Faction Preview: Franks

[Úlfhéðinn]

Charlemagne and the Franks or the Carolingian Empire were the great power in Europe during these dark ages. The Franks dominated central europe as well as southern, western and eastern Europe. But to the North the Danish kings held their ground and the Franks suffered many defeats, never fully bringing the Danes to heel. The Franks are at war with the Obotrites in 785 and struggled to keep the land south of the Danes in their hands with frequent rebellions and vikings attacking along the coast. Their huge advantage lies with their cavalry to crush the threat of the North.


Strengths
Good economy and very strong, and varied, cavalry
Weaknesses
Only faction with christian religion at the start of the mod


Gronnen in Grinslan region and Osnabruck in Westphalia region






UNITS

Scara Sua
Strong and heavy cavalry even a shieldwall will struggle to withstand

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Milites Descensi
Dismounted profesional cavalry, deadly even without their steed

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Scutarii Minores
Levied spearmen, useful to hold the enemy in check while the cavalry manouvre to deal the finishing blow

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NOTE: This entire roster have been created solely by and from Absinthia's East Franks from TGC and can be further reviewed here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...2#post10477832

[Úlfhéðinn]

Huge thanks goes to absinthia for releasing this incredible faction to use in Wrath of the Norsemen.

Only 1 faction remains to be previewed before our release and that is Garðariki. I hold the previews short for the main purpose of focusing on finishing our beloved, long overdue mod.

Stay tuned

[Stath's]

Very, very interesting. The battles here would be really merciless

Good job!!

[Hermod]

Fantastic work!

[atheniandp]

Excellent work. I love those shields and fantastic shields. Compared to vanilla this is simply magical. Well done.

[Tobinobin]

Looks very cool! I can't wait for border fights with the Franks...they certainly look like they'll be worthy adversaries

[RollingWave]

great stuff

[KiKiweaky]

I have always loved the Vikings, in Medieval II I used to love playing as the Danes landing a large army of axe wielding nutters on the shore of some poor village, breaking down the gates, scaling the walls sacking the town and making it back to your ships before tea time..... Good way to spend a few hours.

Thanks for making a campaign out of it

[hekk]

Excellent work.

[Parzival2211]

Beautiful units!

[Javatar]

It's only a opinion but I think that you had put the franks too retarded in technology in this historical period.

[absinthia]

retarded how, in building tech or units?
the factions has deliberately been set with rather stripped settlements. also for the Franks this would be on the very edge of their realm, thus not the most urbanized area of the empire.
while the Franks do have the most powerfull cavalry on the board, albeit supported by a rather reluctant and unfitt infantry levy.

[Javatar]

Only I say that the franks seems another viking tribe in this mod, when they were the most advanced people in this period. Certainly from where you extract the historical information to do these mods, only I say it for curiosity not for criticizing.

[Heathen Storm]

Only I say that the franks seems another viking tribe in this mod, when they were the most advanced people in this period. Certainly from where you extract the historical information to do these mods, only I say it for curiosity not for criticizing.

As Abs said, the Franks were on the very edge of their Empire - near the borders of Saxony. The Saxons of this area were NOT very developed - although I think a script to summon some "reinforcements" (some full armies with nobles) would be good.

[Deska140]

Amazing Work

[Carajudo]

no pixel shader??? looks like Nintendo 8 bits...

[fryslan]

how does the religion work? can you as Franks convert another faction? how to spread christianity?