Scandza: Total War
A modification-project striving to create a series of modifications focusing on Scandinavia in the Migration Period,
A ruthless and unforgiving period when Germanic tribes broke up from their homelands. This movement resulted in unrest and tribal wars as the invading tribes tried to gain new and more fertile lands from others. There have been many theories as to the reasons for this sudden time of unrest. The Huns may have driven tribes away from their homeland in the east, creating a wave of frightened people searching for new homes in the west and south. Others say that the reasons might also have been growth in population and changes in the climate, which made it to hard to live in the north. One can only guess.
The ancient historians wrote about tribes such as the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Franks, Burgundians, Langobards, and other such tribes. These tribes were the ones that invaded the Roman Empire, but those were not the only tribes searching for new lands. The tribes that didn't invade Rome itself, the ones even further north of the borders, were not very interesting for the Roman scribes, and the few written sources are either vague or destroyed.
These tribes were also in movement in this period, the only thing that distinguished them from the above is that they only invaded other Germanic tribes. Those are the tribes that I want to depict in this modification.
The sources thoroughly depicting these tribes are not Roman, but rather later Germanic literature; the Beowulf poem, the Norse sagas, Saxo, Widsið, etc. And of course we get a ton of information from archaeology: bog deposits etc. It will be very difficult to reproduce this time of Scandinavian pre-history, but it must be done in the most plausible way (no Grendel monsters, trolls, dragons, etc.) while at the same time using the characters of legend to bring the lands of Scandza into life.
The time frame will be approximately 390-650 AD, with a focus on the earlier period.
The approximate area which the campaign map will cover (later versions set in the mid 5th century may include parts of the British Isles):
Check the progress reports posted in this thread, or follow the mod on ModDB
If you're interested in supporting the project and furthering its progress, I'm open to any suggestions you might have!
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