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Nice, but remove the "no good maps" and put in "no maps" because there are none lol.
I dont get it?
Ok so, great map, but, i would like to throw some technical infos at you guys;
Saxons were hardly tribal at this time, and were in england by now, im sure, especialy if the french, are french. The saxons would only still be in germany IF ; the romans were around, (hardly) and the french were Frankii's, (basicly post gallic french tribe)
the scots should be called the picts! At this time, they were picts!
England was united around the late 900s after an occupation by Norway.england would have been more or less united in the time of the vikings, which is what attracted Harrold Haardraada of norway, And also William the Conqueror of Normandy, both, funnily, were vikings, especialy William.
Or am i missing something?
and yeah, the saxons need a more saxonish tech tree; for example
Houskarls, the saxon royal guards
etc
And trust me, the picts are scottish, being scottish im sure i know that much, i'll look into a name for the welsh too, the names a bit.. generic.
I love the map it looks so good and the terrain is just awesome, i have a little complain which is that norway looks like a @ and sweden looks like a @ which makes it very vulgar.
I Think ecrolls is full of bshit and that a good map doesnt need to be 100percentege accurate. If u dont lik maps u no has to comment and say it is bad and point out flaws cause it is very unnneesery
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No they weren't! The scots were a set of gaels who came from the Hebrides and Ulster and colonised southwest Scotland, eventually coming to dominate and subdue native british and pictish cultures in what was to become what we define as Scotland. The picts mostly stayed in the north around this time, as various brythonic tribes were firmly rooted into south Scotland at that time.
HOUSEkarls, also translated to Houseman, its a common version of the Huscearl, which i use to great effect, mind you, i think theres like 4 other not-so-right translations as this one, but i like it better, so i use it.Huscearls, not Houskarls, Huscearl meaning Houseman in English at that time, were not royal guards (fuck knows where you got that one from), but were retainers of the Ealdormenn, the Elders and effectively the ruling council of England. The Ealdormenn could refuse to crown a king, and could also elect their favourite man to be King, effectively why the Normans took excuse to invade England in the first place as the English would never willingly allow a Frenchman on the throne.
Well, that always works. i guessWelsh is an old term thrown towards Brythonic speakers by English speakers, generally meant Foreigner in past times.
In the middle ages, that man who you would call hero, Wallace, when spoken with a thick rural doric accent, sounds like Welsh, and it certainly is, as Wallace came from Carrick, a Welshy-type area before the Gaels came.
Your mistakes just pile and pile up. Don't write information which is a load of shite. It pains me to even read that, and the fact that we are both scottish and you believe picts were scottish hurts me like a stab wound
Huscearls, not Houskarls, Huscearl meaning Houseman in English at that time, were not royal guards (fuck knows where you got that one from), but were retainers of the Ealdormenn, the Elders and effectively the ruling council of England. The Ealdormenn could refuse to crown a king, and could also elect their favourite man to be King, effectively why the Normans took excuse to invade England in the first place as the English would never willingly allow a Frenchman on the throne.
HOUSEkarls, also translated to Houseman, its a common version of the Huscearl, which i use to great effect, mind you, i think theres like 4 other not-so-right translations as this one, but i like it better, so i use it.
Fingolfin speaks true, but don't read what we say, because we can be more wrong at translating things into our own words, then wikipedia (which i always use for refference, even if i don't actualy base my ideas off it.) and someone else report that post with the abusively modified quote, thats just taking it way too far.
The more reports, the more likely it is to be noticed, (i have moderated a few sites and i know how easy it is to overlook something.)
You are both wrong; it is called "Huskarl" or "Huskarlar" (pl), and is old norse for "house man" as AuroN said, however, they were neither rulers or royal guards, but a kind of personal body guard that people of greater wealth and importance would hire. I can certainly see how the term would be confused with royal guards however, since Knut the Great had a highly drilled body guard of huskarls in service at the time he ruled over britain (especially seing how his body guard was suspected to consist of over 3000 men).
As for the author, i would still recommend you to take what they said to heart - it is hardly impossible to make the map fun and playable while still having a larger degree of historical correctness. For some people, it is this sense of accuracy that makes the map fun in the first place.
Ecrolls, according to you, what could be done to increase the historical accuracy?
All feedback is good feedback
Dumnomia was a post-roman kingdom which occupied Cornwall around that time period, so i suggest either moving the faction, or renaming it as "Bretons" or some such. Also, remove the imported building models as they take up a lot of KB and are pretty ugly and unnoticeable at the same time.
There is no real objective and you cant really capture anything. If it were me i would have added territory like in risk. You don't get any sense of power in the kingdoms in this, also, add more playable "nations" like in Rise of China, where you can select at the start.
This map is amazing, I had so much fun in it. The third time I played this map I sent an actual Viking raiding ship, killed a bunch of archers, destroyed a lumber mill, taxed a town & then fled back to the seas as an army chased me away. So far I played it seven times in a row. Each match lasting over an hour. Very addictive & thought-provoking, I am yet to try out different tactics & races. |
Currently, the map description is very ugly & inefficient, I advise using a template. As for the map itself, the tooltips are broken & the Viking race starts with tower structures placed around them, and yet they can't build towers themselves or upgrade them. |
- I don't see any gold and was therefore unable to get any gold
Due to the missing gold mines the rating falls down a lot.
This is not a melee map. The gold is not obtained by mining, it's obtained by taxing cities. |