Hey everyone,
I have been thinking alot lately.. Reading articles on how RTW is historically inaccurate, there has been one topic that has really annoyed me.. The fact that these factions:
Greek Cities
Gaul
Germania
Scythia
Britannia
Iberia
Numidia
and Now Illyria
NEVER EXISTED.. there never was a "Gaul kingdom" they were a bunch of tribes, clans, small kingdoms, loose alliances, and confederations..
Same can go for the other Barbarian factions listed above..
Also the "Greek Cities" never had a kingdom.. they were all independant or in leagues..
At first my thought was "oh well, we have to play with the cards dealt to us"...
BUT THEN today, while I was on a trip I was thinking..
EB and RS2 have a great "rebel" setup.. and I thought why can't we??
So check this out.. Instead of giving rebel settlements a huge stack of units we need to make them their own "sub-faction" similar to EB and RS2.
Now the problem here is on the strat map they would still look like rebels.. But, we separate them.. Brigands will be brigands, Pirates will be Pirates.. But you wont see a Roxolani army merge with a Bithynian army.. Instead you would see them treat each other as a completely different faction..
So all of the little kingdoms, city states and tribes will essentially be on their own..
We have:
Italian Rebel Culture with the Pitchfork Symbol
Barbarian Rebel Culture with the Three Connected Loops Symbol
The Hellenic Rebel Culture with The Pegasus symbol
The Eastern Rebel Culture with The Palm/Eye Symbol
The North African Rebel Culture with The Elephant
Another Barbarian Culture?? The Bug Symbol
So we have room to work with.. but now read carefully..
RS2 Did away with the Britons and essentially made them into another rebel faction..
Why cant we do that? If we can do that with the factions listed above it would be amazing.. making them all sub factions of an ultimate culture.. then we wouldn't have a unified Gaul or Greek Cities but instead the different Kingdoms and Tribes in reality..
I know we can do it.. It will take heavy scripting and coding but it can be done..
There are many possibilities with this idea... The Galatians, Pergamum, Parthia, Hasmonean Kingdom, and others can suddenly appear and be there own independant factions..
I believe it can be done.. It would work great with the AOR system and with the goal of unifying the germans, gauls etc..
We can also build off this with adding mini campaigns.. now wouldnt that be something?? Guys please dont write it off as it simply cant be done.. if there is proof of this idea being impossible i understand but from what i've seen this is possible.. it will just take hard work..
Please give me your thoughts/ideas on this
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