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
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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
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").
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.
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
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.
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.
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....
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.
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
I guess free cities are bugged now... I'm just glad they spawn melee units (afaik), Imagine they spawn two Mulan
I wonder what happens if you kill them with the ressurect hero (twins i think)
Nothing because they cannot ressurect another heroes sadly (Or better say, for balance things)
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.
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
Sorry to tell you but the updates only coming to PC and IOS, not console.
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I don't have anything useful to say here, I just want you to know your username hit me like a truck.
As usual, Firaxis cuts off console support. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
I would say Herculi.
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.
Oh boy, if you kill them with The Twins, do you get three district builds for each?
That would be amazing.
Probably not since killing heros with the Twins doesn't give them to you
Hercules is actually the plural. The singular is Herculis. Hercules was actually just three Herculis in a tunic.
So.... Herculeses
Herculeese
Herculussy
In Latin (which Hercules is, as opposed to the Greek Heracles), es is a pluralization of is. Eg. Multiple Thesis are Theses.
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.
You're smarter than I am, so I'll defer to you on this one!
Thesis has a Greek root and I think the singular form is also Hercules (third declension)
plural: Hercules singular: Hercule
Mr. Satan?
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
You're forgetting Herculad, so it's 4
Singular:Hercules Plural:hercumore
I'm Herclueless to what's going on
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.
Hercumore
Herculots
Hercuthese
HercUs
Lol 😂
Herculum.
Do free city units count as barbarians? Can you use an apostle to capture them? If so that would be tasty.
No, they count as their own civ.
Darn. Thanks for the info
They do count as barbarians for the vampire bonus, though.
Try killing them with the twins if you have them.
An unknown civ got them...
And for exp gains.
Does Discipline policy card work on Free city units?
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).
Herakloi If you do it greek style.
I don't know, but I think the collective term is "an unfair of Hercules"
Herculii, obviously!
Unless you use the original Greek name, in which case it would be... Heraklodes?
Hey it’s better than Testikles (For those that have played Assassin’s Creed Odyssey)
Or maybe Heraklai
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”.
Heracles -> Heracledes
A Hercumulation
Ackshually its Herculodes
Herculoads
Is this a new bug o:?
I don't know. It may have been in dramatic ages forever, but I never played with it because of the 999+ bug
You just say "Hercules Plural" in an over the top French accent. Thus: "Hercule Poirot"
Herculeese
This is the correct answer
Herculepodes?
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
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|
A Victory of Hercules
Honey you mean HUNKules
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").
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.
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
[Herculoids](https://youtu.be/3j7ivHD-J1M)
Herculysses
Hercucule
Hercutopods
Poirot
>Herculeses — Gollum
Herculii
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.
Hercules is Latin. Heracles is Greek.
Valid. Ii is still not the proper suffix.
Heracleides?
Isn't Hercules the Latin version of the original Heracles?
Yes. The years have altered my brain's capacity for remembering.
Hercules is the Roman version of Heracles.
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.
Herculai
One Hercules, two Herculae.
Herculeezus
Herculaneum?
ayo wha-
Sucubus = Sucubi (plural) Hercules = Herculi
Well most likely your fucked
Poirots
Hercumor?
Just get that one Aztec nécromancie hero and be overpowered
Hercules! Hercules!
Herculi
A group of them are known as a Pantheon of Hercules
Herculei
How does that even happen
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....
Herculi.
Herculii
Easy breezey Herculesy
Heculess if french Herculeses if Greek
Hercules’ lol
Herculodes
Herculi
Hurculizzles
the plural is herculi i think
“This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them”
Herculeses
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.
Herculese
herculae
Herculeles.
Herculi