Arabs and Carthaginians

llamabeast · #1 April 23rd, 2007, 12:46 PM

All sounds excellent to me, except:

- I don't really like the idea of child cavalry. Winning a battle against them by slaughtering the children wouldn't feel so good.
- Wouldn't sacred everything be a bit crazy with a strong bless? Or maybe not, because you're still restricted the Holy resource.

Sounds like a very cool theme though, I like it.

Oh, I don't suppose it's possible to create a spell that reduces the age of other units, rather than the mage himself? If you could make a ritual that reduced the age of all units in the province by 1, you could use your mages to actually cure people of old age, rather than increasingly relying on domsummoned troops, which might feel a little odd.

HoneyBadger · #2 April 23rd, 2007, 04:21 PM

Llamabeast, I'm assuming you don't play a lot of blood-nations?

I'm currently working on a Middle Era Aboleth nation influenced by the Mamluk culture, so hopefully we'll soon have several Muslim-influenced nations. Moors would be nice to see, though, as would Turkish dervishes.

llamabeast · #3 April 23rd, 2007, 07:31 PM

Well, the thing with blood slaves is you forget what they are after a while. And, well, they are adults at least. Children just seem a bit wrong to me.

HoneyBadger · #4 April 23rd, 2007, 10:30 PM

I thought they were naked, 13 year old virgin-girls who were blinded and then kept in prison, isolated from human contact their whole short miserable lives, so they could be sacrificed by being flayed alive and then have their eternal souls ripped from their bodies and eaten by demons in a profane, unholy ritual?

Sombre · #5 April 23rd, 2007, 11:00 PM

Well in some societies it was (and still is) considered quite the honour to be offered up to god or for king and country.

So maybe they live splendid lives of luxury then are given a sweet, sweet sendoff into the glory of the afterlife, safe in the knowledge that their family has gained honour and status.

HoneyBadger · #6 April 24th, 2007, 01:42 AM

Nah, I'm pretty sure they just carve the skin off of them with barbed whips and red-hot razor blades.

Their families they probably burn at the stake.

Sombre · #7 April 24th, 2007, 02:35 AM

So sort of like that film Cook Off?