RS2: Armenian Royal House Preview

[Squid]

Noble Houses of Armenia

Every Armenian family member will belong to one of the 6 Noble Houses represented in RS. At the start of the game, all family members belong to House Yervanduni, the ruling house at the time of Roma Surrectum. Every Noble House has it's own standard, and every member of the house carries the standard with them wherever they go.

House Yervanduni




House Bagratuni



House Mamikonian



House Artashesian



House Rshtuni



House Siuni



Every character is a member of their father's Noble House, including adopted characters. Every time a character is accepted as a husband for one of Armenia's daughters they will found a new Noble House. Once all Noble Houses have been founded, every new husband will randomly be made a part of one of the Noble Houses (think of it as a bastard being legitimized).

When a new faction leader comes to power in Armenia, and if the new leader is from a different Noble House then the previous leader, a message will be displayed to bring to the players attention the dynastic change.

Faction Leader/Faction Heir

The faction leader traits for egypt, the greek factions, and armenia have all been updated to more historically accurate names. The armenian faction also had it's faction heir trait updated as well.

Armenia Leader: Arkah
Armenian Heir: Avag Sepuh

Greek Leader: Basileus

Egypt Leader: Pharoah

That's a little preview of some of the changes to the trait system you can look forward to when RS2 is released.

[tone]

BTW the unit cards you can see are still those from RS1 or vanilla.

[zznɟ ǝɥʇ]

Very cool. It's great to see this sort of depth coming into the mod.

Armenia Leader: Arkah
Armenian Heir: Avag Sepuh

This shows up when the mouse is placed over the character on the battle map, correct?

[aja5191]

Yes, I believe so, and....

Pinned.

[Pavlik the Rus]

Emmm... what the practical sence will be from this different families?
What differences between them except names and banners?

[Squid]

Emmm... what the practical sence will be from this different families?
What differences between them except names and banners?

None, its purely for immersion and an attempt at accurate historical portrayal of the political system in Armenia at the time. If loyalty was added this would provide a lot more depth, as a noble would be more loyal to his own family's dynasty then another; however, since we don't have spare faction slots, there won't be loyalty.

Very cool. It's great to see this sort of depth coming into the mod.

This shows up when the mouse is placed over the character on the battle map, correct?

If you view the characters traits you will see the new titles. On the strat map if you mouse over a leader or heir you will also see their titles, some of those are already accurate, I believe Armenian is one of the accurate ones.

[Nellup]

Nice, this is a great idea which really adds depth to the mod, good work!

[Pavlik the Rus]

Clear. thanks for responce.

[MacLiamLeah]

Great going, i hope you have something like this ,in store for us, for every faction.

[SNIGEL]

Thats very cool, nice work.

[Daus Maximus Jade]

Yeah, how about introducing the same thingy for Rome? would be grand! There are quite some interesting family lines you could implement!
As for the idea, well I will not comment it since I have rubbed my tongue raw praising the genius of RS dev team....

[Blackshamrock.]

Thanks guys Its grate. And it is grate to see that kind of depth coming in to the game as the Fuzz said. Thanks guys I can't wait to play it.

[Leonatos The preatorian]

That rocks!

[MarcusTullius]

Nice addition to a mod thats shaping up beautifully....its these touches that make it extra special

[cherryfunk]

Pretty slick... for a bunch of Armenians

[Matse]

Congratulations to Drtad for forcing the others to do that .

You should though for example give to those that belonged to a historywise very warlike family +1 command or to a peaceful family under which Armenia became richer +1 management -1 command and houses which were loved by the people +1 influence or something similar. It would add at least some meaning in the actual game besides the roleplay-effect (which is great as well).

[Bebbe]

Great job guys Depth is allways good.

[Ephialtes The Dog]

Sounds great.

[Drtad]

Congratulations to Drtad for forcing the others to do that .

I just threw the idea out there and Squid ran with it.

You should though for example give to those that belonged to a historywise very warlike family +1 command or to a peaceful family under which Armenia became richer +1 management -1 command and houses which were loved by the people +1 influence or something similar. It would add at least some meaning in the actual game besides the roleplay-effect (which is great as well).

Nope. That would be ahistorical, because all of these houses were great at everything for a time, and the houses themselves didn't really have anything different except for their members and territories. There was not a black and white description for any of them.

As Squid said, if there was loyalty, the houses would play a role in the gameplay, but since there isn't it is merely for immersion.

[Wolfstorm]

Interesting idea. But the banner is a ancillary, and a ancillary can be moved around between characters. What if I move the banner of a member of one family to a member of another family?
What about give different characteristics for each house? For example, member of house A gets a +2 command due to his warlike heritage, while member of house B gets a +2 management to his philosophical heritage, and so on. This, of course, should be implemented in the trait, not the ancillary.