My Nightmare of an Add-on

[Hetman_Koronny]

I hope it never happens.

[Paul Peru]

I'd love it if someone made a decent movie loosely based on that concept, though!

[BDC]

The movie was soooo poor. But would be fun.

And I also hate the movie for turning my ancestors into the evil people again. What does Hollywood have against the English?! :(

[Mikeus Caesar]

I don't know what hollywood has against us, but whatever it is, they're dicks. And the movie was poor. Couldn't they have just stook with the original more realistic tale?

[Sinner]

The film was bad, but it was nice to see an attempt to show something other than the usual daft Chivalric Arthurian legends.

Lucius Artorius Castus, played by Clive Owen in the movie, was a prefect in Legio VI Victrix which guarded Hadrian's Wall, at a point in his career when his expected rank would be prefect alae, ie. commanding cavalry auxilia. During this posting the Picts invaded and the VI Victrix fragmented and mutined after the Picts killed their legate, allowing the invaders to ravage the lands on the eastern side of the Pennines. However, the prefect in charge of the fort at Bremetennacum (modern Ribchester), where many Sarmation cavalry were based, managed to keep order on the western side. After the invasion was repelled the officers of the VI Victrix were either executed or in effect exiled to remote posts. Unlike what happened to his peers, Castus was promoted to Dux of the cavalry in Britain, making it all too possible that he was the prefect who commanded the fort at Bremetennacum.

So if they wanted to explore the theory that Lucius Artorius Castus is the ultimate origin of the legend of King Arthur, it should have been a Pictish invasion in the movie and not time travelling Saxons. Of course, we can't have that in Hollywood, since the Picts are from Scotland and that makes them Scottish, right? Oh, and the Saxons, well everybody just knows that means Anglo-Saxons, making them the evil English. Yey! It's Braveheart again! *sigh* Damned Hollywood.

[The_Doctor]

I saw that movie the other. Its ok.

I could not work out why the Saxons where attacking from the north of Harian's wall. Why would they sall from south Denmark/Northen Germany to the north of Britain they fight though a wall and forts?

A Hengist and Horsa movie would be cool, but hollywood would mess it up and make them look bad.

"Germans? Good Guys? No that can't be right."-Some hollywood producer when he looks at the script.

[Stefan the Berserker]

"Germans? Good Guys? No that can't be right."-Some hollywood producer when he looks at the script.

Too right!! When are we going to get a decent movie about Hengist & Horsa, King Redwald, Alfred the Great, Beowulf, or Harold Godwinson? Usually we just get either:
1) English = bad guys
2) ENGLISH blamed for the misdeeds of the BRITISH

Just that. But they at least make Movies on King Arthur and British Literature, we germans only appear in Movies as Targets for beeing killed by the Heros. English Caracters in Hollywoodmovies can at least speak like human beeings!

But on the Add-on, believe me that they'll hack something. At least that the Huns will be a Clone of the "Golden Horde".

[Barbarossa82]

What does Hollywood have against the English?! :(

Too right!! When are we going to get a decent movie about Hengist & Horsa, King Redwald, Alfred the Great, Beowulf, or Harold Godwinson? Usually we just get either:
1) English = bad guys
2) ENGLISH blamed for the misdeeds of the BRITISH

Anglo-saxon rant over.

Personally I think CA would be a lot more likely to go down the Hunnic route if left to their own devices for the expansion. Everything we have seen from them indicates that they do care about producing a well-researched game rooted in history. The only competing factor is the drive to sell, and this might push them towards something "flashier", e.g. Arthur/Riothamus. As far as I know, the new Arthur movie didn't do too well, so maybe this will dissuade them!
Personally I'd love to see them make a prequel focused on the conquest of Italy, struggles against the Etruscans etc., but I'd happily settle for Hunnic Invasion or Gothic Invasion.

[Spino]

Too right!! When are we going to get a decent movie about Hengist & Horsa, King Redwald, Alfred the Great, Beowulf, or Harold Godwinson? Usually we just get either:
1) English = bad guys
2) ENGLISH blamed for the misdeeds of the BRITISH

Anglo-saxon rant over.

Well had Hollyweird simply renamed the movie 'Troy' to 'Beowulf' you would have had your Northern European epic (albeit a bad one). With the exception of Eric Bana 'Troy' featured the most celtic/aryan looking Greeks I've ever seen!