[POLL] Which nation will you play... and why?

**Lemming69** · August 05, 2009, 02:45 PM

i would choose romans first out of curiousity, but would probably change to the franks or one of the goths- i like the idea of recreating an empire as opposed to saving one from collapse

**Pompeius Magnus** · August 05, 2009, 02:55 PM

Thanx Lemming for your input.

Another interesting scenario: an amphibian landing with the Britanni in gaul for restoring the empire of Constantine III in gaul and hispania.

**PSEUDO ROMANUS** · August 05, 2009, 04:39 PM

Let's get the Glory of Rome back!!! Banzai!!!!

**Lemming69** · August 06, 2009, 06:26 AM

your welcome pompeius

the possibilities are endless... so many great nations with this mod- another idea is invading britannia with the saxons to create the anglo-saxon kingdom

**Pompeius Magnus** · August 06, 2009, 07:50 AM

Our Saxons in AoD2 are controlling the eastern part of the british island. The year of the famous battle of baddon hill is historically debatable. That's the reason why you have to fight this battle at the beginning of the Saxon or Romano-British campaign ;-)

**Pompeius Magnus** · August 11, 2009, 05:51 PM

I've noted that nobody voted for the Turingi. (Thüringer)
To make a little bit commercial for them: According 80 burials found arrounf Erfurt (germany) they were a horse-loving nation. And we have tales that they were masters in horse breeding and horse trading. Obviously they don't used axes (or better said very rare). Most weapons were the Sparta and the common spear.
Compared to the Burgundi or Goths - the Turingi had still a lot of typically german elements. That doesn't mean that they were still barbarians. They had meanwhile a modern kingdom which was in many ways very middle-age-like.

Well, if somebody hasn't voted yet - now it's a good chance to do (for any faction of course - not essentially for the Turingi :-)

**Lemming69** · August 12, 2009, 04:00 AM

do they have any relationship with the thuringian dynasty? or is it just similar names

**Pompeius Magnus** · August 12, 2009, 08:01 AM

The Thurigian kingdom in AoD2 was conquered very soon in reality in the 530s by the Franks. However, they always kept a certain independence so long they paid money to the frankish empire and farm-animals (esp thousands of pigs every year).
The capital of the Turingi was always Erfurt, that's also the reason why I put this city+faction to our map.
A good player can try to expand to the east very quick at the beginning of the campaign - and let's hope he can defend his small kingdom, surrounded by Burgunds, Franks and Saxons.

Today Erfurt is the capital city of Thuringia and is the main city nearest to the geographical centre of Germany.
The city itself is mentioned the first time in official documents in 742AD. But that doesn't mean that the city was founded in 742. The tribe of the Thuringi is mentioned before 500AD arround the city Erfurt and this tribe gave the region its name. Archeological findings from an early city are also located around the cities' area from the end of the 5th century.

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**Lemming69** · August 13, 2009, 12:38 PM

very interesting... will there be a 'year in history' event every year like in europa barbarorum? although perhaps it would be difficult to know the exact years that the tribes conquered other territories/ when major faction specific events took place...

**Pompeius Magnus** · August 14, 2009, 05:34 AM

we inlcude dozens of historical events of course, but no "year in history" event/script - simply because I think it's not necessary.

**Nakharar** · August 14, 2009, 02:47 PM

Armenia looks like a nice play, it will be challenging with one side Romans and the other side Sassanids. The Bulgars would be a nice addition since the Alans werent united and though much isnt known about the Bulgars we know definatly they were pretty strong...

I wanna land Ostrogoths near Jerusalem

**ALFAJI** · September 02, 2009, 02:30 AM

Lakhmids
because i'm an arab

**ignoramus maximus** · September 09, 2009, 08:45 PM

Saxones!Burn the Britons!

**Xerrop** · September 25, 2009, 02:54 AM

As there are only 19 factions mentioned, what is with the 20th faction slot?
Not in use?

**Pompeius Magnus** · September 25, 2009, 04:05 AM

we need this slot for another thing.
It can be the scripted appearance of a muslim-arab- nation, or we use it as rebels for the Romans (then we can use the loyality). I want avoit the usage of any kind of script in our basic-AoD2 - so it's probably option 2.

There is also an option 3 (concerning the rebels), but this is a secret.

**Silent Gent~** · September 28, 2009, 12:43 AM

Imperivm Romanvm because I simply love the high point of the Eastern Roman Empire!

Can't wait to play this mod!

**mayotte** · September 30, 2009, 03:02 PM

Imperivm Romanvm restore Roman glory !!!!!

**13lackGu4rd** · October 06, 2009, 09:18 PM

Saxones being the closest to the almighty Vikings

but it would have been nice to have the English names as I dont even know what most factions are, such as Persarmenia, Regnvm Gepidorvm, Regnvm Sveborvm, etc...

**Pompeius Magnus** · October 07, 2009, 05:58 AM

Originally Posted by 13lackGu4rd

I dont even know what most factions are, such as Persarmenia, Regnvm Gepidorvm, Regnvm Sveborvm, etc...

the problem is that those factions had historically no english names. And if you don't know the meaning of some country-names you can ask us here in this forum or use google. Also Wikipedia can help for sure. Beside that I'm not sure if it's really difficult to "guess" the meaning of persARMENIA or Gepidorum.