I Like Floris But...

[AwkwardHillbilly]

Why are the unit names so weird?

[Sirius]

If you mean the "tags", they are actually helpful to immediately see what type of unit it is.
"I2" for Infantry tier 2, and so on.

If you mean the actual unit names...
...I'm lost myself. While I do recognize some german / teuronic soldier type names ("Landsknecht", for example), I can't say why.

Even to me as a German, they sound stupid. Still historical, more or less, I suppose.
Also, many more seem to be "accurate" in their names from other historical eras and countries, so there.

Edit: Then again, you can't well name 666 types of archers "Swadian Archers" and the like, so you pretty much have to come up with more "unique" names, I guess.

[AwkwardHillbilly]

I really meant both. The I1 is so hard to read and I didn't really not what all of that meant. Then the name of the units is like woah uh okay xD

[Tuidjy]

The names originate in the cultures after which the factions are patterned. Scandinavian, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Mongol and French. Only two of the six sets were unfamiliar to me, so I guess I learned something... as will most.

[Fumbles]

Swadians in Floris are based off the English not the French, hence why they use English names and longbows. Mercenaries are based off the Holy Roman Empire (Germans)

[Baldur's Door]

Originally posted by BRS:

Swadians in Floris are based off the English not the French, hence why they use English names and longbows. Mercenaries are based off the Holy Roman Empire (Germans)

English and French both. It says so in game concepts. They have good longbow archers based on the English and cavalry from the French.

[Tuidjy]

"Chevalier Banneret", "Baron Mineure", "Piquier", "Jacobite" sound rather French to me.

The nation is based on both the English and the French. After all, there was a period when quite a few people thought they had a claim to the throne of both. The English had a emphasis on bows (maybe because they had better wood for bowstaves) and the French on cavalry (maybe because it was easier for them to raise and feed horses)

[Morkonan]

Just a note: There's a submod for Floris that removes the Unit Type and Rank designations (the numbers and such after the unit name) if you don't want them.

But, I find that they're very useful, since Floris has a huge number of different troops.

[TrashmaN]

The names are in different languages because each faction corresponds to a real world country, Rhodoks=Italy, Swadia=England, Sarranids=Arabia, Kerghits=Mongolia, Nords= Norway/Scandanavian Vikings, and I am not sure about the Vaegirs.

[Tuidjy]

I'm not going to argue whether 'Baron Mineure' is an English word, or where the country of Arabia can be found, or whether people speak Turkish there, but here is the origin of the mercenary and Vaegir troops names.

Hochmeister, Komtur, Ritterbruder - these are ranks from the Teutonic Knights, and have Germanic/Latin origin - High master, commander, rider/knight brother.

Luchnik, Vityaz, Voevoda, or лучник (bowman), витязь (elite warrior), воевода (war leader) - these are in Russian, although many of them are also perfectly good words in Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish, etc...

[Sarkin]

Google/Bing.

[Copy Orange]

Originally posted by Morkonan:

Just a note: There's a submod for Floris that removes the Unit Type and Rank designations (the numbers and such after the unit name) if you don't want them.

^
http://www.nexusmods.com/mbwarband/mods/3489/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fmbwarband%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D3489&pUp=1

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[Richon]

Originally posted by Tuidjy:

"Chevalier Banneret", "Baron Mineure", "Piquier", "Jacobite" sound rather French to me.

The nation is based on both the English and the French. After all, there was a period when quite a few people thought they had a claim to the throne of both. The English had a emphasis on bows (maybe because they had better wood for bowstaves) and the French on cavalry (maybe because it was easier for them to raise and feed horses)

'Jacobite' isn't French, it's Scottish...

[Frits Bricks]

Originally posted by |x|SiriuS|x|:

If you mean the "tags", they are actually helpful to immediately see what type of unit it is.
"I2" for Infantry tier 2, and so on.

If you mean the actual unit names...
...I'm lost myself. While I do recognize some german / teuronic soldier type names ("Landsknecht", for example), I can't say why.

Even to me as a German, they sound stupid. Still historical, more or less, I suppose.
Also, many more seem to be "accurate" in their names from other historical eras and countries, so there.

Edit: Then again, you can't well name 666 types of archers "Swadian Archers" and the like, so you pretty much have to come up with more "unique" names, I guess.

Actually '' Landsknecht '' is ( never heard it in german ) dutch for land help