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Post by The Lord Our God (GM) on Dec 20, 2012 11:30:55 GMT
This is where you can post any other suggestions you might think of. That are NOT military or Positional.
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Post by Gaius Porcius on Jan 27, 2013 3:04:52 GMT
Perhaps clarifying if only the Blues and Greens exist now, or are the Reds and Whites still out there. Dukas has posted that Reds are supported by his daughter.
Nika! Nika!
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Post by The Lord Our God (GM) on Jan 27, 2013 8:40:13 GMT
Stuart you can correct me on this if you wish but the Blues and Greens were the two biggest factions while the white and red had fewer support.
In terms of the game the Blues and the Greens have recently been at eachothers throats due some political rangling which fortunately for you chuck you werent involved in. But you would have known about it.
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Post by John Dukas on Jan 27, 2013 21:47:02 GMT
The Greens, Blues, Whites & Reds were the four main circus factions in Imperial Rome.
They seem to have moved to Constantinople but at some stage the ever increasing costs in running the teams reduced Constantinople to just the Greens & the Blues. It is not exactly certain when the Reds and the Whites finished. Imagine trying to trace info on Bristol Rovers on the basis of FA cup or League title wins. But it was probably poetic licence to make Maria Dukas a Red.............This imagines the Red & Whites still exist as very minor teams while the Greens & Blues are giants (Bit like asking a young lady from Manchester if she likes Utd or City and getting the reply Bury............Dim but sort of sweet).
Players can just treat their Chariot team as a bit of fun and sponsor the odd chariot if the have the cash (Thats 4 horses, a skilled driver & the vehicle say 5000 min). But by this period the Greens & the Blue demes had expanded beyond the hippodrome and had evolved into political parties.
For info the Blues tended towards the big landowners and Catholic Orthodoxy, while the Greens were on the side of the civil service and tradesmen. Since many of these were the eastern provinces were monophysite sympathies were strong the Greens drew some support from monophystes.
If your character is a Arian Christain (mostly western barbarian types) or a Dontanist (mostly North African) I dont think you actually have a preferred team but I guess it could be the Whites or the Reds.
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Post by Barachiel the Archangel on Jan 28, 2013 3:16:51 GMT
Fantastic explanation
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Post by Gaius Porcius on Jan 28, 2013 5:47:15 GMT
Yes, he is saying that his Red-loving daughter is dim. She is getting a lot of bad reviews of late. He will have to pay quite a dowry to unload her.
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Post by Barachiel the Archangel on Jan 28, 2013 6:07:24 GMT
Nothing wrong with being a Bury fan, they won the FA Cup twice!
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Post by John Dukas on Jan 28, 2013 23:57:26 GMT
There are worse things in life than having a daughter who follows the reds......she could be ugly or a blue like Gaius Porcius !
However, I agree that its about time Maria married. Wonder if I can find a nice green catholic gentleman who wants a gentle, kind, well educated and pretty wife?
Pity about the colour of the ribbons in her heir on race days but we hope she will grow out of it. Dowry will be provided to by family who are not super rich like some but are not poor either.
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Post by Barachiel the Archangel on Jan 29, 2013 0:03:30 GMT
If she's patient I have a couple sons coming up
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Post by John Dukas on Jan 29, 2013 0:38:49 GMT
As a matter of interest how old are the boys?
Wife thinks Maria needs to be married.........own view is that 16 year old brides running around the place is asking for trouble and a bit of a delay allows me to save for dowry.
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Post by Barachiel the Archangel on Jan 29, 2013 1:20:25 GMT
One 13 and the other 11. But they are both on campaign in Taurica at the moment with their father. Might have to wait 4-6 years depending on which boy you want, but an older wife isn't a bad thing for either young man. An older wife will be much more sure of herself and run a much tighter household.
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Post by John Dukas on Jan 31, 2013 0:47:43 GMT
I would be greatly honoured if Maria & the elder Iberianus son could be betrothed on his return from Africa.
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Post by Barachiel the Archangel on Jan 31, 2013 1:07:01 GMT
Sounds like a plan!
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Post by Gaius Porcius on Feb 6, 2013 0:37:55 GMT
As Solomanus decreed: no commerce in Constantinople.
No food making, no food and water transport, no opening of the gates to traders and suppliers, no ships allowed to debark or embark, no removal of urine (animal or human), no trades may operate, no manufactures or sales of any kind, ... basically hundreds of thousands of starving people looking to Solomanus as the cause. No taxes on goods not sold, so the treasury loses money immediately.
Or maybe you want to reconsider this decree.
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Post by Bacchus Solomanos on Feb 6, 2013 3:38:23 GMT
Commerce has a specific meaning in Roman custom and refers only to transactions that take place with the forum of a city during the market times. Commerce was regularly suspended for various emergencies and effectively meant that you had to leave the city to buy goods. Waste collection is largely passive anyway (water flowing through sewers and ditches moved waste from the city), and payment for services isn't suspended by this decree. It creates an inconvenience for people as they have to move their stalls and travel further to buy their things, but it doesn't shut down the city as the modern meaning of the word would imply.
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Post by Petrus Marcellinus Liberius on Feb 6, 2013 11:32:43 GMT
Correct
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