Final Faction Voting Thread

**Geddi** · 03-13-2007, 17:52

Originally Posted by Taedius

The description of Norway at the start of this thread gives you a good idea. It was a kingdom, but quite decentralized. Most people were farmers, but many also traded. Their military was based on levies; the land was divided in small regions, each responcible for equipping a ship with crew in wartime. In addition, the King had a body of professional soldiers called the Hird.

There was no feudalism. Farmers mostly owned their own land, and the 'nobility' consisted of the richest among them. Society was based around the family. A mans influence depended on the family or clan he came from, and his relation to other powerful families.

The judicial system was based on the Ting. This was simply a gatering of all 'free men', where laws were read aloud and issues of common interest was debated. Conflicts were also solved, and the lawmen would issue punishment on offenders, usually fines, but also outlawry.

Hm. Anything else?

Largely correct, but I disagree with the ''quite decentralized'' statement. As Norway had a relatively weak nobility, the kings powers were quite strong, hence it was one of the more centralized states in Europe*, England developing the most centralized system in western Europe in the medieval period. Other than that good post.

*(as far as royal power was concerned, exception for the civil wars of course, and orders and edicts from the king would travel slowly through the difficult geography of Norway)

**Taedius** · 03-13-2007, 20:31

Geddi is right. "Decentralized" is the wrong word, the post written in haste. I was thinking about the Tings' position in the legal prosess, I expect. Something toadd to this is that the King didn't sit isolated in a castle (there weren't any), but traveled around continuously.

**Ultras DVSC** · 03-13-2007, 22:08

Thank you guys for voting, then I can officially announce that on the score of the poll, Kingdom of Norway will be our last playable faction.

Don't be crestfallen if you voted for another candidate, it's not just vacant jazz that the intention belongs to our goals that we would like to build a consistent medieval strategical world and are going to attend to the given areas with equal enthusiasm and exactness let it be the Iberian rolling country, the Northern Russian woodlands or the foregoing Balkan-peninsula.

Originally Posted by Augustus

Now that the last faction is decided will the MA team be releasing a preview on it (or anything for that matter)?

Sorry, I can't give away our next step yet, but you're right, we are planning something of the sort, I mean the preview.

In the end, I'd like to render thanks to our own helping members as well:

Shifty - for writing the presentation of Sevilla, plus for the organization
Conn - for researching and writing the presentation of Norway
Solo - for creating the nice-looking maps, plus for his pieces of advice

That said, the poll is over. Well, without being overly sentimental, i must admit that it's really nice to see that you are interested in our activity in that rate.

**El-Wrongo** · 03-16-2007, 08:25

I must say I am glad Norway won.

I am not so glad that the discussion in my fave mod has been standing still these last few days

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SO SAY SOMETHING

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**NagatsukaShumi** · 03-16-2007, 14:31

Originally Posted by El-Wrongo

I must say I am glad Norway won.

I am not so glad that the discussion in my fave mod has been standing still these last few days

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SO SAY SOMETHING

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Problems behind the scenes El-Wrongo have hit the team hard, we are currently trying to solve them and get back on track.

**alpaca** · 03-16-2007, 15:02

Well I think "problems behind the scenes" sounds a little serious. The problem is manpower, really. Our team is simply too small, and relies too heavily on the motivation - and modding time - of a few individuals. If that fails, the mod progress will come almost to a grinding halt for some time, which happened a while ago.