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Interesting backstories for choosing a certain faction
Whenever I play as a certain faction I tend to pick those whom I can relate to from a movie or story. I'm not forcing RPG into my diplomacy, but it's always in the back of my mind. There is Sparta with 300, Macedon with Alexander, Rome for endless reasons, etc.
Am I alone in doing this? What tales inspire your to pick a faction?
~Wille
Thorolf was thus armed. Then Thorolf became so furious that he cast his shield on his back, and, grasping his halberd with both hands, bounded forward dealing cut and thrust on either side. Men sprang away from him both ways, but he slew many. Thus he cleared the way forward to earl Hring's standard, and then nothing could stop him. He slew the man who bore the earl's standard, and cut down the standard-pole. After that he lunged with his halberd at the earl's breast, driving it right through mail and body, so that it came out at the shoulders; and he lifted him up on the halberd over his head, and planted the butt-end in the ground. There on the weapon the earl breathed out his life in sight of all, both friends and foes. [...] 53, Egil's Saga- The pranks played on the knight Jean de Joinville, 1249, 7th crusade.I must tell you here of some amusing tricks the Comte d'Eu played on us. I had made a sort of house for myself in which my knights and I used to eat, sitting so as to get the light from the door, which, as it happened, faced the Comte d'Eu's quarters. The count, who was a very ingenious fellow, had rigged up a miniature ballistic machine with which he could throw stones into my tent. He would watch us as we were having our meal, adjust his machine to suit the length of our table, and then let fly at us, breaking our pots and glasses.
http://imgur.com/a/DMm19
Originally Posted by Finn
Domesticus
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These videos are great for anyone wanting to put the books down for a bit -reading is so much better- and watch a nice documentary on Rome and Carthage. First video is on Alexander The Great if your aspiring to do a Macedon campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBkYCK9GKdE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1BKxeKtieM
Last edited by stevehoos; January 17, 2015 at 10:28 PM.
Shogun 2, no thanks I will stick with Kingdoms SS.
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Do not want to sound rude but when i think about spartans 300 is the last thing that comes to my mind
Usually i'm just inspired by history itself.
Domesticus
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That movie is so far removed from ancient Greek history I didn't bother with it after the first 5 minutes, to all his own though I suppose.Do not want to sound rude but when i think about spartans 300 is the last thing that comes to my mind
Usually i'm just inspired by history itself.
Shogun 2, no thanks I will stick with Kingdoms SS.
Remember to smile
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Huh, that's pretty interesting. I think this point summarizes my next campaignThe Rome vs Carthage breaths some life into the different political factions as well. + rep
~Wille
Thorolf was thus armed. Then Thorolf became so furious that he cast his shield on his back, and, grasping his halberd with both hands, bounded forward dealing cut and thrust on either side. Men sprang away from him both ways, but he slew many. Thus he cleared the way forward to earl Hring's standard, and then nothing could stop him. He slew the man who bore the earl's standard, and cut down the standard-pole. After that he lunged with his halberd at the earl's breast, driving it right through mail and body, so that it came out at the shoulders; and he lifted him up on the halberd over his head, and planted the butt-end in the ground. There on the weapon the earl breathed out his life in sight of all, both friends and foes. [...] 53, Egil's Saga- The pranks played on the knight Jean de Joinville, 1249, 7th crusade.I must tell you here of some amusing tricks the Comte d'Eu played on us. I had made a sort of house for myself in which my knights and I used to eat, sitting so as to get the light from the door, which, as it happened, faced the Comte d'Eu's quarters. The count, who was a very ingenious fellow, had rigged up a miniature ballistic machine with which he could throw stones into my tent. He would watch us as we were having our meal, adjust his machine to suit the length of our table, and then let fly at us, breaking our pots and glasses.
http://imgur.com/a/DMm19
Semisalis
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This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1BKxeKtieM is the reason I play Carthage campaigns. Its very well acted (actor who plays Hannibal will be in Game of Thrones next season) and produced for a TV program.
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Bernard Cornwell's stories of the Dark Ages get me in the mood to play Iceni. Love learning the history of England.
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This exactly, they were the first faction I won the grand campaign with and I'd just finished reading this series
Tiro
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The Romans because of Gladiator, no doubt.
Carthage from watching 'Time Commanders' and 'Decisive Battles', two tv shows that used to be on the history channel and actually used Rome Total War's game engine.
The Greek states because it's my heritage, and admittedly, I did like 300.
With the Seleukid Empire, it's because of their ability to be a Major power from game start. Sometimes it's more interesting to start more established and focus more on the battlefield part of the game.
I don't usually play barbarians, mostly because I've always liked armies that focus on quality over quantity.
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Hazarapatish
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Makedon becuase Antigonous Gonatas.
Senator
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rome because it's rome
great vids there stevehoos
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. -Marcus Aurelius
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My most influential factor have to be history itself, I keep in mind the problems they faced and their goals historically. I examine their strength and weakness, using that as a center on how will I play the game.
At the moment I'm playing as Tylis, because they're Celts in Thrace, far from home that they are, I tried to reconnect them to their brothers and cousins but never really expanding over land; always in western and southern portion of the black sea. Everywhere else, they're just places to drop in once in awhile to plunder.
Miles
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For some reason I like to make things like "If they happened in other way?"
Normally with Barbarian tribes.
I try to do my best to organize and use the terrain as an economic advantage.
To make comerce or to colonize for example.
Or imagine, I'm playing with some Gallic tribe, and I "make" it so happen like that I was invaded and I had to move to another place and then rise from there.
I'm also inspired by movies, books and history.
I would say my favorite factions are the ones from Iberia, and again, I try to stop the civil war and unite them (normally by force) to in future have a big war against the Romans or some Hellenic faction.
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