N00b WI : Roman steam-powered industrial revolution !!!

I wouldn't call it exactly original.

Anyway, the Romans had no real incentive to industrialize. Their cities were built on the back of plentiful slave labor. Machinery tends to be developed either in response to labor shortages, or as a way to cut cost (which creates job shortages).

OOC: That is either a letter-perfect NoobRP, or yet more evidence that Hero's Aeolipile needs to have a stake rammed through its unbeating heart, have its head cut off and stuffed with garlic, and be buried at a crossroads at midnight.

Heron of Alexandria? Wow I've like so totally never heard of him!.
Wow! Wikipedia is the best!
If they invent steam power then it's only a few more steps down the tech tree till they have machine guns- then no one can stop them!

Bull. All historians agree that steam power and modern firearms are unrelated:

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So no, getting Steam Power off Hero's goody hut guarantees nothing. (Well, Roman Ironclads, yes, everybody agrees on that. But definitely no riflemen.)
 
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IN00BC: Clearly, if Hero could build a steam engine, he'd need to build a printing press first. Sid Meier said so.

OOC: Come on, who do we need to contact to give Hero's steam engine "Sealion" status? If there is no response, Ian's gonna get a PM by the end of the week.
 
Well if Sid said so----



IN00BC: Clearly, if Hero could build a steam engine, he'd need to build a printing press first. Sid Meier said so.

OOC: Come on, who do we need to contact to give Hero's steam engine "Sealion" status? If there is no response, Ian's gonna get a PM by the end of the week.
 
IN00BC: Clearly, if Hero could build a steam engine, he'd need to build a printing press first. Sid Meier said so.

OOC: Come on, who do we need to contact to give Hero's steam engine "Sealion" status? If there is no response, Ian's gonna get a PM by the end of the week.

OOC: There's no office of Sealiony Bullshit. Just do like I do and smack it down every time it comes up.
 
Well if Heron prefects his Steam Engine whe can use them in the Cretan Factories to replace the Bull powered Looms.
This would prevent the Atlantis Eruption.
 
See this is why people post one comment on the site then leave forever you guys are allways taking the piss outta them
 
I wouldn't call it exactly original.

Anyway, the Romans had no real incentive to industrialize. Their cities were built on the back of plentiful slave labor. Machinery tends to be developed either in response to labor shortages, or as a way to cut cost (which creates job shortages).

That was the most breathtaking display of cluelessness I've ever witnessed and that's really saying something around here.
 
Anyway, returning to the OP, the obvious effect of the development of the Roman steam engine would be Greece annexing Istanbul and the Aegean coast of Asia Minor.
 
Don't be so stupid. Butterflies would mean no WWI.

Different weather would mean Franz Ferdinand's car was travelling at a different speed so Princip probably wouldn't have hit him.

Dude, flying cars are just ten years into the future. There is no way they wouldn't have them in a Hero invent steam engine TL.

Of course, they would also have laser guns.
 
Dude, flying cars are just ten years into the future. There is no way they wouldn't have them in a Hero invent steam engine TL.

Of course, they would also have laser guns.

And I would have my robot. They've been promising us robots since the 60s. Hopefully Hero's achievements will speed up robot distribution. I'm tired of doing my own cleaning. Plus the sex.
 
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