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Knowing a little bit about military history of China, I have to commend the devs for keeping the equipment relatively sane and accurate to the period - straight sword instead of curved sabers, sensible crossbows and stuffs, which, for a game that's coming from China, is virtually unheard of. Of course there are unhistorical blings and Japanese elements bleed in, and even the historical accurate ones are mix-and-matched to the point of becoming totally unrecognizable, but it is still better than say Dynasty Warriors.

Suggetions:

Chinese could be snake-human (human with snake body below the waist, think medusa without the snake hair) if you want to go mythical-shamanistic or Han China. If that spot is taken (by Naga, for example), then dragon-men, if you take the "Descendant of the Dragon" phrase literally. Monkey (Journey to the West) and Panda (WoW) are good, if somewhat cliched, picks.

Other suggestions include stone-men for the terracotta vibes, or tigermen if you want a somewhat more warlike fantasy-China-counterpart (Chinese LOVED to put tiger on literally EVERYTHING related to war, from banner to shield to military uniform to chariot. which brings you something like this. Also one of the most famous fighter unit of China was called...you guess it, Flying Tigers. This is also the unofficial name for Hong Kong's police counter-terrorism unit).

While China had its fair share of feel-no-pain berserking warriors, martial trance, RAGE and reckless bravery are not really characteristic of their view warfare. Instead they were inclined to glorify cold calculating strategy, trickery and guile. Oh, they are also really, REALLY into assassination. You can't get any better than trying to assassinate the First Emperor of China, and having an entire section in the first  Chinese history text (Shiji, written in 94BC) intended to GLORIFY them.

As a side note, a derogatory term used by ancient Chinese and Koreans to refer to Japanese pirates is "Wokou (Wako)" which means "Dwarf pirates" literally. So samurai dwarf is totally legit (maybe), although the original meaning is closer to "midget pirate".

Thanks BlackFlyme! You are awesome!

Quote from: Puzzlemaker on October 24, 2012, 02:21:43 pm

All that we really need is to have it be turing complete.  Then we can do anything with it!


Looking forward to see how this develops.  Real excited for it!

Look at what you've done. Just look at it.

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The Bay 12 Forums have spoken: "Make sure Clockwork Empires is Turing-Complete and we don't care about anything else." Your word is law.

Suddenly I feel being part of the Bay12 community is so awesome. Well, it already is, but now it is even more awesomer.

Ewww, so we lose the battle? Been rotting in prison and lost contact with the outside world.

Their judge is questioning me about the purpose of this war.

Glad  to see you back with us at Luria Nova. I personally found that your (character's) presence always liven things up.

Ah, that is really a good news to hear. Can't wait for it to be announced, and I will make sure my character participate in it.