Thread 718092169

>Sacked rome and plunged Europe into the dark ages
>This is reflected in their braindead strategy of spamming endless infantry and literally nothing else
>Somehow they're NOT the bad guys
???

>>718092169 (OP)
i wish theyd buff handcannoneers.

>>718092169 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lna1ZT-LETE

>>718092169 (OP)
>goths
>theres no hot pale skinned big titty women
huh?

you clicked this thread expecting something else

>enlist soldiers to fight for you
>use them as cannon fodder and then refuse to pay the ones who survive
>kill their families when they complain
>they revolt to get the money you owe them by force
>FUCKING BARBARIANS HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY HAPPEN TO ME I WAS PRESSING BUTTONS BUGGED DIPLOMACY MECHANICS
the Romans deserved worse

>>718092169 (OP)
History-let here, how are modern hot topic teen goths related to these people? What's the connection here?

>>718092169 (OP)
>>Sacked rome

this was a good thing in itself

>>718092169 (OP)
Weird that is that I read somewhere that Goths were actually famous for their cavalry.

>>718093503
The link between modern teen goths and historical Goths is primarily linguistic and aesthetic. The goths of today don't trace their origins to the Germanic tribes, but rather to the broader Gothic literary and cultural movements that came after. The subculture is shaped by an affinity for things dark and emotional, and its connection to the historical Goths is more in terms of being viewed as "different" or "other."

>>718093503
It comes from word "gothic" being linked to things that are spooky due to how gothic architecture looks, and gothic being obsolete pejorative for morbid and gloomy things because historical goths were so mean. The word "gothic" was co-opted by the 19th century proto-horror authors to describe their work, and their stories usually dealt with kind of characters and locations such as scary mansions and castles or elegant but eerie women that formed the basis for gothic aesthetic.

>>718093903
Thanks ChatGPT