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2018/12/11 02:08:41
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
.Mikes. wrote: Are you suggesting Einstein, Mark Twain and Tchaikovsky weren't real people?
Of course not.
The recreations of them however will be romanticized and fictionalized knock-offs. Every bit as fictional as a recreation of Sherlock Holmes.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Sherlock Holmes is the first Recreation that isn't based on a real person.
Except for Achilles, Patroclus and Penthesilea you mean? All the Greeks are pretty much established to have some basis in reality (like there was a Trojan War) but Homer is pretty much entirely fictional
Sherlock Holmes is the first Recreation that isn't based on a real person.
Except for Achilles, Patroclus and Penthesilea you mean? All the Greeks are pretty much established to have some basis in reality (like there was a Trojan War) but Homer is pretty much entirely fictional
Homer’s account was not entirely fictional. The Trojan War did happen. Not like he wrote it, but it was based on real events and most likely real people.
There was a Trojan war. Which involved people names Achilles, Patrocles, Ajax, etc... The events Homer describes probably do not resemble what actually happened, but the people and the place existed and a war was fought there.
The people Homer wrote about are probably the only real parts of his story
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Sherlock Holmes is the first Recreation that isn't based on a real person.
Except for Achilles, Patroclus and Penthesilea you mean? All the Greeks are pretty much established to have some basis in reality (like there was a Trojan War) but Homer is pretty much entirely fictional
Homer’s account was not entirely fictional. The Trojan War did happen. Not like he wrote it, but it was based on real events and most likely real people.
There was a Trojan war. Which involved people names Achilles, Patrocles, Ajax, etc... The events Homer describes probably do not resemble what actually happened, but the people and the place existed and a war was fought there.
The people Homer wrote about are probably the only real parts of his story
Homer is the only source we have of those people existing though, unlike the war itself. We know that Troy had a large outer wall because it's been excavated, we know Troy was burnt to the ground in the Bronze Age, because of carbon debris being left over in excavations (something which matches exactly the ruins of Carthage for example) and we have supplementary evidence the Greeks fought the Trojans there (peace treaties and calls for assistance between the Trojans and the Mitanni). The war happened, sure. The people in the story? Almost 100% certain that they're all fictional. Homer wrote the Iliad over 500 years after the war happened, and him being the only source of those people existing, it's all but accepted they never existed.
I'll finish this off by saying that I'm now in my fourth and last year of a degree in the classics, majoring in Ancient Greek history, and that I've studied the Trojan War for a significant portion of that time. Not a single professor or book has made an attempt at claiming the characters of the Iliad were real people in any way, other than Heinrich Schliemann (the first excavator of Troy and Mycenae) who is universally considered a hack
Recreations are all simulated personalities created on whatever "historical" sources exist for the recreation at hand merged with what the "contemporary" (contemporary for Infinities timeline) population believes the character would look like and behave and whatever secret agenda is under the funding that allowed the recreation to happen.
So all recreations are more or less fictional, made to look and behave in the way the people of Infinity would believe they would.
2018/12/13 00:30:25
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
A still of the IA starter? Ah, here:
The DaoYing has a very strange hip to waist ratio, at least in that photo.
A very nice looking starter box. And listed at:
[imglogoarmy=14]https://assets.infinitythegame.net/infinityarmy/img/logos/logo_204.svg[/imglogoarmy] Invincible Army ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
It looks like the DaoYing just has a satchel behind her and some kind of waistcoat hanging in the front. It does create an odd silhouette but if you follow the armor plating it seems less weird looking.
2018/12/14 00:04:29
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
The waist of the Daoying is definitely off. The baggage on the waist is sticking out a bit, but even if we remove that the thigh is still sticking out an unnatural amount. Plus relative to the shoulders it is also out of proportion.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
I think its mostly an awkward angle. The hips are kind of twisted to her right and the torso to her left and with the armor and baggage the silhouette looks off, but when I focus on the details and compare here with the other two, they look to have about the same proportions.
2018/12/15 09:40:14
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
I wish they would put the 112 Bike Profile up already.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
So with regards to the 112 Biker:
1) Available to all Ariadna(shame they released a new crappy Kazak Doctor in the box instead of a second Dozer or a dismounted 112)
2) Supposedly doesn't replace the existing 112 profile
3) Has smoke
2018/12/20 19:12:18
Subject: Re:The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
We already have a 112 model so no need for a dismounted version.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Grey Templar wrote: We already have a 112 model so no need for a dismounted version.
Disagree. If you're going to sell the Biker that's a new profile, they better come with a dismounted version.
I expect to have the usual apologists coming to tell me that it "wouldn't be practical", but I'd like to point out that we didn't need the Kazak Doctor in an all-Ariadna pack.
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