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I googled "stabbing of pigs" and followed a link for "Stab a pig" on Urban Dictionary... Just don't go there, trust me 
Hahahahahaha I also came across something dodgy by googling the termI googled "stabbing of pigs" and followed a link for "Stab a pig" on Urban Dictionary... Just don't go there, trust me
I googled "stabbing of pigs" and followed a link for "Stab a pig" on Urban Dictionary... Just don't go there, trust me
So... it's not a Leisure Suit Larry Grand Strategy game... phew...
I think they're just trying to let the Rome 2 fans down gently. Calling it Project Augustus in the first place was leading us on.
You could run a Bronze Age game as an "The Day After" kind of game. Just with additional background radiation and compromised food supplies.
Wait, wait, I know. Paradox has teamed up with Rovio to make a grand strategy angry birds historical rpg game. You don't stab the pigs, but you do crush them or blow them up.
Since EU: Rome had a sacrifice option symbolised by a pig and a knife, i came to two conclusions:
1) No religious sacrifice
2) No Ancient-era game =(
1) No religious sacrifice
2) No Ancient-era game =(
The hints: Seven, three, no pig-stabbing
Rome: Seven hills of Rome, led by a triumvirate. Stabbing pigs was a greek tradition, not a roman one (so PDOX has the chance to correct the error we saw in EU:Rome).
Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms were united, three houses (Stark, Lannister, Arryn) became the Wardens. King Robert Baratheon dies when a pig stabs him.
China: Seven Warring states, Three Kingdoms, pigs were very valuable in China and definitively not stabbed (at some point in history stabbing a pig you didn't own was comparable to manslaughter).
Rome: Seven hills of Rome, led by a triumvirate. Stabbing pigs was a greek tradition, not a roman one (so PDOX has the chance to correct the error we saw in EU:Rome).
Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms were united, three houses (Stark, Lannister, Arryn) became the Wardens. King Robert Baratheon dies when a pig stabs him.
China: Seven Warring states, Three Kingdoms, pigs were very valuable in China and definitively not stabbed (at some point in history stabbing a pig you didn't own was comparable to manslaughter).
Well - we only have to wait for just over another week now and we'll know what Augustus is for sure. Also bear in mind that there'd be no point in doing these hints if they made it so obvious it was possible to guess what the game is after the first few.
With the hints we have so far I think it's very likely it's going to be set sometime in the pre-CK2 era, though I don't think we have enough information to nail down the start or end dates yet (though they may involve threes and sevens). What relevance would pig stabbing really have to the Victorian era, let alone the the era of space exploration? I don't think the 3s and 7s hint actually helps us narrow down the options much at all - those numbers could refer to so many things and have relevance in numerous cultures that it could be hinting a huge range of possibilities. Similarly there are numerous times and places that the pig stabbing hint could refer to. I don't think we have enough information yet to conclusively say what Augustus will be.
That said, I feel the Ancient Rome and China theories sound the most plausible currently (though that may change with any new hints) - though my opinions are probably somewhat biased as I'm hoping the game will cover the whole of the Old World and run from about 373BCE to 773CE (as that would allow conversion to CK2 and include Rome, the Sassanids, the Maurya, the Gupta, the Han and the the Tang in one handy package) initially, with the possibility of a DLC timeline extension back to 550BCE (or even 753BCE) to include the Achamenids, Late Ancient Egypt and (more of the) Ancient Greeks (plus the Neo-Babylonians/Chaldeans and Assyrians if it's 753BC). I realise that's a huge time period to cover, but I have confidence that Paradox could do a good job of it if they wanted to.
With the hints we have so far I think it's very likely it's going to be set sometime in the pre-CK2 era, though I don't think we have enough information to nail down the start or end dates yet (though they may involve threes and sevens). What relevance would pig stabbing really have to the Victorian era, let alone the the era of space exploration? I don't think the 3s and 7s hint actually helps us narrow down the options much at all - those numbers could refer to so many things and have relevance in numerous cultures that it could be hinting a huge range of possibilities. Similarly there are numerous times and places that the pig stabbing hint could refer to. I don't think we have enough information yet to conclusively say what Augustus will be.
That said, I feel the Ancient Rome and China theories sound the most plausible currently (though that may change with any new hints) - though my opinions are probably somewhat biased as I'm hoping the game will cover the whole of the Old World and run from about 373BCE to 773CE (as that would allow conversion to CK2 and include Rome, the Sassanids, the Maurya, the Gupta, the Han and the the Tang in one handy package) initially, with the possibility of a DLC timeline extension back to 550BCE (or even 753BCE) to include the Achamenids, Late Ancient Egypt and (more of the) Ancient Greeks (plus the Neo-Babylonians/Chaldeans and Assyrians if it's 753BC). I realise that's a huge time period to cover, but I have confidence that Paradox could do a good job of it if they wanted to.
That sounds pretty convincing. I didn't know those (pig) facts about GoT and Chinese history.
So saying no pig-stabbing would mean what I assumed when I saw the hint -that it's not a Rome game (which we know, already).
This was my first reaction and what I think - Rome is probably not happening and I just need to accept that.
While this hint could be simply a continuation of the Rome wind-up, the fact that one of the EUIV hints was 'no need to be a bad boy', or something along those lines, means it could well be a Rome/Ancient World game but with different mechanics to EU:Rome.
EDIT: By different mechanics I mean an expanded game and/or map so not a sequel.
EDIT: By different mechanics I mean an expanded game and/or map so not a sequel.
It's gotta be a cold war game. Bay of pigs invasion. 1973 us withdrew from Vietnam.
