New Warlords info from Gamespot

[Nikolai]

Rancid, no offence, but you are wrong. Very wrong.

[Nikolai]

Popular myths

Horned helmets

Apart from two or three representations of (ritual) helmets with protrusions that may be either snakes or horns, no depiction of Viking Age warriors' helmets, and no actually preserved helmet, has horns. In fact, the formal close-quarters style of Viking combat (either in shield walls or aboard "ship islands") would have made horned helmets cumbersome and hazardous to the warrior's own side. The general misconception that vikings wore horned helmets was partly promulgated by the 19th-century enthusiasts of the Götiska Förbundet, founded in 1811 in Stockholm, with the aim of promoting the suitability of Norse mythology as subjects of high art and other ethnological and moral aims. The latter-day mythos created by national romantic ideas blended the Viking Age with glimpses of the Nordic Bronze Age some 2000 years earlier, for which actual horned helmets, probably for ceremonial purposes, are attested both in petroglyphs and by actual finds (See Bohuslän [2]). The cliché is perpetuated by cartoons like Hägar the Horrible and Vicky the Viking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings

[Stuie]

This might have already been discussed, but does the Great Wall stay where your boarders were went it was built? Looks that way from this shot:

[Badtz Maru]

Originally posted by Stuie
This might have already been discussed, but does the Great Wall stay where your boarders were went it was built? Looks that way from this shot:

Yeah, one of the earlier articles said that the Great Wall is built around your cultural boundaries at the time it is completed. I like this element, makes the decision as to when to build it a little more complicated - finish it now and get the barbarian protection ASAP, or wait until you get another city down?

One thing I'm curious about, is whether two walls will be built if you have a city far enough away that it's borders are not connected.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Stuie
This might have already been discussed, but does the Great Wall stay where your boarders were went it was built? Looks that way from this shot:

I'm glad about that. I just can't just imagine the real Great Wall being continually uprooted and replaced as the borders of China changed over time.

That said, Antonine and Hadrian's wall situation could be used to counter any realism complaints.

[Andrew1999]

Originally posted by Badtz Maru


Yeah, one of the earlier articles said that the Great Wall is built around your cultural boundaries at the time it is completed. I like this element, makes the decision as to when to build it a little more complicated - finish it now and get the barbarian protection ASAP, or wait until you get another city down?

One thing I'm curious about, is whether two walls will be built if you have a city far enough away that it's borders are not connected.

Yes, in my game the Mongols built the Great Wall while their culture radius covered half of a 2 square island. The result was a mini-wall dividing it into two parts.

[Gibsie]

Here's an... interesting question, but does the Great Wall protest your cultural borders from being overlapped by your neighbours, like from a culture bomb?