Preview September 27th 2005

**Ranika** · 09-27-2005, 20:20

The Gaels are a mash of Celtic and the Iberian Galaecian culture; the thing is, Galaecians were Hallstatt Celts. Hallstatt Celts tended to wear; tight trousers (and sometimes braccae, loose trousers, as they moved west), knee-length shirts (in which case they'd be bare-legged), thigh-length shirts (worn with tight trousers), cloaks that hung around the shoulders, boots, and favored axes and spears in many ways. Sound like anyone? Gaels were ostensibly La Tene Celts in terms of development when they came about (due to melding with Belgae, Gauls, and Britons), but had huge gouts of Hallstatt culture remaining, accounting for their clothing and numerous traditions. They were Celts, but not the common concept of Celts (which is the north-western European continental Celt; trousers, often shirtless or decked out in chain, with lots of longswords, oval shields, and such).

**Reverend Joe** · 09-27-2005, 20:34

Those textures are absolutely astounding.

Especially the faction symbols- best I've ever seen. It loks like the MTW atmosphere might be applicable to RTW after all.

**GoreBag** · 09-27-2005, 20:40

Originally Posted by Ranika

The Gaels are a mash of Celtic and the Iberian Galaecian culture; the thing is, Galaecians were Hallstatt Celts. Hallstatt Celts tended to wear; tight trousers (and sometimes braccae, loose trousers, as they moved west), knee-length shirts (in which case they'd be bare-legged), thigh-length shirts (worn with tight trousers), cloaks that hung around the shoulders, boots, and favored axes and spears in many ways. Sound like anyone? Gaels were ostensibly La Tene Celts in terms of development when they came about (due to melding with Belgae, Gauls, and Britons), but had huge gouts of Hallstatt culture remaining, accounting for their clothing and numerous traditions. They were Celts, but not the common concept of Celts (which is the north-western European continental Celt; trousers, often shirtless or decked out in chain, with lots of longswords, oval shields, and such).

How could the Hallstatt culture have remained so prevalent among the Goidils?

**Ranika** · 09-27-2005, 20:42

Combination of isolation (physically, not commercially or politically; in the dark ages and earlier, the Gaels were fairly prolific traders and due to their relative importance as a redoubt of Christianity in the early Christian periods, they remained an influential part of the Christian church, and ergo, European politics); however, they were physically shut off from much of the world and failed to adopt the developments that led to later Celtic and then pan-European cultural movements (accounting for their style of clothing and the like); and presumably Hallstatt similarities to the native culture that inhabitted Ireland, as well as the large Iberian immigrations (there were quite a large number of them) from Galaecia, which was ostensibly late Hallstatt-Celtic/early La Tene Celt, with Iberian inspired overtones, kept a heavy Hallstatt appearance over Ireland.

**GoreBag** · 09-27-2005, 23:01

So..they arrived in Hibernia during the Hallstatt period and just stayed Hallstatt? I didn't realise that Hallstatt migrations stretched out that far.

**MagnosAkos** · 09-27-2005, 23:54

Christ! this mod looks GREAT! I love the faction banners
AND the MAgyar banner is just awsome the Turul Madar is just great

**Ranika** · 09-28-2005, 01:10

Originally Posted by NeonGod

So..they arrived in Hibernia during the Hallstatt period and just stayed Hallstatt? I didn't realise that Hallstatt migrations stretched out that far.

No, they arrived in Galaecia in Iberia during the Hallstatt migration, where they more or less stagnated in terms of Celtic advancement, and rather, advanced like other Iberians. They arrived in Ireland in the middle La Tene period, where they mixed with La Tene Celts (giving rise to certain parts of their clothing and such, like the commonality of plaid, which wasn't so common among Hallstatters). You seem to be misunderstanding me. They were not Hallstatt Celts perse, but culturally descended from Hallstatt Celts largely, rather than La Tene Celts, though they did have many of the La Tene advances; however, things like clothing and certain types of weapons that were not used/fell out of use in the La Tene period, were still employed by Gaels. Gaels were, in terms of technological development, on equal footing with La Tene Celts by about 100 AD at the latest, but had branched into a seperate, isolated Celtic culture of heavily mixed Hallstatt and La Tene origin, with heavy overtones of the Hallstatt culture, introduced by ancient Galaecians, who were still Hallstatt in terms of their development as Celts.