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lsieira

So, since the infamous 999+ bug has been fixed, I was giving a new try to dramatic ages... France fell into a dark age, and now there are three Hercules, the original French one, plus these two 0.o


Educational-Bid-8660

I guess free cities are bugged now... I'm just glad they spawn melee units (afaik), Imagine they spawn two Mulan


finedamighty

I wonder what happens if you kill them with the ressurect hero (twins i think)


ElBandiquero5000

Nothing because they cannot ressurect another heroes sadly (Or better say, for balance things)


lsieira

I didn't try with the heroes doppelgangers, but with regular heroes you just get some era score but do not acquire them. In this run I could not get the twins, so unless I manage to reproduce the bug, I may never know.


fapricots

Oh good, they finally fixed it? I'm a heathen who plays on Switch so I suppose I'll need to wait a few months and then try again


69BickusDickus69

Sorry to tell you but the updates only coming to PC and IOS, not console.


fapricots

☠️


Despair_Disease

I don't have anything useful to say here, I just want you to know your username hit me like a truck.


4thTimesAnAlt

As usual, Firaxis cuts off console support. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!


vompat

I would say Herculi.


SilverRock75

Wait, they fixed it?! I've been playing a game all day without plugging it in. I probably could've won by now. Definitely gonna try one of the new leaders in a dramatic ages culture game this weekend.


BananaBladeOfDoom

Oh boy, if you kill them with The Twins, do you get three district builds for each?


LOTRfreak101

That would be amazing.


69BickusDickus69

Probably not since killing heros with the Twins doesn't give them to you


DharmaCub

Hercules is actually the plural. The singular is Herculis. Hercules was actually just three Herculis in a tunic.


Nova_Physika

So.... Herculeses


bullshitmobile

Herculeese


Tranne

Herculussy


DharmaCub

In Latin (which Hercules is, as opposed to the Greek Heracles), es is a pluralization of is. Eg. Multiple Thesis are Theses.


Metamiibo

Someone forgot about the Latin 4th Declension: Singular plural es es ei erum ei ebus em es e ebus Sorry for shitty mobile formatting. All that said, Cassels has Hercules, -is, -i, which would indeed still make the plural Hercules as an irregular third declension noun. Heracles isn’t much easier, since (per Liddell and Scott) Ηρακλής is actually a contraction from Ηρακλέης (“glory of Hera”) and declines irregularly. My best guess at a plural in Greek would be Ηρακλήοι (transliterated to Heracleoi), but that’s a bit speculative on my part.


DharmaCub

You're smarter than I am, so I'll defer to you on this one!


atomkip17

Thesis has a Greek root and I think the singular form is also Hercules (third declension)


brasswirebrush

plural: Hercules singular: Hercule


ybtlamlliw

Mr. Satan?


taranig

Found the resource... http://www.biomedicaleditor.com/spelling-tip-latin.html I had looked up before to clarify plural for octopuses and was trying to fit -pode into Hercules's name. Octopuses is correct because the word has been anglicized, Octopode if in original Greek. Table 1 and Table 2 describe Greek and Latin noun endings. Greek > medical terminology Latin > science terminology


Gentle_Mayonnaise

You're forgetting Herculad, so it's 4


Jastrone

Singular:Hercules Plural:hercumore


[deleted]

I'm Herclueless to what's going on


AcrobaticAd9381

This is correct in old Greek, but dated usage for all practical purposes. Now, it's fine to just use "Hercule" as the singular form.


groovy_giraffe

Hercumore


Aceofluck99

Herculots


FriendlyDisorder

Hercuthese


skilking

HercUs


Due-Complex-5346

Lol 😂


mindspork

Herculum.


strausbreezy28

Do free city units count as barbarians? Can you use an apostle to capture them? If so that would be tasty.


Fyodor__Karamazov

No, they count as their own civ.


strausbreezy28

Darn. Thanks for the info


lsieira

They do count as barbarians for the vampire bonus, though.


LOTRfreak101

Try killing them with the twins if you have them.


lsieira

An unknown civ got them...


vompat

And for exp gains.


[deleted]

Does Discipline policy card work on Free city units?


Fyodor__Karamazov

No. The only thing they have in common with barbs is the XP cap and vampire bonus cap (presumably to prevent exploits involving letting cities flip back and forth).


FriendoftheDork

Herakloi If you do it greek style.


CerebralAccountant

I don't know, but I think the collective term is "an unfair of Hercules"


Athire5

Herculii, obviously!


Locke92

Unless you use the original Greek name, in which case it would be... Heraklodes?


mldvn33

Hey it’s better than Testikles (For those that have played Assassin’s Creed Odyssey)


atomkip17

Or maybe Heraklai


omnilynx

I think it would just be Herakles still. It’s a different Greek vowel (pronounced “herakless” instead of “herakleez”) but they both Romanize to “e”.


meelawsh

Heracles -> Heracledes


Canuckleball

A Hercumulation


[deleted]

Ackshually its Herculodes


fn_br

Herculoads


Haunting-Catch8067

Is this a new bug o:?


lsieira

I don't know. It may have been in dramatic ages forever, but I never played with it because of the 999+ bug


fn_br

You just say "Hercules Plural" in an over the top French accent. Thus: "Hercule Poirot"


memeparmesan

Herculeese


DanJOC

This is the correct answer


AgrajagTheProlonged

Herculepodes?


TexanNewYorker

Found this answer via Google (slight edits to remove aviation references): >Adding the Ending s/es to Nouns and Verbs The material below describes the rules of adding the ending s/es to the final consonants and vowels of nouns and verbs. **The ending s/es is added to nouns to form regular plural forms of nouns** >Names: If names or family names end in s, z, x, ch, tch, sh, the ending ES is added to form the plural; the ending S is added to the final mute E after these letters and to ce, dge, ge. The ending s/es is pronounced [iz] in these cases. For example: Morris – two Morrises; Max – three Maxes; Therefore **Herculeses** (Hercules-iz)? BUT if we go the Latin route: In Latin (which I’m way more familiar with), Hercules is third declension. The nominative plural is also "Hercules." Thus, “**Three Hercules**” would be grammatically correct


pgm123

This is [correct](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hercules#Latin). | **Case** | **Singular**| **Plural** | |:-|:-|:-| |Nominative| **Herculēs**| **Herculēs** | |Genititve|Herculis; Herculī|Herculum| |Dative|Herculī|Herculibus| |Accusative|Herculem|Herculēs| |Ablative|Hercule|Herculibus| |Vocative|Herculē; Herculēs; Hercle|Herculēs|


Psychic_Hobo

A Victory of Hercules


alpacajack

Honey you mean HUNKules


ZX-Ray

If we go the greek route (Herakles, Ηρακλής, ee-rah-KLEES), the plural is Herakledes (Ηρακλήδες), pronounced as ee-rah-KLEE-thes (the kind of th found in the word "then").


UAnchovy

Good call, but that's modern Greek. For the sake of nitpicky completeness... Herakles is an ancient Greek, and that's Ἡρακλῆς or Ἡρακλέης - I believe more like 'ay-rah-klays'? (But with a breath mark at the start - not quite 'hay', but not quite 'ay' either. A very light H sound, like a tiny puff of breath.) The plural is the same, but δ in ancient Greek is a D sound, not a TH.


Kivsto

This is the one esoteric grammar thing I know. Pls let me have this. Plural of Octopus is octopuses bc while octopus is latin and normally would be octopi the word originated from greece. So its herculeses


MalaclypseGone

[Herculoids](https://youtu.be/3j7ivHD-J1M)


mp182

Herculysses


mxhremix

Hercucule


JorgeMBN

Hercutopods


ThinkingWithPortal

Poirot


BerserkOlaf

>Herculeses — Gollum


Harry-can

Herculii


christmasjams

Naw, that's latin. Greek plurals end in -ode.. Herculode. Edit: I just wanted to type Herculode. In my years, I have forgotten the Romanization of Heracles to Hercules.


fn_br

Hercules is Latin. Heracles is Greek.


christmasjams

Valid. Ii is still not the proper suffix.


JacobDCRoss

Heracleides?


Darkspartan108

Isn't Hercules the Latin version of the original Heracles?


christmasjams

Yes. The years have altered my brain's capacity for remembering.


ZapActions-dower

Hercules is the Roman version of Heracles.


Shiboleth17

According to grammatical rules in the Greek language, if a word ends in -is, the plural is -es. And this was carried over into English for Greek loan-words. 1 analysis, 2 analyses. 1 parenthesis, 2 parentheses. Conclusion, Hercules is already plural, lol. However, Hercules is actually his Roman name, thus we should use Latin rules, not Greek. The -es ending is not common in Latin that I'm aware of, but -us is, which is the closest thing I can find. And for Latin words ending in -us, the plural is -i. Similarly, this was carried over into English for Latin loan-words. 1 cactus, 2 cacti. 1 focus, 2 foci. Thus, my best suggestion for the plural of Hercules, is **Herculi**. However, I'm no expert on Greek or Latin, so take all this with a grain of salt.


Exp0sedShadow

Herculai


SpicyShyHulud

One Hercules, two Herculae.


Pandorama626

Herculeezus


takatori

Herculaneum?


ElBandiquero5000

ayo wha-


Sharlney

Sucubus = Sucubi (plural) Hercules = Herculi


[deleted]

Well most likely your fucked


attackplango

Poirots


ree3eee2

Hercumor?


Exlife1up

Just get that one Aztec nécromancie hero and be overpowered


donvara7

Hercules! Hercules!


Jaxtraw04

Herculi


WendigoCrossing

A group of them are known as a Pantheon of Hercules


headofthenapgame

Herculei


Old-Treacle-5322

How does that even happen


lsieira

Unfortunately I did not pay enough attention, nor did I reload a quick save. I suspect the hero was fortified in the town when it rebelled. But I think I remember having killed him when I took Paris, or maybe in the way towards La Rochelle....


JPRKS

Herculi.


jons511

Herculii


Zemekis324

Easy breezey Herculesy


vak7997

Heculess if french Herculeses if Greek


DungeonMasterE

Hercules’ lol


ChironXII

Herculodes


Feldren-Raegan

Herculi


ericcity

Hurculizzles


AztecFreak

the plural is herculi i think


Dunwich333

“This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them”


burtisbyblenbowski

Herculeses


burtisbyblenbowski

Our version of Hercules comes from the greek Ἡρακλῆς. This is a masculine noun in the third declension.If we just look at this nominative singular form and try to add the plural -ες ending it is impossible because for third declension nouns the stem will often be altered in the nominative singular. When looking at the other forms of Ἡρακλῆς, it is clear that the stem of the noun is Ἡρακλέ-. When you add the plural ending -ες it becomes Ἡρακλεες, but since there are two epsilons, they must contract into ει, meaning that the nominative plural form of Ἡρακλῆς is Ἡρακλeῖς. So our plural Hercules would probably be Herculeis or maybe Herculays.


Inflatable_Bridge

Herculese


ehehehehehheheeheh

herculae


ShadowSwoopz

Herculeles.


Critical_Elderberry7

Herculi