Arthur and Saxons

[ABocquet]

Now, that we have Britannia, It would fine to have a dlc about the age of King Arthur with the conquest of Britain by the Saxons.
It could be either like Britannia with real armies (late romans, Scots, Saxons ...) or like warhammer, with some magic and spells (Merlin, Lady of the lake, Excalibur ...)

[28 Beers Later]

that would be great, but i guess after people flamed thrones for no end and it having mixed ratings, there wont come much for it after the patch, which is a shame

[Philippe_at_bay]

Don't assume that a game about the ninth century gives you the geography of sub-Roman Britain: they were very different.

Sub-Roman Britain had towns and villas in different places, and a decaying but extensive road net. The settlement pattern of towns that you see in the ninth century game has a lot to do with what happened to the island during the fifth and sixth centuries.

But what the game does give you is a settlement pattern that would work very well for early Anglo-Saxon England in the seventh century. This isn't a period that has gotten much coverage, but it's a fascinating one in its own right. Think the Bryttenwalda mod for Mount and Blade and the Great Whale Road.

Anyone for Penda and Offa's ♥♥♥♥?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penda_of_Mercia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offa%27s_Dyke

[PoutineConspiracy]

How about a mod? There are some smart fellers doing some good mods for these TW games. I'm not one of them, of course. I'm just a fan of their work.

You could go the route of historic accuracy and it wouldn't look much different from the game we have today. Romanized "Britons" in the west, Gaels in Ireland, Saxons and Danes coming in from the east. You're really only going back in time about 500 years and the introduction of Roman technology could provide some interesting units. Following roughly the books by Jack Whyte the Dream of Eagles series would provide a good framework for a technology tree that unlocks coke-fuelled steel, which Whyte imagines may have made swords like Excalibur stand out from the rest. In DoE he has Excalibur being made from a meteorite.

But you could go full fantasy and have tech-trees around magic units of War Hammer. Personally, I'd be more interested in more historic accuracy and not fantasy, but I might give it a try. I'd even donate to a cause that was building such a mod or pay for it if I knew it worked.

[Cowabunga]

I agree with this 100%. It has been a hope of mine for a while that CA would do a King Arthur themed DLC. I would prefer it not contain any magical elements.

As PoutineConspiracy suggested, they could represent the legend historically and realistically by roughly following the same ideas of the brilliant author Jack Whyte in his Camulod Chronicles (known as A Dream of Eagles outside the US). Camulod is his term for Camelot, similar to how Londinium became London and Eboracum became York. There are realisitc origins for the elements that many representations of Arthurian lore explain with magic (Merlyn is just a really clever tactician and trickster who gains access to an alchemical toolbox from Egypt; the Lady of the Lake is ore extracted from a meteorite that landed in a lake and then smelted into the shape of a woman; Excalibur is then smithed from it, etc). It's really an excellent series of books that I highly recommend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dream_of_Eagles

I'd throw money at a DLC like this in a heartbeat. Please consider, CA.

[imdrunk]

Dudes! This game is a good material for us to learn English history, so we should hope from now on CA will make a line of DLCs one after another until English civil war.

[imdrunk]

btw who ist interested in sub-Roman Britain, just keep an eye on this new game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/908330/Contingent/

[PoutineConspiracy]

Cool! Glad I'm not the only one interested in this.