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- When we get into the late bronze age you get proper chariots pulled by horses, finely-crafted double-edged swords from many regions, and vast battles like Kadesh that involve tens of thousands of soldiers, a scale that Total War might just be able to handle in the coming years.(More..)
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- With their strongholds and urban centers poised around the fortress capital of Hattusa, the Hittites, referring to themselves as Nesili and known by their Egyptian enemies as Hatti, challenged the might of several powers of the late Bronze Age, including the ancient Egyptians, Mitanni and even Assyrians.(More..)
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When we get into the late bronze age you get proper chariots pulled by horses, finely-crafted double-edged swords from many regions, and vast battles like Kadesh that involve tens of thousands of soldiers, a scale that Total War might just be able to handle in the coming years.[1] Luckily, I found a Troy Total War mod, which as you probably know, takes place during the bronze age: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?187712-TTW-4-50-modfolder-edition-(Most-up-to-date-version). [1] The Middle Assyrian Empire (1392-1056 BC) had destroyed the Hurrian - Mitanni Empire, annexed much of the Hittite Empire and eclipsed the Egyptian Empire, and at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age collapse controlled an empire stretching from the Caucasus mountains in the north to the Arabian peninsula in the south, and from Ancient Iran in the east to Cyprus in the west. [2] Every Anatolian site, apart from integral Assyrian regions in the south east, and regions in eastern, central and southern Anatolia under the control of the powerful Middle Assyrian Empire (1392-1050 BC) that was important during the preceding Late Bronze Age shows a destruction layer, and it appears that in these regions civilization did not recover to the level of the Assyrians and Hittites for another thousand years or so. [2]
Prior to and during the Bronze Age Collapse, Syria became a battle ground between the empires of the Hittites, Assyrians, Mitanni and Egyptians, and later the coastal regions came under attack from the Sea Peoples. [2] Before the Bronze Age collapse, Anatolia (Asia Minor) was dominated by a number of peoples of varying ethno-linguistic origins: including Semitic Assyrians and Amorites, language isolate -speaking Hurrians, Kaskians and Hattians, and later-arriving Indo-European peoples such as Luwians, Hittites, Mitanni, and Mycenaean Greeks. [2]
The Late Bronze Age collapse was a Dark Age transition period in the Near East, Asia Minor, Aegean region, North Africa, Caucasus, Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, a transition historians believe was violent, sudden, and culturally disruptive. [2] The palace economy of the Aegean region and Anatolia that characterised the Late Bronze Age disintegrated, transforming into the small isolated village cultures of the Greek Dark Ages. [2]
Levantine sites previously showed evidence of trade links with Mesopotamia ( Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia ), Anatolia ( Hattia, Hurria, Luwia and later the Hittites ) ), Egypt and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age. [2] Using the Palmer Drought Index for 35 Greek, Turkish and Middle Eastern weather stations, it was shown that a drought of the kind that persisted from January AD 1972 would have affected all of the sites associated with the Late Bronze Age collapse. [2] It has been shown how the diversion of midwinter storms from the Atlantic to north of the Pyrenees and the Alps, bringing wetter conditions to Central Europe but drought to the Eastern Mediterranean, was associated with the Late Bronze Age collapse. [2] Collapse of the Bronze Age: The Story of Greece, Troy, Israel, Egypt, and the Peoples of the Sea. iUniverse. p.170. [2] The Bronze Age collapse marked the start of what has been called the Greek Dark Ages, which lasted roughly 400 years and ended with the establishment of Archaic Greece. [2] After the Assyrian withdrawal, it was still subject to periodic Assyrian (and Elamite ) subjugation, and new groups of Semites, such as the Aramaeans, Suteans (and in the period after the Bronze Age Collapse, Chaldeans also), spread unchecked into Babylonia from the Levant, and the power of its weak kings barely extended beyond the city limits of Babylon. [2] A very few powerful states, particularly Assyria and Elam, survived the Bronze Age collapse - but by the end of the 12th century BC, Elam waned after its defeat by Nebuchadnezzar I, who briefly revived Babylonian fortunes before suffering a series of defeats by the Assyrians. [2] Invasions, destruction and possible population movements during the collapse of the Bronze Age, c. 1200 BC. [2] The Late Bronze Age (1500-1000 BC) was the last portion of the Bronze Age era of the emergence of human communities. [3] The growing complexity and specialization of the Late Bronze Age political, economic, and social organization in Carol Thomas and Craig Conant's phrase together made the organization of civilization too intricate to reestablish piecewise when disrupted. [2] 'The decline of Late Bronze Age civilization as a possible response to climatic change'. [2] Trace the history of the great civilizations of the Bronze Age period of greatest prosperity to the time of the disastrous invasions of barbarian tribes destroyed them. [4] That could explain why the collapse was so widespread and able to render the Bronze Age civilizations incapable of recovery. [2] Assyria still retained a stable monarchy, the best army in the world, and an efficient civil administration, enabling it to survive the Bronze Age Collapse intact. [2] Rodney Castledon suggests that memories of the Bronze Age collapse influenced Plato's story of Atlantis in Timaeus and the Critias. [2] None of the Mycenaean palaces of the Late Bronze Age survived (with the possible exception of the Cyclopean fortifications on the Acropolis of Athens ), with destruction being heaviest at palaces and fortified sites. [2] The critical flaws of the Late Bronze Age are its centralisation, specialisation, complexity, and top-heavy political structure. [2] The last Bronze Age king of the Semitic state of Ugarit, Ammurapi, was a contemporary of the Hittite king Suppiluliuma II. [2] The bronze age had an insane amount of variety in armies with lots of unorthodox weapons and such, and they were absolutely brutal. [1]
A subreddit for the Total War strategy game series, made by Creative Assembly.[1] Anyway i just tought that by encompassing a chinese faction in a total war game that's not 100% China can be a good compromise to have everyone excited about it. [5]
Homer’s epics also include scientific and technological stories that illustrate an advanced Greek civilization of the Bronze Age, especially of the late thirteenth century BCE, the time of the Trojan War.[6] The new pollen data is critical for understanding the Late Bronze Age collapse. [7] The Sea Peoples, a range of groups including the Philistines, led raids on the Eastern Mediterranean during the period of the Bronze Age collapse and are often cited as the reason for the collapse. [7] When compared with pollen data from Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria and the Nile Delta, the new studies suggest a broader climate change across the Eastern Mediterranean around the time of the Bronze Age collapse. [7] The Bronze Age collapse was swift and sudden, ushering in a so-called 'Dark Age' of decreased literacy, population and technology in much of the Eastern Mediterranean. [7] An interregional destruction (attested in Greece, Turkey, Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt) known as the Bronze Age collapse is one of archaeology’s greatest mysteries. [7] A recent study of pollen grains in sediment cores beneath the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea provides a new view of the Bronze Age collapse. [7] Sites destroyed in the Bronze Age collapse around 1200 B.C.E. [7] What caused the Bronze Age collapse? Scholars have proposed a combination of factors including marauding Sea Peoples, plagues and earthquakes leading to a so-called 'systems collapse,' in which complex societal networks broke down under mounting interregional economic or demographic pressures. [7] In the latter part of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1400-1200 B.C.E.), Mycenaean civilization flourished in Greece and Crete. [7] It was a cataclysm of immense proportions: Near the end of the 13th century B.C.E., the great Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Near East suddenly collapsed. [7] The exquisite art of the Griffin Warrior fits nicely into the lavish and unforgettable images painted in the Bronze Age walls of homes at Akrotiri in the Aegean island of Thera. [6] The Bronze Age lasted from about 35 to 11 century BC. These were times of birth of the first civilizations, religions and appearance of the first wonders of the world. [8] The island of Crete gave rise to Europe’s first and most splendid Bronze Age civilization. [7] Read William H. Stiebing, Jr.' s full article ' When Civilization Collapsed: Death of the Bronze Age ' in the BAS Library. [7] Now we learn that a husband and wife archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati, Sharon Stocker and Jack Davis, unearthed in May 2015 a tiny agate seal stone with great potential of throwing more light on the civilization of Bronze Age Greece. [6] Add the Homer epics and Bronze Age Greece is a carrier of advanced civilization. [6] Most scholars date Homer in the eighth century BCE, though his masterpieces, the Iliad and the Odyssey, date from the Bronze Age and relate stories of late thirteenth century BCE. [6] Late Bronze Age Troy, perhaps the city described by Homer, lasted from about 1700 to 1200 B.C.; this settlement featured towering fortifications and a great defensive moat. [7] Settled by Canaanites in the fourth millennium B.C., Megiddo prospered greatly during the Late Bronze Age. [7] The confusion is even greater for the early Greek history of the Bronze Age. [6] Special Feature: Read 'City by City: Death of the Bronze Age' as it appeared in the September/October 2001 issue of Archaeology Odyssey below. [7]
I'm guessing the expansion is an American Civil War expansion for Empire Total War, a Saga game about the Viking era set in Britain, Ireland, and western Scandinavia, and a full Total War game set right before the start of World War 2 and with expansions, possibly going into the Cold War era.[9] While the American Civil War would be a great Empire Total War expansion as I suspect it is going to be, it fundamentally lacks enough meaningful participants to warrant a full title. [9]
A subreddit for the Total War strategy game series, made by Creative Assembly.[1] Anyway i just tought that by encompassing a chinese faction in a total war game that's not 100% China can be a good compromise to have everyone excited about it. [5]
Homer’s epics also include scientific and technological stories that illustrate an advanced Greek civilization of the Bronze Age, especially of the late thirteenth century BCE, the time of the Trojan War.[6] The new pollen data is critical for understanding the Late Bronze Age collapse. [7] The Sea Peoples, a range of groups including the Philistines, led raids on the Eastern Mediterranean during the period of the Bronze Age collapse and are often cited as the reason for the collapse. [7] When compared with pollen data from Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria and the Nile Delta, the new studies suggest a broader climate change across the Eastern Mediterranean around the time of the Bronze Age collapse. [7] The Bronze Age collapse was swift and sudden, ushering in a so-called 'Dark Age' of decreased literacy, population and technology in much of the Eastern Mediterranean. [7] An interregional destruction (attested in Greece, Turkey, Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt) known as the Bronze Age collapse is one of archaeology’s greatest mysteries. [7] A recent study of pollen grains in sediment cores beneath the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea provides a new view of the Bronze Age collapse. [7] Sites destroyed in the Bronze Age collapse around 1200 B.C.E. [7] What caused the Bronze Age collapse? Scholars have proposed a combination of factors including marauding Sea Peoples, plagues and earthquakes leading to a so-called 'systems collapse,' in which complex societal networks broke down under mounting interregional economic or demographic pressures. [7] In the latter part of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1400-1200 B.C.E.), Mycenaean civilization flourished in Greece and Crete. [7] It was a cataclysm of immense proportions: Near the end of the 13th century B.C.E., the great Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Near East suddenly collapsed. [7] The exquisite art of the Griffin Warrior fits nicely into the lavish and unforgettable images painted in the Bronze Age walls of homes at Akrotiri in the Aegean island of Thera. [6] The Bronze Age lasted from about 35 to 11 century BC. These were times of birth of the first civilizations, religions and appearance of the first wonders of the world. [8] The island of Crete gave rise to Europe’s first and most splendid Bronze Age civilization. [7] Read William H. Stiebing, Jr.' s full article ' When Civilization Collapsed: Death of the Bronze Age ' in the BAS Library. [7] Now we learn that a husband and wife archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati, Sharon Stocker and Jack Davis, unearthed in May 2015 a tiny agate seal stone with great potential of throwing more light on the civilization of Bronze Age Greece. [6] Add the Homer epics and Bronze Age Greece is a carrier of advanced civilization. [6] Most scholars date Homer in the eighth century BCE, though his masterpieces, the Iliad and the Odyssey, date from the Bronze Age and relate stories of late thirteenth century BCE. [6] Late Bronze Age Troy, perhaps the city described by Homer, lasted from about 1700 to 1200 B.C.; this settlement featured towering fortifications and a great defensive moat. [7] Settled by Canaanites in the fourth millennium B.C., Megiddo prospered greatly during the Late Bronze Age. [7] The confusion is even greater for the early Greek history of the Bronze Age. [6] Special Feature: Read 'City by City: Death of the Bronze Age' as it appeared in the September/October 2001 issue of Archaeology Odyssey below. [7]
I'm guessing the expansion is an American Civil War expansion for Empire Total War, a Saga game about the Viking era set in Britain, Ireland, and western Scandinavia, and a full Total War game set right before the start of World War 2 and with expansions, possibly going into the Cold War era.[9] While the American Civil War would be a great Empire Total War expansion as I suspect it is going to be, it fundamentally lacks enough meaningful participants to warrant a full title. [9]
Ive never played any of the Total War games, but given the current timeline, I think it would make sense to do 'Revolution: Total War' set in the late 18th and early 19th century. [10] I agree that a Total War game would not work atall in Modern Warfare. [10] After the poor patching of Medieval 2, and the obnoxious DRM in Kingdoms, I took a break from Total War games. [9] There was a time were any news of a Total War game would make me salivate. [9] Could that be a reference to Badb Catha, the mythological battle crow? It'd certainly be a fitting portent for a Total War game, given that they're all about bloodshed and battle, the very things Babd's appearance often presaged in Irish legends. [9] Creative Assembly are working on three historical Total War games: one is an expansion to an older title, one is a spin-off of sorts called a Saga, and the biggest of the lot is set in an entirely new era. [9] I hope the devs at CA wont make a Total War game based in an era after the 1930s. [10] Units fighting in formation has been a halmark of Total War games since the beginning. [9] The next full game will likely be a Shogun2 or China Total War. [10] Or they roll back and go for the ancient world, the Greeks, Persians etc, but that's not really 'all-new' as we've already had Alexander: Total War. [9] The most obvious unexplored period for Total War is the Europa Universalis early modern period, but that might look a bit like copying. [9] The South was betting on a quick negotiated armistice after a couple of battles, not an extended Total War style conquest victory. [9] Napoleon Total War and Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai both covers the 19th century. [9] Well Total War love the Hollywood settings (Your Gladiator, Patriot, Braveheart etc), so we have to look at what popular blockbuster they can ape. [9] What of the new era Total War will be visiting though? Janos is the project lead there and we can pick out a few hints from comments in the QA. [9] They have stated in the past that they were having to develop new 'mechanics' for the big project which in my mind, combined with an entirely new 'era' means WW2 Total War. [9]
I'd love a Bronze age Total War but that would be it's own game really, though who knows, Charlemagne really did cover early middle ages pretty well for 'just' a campaign. [11] In the case of Crete in the Bronze Age, a systematic analysis of the evidence will be undertaken for the first time in this paper, and this opportunity is used to critically evaluate the most effective ways of employing the widely agreed sets of physical correlates for ancient war in the archaeological record. [12] The smoking gun: DNA extracted from a total of 195 skeletons of Bronze Age northern and central Europeans in the two studies showed that those who lived between 4,900 and 4,400 years ago possessed a remarkably large amount of Yamnaya DNA. Yamnaya people contributed about 75 percent of the ancestry of those farmers, the scientists concluded. [13] He is owner of the presented Sea People panoply, as well as owner of total 2 Bronze age and 2 Classical Era Panoplies. [14]
The Medieval era was lost to Medieval II: Total, the Dark ages to Total War: Attila, the Roman at its peak to, of course, Total War: Rome and Rome II: Total War (why the Total War switched sides, we’re not sure). [15] While the 18th century and early 19th century have been covered by Empire: Total War and Napoleon: Total War, with a dabble being had with native American tribes. [15] There’s a lot you could get stuck into with a Total War game. [15] Maybe I'm the minority but I absolutely adore the campaign mode of the total war games and hope they don't change it too much. [15]
Of some importance are Egyptian scarabs found on Crete in primary contexts, which attest a connection between Egypt and the island in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. 192 Increasingly, certain motifs or icons (lotus flower, the Goddess Taweret, and others) are also exchanged in the Eastern Mediterranean, and this can be explained by moving objects and moving people, 193 but the dating, direction of transfer, and inspiration are much harder to ascertain. [16] In the following sections, an overview of the archaeological evidence for contacts between Egypt and the Mediterranean from the Early Bronze Age to the end of the Middle Bronze Age will be presented, with a brief mention of the increasing complexity of the Late Bronze Age contact network (a topic that warrants a chapter of its own). [16] ' The role of combat weaponry in Bronze Age societies: The cases of the Aegean and Ireland in the Middle and Late Bronze Age ’ (PhD thesis, University College Dublin). [12] ' Objects with attitude: Biographical facts and fallacies in the study of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warrior graves ’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12. 2, 217 -32. [12] ' The language of gesture in Minoan religion ’, in Laffineur, R. and Hägg, R. (eds.), Potnia: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 22; Liège and Austin ), 245 -53. [12] ' Divinity and performance on Minoan peak sanctuaries ’, in Laffineur, R. and Hägg, R. (eds.), Potnia: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 22; Liège and Austin ), 51 -5. [12] ' Social transformations and the rise of the state in Crete ’, in Laffineur, R. and Niemeier, W.D. (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 12; Liège and Austin ), 33 - 42. [12] Molloy, B.P.C. (forthcoming a) 'Innovation, imitation and investigation of combat systems in the Aegean Bronze Age: The role of the Shaft Graves at Mycenae’, in Papadopoulos, A. and Grigoropoulos, K. (eds.), Aspects of Aegean Bronze Age Warfare. [12] 'Scenes of warfare and combat in the arts of the Aegean Late Bronze Age. [12] Aegean emissaries (wrongly referred to as Aegean 'tribute bringers' 220 ) termed Keftiu 221 are depicted in Theban Late Bronze Age tombs of high officials--mainly viziers and High Priests of Amun of Karnak--in the period of Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III. They are shown together with other emissaries from Syria, Nubia, and, more rarely, Punt bringing products for the king, which his administrators receive in his stead. [16] 'The symbolism of violence in the palatial societies of the late Bronze Age Aegean, a gender approach’, in Carman (ed.) 1997a, 174 -97. [12] In the Late Bronze Age more sources inside and outside of Egypt are available attesting to a much more complicated network and various kinds of interaction, which include trade, diplomacy, and warfare. [16] With respect to this, there are no representations in Western Asia and Egypt in the Late Bronze Age to suggest that the light chariot was ever used to charge infantry (Moorey 1986: 203). [14] Archaeological remains of the Early Bronze Age II (ca 3000-2700 BC) are less well represented in Upper Egypt (only at Abydos in royal tombs), with a cluster at northern sites such as Helwan, Saqqara-West, and Abu Rawash possibly due to a shift of the center of the country. [16] The archaeological findings in Egypt and the southern Levant were interpreted to show an Egyptian presence in the southern Levant to conduct 'colonization' in a 'peaceful way' in order to acquire local products rather than to colonize in the modern sense during Early Bronze Age IB/Naqada IIC-D to IIIA (ca 3400-3100 BC). [16] Contacts between (Lower) Egypt and the southern Levant including the northern Sinai region became more intense in the course of the Early Bronze Age I (ca. 3700-3100 BC). [16] After emerging around 4,000 years ago, western Asia’s horse-breeding Sintashta people gave rise to a distinct culture in the Altai region a few hundred years later, the team reported based on DNA from 40 Bronze Age Asians. [13] Willerslev’s team reported in 2015 that ancient DNA from early Bronze Age individuals who belonged to a poorly understood culture in the Altai region was virtually 100 percent identical to 5,000-year-old Yamnaya DNA. [13] He brought an African dancing dwarf for the pharaoh in the Old Kingdom: Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), vol.1, The Old and Middle Kingdoms, 23-27 ; Andrew Bevan, Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007): 29. [16] More recent work in the Levant has led to a number of identifications of exported Egyptian pottery mainly made of more durable Marl clays of the Middle Kingdom in Middle Bronze Age II contexts representing scenario 1. [16] 'The genetic origins of Bronze Age people in Anatolia, which was a royal road into Europe, are almost a complete blank,' he says. [13] ' The tale of the sword - swords and swordfighters in Bronze Age Europe ’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 21. 4, 319 -32. [12] ' The Minoan Fallacy: Cultural diversity and mortuary behaviour on Crete at the beginning of the Bronze Age ’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 28. 1, 29 - 57. [12] ' Swords and swordsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age ’, American Journal of Archaeology 114. 3, 403 -28. [12] ' Making mountains out of molehills in the Bronze Age Aegean: Visibility, ritual kits and the idea of a peak sanctuary ’, World Archaeology 39. 1, 122 -41. [12] ' Thalassocracies in Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean trade: Making and breaking a myth ’, World Archaeology 24. 3, 332 -47. [12] ' In pursuit of the white tusked boar: Aspects of hunting in Mycenaean Society ’, in Hägg, R. and Nordquist, G. (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid ( Stockholm ), 149 -56. [12] 'On lions in Mycenaean and Minoan culture’, in Laffineur, R. and Crowley, J.L. (eds.), EIKON. Aegean Bronze Age Iconography: Shaping a Methodology. [12] 'Pictorial architecture: For a theory-based analysis of imagery’, in Laffineur, R. and Crowley, J.L. (eds.), EIKON. Aegean Bronze Age Iconography: Shaping a Methodology. [12]
'Society and the structure of violence: A story told by Middle Bronze Age human remains from central Norway’, in Otto, Thrane and Vandkilde (eds.) 2006, 319 -30. [12] This is followed by a chronological overview of evidence from the region, with a particular emphasis on the Early and Middle Bronze Ages. [16] The following short study will brief on details and insight about four experimental reconstructions of Mediterranean Bronze age exotic weapons and three panoplies (armour) that KORYVANTES Association has worked on since 2011, as well as provide a brief on experiences from testing them as part of the bronze age Warrior armour system(s). [14] Bronze Age Mycenaean technology was capable of producing highly effective plate and scale armours for the Warriors in massive numbers, as Mycenaean and Minoan logistics documents reveal. [14] Sacrificed dog remains feed tales of Bronze Age 'wolf-men’ warriors. [13] Now new papers try to explain how Yamnaya DNA made major inroads into Bronze Age Europe during the first 200 to 300 years of that key period. [13] Brosseder and other critics of major Yamnaya migrations as game changers paint a different, two-pronged picture of what might have happened in Bronze Age Europe. [13] Like many of his colleagues, archaeologist Volker Heyd of the University of Bristol in England was jolted by the 2015 reports of a close genetic link between Asian herders and a Bronze Age culture considered native to Europe. [13] About 50 percent of the ancestry of individuals from a later Bronze Age culture, dubbed the Bell Beaker culture for its pottery vessels shaped like an inverted bell, derived from Yamnaya stock. [13] The Yamnaya, whose genes have outlasted a bevy of Bronze Age cultures, would undoubtedly agree. [13] The same goes for the origins of members of the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilization in southern Asia, where an early form of Indo-European languages may have been spoken. [13] The decision of the Association to invest internally in building custom museum-quality reproductions of various bronze age civilizations, not only has created a collection of 4 complete panoplies and weaponry, but also has created an extensive knowledge on the whole lifecycle of building / supporting /using / maintaining them. [14] There is a quite a few quality material on Bronze age warfare and weapon tactics. [14] A few people worldwide have rebuild quality bronze age armour and weapons and got significant practical expertise in the field. [14] DNA from many more Bronze Age people is needed to untangle relationships between migrating pastoralists and European groups they encountered, Heyd says. [13] He is now collaborating with Reich’s team on an analysis of DNA from individuals previously excavated at Bronze Age sites in central and eastern Asia dating to around the time of Europe’s Bronze Age. [13] The data utilized originates primarily from published excavation reports on central and southeastern Anatolian Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age sites. [17] Archaeologists and preservation activists in the Gaza Strip have managed to halt the destruction of a Bronze Age site for now, but the future of what remains may still be in jeopardy. [18] Bearing these caveats in mind, this chapter highlights the variety of source types, both archaeological and textual, that can be used to explore the nature and extent of contacts between Egypt and the Mediterranean in the Bronze Age. [16] This dissertation delves into the quantification and interpretation of the evidence of warfare and interpersonal violence in the archaeological record from central Anatolia and southeastern Anatolia, from the Early Chalcolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age (ca. 5000-2000 BCE). [17] 'The iconography of warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean’ (PhD dissertation, University of Liverpool). [12] ' The Early Bronze Age daggers of Crete ’, Annual of the British School at Athens 62, 211 -40. [12] ' The naturalistic spirit? Human-animal relations in Bronze Age Crete ’ (summary of Mycenaean Seminar, 14 October 2009), Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 53. 2, 125 -6. [12] ' The calf in Bronze Age Cretan art and society ’, in Santillo Frizell, B. (ed.), PECUS. Man and Animal in Antiquity. [12] ' For gods or men? The use of European Bronze Age shields ’, Antiquity 83, 1052 -64. [12] ' European Bronze Age shields ’, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 28, 156 -90. [12] A major problem of many of these finds, beyond the assertion that high-status gifts were given, is represented by their often being much older than the context in which they were found 188 (e.g., a stone vessels of a 12th Dynasty princess in a Late Bronze Age context at Mishrife in Syria 189 ). [16] Hulit, Thomas David (2002) Late Bronze Age scale armour in the Near East : an experimental investigation of materials, construction, and effectiveness, with a consideration of socio-economic implications. [14] Bronze Age will be 'finished'when you can grow from your first 7 citizens to an entire Empire. [19] 'What does the context of deposition and frequency of Bronze Age weaponry tell us about the function of weapons?’, in Otto, Thrane and Vandkilde (eds.) 2006, 505 -14. [12] 'Use-wear analysis and use-patterns of Bronze Age swords’, in Moedlinger and Uckelmann (eds.) 2011, 67 - 84. [12] 'From the Caspian Sea to China, many questions remain about Bronze Age pastoralists,' Frachetti says. [13] Graves of Bronze Age agricultural societies and pastoralist communities -- stretching from south-central Asian deltas to central Asian steppes and western China’s Xinjiang desert region -- display common ways of interring the dead that can’t be coincidental, he says. [13] These categories can be further subdivided, but here only those that may be recognized in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age will be mentioned. [16] Rare Tin: Tin was hard to source during the bronze age, mostly coming from europe and southeastern asia. [19]
It featured the abrupt end of most dominant bronze age city-states and empires of the time and a total disruption of trade and diplomacy. [20] I wholeheartedly agree with Cameron Greene ; there has to be a Total War game covering the 19th century after the end of the Napoleonic Wars up until the early 20th century and WWI. And to me, ' Total War: Age of Revolution ' sounds like a pretty badarse title. [21] Ever since I first played NTW and ETW, I felt there should be a Total War game ambiented on that time frame, and became very excited about the idea. [21] Is the existence of Genghis Khan & Chandragupta Maurya mods for past Total War games a sign of fanbase interest? I don’t even know if Call of Warhammer influenced Total War Warhammer’s creation in the slightest but it’s clear that the Total War fanbase actively creates mods for what they want. [21] Speaking of mods, the current best selling Total War game Warhammer had its unofficial mods based on the Warhammer Fantasy Battle setting long before the official game came out. [21] Now that I think of mods, China Total War - Rise of the Three Kingdoms is definitely a mod out there. [21]
With their strongholds and urban centers poised around the fortress capital of Hattusa, the Hittites, referring to themselves as Nesili and known by their Egyptian enemies as Hatti, challenged the might of several powers of the late Bronze Age, including the ancient Egyptians, Mitanni and even Assyrians.[22] Like many of the contemporary factions of the Near East and the Mediterranean, the influence and dynamism of the Hittites were snuffed out by the mysterious Late Bronze Age collapse - which in turn led to the emergence of smaller Neo-Hittite states that were soon conquered by ascending Assyrians. [22] The Great Powers Club is the name that modern scholars have given to the late Bronze Age system of globalism that existed from approximately 1500 until around1200 BC. The system was first established by the kings of Egypt, Hatti (the Hittites), Kassite Babylon, and Mitanni (the Hurrians). [23] That is because in comparison to Near East, Egypt and Mediterranean cultures, Northern Europe was relatively 'backward’ when it came to cultural, military and political institutions of the late Bronze Age. [22] The newly-discovered burial sites are said to date from the Late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age, which began around 3,200 B.C in Europe. [24] Eratosthenes, writing of the Late Bronze Age, say 1200 BC, reports that Cyprus was so heavily forested at that time that even smelting copper and silver, and felling trees for shipbuilding, had made little inroads on the forest. [25] At Fenan, which was mined for copper in Chalcolithic times (Chapter 3), Bronze Age workings began around 2000 BC. The Fenan miners now followed the ores far underground, in inclined shafts that were as much as 15 to 20 m underground and at least 55 m long. [25] Once smelting of sulfide ores became economic from about 1600 BC, Cyprus became a vital link in the trade of Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age cultures for 500 years, serving not just as a convenient island in the center of many trade routes, but producing large quantities of copper for export. [25] The inscriptions on the tablets were written in the Akkadian language using the cuneiform script, which was commonly used during the Bronze Age among the various cultures and dynasties in Mesopotamia and Anatolia. [23] This isn't on the topic of Bronze Age in the West, but Ralph Sawyer's book on Ancient Chinese Warfare went into detail on the way the Shang armies and their successors may have used chariots in battle. [26] Like many of the renowned armies of the Late Bronze Age, the chariot contingent of the Hittites formed their most elite offensive arm during large scale open battles. [22] Like in many contemporary late Bronze Age and subsequent Iron Age factions, the Hittite king was perceived as the supreme commander of his army. [22] At the same, in many contemporary late Bronze Age and Iron Age societies, the nobility also had their their fair share of religious and spiritual duties. [22] Other early examples of globalism can be found in medieval China and even Mesoamerica, but no pre-modern attempt at globalism was as effective, long-lasting, or influential as that of the 'Great Powers Club' of the ancient Near East during the late Bronze Age. [23] Much of the modern knowledge about the Bronze Age global system is the result of a fortuitous archaeological discovery made in 1887 in the Egyptian village of Amarna, which was known in ancient times as Aketaten. [23] By the time the Bronze Age was well under way, wood was being consumed around the Eastern Mediterranean on a scale that could not possibly be sustained on a long-term basis. [25] On a time scale longer than 10 years, however, a Bronze Age copper mining operation must have caused local deforestation on a large scale, and ever-increasing costs for hauling the wood to keep the industry going. [25] Many thousands of tonnes of copper were produced during the thousand years of the Bronze Age in this part of Europe: some of the slag heaps have up to 500 tonnes of slag, and there are hundreds of them. [25] Archaeologists have estimated that the Bronze Age copper mines at Mitterberg, in the Austrian Tyrol near Salzburg, must have employed about 180 miners and smelters to produce about 20 tonnes of copper a year. [25] Akkadian, which was a member of the Semitic linguistic-cultural group, truly became a global language during the late Bronze Age as it was the lingua franca of the Great Powers Club. [23] The subject of manpower availability is a rather tricky one, especially when considered in context of late Bronze Age civilizations and powers. [22] It's clear that the geography and climate of southern Mesopotamia would not provide the wood fuel to support a Bronze Age civilization that worked metal, built large cities, and constructed canals and ceremonial centers that used wood, plaster, and bricks. [25] Bronze gave its name to the Bronze Age, a major innovative period in human history. [25] Description: Books to study and better understand the catastrophic end of the Mediterranean bronze age and the beginning of an extended 'dark' chaotic period in the early iron age. [20] Based on archaeological evidence, along with the Amarna Letters, modern scholars have surmised that global trade followed a counter-clockwise pattern during the late Bronze Age. [23] The Bronze Age marks the time at which smiths became metallurgists, makers of magic, heroes, and gods. [25] The Timna workings are some of the best-studied industries of the Early Bronze Age, typical of the entire desert copper-mining and smelting operations, even though the quantities mined were small, even by the standards of the time. [25] The long agony of so many Bronze Age smiths has come down to us in legend, however: the Greek smith god Hephaestus and his Roman counterpart Vulcan were lame. [25] Archaeologists have discovered a Bronze Age cemetery at a ritual site on the Welsh island of Anglesey. [24] Many regions did not have a bronze age, but changed directly from Chalcolithic to iron use. [25]
POSSIBLY USEFULWith their strongholds and urban centers poised around the fortress capital of Hattusa, the Hittites, referring to themselves as Nesili and known by their Egyptian enemies as Hatti, challenged the might of several powers of the late Bronze Age, including the ancient Egyptians, Mitanni and even Assyrians.[22] Like many of the contemporary factions of the Near East and the Mediterranean, the influence and dynamism of the Hittites were snuffed out by the mysterious Late Bronze Age collapse - which in turn led to the emergence of smaller Neo-Hittite states that were soon conquered by ascending Assyrians. [22] The Great Powers Club is the name that modern scholars have given to the late Bronze Age system of globalism that existed from approximately 1500 until around1200 BC. The system was first established by the kings of Egypt, Hatti (the Hittites), Kassite Babylon, and Mitanni (the Hurrians). [23] That is because in comparison to Near East, Egypt and Mediterranean cultures, Northern Europe was relatively 'backward’ when it came to cultural, military and political institutions of the late Bronze Age. [22] The newly-discovered burial sites are said to date from the Late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age, which began around 3,200 B.C in Europe. [24] Eratosthenes, writing of the Late Bronze Age, say 1200 BC, reports that Cyprus was so heavily forested at that time that even smelting copper and silver, and felling trees for shipbuilding, had made little inroads on the forest. [25] At Fenan, which was mined for copper in Chalcolithic times (Chapter 3), Bronze Age workings began around 2000 BC. The Fenan miners now followed the ores far underground, in inclined shafts that were as much as 15 to 20 m underground and at least 55 m long. [25] Once smelting of sulfide ores became economic from about 1600 BC, Cyprus became a vital link in the trade of Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age cultures for 500 years, serving not just as a convenient island in the center of many trade routes, but producing large quantities of copper for export. [25] The inscriptions on the tablets were written in the Akkadian language using the cuneiform script, which was commonly used during the Bronze Age among the various cultures and dynasties in Mesopotamia and Anatolia. [23] This isn't on the topic of Bronze Age in the West, but Ralph Sawyer's book on Ancient Chinese Warfare went into detail on the way the Shang armies and their successors may have used chariots in battle. [26] Like many of the renowned armies of the Late Bronze Age, the chariot contingent of the Hittites formed their most elite offensive arm during large scale open battles. [22] Like in many contemporary late Bronze Age and subsequent Iron Age factions, the Hittite king was perceived as the supreme commander of his army. [22] At the same, in many contemporary late Bronze Age and Iron Age societies, the nobility also had their their fair share of religious and spiritual duties. [22] Other early examples of globalism can be found in medieval China and even Mesoamerica, but no pre-modern attempt at globalism was as effective, long-lasting, or influential as that of the 'Great Powers Club' of the ancient Near East during the late Bronze Age. [23] Much of the modern knowledge about the Bronze Age global system is the result of a fortuitous archaeological discovery made in 1887 in the Egyptian village of Amarna, which was known in ancient times as Aketaten. [23] By the time the Bronze Age was well under way, wood was being consumed around the Eastern Mediterranean on a scale that could not possibly be sustained on a long-term basis. [25] On a time scale longer than 10 years, however, a Bronze Age copper mining operation must have caused local deforestation on a large scale, and ever-increasing costs for hauling the wood to keep the industry going. [25] Many thousands of tonnes of copper were produced during the thousand years of the Bronze Age in this part of Europe: some of the slag heaps have up to 500 tonnes of slag, and there are hundreds of them. [25] Archaeologists have estimated that the Bronze Age copper mines at Mitterberg, in the Austrian Tyrol near Salzburg, must have employed about 180 miners and smelters to produce about 20 tonnes of copper a year. [25] Akkadian, which was a member of the Semitic linguistic-cultural group, truly became a global language during the late Bronze Age as it was the lingua franca of the Great Powers Club. [23] The subject of manpower availability is a rather tricky one, especially when considered in context of late Bronze Age civilizations and powers. [22] It's clear that the geography and climate of southern Mesopotamia would not provide the wood fuel to support a Bronze Age civilization that worked metal, built large cities, and constructed canals and ceremonial centers that used wood, plaster, and bricks. [25] Bronze gave its name to the Bronze Age, a major innovative period in human history. [25] Description: Books to study and better understand the catastrophic end of the Mediterranean bronze age and the beginning of an extended 'dark' chaotic period in the early iron age. [20] Based on archaeological evidence, along with the Amarna Letters, modern scholars have surmised that global trade followed a counter-clockwise pattern during the late Bronze Age. [23] The Bronze Age marks the time at which smiths became metallurgists, makers of magic, heroes, and gods. [25] The Timna workings are some of the best-studied industries of the Early Bronze Age, typical of the entire desert copper-mining and smelting operations, even though the quantities mined were small, even by the standards of the time. [25] The long agony of so many Bronze Age smiths has come down to us in legend, however: the Greek smith god Hephaestus and his Roman counterpart Vulcan were lame. [25] Archaeologists have discovered a Bronze Age cemetery at a ritual site on the Welsh island of Anglesey. [24] Many regions did not have a bronze age, but changed directly from Chalcolithic to iron use. [25]
Cultural memories of the disaster told of a 'lost golden age ': for example, Hesiod spoke of Ages of Gold, Silver, and Bronze, separated from the cruel modern Age of Iron by the Age of Heroes.[2] In the specific context of the Middle East, a variety of factors - including population growth, soil degradation, drought, cast bronze weapon and iron production technologies - could have combined to push the relative price of weaponry (compared to arable land ) to a level unsustainable for traditional warrior aristocracies. [2] Leonard R. Palmer suggested that iron, superior to bronze for weapons manufacture, was in more plentiful supply and so allowed larger armies of iron users to overwhelm the smaller armies of maryannu chariotry, which used bronze. [2]
Roman Empire Clothing - A hoplite of the Archaic Period with a bell-type bronze cuirass, horned bronze Corinthian helmet, hoplite 'Argive’ shield and spear. [27] The appearance of bronze foundries suggests 'that mass production of bronze artifacts was suddenly important in the Aegean'. [2]
Changes in climate similar to the Younger Dryas period or the Little Ice Age punctuate human history. [2] Land battle strategies were somewhat crude in that day and age but largely resembled the hammer and anvil; chariots would skirmish with each other, then the infantry lines would collide, with support from skirmishers on the flanks. [1]
These flaws then were exposed by sociopolitical events (revolt of peasantry and defection of mercenaries), fragility of all kingdoms (Mycenaean, Hittite, Ugaritic, and Egyptian), demographic crises (overpopulation), and wars between states. [2] Varied units from Greek spears and champions to charioteers, swordsman, nomad horse archers, chinese infantry, archers, Indian units, colourful sea people, trojans, cool looking egyptians, war elephants. [5]
Previously, the Merneptah Stele (c. 1200 BC) spoke of attacks ( Libyan War ) from Putrians (from modern Libya ), with associated people of Ekwesh, Shekelesh, Lukka, Shardana and Tursha or Teresh (possibly Troas ), and a Canaanite revolt, in the cities of Ashkelon, Yenoam and among the people of Israel. [2] Sargon of Akkad is claimed to have fought wars almost constantly to suppress rebellions and deter invasions by nomadic groups and other rival kingdoms. [1]
Gradually, by the end of the ensuing Dark Age, remnants of the Hittites coalesced into small Neo-Hittite and Syro-Hittite states in Cilicia and the Levant ; the latter states being composed of mixed Hittite and Aramean polities. [2] Recovery occurred only in the Early Iron Age with Phoenician and Greek settlement. [2]
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Rome I or Medieval II I believe is the biggest-selling game in the series overall due to their age and how many people jumped on board with the Rome engine (plus lots of people buy Medieval II even today for the mods). [9] Rise of Nations, for example, while an amazing game up until the WWII era, fails in the nuclear age. [10] Its going to be hard to think of a better title for this era than 'Empire' though, since that was the age of huge expansionary empires. [10]
Strong rulers to create the first state and built huge megalithic structures, which even through the ages and remind us of the events of those ancient times. [8] Build a nation and watch it progress through the ages in this real-time strategy game from Big Huge Games. [28] When scholars describe people and events after Alexander, they usually speak of the Hellenistic (Hellenic-like) age. [6] Age of Charlemagne came close, but only let you play as Mercia (which makes no sense as Wessex is the kingdom that would eventually create England) and its depiction of Britannia was good, but small-scaled. [9] The stunning reality about this gem is the detail it offers of the human body that, according to Davis, does not appear until the classical age, about a thousand years later. [6] And, as I am a gamer of a certain age and also myself, I thought to myself 'What does my version of that look like?' Well. [29] Ugarit’s golden age ended around 1300 B.C., when an earthquake struck the region and a tidal wave and fire engulfed the city. [7]
The era between 3300 and 1200 BC where a civilization makes tools and weaponry out of bronze. [28] They didn't say it's a new region, they said it's an entirely new era and they've covered most of the important era's already going from the conquests of Alexander from the 340's BC to the end of the Napoleonic Wars around 1815. [9] Based on the political situation and the methods of warfare, I think the Napoleonic wars belong in the same game as the Empire wars. [10] Empires engine-brother could be the 19th century game, and then the post-Great War game or games can use a new engine and with it completely retool the gameplay to reflect changing political and military realities. [10]
The Napoleonic (and 1812) wars were the climax of that period, that resulted in a new order in Europe that would be sustained for half a century. [10] The 9 years war with its focus on siege warfare, its introduction of the flintlock and the socket bayonet serves as a reasonably 'clear' end to the period, marking the increasing abandonment of pikes. [9] IIRC, during the time period of the Han Dynasty, there were wars and rebellions with many different enemies. [9] Europe remains pretty peaceful until the rise of Prussia, the Crimean War, and eventually WWI. Most of the action takes place in the colonies before that time. [10]
Warriors: Legends of Troy is a western-developed take on Koeis Musou franchise set during the Trojan War. [28] This cannot be since this warrior died centuries before the Trojan War. [6]
Every people held each other, armed with spears and copper axes, they often went to war to its neighbors that would capture prey or to resolve long-standing conflict. [8] Proto-Korean kingdoms in the east, Yue kingdoms and tribes in the subtropical mountains of the South, proto-Sino-Viet kingdoms/SE Asian kingdoms with war elephants further South, mountain tribes and proto-Tibetans in the South West, giant nomadic confederations in the north, other nomads in the north east, Greco-Persian influences in the west, Central Asia and Iranian kingdoms along the silk road, etc. [9] From the Italian Wars to Ottoman-Habsburg wars to the 30 Years War, it would allow quite a diverse background. [9] Le Sage avoided this by adding an infinite tech in his Hundred Years War (I think its called Renaissance.) [8]
Hello, As of the last update, I am no longer able to acess the portal to The Void when you defeat Hush, is anyone else experiencing the same? I know the portal is wonky and it sometimes takes a while for it to work, but I've been going back and forth for the past 10 minutes and it will just not work. Well, I went from the Hush to the Cathedral, and was lucky enough for Isaac to spawn a portal. But it still didn't work. 2 bombs and an Anarchist Cookbook summon it still didn't work. Exited and reloaded, dropped a 3 bomb and FINALLY IT WORKED. Feb 06, 2017 Hello, As of the last update, I am no longer able to acess the portal to The Void when you defeat Hush, is anyone else experiencing the same? I know the portal is wonky and it sometimes takes a while for it to work, but I've been going back and forth for the past 10 minutes and it will just not work.
Since The Void has multiple boss rooms, using IV - The Emperor Teleports Isaac into the Boss Room of a floor. Will teleport Isaac to one of them randomly. Defeating a final boss in The Void that is not Delirium will not give you a Completion Mark of that boss and will not unlock the respective item. Hey there, don't know whether it's related to the new patch, and the search function didn't come up with anything either, but I found an annoying bug when beating Hush and trying to step into the Void portal. Well, it's just not working. I'll position my character over it and nothing happens. Restarted the game as well, didn't help. Has anyone encountered this?
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That would be interesting, but imagine just how insanely difficult it would be! I mean, sure, you could say picking the right battle to fight personally while trusting the AI to fight the others would be an interesting new level of strategy, but it would still become overwhelmingly difficult if you got into a really big war, with dozens of battles raging all at once. [10] The Viking Invasion part of today, wherein I write war stories of my conquests. [29] Described by Homer as a 'strong-founded citadel' that was 'rich in gold,' Mycenae was the greatest of the Mycenaean cities that flourished in mainland Greece from about 1600 to 1200 B.C. (In the Trojan War, Mycenae’s king, Agamemnon, is the king of kings who leads the Greeks into battle.) [7] Homer reports that Idomeneus, son of the Cretan King Deukalion and grandson of Minos, son of Zeus and great Cretan king, led an army of Cretan Greeks in the Trojan War. [6]
I'd say the pike and shot era is quite distinct from both what preceded and followed it, and it's an era that's oddly neglected in gaming: off the top of my head, I can only think of Slitherine's Pike and Shot and AGEOD's English Civil War, along with a couple of Medieval II total conversions that cover the period. [9] Only having two available factions in an American Total: Civil War would radically restrict the scope of the game even compared to Shogun 2. [9]
I think the contained nature of the conflict, geographically speaking as well as in terms of its participants, plays into Total War's strengths in the same way that Shogun 2 did. [9]
Likewise the Total Warhammer hero system would transfer nicely to the legendary characters of the period, with individual's directly represented on the battlefield. [9]
There's also scope for adding any number of dedicated sub-campaigns to Empire given the history period (you could even do the American Civil War as an Empire expansion if you don't think you can get a full game out of it). [9] Most likely China, simply because of the DLC possibilities (base game would be Three Kingdoms but you could have Warring States, An Lushan, the Jin-Song Wars etc all as DLC) and I'm not sure what else would really count, apart from India, South America and maybe the American Civil War. [9] Aside from the current political drama, the American Civil War would make for a terrible TW game. [9] TW would be wasted attempting the American Civil War on it's own, but if they could bite off a suitably-sized chunk of the Victorian era, it would be pretty awesome there's a vast variety of people to fight (Zulus, Chinese, multiple flavours of American, Afghans, Americans, British, Russians, Prussians, you name it), places to fight in (the whole planet), and things to fight it with (everything from arrows and spears to Ironclads and Gatling guns). [9] The English civil war mod for Medieval 2 did a good job at the pike and shot era. [9] The English Civil War would be an obvious choice for a DLC set in the period. [9] The American Civil War would be good, but studying historical city layouts means a bigger focus on urban warfare. [9] Yeah, I understand the appeal of the American Civil War, but that would not go over well right now. [9] China (and India) are also the biggest gaps in CA's historical roster as well, assuming they're not going to do the American Civil War or something more recent for the main series. [9] Because, well, the civil war was like this for me: I was rolling up Italy no problem at all. [29]
Pick up your trusty club and get ready to crush some Neolithic skulls in this historically based Real time strategy game focusing on the early Stone Age through till the late Iron Age. [28] Played some more Mechwarrior: Dark Age last night, and sucked the first time, had a close battle the second time, and dominated so hard the third time I cleaned him off the map without losing a unit. [29] While Egypt, Hatti, Mycenae and others would never rise to their pre-collapse levels of prosperity again, the so-called Dark Ages saw the birth of some of history’s most prodigious cultures, including the Biblical Israelites. [7]
Despite the uncertainties, the Yamnaya’s wandering DNA makes one thing clear, says Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Copenhagen. 'Bronze Age pastoralists moved long distances for a long time and had an important impact on European and central Asian civilizations.' [13] Archaeologist Emma Lightfoot of the University of Cambridge and colleagues analyzed chemical signatures of different types of food consumption in the bones of people from those Bronze and early Iron Age campsites. [13]
Various materials were used to build war maces (iron, bronze, stone), depending of the social status and financials of the Warrior. [14] The Warrior can deliver slashing attacks to the upper body/head of the opponent using the right angles - at the same time, the big mass of the bronze axe can be used to deliver bludgeoning attacks to the lower body of the opponent with devastating effects even against heavy armour. [14] Simple wooden clubs and mallets have been found near prized bronze arm bands, tin rings, and bronze axe heads, suggesting that the lower-class fighters carried simple weapons, while elite warriors were better armed. [30]
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- Senior MemberPosts: 18,049Registered UsersI'm not seeing the appeal. None of the factions hold any interest and the warfare isn't particularly enticing either,Flag0·Like
- Senior MemberPosts: 1,175Registered UsersIt could be cool but Ca stated in an interview some time ago that at time setting before Rome would be cool but was not on the table right now. But then again, since they are going back to the older historical games and making more content/dlc maybe they make a prequel sort of dlc for rome 2?Flag0·Like
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the problem with a dlc for Rome 2 is that, even if the game still looks good, its mechanics (or lack of) were a disapointment for a lot of total war fans. Just a reskin set in the bronze age with the same **** siege AI , no family tree, underwhelming political system wouldn't be enough to satisfy the fans in my eyes..It could be cool but Ca stated in an interview some time ago that at time setting before Rome would be cool but was not on the table right now. But then again, since they are going back to the older historical games and making more content/dlc maybe they make a prequel sort of dlc for rome 2?
well, a lot of people were asking for a Chinese total war game. I don't think the western market would be interested enough to generate hype and money for it. I might be wrong.. Anyway i just tought that by encompassing a chinese faction in a total war game that's not 100% China can be a good compromise to have everyone excited about it.Why would the map go to China?
Problem there is if a full game that in interesting and better documented times wouldn't sell, a DLC covering China and all the land inbetween would be far worse.
well, a lot of people were asking for a Chinese total war game. I don't think the western market would be interested enough to generate hype and money for it. I might be wrong.. Anyway i just tought that by encompassing a chinese faction in a total war game that's not 100% China can be a good compromise to have everyone excited about it.Why would the map go to China?- Junior MemberTürkiye Cumhuriyeti (The Republic of Turkey)Posts: 123Registered UsersI like ancient world https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/173292/total-war-ancient#latest“Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.”
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The problem with Rome 2 was that it should have spent another year in develoment to fix bugs and such, the rome 2 we have now is absolutely fantastic. A bronze age dlc for rome 2 would be they best way to do it, but as I already said, not likely to happen anytime soon.
the problem with a dlc for Rome 2 is that, even if the game still looks good, its mechanics (or lack of) were a disapointment for a lot of total war fans. Just a reskin set in the bronze age with the same **** siege AI , no family tree, underwhelming political system wouldn't be enough to satisfy the fans in my eyes..It could be cool but Ca stated in an interview some time ago that at time setting before Rome would be cool but was not on the table right now. But then again, since they are going back to the older historical games and making more content/dlc maybe they make a prequel sort of dlc for rome 2?
Though t might yet happen, as they have a team working on new dlc for Rome 2 and Attila most likely.Flag0·Like