Can you play as Germany?

[Big Sister Lover]

Just curious if this game is like, open to multiple cultures or if you're forced to play as Rome.

[Surge]

Germany didn't exit during the time period - so no, you can not play as Germany.

You can play as anyone who is currently on the map.

[Big Sister Lover]

Originally posted by Surge:

Germany didn't exit during the time period - so no, you can not play as Germany.

You can play as anyone who is currently on the map.

So does the map have Germany?

[BJesus]

it have germanic tribe tho

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by The Feline Defender:

So does the map have Germany?

Well Germany as a nation didn't exist at this period, but the land occupied by present day Germany is represented in the game.

Effectively, there are three game types - Monarchies, Republics and Tribes - All factions are playable and the majority of the map consists factions. Some areas don't have factions within them, but can later be colonised / occupied by existing factions.

There is 'culture' in the game, but playing a Tribe of X culture won't feel too different to playing a Tribe of Y culture apart from your start location. Likewise Republic X vs Republic Y etc.

[Big Sister Lover]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

Originally posted by The Feline Defender:

So does the map have Germany?

Well Germany as a nation didn't exist at this period, but the land occupied by present day Germany is represented in the game.

Effectively, there are three game types - Monarchies, Republics and Tribes - All factions are playable and the majority of the map consists factions. Some areas don't have factions within them, but can later be colonised / occupied by existing factions.

There is 'culture' in the game, but playing a Tribe of X culture won't feel too different to playing a Tribe of Y culture apart from your start location. Likewise Republic X vs Republic Y etc.

That's pretty lame that they're not unique. I read that a German Landsneckt army switched sides in the middle of a campaign and wiped out 3 legions at Teutoburg.

[The Former]

Originally posted by The Feline Defender:

Originally posted by Tiberius:

Well Germany as a nation didn't exist at this period, but the land occupied by present day Germany is represented in the game.

Effectively, there are three game types - Monarchies, Republics and Tribes - All factions are playable and the majority of the map consists factions. Some areas don't have factions within them, but can later be colonised / occupied by existing factions.

There is 'culture' in the game, but playing a Tribe of X culture won't feel too different to playing a Tribe of Y culture apart from your start location. Likewise Republic X vs Republic Y etc.

That's pretty lame that they're not unique. I read that a German Landsneckt army switched sides in the middle of a campaign and wiped out 3 legions at Teutoburg.

But weren't the Landsknechte like... Several hundred years after Teutoburg? I feel like we're getting trolled here, but I prefer not to judge such things because I used to think samurai had links to Three Kingdoms China.

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by The Feline Defender:

That's pretty lame that they're not unique.

Just to put the game into scale, there are around 400+ starting factions, made up of 200+ cultures, split into 23 culture groups. e.g. the 'Germanic' culture group contains 20 cultures from Anglian through to Vandal

I believe (read: hope) that future DLC will aim at adding more uniqueness to different culture groups.

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by Sheriff of Nothingham:

But weren't the Landsknechte like... Several hundred years after Teutoburg?

I thought it an odd statement, but gave the benefit of the doubt as the German term means land servant, maybe its used in other contexts / languages to relate to tribal peoples?

[Big Sister Lover]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

Originally posted by The Feline Defender:

That's pretty lame that they're not unique.

Just to put the game into scale, there are around 400+ starting factions, made up of 200+ cultures, split into 23 culture groups. e.g. the 'Germanic' culture group contains 20 cultures from Anglian through to Vandal

I believe (read: hope) that future DLC will aim at adding more uniqueness to different culture groups.

But it's just a word on the map like in EU4?

[Big Sister Lover]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

Originally posted by Sheriff of Nothingham:

But weren't the Landsknechte like... Several hundred years after Teutoburg?

I thought it an odd statement, but gave the benefit of the doubt as the German term means land servant, maybe its used in other contexts / languages to relate to tribal peoples?

Nah that's my mistake. I just thought it was a generic term for mercenary from Germany like the Hessians were also Landknecht.

Apparently during the classical era they were called Auxiliary.

[The Former]

Originally posted by The Feline Defender:

Originally posted by Tiberius:

I thought it an odd statement, but gave the benefit of the doubt as the German term means land servant, maybe its used in other contexts / languages to relate to tribal peoples?

Nah that's my mistake. I just thought it was a generic term for mercenary from Germany like the Hessians were also Landknecht.

Apparently during the classical era they were called Auxiliary.

Ah, I see! Yeah, in that case, you're very much right. But when the history says "German" there, they do indeed mean "Germanic"; as in, from among the tribes in Germania. Basically, they were Roman auxiliary troops drawn from subject Germanic tribes.

The country of Germany as we know it didn't really start to become a thing until the German Confederation in the 1800's, then a loose league of independent states. Up until then, the word "German" or "Germanic" generally just referred to the region.

Similar to the way "Italian" in those days referred to "of the peoples native to the Italian Peninsula", as Italy didn't exist as a country until much later.

[Big Sister Lover]

Originally posted by Sheriff of Nothingham:

Originally posted by The Feline Defender:

Nah that's my mistake. I just thought it was a generic term for mercenary from Germany like the Hessians were also Landknecht.

Apparently during the classical era they were called Auxiliary.

Ah, I see! Yeah, in that case, you're very much right. But when the history says "German" there, they do indeed mean "Germanic"; as in, from among the tribes in Germania. Basically, they were Roman auxiliary troops drawn from subject Germanic tribes.

The country of Germany as we know it didn't really start to become a thing until the German Confederation in the 1800's, then a loose league of independent states. Up until then, the word "German" or "Germanic" generally just referred to the region.

Similar to the way "Italian" in those days referred to "of the peoples native to the Italian Peninsula", as Italy didn't exist as a country until much later.

So what is unique about the Germans in this game? In Rome 2 they had their own mechanics for instance.

[Wotan von Edelsburg]

Originally posted by Big Sister Lover:

Just curious if this game is like, open to multiple cultures or if you're forced to play as Rome.

Hello I do not know if it is too late but. Here is a mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1947305448 that allows you to create Magna Germania (Greater Germany/ Großdeutschland). To do this, you must hold all the territories as a Germanic tribe or monarchy or republic, which are shown in the Steam Archivment (thanks to mod are now visible in the decision). This mod is also translated into German