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All the Best and Welcome to the Game,
Welsh Dragon.
But yes, we are now on our third background.
I believe we've had five backgrounds.
Launch: Red background with the Eagle standard (I think)
CiG: Green with a Galic symbol.
HatG: Purple with a Carthaginia Coin (and an Easter Egg if you know what to press.)
Emperor: White with an Augustus Coin.
Wrath of Sparta: Blood red with a Greek Helmet.
Some if not all of them should be available through mods on the Steam Workshop.
A quick search finds these two, but there may be more:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=358038806&searchtext=menu
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=351548754&searchtext=menu
Ah... I missed a number of them...
It is good to know I didn't mess something up.
: )
Why? I have studied the classics (Latin, Greek, history and culture of antiquity, ancient philosophy, and even rhetoric and ancient political science). I am in my late 40's and will be returning to school to pursue a doctorate in history in the fall.
If I'm playing a game as a fun aside (an escape, entertainment, whatever) why would you care what I do with my time? Sure the Spartans didn't look like the Frank Miller version. But I appreciate that many young people have taken an interest in history because of the movie, and many of the quotes and actions in the movie are accurate enough that many young people can name names, quotes, and anecdotes surrounding the battle. Many people were also inspired to read more and learn more.
Frankly (pun intended) I enjoyed the movie, fantasy aspects and all. When I play games I want to immerse myself in fun. When I want to immerse myself in scholarly work I avoid games (and comments threads for that matter).
What you may not know is that the Spartans didn't look like the leprachauns that CA portrays them as either. You may also be surprised to know that people play games for different reasons. You play your mods and I'll play mine.
Yeesh indeed!
Well, yes and no. Leonidas (the 1st) is assumed by most scholars to have died at about 60. And yes, he likely had grey hair. (Wikipedia much?) Beyond that most historians and classicists will disagree with you. So will someone who has written a thesis, excavated on site, participated in several forums, and taught several undergrad courses in both Greek and Roman classics (meaning culture, history, language, and philosophy. Many people hear "classics" and think it means literature alone).
While the Spartans didn't dress like they did in the movie (I pointed this out earlier), the assumption by many people is that they must have been either heavily armored or at least modestly dressed. The myth of the Spartan costume from the movie "300" has, however, spawned an equally incorrect myth amongst people who read that the movie was wrong and then make their own false assumptions.
All of the major depictions of Leonidas (including the two best known memorials and the three most recognized paintings) depict Leonidas either completely nude or, at most, wearing (you guessed it) a loin cloth and shoulder armour (no cape as seen in the movie). While much of the ancient arts (both sculpture and painting) can be dismissed since heroic images often used nudity to depict heroism, the earliest accounts of Spartans in battle do include the fact that commanders often wore little armour other than shoulder plates, a helmet, and occasionaly shin armour. Both of the memorial statues (one commisioned in the 1950's and the one from the 1960's) follow this line of research, with one giving Leonidas only a small, linen battle skirt and shin armour and the other with shoulder armour and a loin cloth.
Nothing like the movie, but nothing like the depitction of people that read the movie was wrong and so make their own assumptions. Your are correct that he didn't wear a leather thong. It was more than likely linen.
Second, your statement that the movie harmed the Spartan image is just plain laughable. Greece has credited the movie with improving tourism (particularly amongst European and Russian students). It is undeniable that many people are facinated with Sparta soley because of the movie. An easy example is the number of people that play Total War that are interested in the Spartans. You don't see people lining up to play or write about the minor factions as much as Sparta, like it or not. Most high school students don't know a thing about the Punic Wars or the Peloponnsian War or anything much else about antiquity, but many know about "The Battle" and can quote extensively from the movie. This is much in the same way that movies or television shows depicting vikings or Spartacus gain traction with young people. If it gets students interested in history, I'm all for it.
Last, as for having a fit, I'm not the one who spouted off that I didn't want to read someone else's comments because they liked a particular mod. Why the nastiness? If you didn't want to look like a fool you could have just read part of the comment and decided to move on because you didn't care for it. Instead, you thought you would advertise to everyone that you were too good to read the entire comment and ended your little tantram with a sarcastic, "Yeesh".
When you realized it wasn't any of your business if other people like or don't like mods because you think they should, and made several laugh out loud comments (Really, who thinks "The 300" didn't make many movie goers impressed and facinated with Sparta), you just made yourself look foolish. You then tried to cover up by tossing out a couple of facts (and one poor guess) and raising a straw man argument - I never wrote anything about you writing that I couldn't play my mod. What I wrote was, "You play your mods and I'll play mine".
Apparently you couldn't even be truthful. You not only read the comment, but stuck around to try to argue your way out of the hole. You read the original post, got to a part where the OP mentions a mod he uses, then decided to tell everyone that this alone made the post unreadable (with a "Yeesh"). You then subscribed to the comments and kept up with the comments. You never bothered to help the OP with the original problem (though other people did, whether or not they liked the mod). On top of all that, you falsely ascribed a comment to me while trying to dig yourself out of the hole.
I can see that further discussion would likely be pointless. But if you want to have a go and keep it scholarly, let's switch to a language more in line with what we're writing about. Vis Contue? Or would you prefer εξακολουθώ? Otherwise, I might read the first word of your reply and decide to stop reading.
: )