Hattusa Guide

[Kendji]

Some shameless plugging of a guide I wrote up.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3071811725

The guide is about the historical landmarks of Hattusa. It also shows the attention to detail from the Sofia Team. The only gripe I have with Hattusa in-game is the gates, they would have been decorated with animal carvings etc. The rest of the city is stunningly authentic imo.
However I do think that many invading the Hittite homeland don't know the landmarks of their capital Hattusa, my attempt is to increase the immersion for those who siege Hattusa or play the Hittites.

[Andra]

Wtf are you a historian?
This was a good read my dude, fascinating! Appreciate sharing this.

[oOIYvYIOo]

great work Kendji

[Kendji]

No historian, I decided not to take that academic line due to historians having an 50% unemployement rate lol. Just a well read nerd. :)

[Grandmaster]

Thanks Kendji, good job :)

[Benjin]

To be honest, while the shape of the land on the map is somewhat accurate, a lot of the iconic areas of the city they did not get right. For example, the palace area was more like a castle or acropolis in that it was on a plateau walled off from the rest of the city, not just a simple palace building with a staircase. The temple district also lacks the iconic great temple in the middle. Lastly, the sphinx gate was heavily fortified and had a massive rampart surrounding it. I remember all this as I had to do a 3D documentary for Kings & Generals and studied what the city would have really looked like in great detail (wasn't my best work though, I could have put a lot more detail into it and rendered with better lighting but I was working to a fixed deadline).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgH4CxQrgRc

[Kendji]

Haven't seen that video, have to add it to the list. I went off an book with plenty of pictures and descriptions. When looking at the pictures very little of it is still left irl. If we have to pick things not up to snuff, despite the gates, the postern wall should actually be more like an mound with an entrance, where you can walk through the wall on the inside. It's not believed that the wall was a military/defensive wall. In-game it looks like a military wall meant to funnel the enemy into potential choke points.

It will be interesting to watch that video and check my own sources :D

[Kendji]

It's really fun watching this video, their refering the same source as I have at hand. Trevor Bryce is a popular dude xD

Kings and General's postern wall (the one separating the city halves) is also a typical defensive wall and not the type it should.

That temple district your talking about actually exist in-game. It's called Main Temple Quarter and I have pictures of it and it's main temple in the guide. K&G animates the Temple district there in a way that makes it look bigger than in-game. Those buildings are also painted white to distinguish them from other buildings.

The Acropolis is not accessable in-game and you can only look at it from afar. The K&G did a better job tha CA Sofia on that.

The Gates in K&G are the ones the game should have too imo.