Quote Originally Posted by Feanaro
Does that "great extent" include missing stones in the same places as Stonehenge? I hope not. Because that would be a little creepy.

You can compare http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/stonehenge/stonehenge-xmw-1152.jpg]Stonehenge with the screenshot posted. It's not a little like Stonehenge. It's not perfect but it ain't just a circle of stones.
Um, maybe I'm going blind but the shot you linked to of the Sarum henge clearly shows that the missing stones in the screenshot are not identical. It's similar but no more.

As I hinted earlier, I expect some designer sat in an office in Brisbane saw that 'henge' was the next entry on his list of "things to design for inclusion in battle scenes" and, without too many henges in easy walking distance, Googled a few images. Unsurprisingly, he probably found loads of pictures of the Sarum henge and so designed something similar.

I'm sure if you asked most people to draw a henge, they'd draw something that looked like the Sarum henge - simply because it's the one they're most familiar with. It doesn't mean that they'd be attempting to replicate it exactly, though.

And the fact that CA include a henge that looks like the Sarum henge and place it all over Northern Europe doesn't mean they think all henges looked the same; just that no software company is going to pay a designer to produce dozens of different stone circles for a game that retails at the price of M2TW.