Wow! Dev lead here. I love the fact that you’re coming to this with some prior knowledge 👌🏻

@Legion-ov6jr

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the mod. Honesty I just found it and I’ve been playing around and it’s amazing that perfect late Rome holding up a crumbling empire feel. I wish their were more guided explaining regions on the maps specific areas to know but their is definitely enough info in the mod and descriptions that I’m kinda putting some of it together with just playing and reading. Truly a great mod.

Romans Strategic difficulty: Hopeless Financial situation: Hemorrhaging cash Morale: Shot Military: Fucked Advantages: Rome Disadvantages: Yes Let's fuckin goooooo

As someone who studies Arthurian literature I'd say what you said about Arthur is correct. I find it strange people would argue about it. At a certain point, people just point to any warrior with an A in their name from this period as Arthur or any ruins on a hill as badon hill, or Camlann.

I love when you hit on your specific historical niche. I'm such an amateur that I just have bits from all over the place.

Just so you know, Anglo-Saxon words that end with -sc are pronounced like modern English "sh". So Ænglisc is pronounced like "Anglish" (with Ash being pronounced like the a sound in bat, cat, fat, etc.).

still loving the mod showcases keep it up

Very impressive looking mod. Downloading now.

I think people feeling strongly about the reality of Arthur either way is really just a problem of classification, if the name is more important, or the act. It is true that the saxon conquest does seem to have been slowed and reversed to some extent, and the orchestration of this seems to be a focal point of a lot of cultural memory. Now if the figure of arthur is more associated with the name itself, or with simply a ruler who was at the center of this phenomenon (and through some process of historical telephone was eventually settled with the name arthur) is really the crux of the sentiment either way. I dont think many people legitamently think that there was a literal lady of the lake and stuff. It’s more between the name and a figure of brythonic reconquest which was used as the backdrop for a lot of stories.

@sebe2255

7 ай бұрын

You are right, to some people (who for whatever reason harbor anti anglo-saxon sentiment) the point is that the Anglo-Saxons were defeated by someone. Which is funny because ultimately the Angles and Saxons “won” anyway, and the reversal was very much temporary.

@midshipman8654

7 ай бұрын

@@sebe2255 eh, I think thats an over particular reason. Some people probably see it that way as a bitter thing. But I think the wider division is caught up on the framing of a particular name vs a particular deed. Im not an expert in the subject, but thats the sense I got from the few medieval sources like morte d’arthur and more modern commentaries on the subject like the great courses plus series. With the the broad focal points being “There could have been a central arthurian figure” or “There was no one person called arthur”. Which seems to be just two different ways of seeing the topic.

Even if things seem hopeless you must always fight back. That's what Rome has taught me and I will honor them

Do you think you'll ever do a campaign of this on the channel?

@SorcererDave

7 ай бұрын

Definitely. Not sure exactly when, but it's on the to-do list.

I remember some mod, probably for rome1 with latin voiceover. Yup, Europa Barbarorum. Napoleon TW had Portugeese shouting in Polish as somebody offseted their voice ID by one and didn't noticed. :P

Bruh I looked for a mod like this one for ages and google just kept giving me thrones of brittannia

So happy to have a let's play guy who knows how to pronounce the 'thorn' :)

@SorcererDave

7 ай бұрын

About the only thing I do know how to pronounce - I think I butchered everything else!

The music is wonderfully immersive in this mod

About the voice acting: redoing all the accents would take a huge amount of work. Respectfully redoing them with a bad usb mic just won't do :) I'm a musician with a nice mic set up so I could do some, but first translating all of them and then making it work would take months and months, and I'd rather redo unit models and change the UI instead :P

@SorcererDave

7 ай бұрын

Perfectly understandable! You've done fantastic work anwyay so don't let me stop you! :P

@liamtaylor6838

6 ай бұрын

I did the Gallic voice acting for EB2. I wouldn't mind doing Old English for Insularis Draco if you wanted someone for it. I've got a professional setup and I'm familiar with OE pronunciation (for west saxon, at least).

Would love to see you play a frankish campaign. They were about to start steam rolling Europe around this time. Also, have you played the newly updated Fireforged Empires mod for Attila? It’s amazing.

@SorcererDave

7 ай бұрын

I'll be streaming Fireforged Empire this week as a matter of fact, and yes it's excellent

@jschex123

7 ай бұрын

@@SorcererDave awesome, I’ll be tuning in. Currently doing a Frankish campaign as we speak.

"Julian" by Gore Vidal was a great book.

Omg,never saw this on your channel,think just missed this one andxD you made the Statement is your fav Medieval2 mod? never play it myself maybe i will give it a try xd

The 'isc' endings would be pronounced 'ish' in OE. So 'Wealisc' is pretty much as you'd expect; weal-ish. Welsh.

@SorcererDave

7 ай бұрын

Mind blown 😳

Very niche, but still a fun mod!

Please review Bulat Steel one day it's great but very heavy to download.

What? No Gewisse? For shame! Nevermind, it's still a really bloody great mod.

@SorcererDave

7 ай бұрын

The main campaign is about a century too early for them, iirc. Don't quote me on that though!

@mrchuffy8320

7 ай бұрын

@SorcererDave no, that's fair. The written sources don't support a much earlier date than about 550CE (other than the very vague Cerdic). The archaeology increasingly does, though still tentatively. With burials from the late and early post roman period. These show an intriguing mix of Germanic material culture buried with local and even Irish people. Hinting at a very early adaptation from one identity to another. For me, the Gewisse are just a microcosm of the wider period. Fascinating, but frustratingly opaque.

@jgenard

6 ай бұрын

Mod lead here,@@mrchuffy8320. The 'Seaxan' faction is the main Island Saxon faction which houses East-Seaxe, Suth-Seaxe and, of course, the Gewisse and West-Seaxe. They're even one of the four Royal Bloodlines available within that faction. Dorceaster is the Saxon capital so one could definitely say the Gewisse (or at least, their ancestors) are the main kin group in Germanic-speaking Southern Britain apart from the Jutish Wodningas of Kent.

@mrchuffy8320

6 ай бұрын

@jgenard Nice! I've not yet tried playing as the Saxons yet, so I had missed the Dorchester detail. Also, really great work. It's a Stella mod.

I think you need to read Gildas before commenting on 'Arthur' and Mons Badonicus

@SorcererDave

7 ай бұрын

Gildas who quite specifically mentions Ambrosius Aurelianus as the British leader and makes zero reference to anyone called Arthur...