(Part 2) Best products from r/aoe2

For the Saladin Campaign, Paul Cobb's "The Race for Paradise". It's not only about Saladin, but the Islamic perspectives on the Crusades as a whole.

This?

http://www.amazon.com/SpongeBobs-Kitchen-Mission-Cookbook-Battle/dp/047063944X

Because it is now.

How about Amazon?

Apparently it is: https://www.amazon.com/Steam-Gift-Card-20/dp/B00FN50BYC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494713953&sr=8-1&keywords=steam+gift+card

Is this on Voobly? If not, I can't help, sorry! As a Roman history buff, I can recommend "The Gothic War" by Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen.

https://www.amazon.com/Gothic-War-Torsten-Cumberland-Jacobsen/dp/1594160848

It's one of my favorite books, and it's a play-by-play, year-by-year commentary and analysis of the war in North Africa, Italy, and Spain.

If you don't feel like reading, there's a condensed, TL;DR series by Extra Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_2E0RxVHH4

So, there's your source material, if that's one of the many problems in your campaign.

If it's on HD, I can't help, but I wish you well with it!

As taken from Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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> The Chinese noted with surprise and disgust the ability of the Mongol warriors to survive on little food and water for long periods; according to one, the entire army could camp without a single puff of smoke since they needed no fires to cook. Compared to the Jurched soldiers, the Mongols were much healthier and stronger. The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other diary products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones. Unlike the Jurched soldiers, who were dependent on a heavy carbohydrate diet, the Mongols could more easily go a day or two without food.

Veganism made for weak men.

In addition to your analysis, I was under the impression that the Mexica people used their melee weapons for slashing instead of stabbing. It was the stabbing mixed with the brittle obsidian that caused the Aztecs to be inferior to the Spanish instakill stabbing steel.

Also there fighting styles were a different from their European counterparts.
>"Because Aztec warfare was designed largely to capture rather than kill, stone blades were sufficient against similarly armed Mesoamericans.

That quote is from a book I read last semester for a class.

Thanks again for doing this. Love 'em.

HERE ARE MY GODDAMN NOTES BECAUSE I AM ABOUT SOURCES NOW I AM NOT A FUCKING AMATEUR YOU FIGGITY FUCK ALTHOUGH I HAD TO FIGURE SOME OF THIS SHIT MYSELF THIS SHIT TOOK ME LIKE 5 HOURS TO MAKE

BRITS - AACHEN CATHEDRAL: 42 METERS

>http://www.britannica.com/topic/Palatine-Chapel-Aachen-Germany

• "The cupola crowning the chapel’s dome rises to a height of 101.5 feet (30.9 metres)."
  
  
• Judging by that, the spire is probably around 42-ish meters
  
  >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen_Cathedral
  
  
• I outlined wikipedia's picture of Aachen Cathedral
  
  CELTS - ROCK OF CASHEL: 28 METERS
  
  >http://www.watersidecottages.ie/rock_of_cashel.html
  
  
• I outlined this picture
  
  >http://www.britainirelandcastles.com/Ireland/County-Tipperary/Rock-of-Cashel.html
  
  
• This website claims a height of 90 feet, or 27-28m in height
  
  >http://roundtowers.org/cashel/index.htm
  
  
• This website claims a height of 28 meters, agreeing with the above website
  
  FRANKS - CHARTRES CATHEDRAL: 113 METERS
  
  >http://chartrescathedral.net/chartres-cathedral-facts/
  
  
• "Height of NW Tower: 113 meters"
  
  >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral
  
  
• I took an outline of Wikipedia's picture of Chartres Cathedral
  
  SPANISH - TORRE DEL ORO: 20.7m
  
  >http://www.qantara-med.org/qantara4/public/show_document.php?do_id=1329&lang=en
  
  
• "Dimensions : Height 20.70m"
  
  
• I also took an outline of the picture on this website
  
  ITALIANS - GENOA CATHEDRAL: 44-47M
  
  >http://www.amazon.com/The-Cathedral-St-Lawrence-Genoa/dp/8857004759
  
  
• I took the outline from an Amazon page for this...book? At least I think it's a book?
  
  >http://www.marcuslink.com/travel/journal/italy/liguria/genoa.html
  
  
• I had to figure out the estimate height of the Genoa Cathedral with this picture as a reference; the guy standing at the entrance on the right I named Rufio. Assume he's somewhere between 5'08" to 6'00". I measured out the tallest tower to be roughly 25.5 Rufios. So that means the tower is anywhere between 1734-1836 inches, or 144.5-153 feet, or 44-47m
  
  BELEM TOWER: 30M TALL
  
  >https://books.google.com/books?id=x7ogAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA181&dq=%28tower+OR+torre%29+belem&lr=&as_brr=1&cd=30#v=onepage&q=(tower%20OR%20torre)%20belem&f=false
  
  
• Page 181 claims that the Tower is "about one hundred high" or 30m tall
  
  >https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Torre_de_Bel%C3%A9m
  
  
• I made an outline of this picture
  
  TEUTONS: MARIA LAACH ABBEY: 16-17 M
  
  >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Laach_Abbey
  
  
• I used this picture for the outline, and I couldn't find a source for the height online. I used the old dude in the backpack on the lower left as a reference (I shrank him slightly to scale with the people standing on the very ground). I named that dude Old Man Rufio. Old Man Rufio looks like about 5'06", so 66 inches. The Cathedral is roughly 10 Rufios tall so about 660 inches, or 55 feet.
  
  GOTHS - MASOLEUM OF THEODORIC: 12 M
  
  >http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Theodoric_the_Great
  
  
• I used an outline of a picture of the Masoleum from this articles' picture. I also had to estimate the height of the building with the dude in the picture. He looks fairly tall so let's assume 6-ish feet. I counted like 7 of him to the top so the building is roughly 42 feet so roughly 12 meters.
  
  VIKINGS - BORGUND STAVE CHURCH: 17.6 M
  
  >http://www.thousandwonders.net/Borgund+Stave+Church
  
  
• I took a photo from this website to estimate the size of the Church
  
  >http://static.thousandwonders.net/Borgund.Stave.Church.original.14557.jpg
  
  
• This one. The guy in red, whom I named Red Man I estimate is like 5'06". 10 Red Men are slightly taller than the spire, but the perspective of the picture is off so let's give say it really is 10 Red Men tall, or maybe 10.5. So I estimate 693 inches, 57'09" at about 17.6 meters
  
  HUN - ARCH OF CONSTANTINE: 21m
  
  >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Constantine
  
  
• Finding sources sucks dicks
  
  >http://www.rustichelli.net/rome/index.php/Arch_of_Constantine.html
  
  
• I stole the outline from this website
  
  SLAVS - KIZHI CHURCH: 37M
  
  >https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Kishi_church_0.jpg
  
  
• I used this photo from wikipedia to outline. Also, fuck outlining.
  
  >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizhi_Pogost
  
  
• 37 meters according to Wiki
  
  
• I am really starting to dig Kiesza
  
  MAGYARS - CORVIN CASTLE: 48m
  
  >http://romaniatourism.com/castles-fortresses.html**
  
  
• I outlined a picture on this one
  
  
• I don't fucking know bro but just by looking at it, I'd say about 36 meters from where the bridge hits the building. The gap between the bridge and the bottom of the moat looks roughly half the height of the castle from the bridge up, so I'd say like if you measure from the fucking bottom of the thing and up I don't fuck
  
  BYZANTINES - HAGIA SOPHIA: 55M
  
  >http://www.digilibraries.com/html_ebooks/101252/26319/www.digilibraries.com@26319@26319-h@arch1-2.html
  
  
• "the stupendous central vault, which rises 180 feet"
  
  
• I also shamelessly stole that website's outline of the Hagia Sophia instead of making my own, but I still had to fucking do part of it fuck fuck fuck