An Irish protest

**cmacq** · 03-28-2011, 20:55

Originally Posted by Brennus

I live with a Palaeoecology student, I will ask her and see if she can shed any light on it for you.

That would be for you as, much as for me. Please see your earlier posting titled: The East Anglian and Dutch Coasts. And please take a look at this.

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**Cyclops** · 04-01-2011, 07:10

I'm sad the province limit has reared its ugly head again, the team is doing an impressive job with work-arounds (like the inspired Sardinia/Corsica split).

I see the point that there's mighty swathes of unsettle-able land in the EB period and this is modelled with the Eremos province. I had imagined it being used on the steppes and I believe I read a post suggesting it would be (although in a different way to what I suggested, I had thought of "island" or "pocket" provinces surrounded by Eremos so there were little settled patches or oases or whatever.

I wonder if the Irish province will have a "nomad camp" or a "city" settlement type at game start. Was semi-nomadic herding pretty common there? My memory is dim and vague on Iron Age Britain. Might be a way to model the more extremely non-urban areas culturally un-aligned to urban development, and needing a real culture shift to allow urbanisation?

**bobbin** · 04-01-2011, 13:50

Originally Posted by Cyclops

I see the point that there's mighty swathes of unsettle-able land in the EB period and this is modelled with the Eremos province. I had imagined it being used on the steppes and I believe I read a post suggesting it would be (although in a different way to what I suggested, I had thought of "island" or "pocket" provinces surrounded by Eremos so there were little settled patches or oases or whatever.

It's a nice idea but trade would not work at all if each province was surrounded by Eremos, and trade was very important in the steppes.
The most northerly of the steppe provinces have been made into Eremos, I believe that's what you were thinking about.

**B-Wing** · 04-01-2011, 15:16

Perhaps this was explained earlier and I missed it, but what exactly is the purpose of designating parts of Ireland and Scotland to the Eremos region? I don't mind it at all, and don't really care, but I just wonder how it is intended to improve EB2's gameplay (as opposed to having the entire island of Ireland as a single province and all of Scotland as a single province).

**Horatius Flaccus** · 04-01-2011, 16:48

As I understand it, it's to represent the difficulty of controlling those parts of the map. By making it an unconquerable rebel province you will have (AFAIK) more rebel armies that raid your territories.

**cmacq** · 04-02-2011, 17:16

No, we are apparently not getting it at all. The point is there is little to no evidence, of any human occupation of Erie or Alba, for most of the EB II timeframe. If one were to find it, please post.

**Brennus** · 04-03-2011, 03:55

Originally Posted by cmacq

No, we are apparently not getting it at all. The point is there is little to no evidence, of any human occupation of Erie or Alba, for most of the EB II timeframe. If one were to find it, please post.

I find that hard to believe, how do you explain the brochs and duns of northwest Scotland and the ritual sites of Ireland such as Tara and Emain Macha? These regions had been inhabitted since the mesolithic.