Darkage Anglo-Saxons Preview

**SicilianVespers** · January 24, 2009, 02:51 PM

The Darkage Anglo-Saxon's have been remade, using Disgruntled Goat's 1066 Anglo-Saxons models and textures, for the next release of the mod.

Cynges Huscarls (bodyguard)

Huscarls

Theigns

Lesser Theigns

Ceorls

Burwaran

Geburs

Ridehere

Banners

Cavalry Banner

The Golden Wyvern of Wessex

Strat Banners & CoA

**Swagger** · January 24, 2009, 02:58 PM

sorry for the ignorance

but will this be a new provincial campaign (era) ?

a new SV mod ?

or an add-on to the SV mod?

**SicilianVespers** · January 24, 2009, 04:16 PM

This will be included in the next patch (ChivII:SV 3.3), and it is an update to the full darkage campaign.

First post updated with Banners and Cavalry.

**Swagger** · January 24, 2009, 04:49 PM

howdy

thanks

but i was hoping for a new campaign (similar to brittania in kingdoms)

like something for the conquest of england, with normans, saxons.. basicly 1066.. SV style

**SicilianVespers** · January 24, 2009, 04:59 PM

This is laying the foundation for this type of campaign. I already have one planned for the Norman conquest of Sicily, with a map of Sicily) as well.

**Emperor Basil** · January 26, 2009, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by SicilianVespers

This is laying the foundation for this type of campaign. I already have one planned for the Norman conquest of Sicily, with a map of Sicily) as well.

Somebody is already doing something a long this line. Here.
Good work btw.

**SicilianVespers** · January 26, 2009, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by Emperor Basil

Somebody is already doing something a long this line. Here.
Good work btw.

It looks promising.

The map for this campaign would just be Sicily and the tip of Calabria.

The factions would be The Normans, Sicilian-Greeks, and few Siqilli Emirates.

**GERMANICUS** · January 26, 2009, 08:19 PM

SV
I have been waiting to see what you had instore for the dark Age campaign?

Your first preview is a combination of eye bulging/jaw dropping/lip smacking delight.....:hmmm:hope that came across the right way

That said I have been awaiting your expanded content for the DA campaign and only can say unveil more good sir!!

**SicilianVespers** · January 27, 2009, 06:10 AM

Originally Posted by GERMANICUS

SV
I have been waiting to see what you had instore for the dark Age campaign?

Your first preview is a combination of eye bulging/jaw dropping/lip smacking delight.....:hmmm:hope that came across the right way

That said I have been awaiting your expanded content for the DA campaign and only can say unveil more good sir!!

You are a warrior poet my friend

Thanks

I will try to get more into this release, but I don't really want to delay it much longer. Between the Rusichi Rus, DG's Saxons, and my Muslim reskin, this is shaping up to be a major renovation.

BTW, the NE & SE peasants and peasant archers have been remade based on the Coerls and Geburs. The pitchforks are gone

@DV

The Ridehere are just light cavalry raiders, you will definitely not be doing great cavalry charges with these guys.

**Swagger** · January 24, 2009, 06:23 PM

wich means 1066 might still be released, but SV style ?

**sirfiggin** · January 24, 2009, 08:37 PM

finally! the saxons get some respect!

**Gwyn ap Nud** · January 24, 2009, 09:40 PM

Yay, no more garishly coloured saxons!

I always sorta avoided the saxons because they looked a bit wrong...

**Gigamacdaddy** · January 24, 2009, 11:03 PM

so excited for the next release, can we get an ETA?

between the unknown release of E:TW (and the demo), and Chivalry II 3.3; i just don't know what to do with myself!

**Hengest** · January 25, 2009, 03:49 AM

nice units, your names are a bit off sometimes and i think you are missing some speats or polearms now and again - but still a jolly good show

**SicilianVespers** · January 25, 2009, 07:51 AM

Originally Posted by Hross

nice units, your names are a bit off sometimes and i think you are missing some speats or polearms now and again - but still a jolly good show

This was the first pass as naming. I had a tough time finding a name for the cavalry, so I settled on Ridehere. I believe it means something like raiders in Anglo-Saxon.

Cynges Huscarls is another I wasn't very sure. I suppose I could use Thingmen?

@all

They now look and feel like a completely new faction

I will post the stat banners shortly.

**DaVinci** · January 26, 2009, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by SicilianVespers

This was the first pass as naming. I had a tough time finding a name for the cavalry, so I settled on Ridehere. I believe it means something like raiders in Anglo-Saxon.

Cynges Huscarls is another I wasn't very sure. I suppose I could use Thingmen?

@all

They now look and feel like a completely new faction

I will post the stat banners shortly.

Ridehere - as the Anglo-Saxon speech is mainly direct derived from the old germanic Saxon speech of the North-German Saxons and Angles, who are the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons, i would assume, Ridehere means something like Rider-Herban (riderarmy) or Riderlords (noble rider).

Even the local "Plattdeutsch"-accents (= "flat-german"-accents) in northern Germany, which are used by the provincial people still todays (but are just the old forms of the local north-german speeches), have still a lot similarities to the modern and surely to the old english and thus old anglo-saxon speeches.

- The word Ride ~ Rider ~ Ridder ~ Reiter ~ Ritter -> the latter is the modern high-german word for Knight; Reiter means just Rider

- Ridehere ~ Her ~ Herr ~ Heer -> todays high-german word Herr means Mister, or also Sir / Lord in a broader sense; todays high-german word Heer means army.

So we could assume Ridehere would mean Reiterheer -> in plural expression of the Riderarmy or in singular it could mean Reiterherr in expression of Riderlord or Noble Rider ~ as pre-form of Knight (modern engl.) = Ritter (modern german).

Thingmen - no, please not Thingmen. "Thingmen" are rather the Theigns

Edit: I forgot to mention that Saxon armies didn't comprise of active cavalry forces, afaik. They fought on food, even if a few would ride to the battle.

**SicilianVespers** · January 25, 2009, 08:36 AM

First post updated with strat banner, CoA & updated unit names.

Originally Posted by Swagger

wich means 1066 might still be released, but SV style ?

I am really liking this faction, so it is highly likely.

For now, I suppose you could think of the upper left corner of the Darkage campaign as 1066 lite. We just need an emergent Norman faction.