Sard-Nuragic Units a "no show"?

[HamilcarBarca]

There was the occasional mention in the forums after the release of EB 0.80 that EB 1.0 would include Sard-Nuragic units, to represent the native Nuragic tribes of Sardinia, but I see that this did not happen.

It seems to me that there are no "native" units at all to recruit in Sardinia; the only units that can be recruited there are faction roster units.

I was wondering if one of the EB devs could explain the situation in Sardinia? The absence of "native" Sard-Nuragic units?

H.

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

Lack of time to model them already?

[Leão magno]

Great to know they will be modeled!!!!!! Perhaps with the Celtiberian soldier and with what else?!

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

That is for you to guess...

[Zarax]

It's not the easiest to gather info about nuragic units during the game timeframe, there are bronze statues and reliefs about the shardana but most of them are pre 8th century BCE, when the nuragic civilization was at its best.

It appears that the bulk of them was the "Sardi Pelliti", basically guys dressed in hides and lighly armed while the nobility adopted many carthaginian customs.
Tribes in the east were also influenced by the iberians, especially the balearics.





http://www.colonnedercole.it/isola/isola2_11.htm (mostly older than the game timeframe)

[HamilcarBarca]

Well I don't want to give anything away about rtr7 but... I would have thought a reconstruction based on the simpler, less elaborately armoured, Nuragic warriors depicted in the bronze figurines, mostly produced during the Nuragic Phase II and III, would be pretty safe, and consistent with Livy's "Sardi Pelliti" (Livy, 23.40).

These "Goatskins" were presumably the Balari and Illesi tribal groups that inhabited the so-called “Barbagia”, that is, the forested mountains of eastern Sardinia, and the Corsi who had been driven into the mountain districts of the Gallura, in the northern extremities of the island.

Tribes in the east were also influenced by the iberians, especially the balearics.

There may be some logic to that, but no evidence as far as I am aware. For instance, Sards seems to prefer the short bow, whereas the Balearics were obviously slingers, and while there are similarities between the Nuragic, the Torre and the Tayalot cultures, there are important differences too.

H.

[Mores]

Hi folks. I was reading your interesting posts. Amilcare, I let you know that the Mountain Prama' statues were made around the 11th century b.C. Hope it helps a little.