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<p>To the south of the imperial heartland lies the Nahasa, the Bronze Desert, ringed by mountains, hammered by the sun. A traveller coming over the passes from greener lands would first see fields of dunes broken by gravel plains and volcanic outcrops, shimmering under the heat haze. But there is water to be found underground, trapped in depressions or beneath the wadis where the occasional flash flood rumbles by. And in these oases people have settled. They are divided into dozens of clans and sub-clans, each with its elaborate genealogy, but are collectively known as the Banu Asera or the Aserai after the legendary patriarch Asera, whom they all claim as an ancestor.</p></br> [/parsehtml]Read more at: http://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/Bannerlord/Blog/41
Dev Blog 11/01/18
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Balexander said:i speak it loud and clear so everyone does understand it = CALRADIA IS A ****ING FANTASY WORLD shock or xD
This time around I regret not having the time (and quite frankly, nor the patience) to slog through the whole thread, and I am certain some people have left interesting questions. I'm also afraid this may be too late, but here's my go at it:
About the blog: this has been my favourite blog until now. It went in depth into the aserai faction (which I particularly like because sarranids). It felt so brilliant, so good to read, this was masterfully crafted and it was a jolly good read. It did not, however, hype me up for the game, the blog that did that to me was the Vlandia blog, not sure why. This is good, I only want to be hyped after a release date is announced. Now, more than ever, I am completely undecided about which faction to choose, they all seem so interesting, and the 'clan' aspect of them is really promising (really hoping we could somehow join them). I will rest it here because it was really awesome to read this blog, congrats to the team who wrote it and translated it. (Really hoping you need some portuguese translator, so I could apply for the job...)
Edit: Seriously? Sturgians are uninteresting just because they don't fit some stereotypical depiction of northmen? I'll politely disagree.
And about the Aserai sabres/shamshirs: it has been traditionally a cavalry weapon (much later, of course), plus in the gameworld, the Khuzaits are more close and could be more culturally influential to the Aserai---id est: we only saw them on cavalry, maybe the infantry uses straight swords like the sarranids. Still, I don't really mind, I like variety, either curved. swords. or straight swords are nice virtual replacements for my genitalia and I'll be able to maim people with them. It's good enough for me.
Question(s) for Negus:
- Do you do colaboration work to write questlines, or background stories, or main quests, or you (and the other writers) write your pieces separately and then merge them into the game? (I am aware you all have to be on a similar standing and standard of writing because you can't write the same story for different events/characters, so you all know what each one has to write without invading the others' territories, what I am asking is if you write together with someone else on the same story, or if you prefer to write mostly by yourself - it's a writer's thing, I know)
- Did you take inspiration from some other fictional works to write specific sections of your writing? Did you feel it enriched your story this way? If you give any examples, it would spoil the game, but it would be nice if you could cite some of the works that did inspire you (if any). And are there any particular real world history event, situation or plot that inspired you for any of your writing stuffs? (like specific cultural stories or even "village stories" that you thought interesting to visit in the game)
- Personally, what kind of writing do you find most interesting to write: historical background, questline, dialogue, events, etc?
- And lastly: what will you do after the game is launched? Do you want to keep writing more stuff for possible DLCs, expansions, etc? Want to change to a different writing position (or just focus on design and less on writing)? Or do you want to take a break and just play the damn thing just like us all?
Thank you for your attention, hope any of these could be answered!
I seriously need to use my vacations to write my stuff...
Piédalf
Sergeant at Arms
Nice faction blog ! I like those Arabian themed faction. Just too bad Bannerlord will not feature religions, because I would love to play the Aserai in a Islam conquest fashion. It would be cool to become a prophet-emperor, just as Paul in Dune.
By the way, since Bannerlord features elements from the 5th to 11th century, curved swords are not out of place. Although, it is right that scimitar was not the sword that made the arab conquests.
By the way, since Bannerlord features elements from the 5th to 11th century, curved swords are not out of place. Although, it is right that scimitar was not the sword that made the arab conquests.
I've always enjoyed a large cavalry charge on the dunes of the desert with a beautiful sunset or sunrise. It's going to be even better with the dust clouds that will build up from the charge in Bannerlord. So many of these minor factions are super interesting. The Ghilman, a brotherhood of slave-warriors is just another one, reminds me of Janissaries that I learned about from playing Age of Empires.
White Lion
Regular
Big Bad Pent said:
+1
White Lion said:kalarhan said:White Lion said:
go play VC and then come back
Bannerlord doesn't need religion as a gimmick for drama or wars, but that is not to say it couldn't be added as a interesting layer for things like diplomacy, recruitment of troops, etc. But we don't have it on MB and Warband, so I see no reason to add it to Bannerlord.
No religion also means no religion drama on forum/steam/reviews/etc
What does "VC" mean?
Also - "No religion also means no religion drama on forum/steam/reviews/etc" - Exactly, that was my point.
White Lion said:Varrak said:Do not look here said:
I just stated that there is no Arabs in the game, there is no Africa nor Europe nor Middle East in the game, even physic rules are different in the game, and that is why i call incredibly stupid to look for historical accuracy or realism. There is Calradia which inspired from medieval european (and neighboring) cultures - not copying obviously - and shaping them however they want.
Thanks for your concerns but i feel pretty free about expressing my own ideas about "historical game" demands. I mean, there will be historical mods (which i also will enjoy), lets not push on TW about historical accuracy and realism, shall we?
+1
White Lion said:
White Lion said:
White Lion said:
https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/VikingConquest
btw as you are new: read forum rules https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,12250.0.html
I always wonder why so often people in games in allegedly warm or hot areas wear as much clothing on any single body part as people in cold climates. And always the modern demure cowboy style, boots, pants and shirt. The "big variety" then comes with different textures, great.
geala said:
Covering the body from the sun was very important back when sunscreen didn't exist. Would you rather be a little more sweaty or sunburnt?
Eissa
Recruit
There is nothing wrong for adding scimitar/curved sword for aserai, since they have The ghilman faction. In real life Ghilman/ghulam were Band of slave soldiers comprised out of turkic war prisoner (though sometime voluntary as well which varied from personal to a chief pledging his entire tribe for service). So the curved sword probably came from them. That also a possiblity of aserai having horse archer through them (like irl) but that would be too OP.
sarge5186
Recruit
i am still holding out when there will be an update on the status of win the game is going to come out of give us a new idea of were in the ball park they plan to buy it i would love to buy they game or at least pre-order it i been just dyeing to try it i been playing mount and blade sync the first one came out and i have loved it
KhergitLancer80
Banned
lolbash said:
If they turn out to be very weak TW can just simply increase their stats and make them more accurate with a small update no worries.
lolbash
Master Knight
KhergitLancer80 said:
I mean, yeah you could say that for every unit in the game.
But would you rather have the horse archers be good because they can one shot people, or would you rather they are useful because they actually behave like real life horse archers and use horse archer tatics?
