Drakkars (Drekars) in the game? (Vikings warships)

[KLAssurbanipal]

from the campaign map panorama (a fleet of the Catiaroi):

It looks like Drakkar - Vikings warship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drekar

[PROMETHEUS ts]

Wich woudl be another fantasy unit from the Viking age , more than 1000 years later ... in that case why not even introduce gunpowder?

[Sandraker]

Its the predecessor to the longboat, designed for sailing the baltic and stuff.

[PROMETHEUS ts]

Its the predecessor to the longboat, designed for sailing the baltic and stuff.

Longobat predecessor hu? Any evidence of that? The only atested northern sea ships were the Venedian navy style , that looks completely different than Viking ships and the Rowboats of the Scandians wich had no sails .

[Bristol]

The first longships can trace their origin back to between 500 and 300 BC, when the Danish Hjortspring boat was built.

[PROMETHEUS ts]

The first longships can trace their origin back to between 500 and 300 BC, when the Danish Hjortspring boat was built.

That's not a ship , its just a canoe .

[Holger Danske]

The first longships can trace their origin back to between 500 and 300 BC, when the Danish Hjortspring boat was built.

And yet these didn't really look like longships, nor did they have sails. So once more CA is failing blatantly at History -.-

[Markas]

And yet these didn't really look like longships, nor did they have sails. So once more CA is failing blatantly at History -.-

So what ships did Scythians use, then?

[RagingCroppy]

That's a Scythian ship. Not sure why it would use a Germanic design like a longship. It is probably just a generic campaign map ship model for barbarian factions.

That being said it would be cool to see some screenshots of the barbarian ships in game.

[SamueleD]

That being said it would be cool to see some screenshots of the barbarian ships in game.

Indeed, we have seen a lot, and yet, after all this news, and one month before release, we still have not seen a barbarian fleet, not even a single ship.

[Marcus Aemilius Lepidus]

Offcourse it looks a bit to much after a viking ship, but the truth is that many of the ancient ships looked very similar like that, especially the Bireme, propably one of the most used ships in the antiquity and one of the few design which were able to sail on the Atlantic Coast.



Model of a phoenician merchant ship.

[Rhaegar1]

Offcourse it looks a bit to much after a viking ship, but the truth is that many of the ancient ships looked very similar like that, especially the Bireme, propably one of the most used ships in the antiquity and one of the few design which were able to sail on the Atlantic Coast.



Model of a phoenician merchant ship.

Allways niceto see how an good post like this get ignored by the CA-messes-up-everything crowd.

[Rhaegar1]

I'm just going to quote this post again because nobody is adressing it and it's about the only reasonable post in this thread. Can someone explain to me what exactly is the fundamental difference between the completely common birem and the ship shown in the first post? Aside from the striped sail of course.

It seems like a perfectly fine, historical authentic choice of CA to give scythians with harbours acces to a ship as common in the mediterranee and black sea as the birem. And in my view it also seems pefectly reasonable if CA decides to model them a bit differently in order to distinguish them enough from the big, civilised trirems, qunqiremens and gazailionquirems.

Offcourse it looks a bit to much after a viking ship, but the truth is that many of the ancient ships looked very similar like that, especially the Bireme, propably one of the most used ships in the antiquity and one of the few design which were able to sail on the Atlantic Coast.



Model of a phoenician merchant ship.

[HinFoo]

whatever, they must have something.

[Ragss]

Might as well cancel your preorders, guys.

[Rostam_e_Iran]

OP has a fair point tbh. Doesn't fit the time era

[Marcus Aemilius Lepidus]

OP has a fair point tbh. Doesn't fit the time era

As i tried to show with the image, it does fit in the era. Similar ships were used all over the antiquity and only the front and backornaments look a bit vikingish, but i guess it is a try to make it look more northern, which is not wrong at all.

[Markas]

What type of ships did Scythians have in this time period?

[ashbery76]

What type of ships did Scythians have in this time period?

This is the issue.CA had to use something so I see no issue having something with a real frame of reference.

[|Sith|Galvanized Iron]

The existence of the Dragon Boat pre-dates history.