
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Re: Drow theme
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Kristoffer O said- quote: Strange, I didn't know that the germans were dwarves (Ulm is not supposed to be dwarves).
R'lyeh is mostly based on Chtuhlu.
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what is Chtuhlu? You don't know!?

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October 14th, 2003, 10:11 PM
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Re: Drow theme
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Originally posted by izaqyos:
Kristoffer O said- quote: Strange, I didn't know that the germans were dwarves (Ulm is not supposed to be dwarves).
R'lyeh is mostly based on Chtuhlu.
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I mistook ULM for D&D dwarves
what is Chtuhlu?
Is there a theme for african tribes in DOM-II?
What about the Arab nations at 700-1400? they were very powerfull. they can make a very interesting theme. Cthulhu is a godlike alien sleeping in the sunken city of R'lyeh from the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, a noted horror writer active in the nineteen twenties and thirties. He is hugely influential and there are Lovecraft references spread out in various movies and computer games. If you havent read anything I suggest you try one, his language is a bit convulted and his characters are two dimensional but many of thee stories are enjoyable reads anyway. My favourites by him are: "The rats in the walls" and "The mountains of madness". The illithids in dominions are an amalgamation of the AD&D mindflayers and Lovecrafts mythology, the Lovecraftian flavour of Rlyeh will be more pronounced in dom 2.
The new nation Machacka is pseudo African.
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