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Early Access! Chapter 4: Vanquishing the Vandals

🕑 Added 2015-07-10 11:07:01 +0000 UTC

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Hessi

Good work not portraying the Vandals as the roman propaganda showed them, brutal barbarians and conquerors. As newer archeological finds showed, when the Vandals arrived in North Africa, they integrated into the populace very quickly, rather enjoying the roman culture than destroying it.

Extra History

That'd be a really interesting conversation. I know there's evidence that he was already planning to rebuild the Hagia Sophia (you don't just start a project like that in 39 days - it'd take longer than that just to get the architectural plan, much elss the resources) so he certainly had lofty ambitions throughout his reign.

Extra History

We've done a few here and there, but I think David had a couple of great game-related ideas to tie in this episodes and they worked really well, so we ran with it! Every so often, I suppose we ought to remind folks that we also talk about games. ;)

Martin Ockovsky

Do you mean Belasarius marching with that British guy from last EH ... season? :D

Luna

It seems like this episode includes more gaming metaphors than previous ones, especially toward the middle (starting with the Konami code, continuing with the achievement, the conquering progress bar). Am I just not remembering this sort of imagery in other videos, or is this intentional? If so, keep it up! The metaphors work well in communicating with your target audience and, at least in my case, make me feel awesome because I get the references.

Extra History

::whistles innocently::

Colin

I know, I'm so excited!

Jason Youngberg

Last time I wondered what would happen if he was able to prevent the riots. Now I wonder if the riots were prevented, would it have pushed him to retake the West? Was there something about seeing his city nearly get destroyed that drove him in later conquests?