Tech trees

[skeletor]

True, the army Olav fought were called "bondehæren" or "the peasant army". But by this, they didn't mean Olav's royal army figthing a bunch of men with heyforks. This was a battle betwen the king who wanted a kingdom, and chieftains who fougt for the old system with independent "Gårder" (Can't find a good english word for it, but it's kind of a huge farm with fields, woods, hunting-grounds aso). So the "bondehær" was a coalition of chieftains fielding their hird, and other unit's avalable (as they had allways been doing when going to war.)

-Skel-

[Jarlabanke]

I think there may have been a quite large amount of peasants in the army Olav faced, it is after said to be a peasant army, which is not an all that common thing in it self, and it's also said to have been quite big, 10000+ men, most likely an exaggeration but still. Seeing how Olav had been quite hardgoing when it came to introducing christianity, it's reasonable to think that the peasants would have been just as mad as the high ranking men whose power/lives Olav was after. As for pitchforks I would believe that most of the farms had enough weapons of some kind, so that they wouldn't haev to resort to using framing tools.

[skeletor]

- Small synagogue (+10 happiness, requires town), Synagogue (+20 happiness, +1 morale, +5% law, requires large town), Large synagogue (+40 happiness, +2 morale, +10% law, requires city)
- MORE HAPPINESS BUILDINGS NEEDED!

Suggestion for Khazar happynes building, we could add the Khazar supreme court.

"In the capital city, the Khazars established a supreme court composed of 7 members, and every major religion (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Savic paganism) eas represented on this judicial panel. the Kazars thus sponsed religous tolerance in a time when surrounding countries presecuted those who refused to follow the faith of the rulers."

It might be called "Independent court" or something like that.

-Skel-

[ScionTheWorm]

wow didn't know the Khazars or anybody would be that tolerant in that timeperiod..

[Rodion Romanovich]

Ok, that sounds like a good idea skeletor! I'll have a thorough look at all tech trees today and add improvements everywhere I can and see if any tech trees are so finished that the skinners can use them. I'll add the court when I do that.

[Jarlabanke]

Were Trebuchets around this early?

[skeletor]

Edit... I stumblrd across this:

It is believed that the first trebuchets were used in China as early as in the 7th century. From there this technology spread westwards and reached the Arab countries through Persia and Byzantium. The engines of war were in use all over the Mediterranean by the 9th century and the knowledge of these new and highly efficient weapons disseminated rapidly through the rest of Europe.

So i guass it's not way off having them in.

-Skel-

[Rodion Romanovich]

New siege weapons suggestions:
- Ballista - bolt-thrower. Available to all quite early
- Mangonel - stone thrower. Harder to get. Requires level 3 city.

Only the Byzantines, Khazars and the muslim factions should really be able to use flaming missiles for their archers and artillery, I think. I also think the non-flaming mangonel should be increased in power (but reduced in ammo), whereas the flaming one should be reduced in power. I think we could add a Heavy mangonel if we want more levels of stone throwers. However I think that's unnecessary.

When I searched for onager in Wikipedia I didn't quite get what I wanted:

"The Onager (Equus hemionus) is a large mammal belonging to the horse family and native to the deserts of Syria, Iran, India, and Tibet. It is sometimes known as the Half Ass or the Asiatic Ass [etc.]"