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    So you want to recruit vikings in your settlement eyh? Well it's not just a thoughtless process of creating barracks level 1 and start pumping those badguys out anymore!

    In 785 the Baltic settlements' development were of different level and quality, but to enhance gameplay most settlements on our campaign map will start as a small village without any constructed buildings in it (other than crappy shacks as quarters). At the start of the campaign the settlements will have poor trade and 0 growth, representing the shabby living conditions and lack of infrastructure during the dark ages.




    It will be your job as a leader to develop your settlements from a mere gathering of poor countryfolk into rich, influential hubs of power spewing out well-equipped (armor and weapon-wise that is...) vikings ready for war and pillaging.

    So again, you want to recruit vikings? Well, to do that you will need a tool shed to provide tools for constructing buildings. Yes that's right, the pessimistic, gloom people in the Baltic hadn't even thought of creating a communal shack for tools until you showed up. (Notice from the picture above that all other buildings requires tool shed to be built.)


    Right, so you have your tool shed. If you want to recruit vikings you will have to train them and supply them with proper armor and weapons... Vikings need leather armor and 2 handed axes!
    To make leather armor for them you will need pelts, so a trapper must be constructed to be able to gather large quantities of animal pelts. Then you need someone to work the pelts... that would be the tanner. He will work those pelts into usable leather armor for your units.

    Now for the 2-handed axes: First you must build a wood worker to efficiently provide wood, and then a charcoal burner to supply the smithy which in turn provides the 2 handed axes.


    So now you have the equipment availiable, but your units need to learn how to use their weapons properly, how much their armor protects and how to fight in formation and follow orders. So you will need a longhouse to have a place to recuit and train regular countryfolk into battleready vikings.


    As this process takes time you must sacrifice building trade and growth structures in favor of military buildings. If poorly managed you might very well go bankrupt unless you use your vikings to raid neighbouring villages... Which you will of course, that's why you wanted vikings in the first place, right?



    Another part we have rewamped with the building tree is the size of the settlements, both population and upgrade levels. All of the settlements will start out as a village without walls and there will most likely not be possible to upgrade to stone walls in any settlement.
    In addition to being historical accurate, this have some additional advantages in M2TW.
    Firstly there will be much less prolonged sieges, especially in early campaign.
    Secondly we won't see the hopeless pathfinding on top of the stonewalls and in castles sieges.

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    Great work as always Ulfhednin!

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    That's an interesting approach! Does the AI seem capable of handling it?

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    great work guys

    Does the AI seem capable of handling it?
    i was jsut goping to ask the same thing

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    Amazing! This will make the game much more profound and realistic.

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    Realism unleashed......Breathtaking....

    +Rep to Both of you...and thank you both for your tireless work on this...
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    Nice Knights and Merchants mechanism !

    and ye what bout AI ?

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    The AI seem to be handling it well whenever I test the campaign.

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    Wow... this is definitely the best idea I have ever heard Such an excellent mod idea! Congrats guys, can't wait to play!

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    It's a fabulous idea. Keep up the good work!

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    great idea!
    really like it
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    Really nice!!

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    The interdependence of the buildings reminds of the Stronghold series; to recruit a knight you need peasants, a blacksmith, an armourer, a stable, and so on.
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    looking foward

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    nice work looking forward to the release of it

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    Very Nice !

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    Well thought and logical building tree. Good job.

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    Awesome preview, adds a lot of new possibilities! Cheers!

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    Amazing work +rep
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    Another part we have rewamped with the building tree is the size of the settlements, both population and upgrade levels. All of the settlements will start out as a village without walls and there will most likely not be possible to upgrade to stone walls in any settlement.
    Do you mean that a few metropolitan will be able to do so. I know it's technically possible (as it's done with DLV). Which one? It's a nice feature because CA siege fighting is crap, but "most likly"? What do you mean?

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    Thorolf was thus armed. Then Thorolf became so furious that he cast his shield on his back, and, grasping his halberd with both hands, bounded forward dealing cut and thrust on either side. Men sprang away from him both ways, but he slew many. Thus he cleared the way forward to earl Hring's standard, and then nothing could stop him. He slew the man who bore the earl's standard, and cut down the standard-pole. After that he lunged with his halberd at the earl's breast, driving it right through mail and body, so that it came out at the shoulders; and he lifted him up on the halberd over his head, and planted the butt-end in the ground. There on the weapon the earl breathed out his life in sight of all, both friends and foes. [...] 53, Egil's Saga
    I must tell you here of some amusing tricks the Comte d'Eu played on us. I had made a sort of house for myself in which my knights and I used to eat, sitting so as to get the light from the door, which, as it happened, faced the Comte d'Eu's quarters. The count, who was a very ingenious fellow, had rigged up a miniature ballistic machine with which he could throw stones into my tent. He would watch us as we were having our meal, adjust his machine to suit the length of our table, and then let fly at us, breaking our pots and glasses.
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