Jihads might work if there is a variety of Gallic factions, or Iberian or German etc.. and you give the jihad option to the Gallic factions to unite against a common enemy. No one really knows what will happen with the feature.
Jihads might work if there is a variety of Gallic factions, or Iberian or German etc.. and you give the jihad option to the Gallic factions to unite against a common enemy. No one really knows what will happen with the feature.
I remember a while back someone suggesting they could be used to model migrations which was a pretty interesting idea.
Very true, and then there's the fact that he ended up being assassinated by his own people. -MSuccesful surprise attacks tend to lead to decimated armies at the best of times, so eh... The degree to which he "united the Germans" is kinda questionable though, as he'd just managed to gain the following of a handful of tribes; IIRC he spent the next quite a while warring with other chieftains and wannabe kings...
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You could say germanicus united them, pressure creates counterpressure. Arminus succeeded in uniting many (not all) German (and possibly one or two Danish) tribes, for a while... That is, for as long as Roman Legions invaded each summer, bent on reconquest. Another, smaller block of german tribes was allied to Marbod of the Marcomanni. When the Romans gave up, Arminus tried to keep the alliance going by warring with Marbod, but as his own power became too great other magnates/tribes rebelled.
When the Crusaders had settled infighting and quarreling was not uncommon either, so superficially similar, and the structure of Medieval society was made in the Iron Age, so... slightly similar. I think Crusades and Jihad should not be included. I would love to see smaller factions allying themselves to greater and become protectorates of theor iwn volition, like Syracouse, Massilia, Pergamon, Cyrene and Ptolomai Egypt did with Rome, and others probably did with AS and Macedonia.
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I would guess they would make for a good hording representation, without the overpoweredness of the BI horde.
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I wouldn't mind seeing a giant stack of Cimbri ravage Gaul and Italy.
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That should work to give the romans hellbut it would be annoying, having 5 jihad armies heading for rome every 5-10 turns.. About the gallic factions uniting, it seems doubtful since they mostly warred between themselves.
Not sure about this one, there were few any at all at the classical era based on my knowlege, but could be used if EB was moved to the fall of Rome (Extremely Unlikely).Originally Posted by bobbin
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As i recall there is set minimum number of years between crusades/jihads but I don't know how long it is or if it can be changed. But i do agree they sould probably be left out.
Eh? no mirgations in the classical era? Might want to check that.Not sure about this one, there were few any at all at the classical era based on my knowlege, but could be used if EB was moved to the fall of Rome (Extremely Unlikely).
There's the Cimbri-Teutones right in the middle of EB's timeframe, galatian migrations just before, yuezhi around 180bc, Saka before that, the Parni (Phalava) around 250bc and the Helvetii around 50bc. Those are just the ones i can think off the top of my head. Migrations weren't limited to the late empire times.
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Sorry. I'm not that good with my classical History.
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Wasn't the Celts' standard method for dealing with overpopulation to have around half the bunch pack up their stuff and move somewhere else en masse, too...?
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Tat was probably true for all peoples in some part, look at the amount of colonies founded by the greeks for example, they were done essentially to control population in the mother city.
One could argue that this could work hand-in-hand with the idea of colonizing regions into becoming type 2, or even type 1, governments. But this is an old dream, IIRC.
Still kind of ridiculous, though.
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That would be interesting, but the problem is, the only time we know of that really happening (AFAIK) is against Caesar, and even then it was pretty late in the Gallic War. I mean, Arminius managed to unite a few (Germanic) tribes, but it was really only for the Teutoberg forest massacre. I think Vercingetorix was really the first and last person to unite so many celts for so long. -M
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It'd be a idiotic feature, then.
There was two ideas one serious, and one foolish...
The serious idea... give the jihad ability for nomadic faction, because the jihad units are free from upkeep, they're best used for roleplaying "gathering new horde" and taking one specified settlements...
The stupid idea:
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