New Kingdoms video - Teutonic campaign

[Kobal2fr]

Medieval airburst shells ? Gotta love that :)

I must say I'm more queasy about those Teutonic helmets, with the horns and crests and all... weren't those more like ornamental and useless or even dangerous to wear in battle ? I mean it's one thing to ride into battle with a fearsome hat, and another to have you neck snapped off because said hat happened to get snagged in a banner or enemy spear :/

I also wonder wether the different campaigns specificities will make it in the game à la VI. T'would be nice to have the Hanseatic League in a grand campaign for example. Same goes for the permanent forts of the English campaign.

[Agentdoom]

Medieval airburst shells ? Gotta love that :)

I must say I'm more queasy about those Teutonic helmets, with the horns and crests and all... weren't those more like ornamental and useless or even dangerous to wear in battle ? I mean it's one thing to ride into battle with a fearsome hat, and another to have you neck snapped off because said hat happened to get snagged in a banner or enemy spear :/

I also wonder wether the different campaigns specificities will make it in the game à la VI. T'would be nice to have the Hanseatic League in a grand campaign for example. Same goes for the permanent forts of the English campaign.

It's an art style of portraying the knights.


I am looking foward to playing as the tutonic order.

[Rhedd]

This has been discussed on another TW forum more times than I'd care to count, but crests on medieval helmets were only ever used as fancy decorations on tournament and parade armor, and never in battle...

EXCEPT...

... by the Teutonic Knights. ^_^

They had a big intimidate-your-enemy thing going on, and the crests I've seen in Kingdoms, so far, are 100% accurate. Definitely an historical anomoly, but accurate.

Crests, by the way, were usually made of paper mache or light, painted wood, and wouldn't really contribute to broken necks any more than the big metal pot you're wearing on your head, anyway.

[Kobal2fr]

Oh. All right then, I humbly stand corrected Master Rhedd.

Now, on to butch... errm I mean, bring the Light of civilization to those pagan bast^H^H^H^Hfuture dutifull sons of Christ.

[Rhedd]

Oh. All right then, I humbly stand corrected Master Rhedd.

I hope I came off as just informative, and not arrogant and overbearing.

Because, you know, I am arrogant and overbearing, so I try really hard to hide it. ^_^

[Kobal2fr]

I hope I came off as just informative, and not arrogant and overbearing.

Because, you know, I am arrogant and overbearing, so I try really hard to hide it. ^_^

Don't worry, being a pompous elitist arsehat myself, I can wholeheartedly condone your condescending spite of my ignorance regarding minute historical miscellania.

[Ulstan]

I must say I'm more queasy about those Teutonic helmets, with the horns and crests and all... weren't those more like ornamental and useless or even dangerous to wear in battle ?

But they look...so...cool

If they were good enough for Alexander Nevsky they are good enough for me!