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January 23, 2015, 04:33 PM
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Laetus
New, more accurate cultures
I've just made this profile to congratulate all your DeI team for this excellent modification! Like many others said, DeI is the reason why I play Rome 2.
As I'm a History college student, and have some interest in Anthropology, Linguistics, Antiquity, different ethnic groups, et., I've noticed that (as some others before me pointed out on this forum) some factions in this game have a culture that doesn't represents them quite accurately.
The Budini were probably a Finno-Ugric people. It is somewhat innacurate for them being simply "Nomadic" like the Indo-European Scythians, even because they have "Saka" units.
The Aestii, as someone has pointed, should be a Indo-European Baltic people, not "Nomadic".
The (Adriatic) Veneti had a culture of their own, "Venetic", not belonging to the Italic, neither to the Celtic or Germanic branches of Indo-Europeans.
And possibly the Ebdani, who are "British" (Brittonic) by now, could historically be Goidelic, a different Celtic branch.
The Nervii could also be "Belgian", as Caesar differentiated between them and the Celts and Germans, and some postulate the existence of a distinct Indo-European language, "Ancient Belgian", for them.
Other factions too could have more accurate cultures, like the Caucasian ones (also talked about in another thread).
I believe that those new cultures would add greater diversity in the game, and also more historical accuracy; plus, it would be very interesting having them as playable factions in the future, because of their distinct, unique cultures. I don't know if this is possible (adding even more cultures and consequently, units for them, I don't know if there is a limit), but surely would be great. What do you think?
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January 24, 2015, 08:02 AM
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Re: New, more accurate cultures
Most already have unique units
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January 24, 2015, 08:49 AM
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Laetus
Re: New, more accurate cultures
Yeah, but what I asked is the creation of new culture groups, like the DeI team has already done ("Egyptian", "Illyrian", "Brittish", etc.), that actually fit the factions, historically wise. A "Finno-Ugric" for the Budini, a "Baltic" one for the Aestii, a "Venetic" for the Veneti, "Goidelic" for the Ebdani (this, or simply changing the "Brittish" culture to "Insular Celtic", in order to differentiate it from the Continental one, of the Gauls. The term "Insular Celtic" describes accurately both the ancient Irish and the "Brittish" alike, while "Brittish" applies only to the Britons and Picts), and perhaps "Belgian" for the Nervii: at least 4 or 5 new cultures. I must admit I think this is not going to happen, at least for now, since of these factions, all are minor ones, the Nervii being the only one playable. But I have some hope, since the DeI team has already said that maybe they will create a "Caucasian" culture for Colchis and the other factions of Caucasus, and plan making new factions playable (Persia and Nabatea, if I remember well).
Wouldn't be interesting to play such factions, like commanding armies of Baltic swamp/forest barbarian, "proto-Lithuanian" warriors, or the Magyar-related Budini hordes?
Speaking about unique cultures, it would be nice too if an "Aquitani/Vascones" faction existed in the game, since I miss those fierce proto-Basque tribal warriors, and their old, perhaps Paleolithic, European culture; even though I believe this is even more improbable, or even impossible, as I don't know if a new faction can be made.
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