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Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme
The commentary seems fine, except as mentioned in the latest video you talk a bit too fast about too much stuff so sometimes it's a little hard to follow. And you'll run out of stuff to talk about at this rate. Apart from that it's great, and I love learning this kind of "in-depth" stuff about RTSs.

Oh, and the commentary track was only on the left channel in the beginning so you might want to keep an eye out for that when editing.

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Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

Melth posted:

Also the Homeric Greeks were TERRIBLE navigators. I mean in the stories Menelaus sets out from Turkey to Greece and winds up in Egypt. Other people end up west of Italy.

Now I think they exaggerate their incompetence in those stories, but the Greeks were really lousy sailors by Mediterranean standards for about a thousand years.

Part of that is that basically everyone has hated/feared/despised sailors since the dawn of time. The sea's a dangerous place and how can you trust someone who voluntarily goes to foreign and strange places? If you're at all interested in how naval trade developed and influenced the world I highly recommend The Sea and Civilization.

Anyway, I'm very much enjoying this LP and the history chat in the thread.

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