I don’t think it is ever going to happen to the real game. It can be a mod idea though.
TOTAL WAR shogun 2 has onna bushi… are you saying they have gone mythological instead of history?
btw if you say like that then we have to drop many ideas to add female fighters
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Excuse me? Why am I even fighting what? Wiki? Wiki is a mix of happy amateurs writing on a web site and has nothing what so ever to do with facts and/or science and It should be treated as such. What I wrote in my post is exactly that. Facts and Science. Female viking warriors excisted in RL. What they were called is not so important.
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So you are one who thinks having knowledge above Wikipedia?
I am sorry I cannot argue with you. It will be foolish to do so.
I just acquired knowledge from that encyclopaedia.
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Not true. Check facts before posting.
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Even Gbetos shouldn’t be in the game REPRESENTING a MUSLIM empire.
If you want to see female units play Age of Mythology or make a discussion about new Age Of Empires I civs
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Nomads like huns mongols sythiyans timurids had warrior women,but were they used in full scale war is up for debate.
The story of mualn is also from a nomadic origin.
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Unhistorical units have always been in many Total Wars, since they want to pad out faction rosters to avoid repetition, and also add units to DLCs.
If you actually research Sengoku Jidai history, you will see no examples of female units or armies having any success of an open battlefield, or doing anything else besides defending their homesteads along with the servants.
Women just did not partake in the battlefield, for most cultures around the world.
If you want a Warrio Women culture, then ask for Scythians in AoE1, but do not be surprised by how the Huns made them extinct, it was not pretty.
Just like every womon who fought back, they ended up being forced to carry the children of their conquerors as a form of humiliation.
Onna-bugeisha (女武芸者, “female martial artist”) was a type of female warrior belonging to the Japanese nobility. These women engaged in battle alongside samurai men mostly in times of need. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war.
So as I said, the wives of the samurai, and they never fought on an open battlefield.
What facts?
A shield-maiden (Old Norse: skjaldmær ) was a female warrior from Scandinavian folklore and mythology. Historians disagree about whether they existed or not.
Pure Fantasy, there are no records of Shield Maidens, and we would have known about them if there were, because it would have been a huge afront to Christianity, and would have been ghugely denounced and made public, with accusations of unwomanliness.
There would be a wealth of evidence for it, just due to the cultural climate of Europe at the time.
Probablt Scythian, which was the ONLY culture massively known and attested, for having Warrior Women, and even then only on horseback, because they would not engage men on equal footing (which would be a smart thing to do, as men are not only bigger, but have faster reflexes due to naturally more developed muscle mass).
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so onna bushi can be a infantry unit still
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No, there were like 6 known ones, and never actually fought on open battles. You could have afew Hero units, but not an actual unit.
That is like making Joan of Arc a regular unit, which would be silly.
It is also Onna-Bugeisha, not Onna Bushi.
why they make this documentary ?
Seems funny you’re all quoting the wiki article without paying attention tho it’s second sentence.
Though @JonOli12 seems to have found the sentence by now, since he copy-pasted it
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Because of the modern socio-political zeitgeist, not because they actually existed.
Like it or not, War, even today, is a massive Sausage Fest.
Debated because we have no evidence, which means they did not exist.
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Maybe a prostitute unit, which would double the healing rate of units when garrisoned into building with them. Corresponding sounds are not strictly required, although would be welcomed as a mod.
Edit: My post was flagged by someone as inappropriate. I don’t agree with it. I made a completely valid (although spiced with a little humor) suggestion, which makes a lot more sense than trying to find female warriors from myths. Prostitutes were often used in wars and so such a unit would be historically accurate.
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I dont see the problem of the shield maiden, if is accurate or not.
A shield maiden is, as I unserstand,a woman with a shield. Not an elf,not a magic sword, just a woman, with a shield. If vikings had sometimes female warriors, that could be an unit for another scandinavian civ.
Also, the gbeto no only were from 18th century, but the didnt fight throwing knifes, the used rifles. But they were light on armor. So, our gbeto is not very accurate, but a welcome addition still. Thatcould apply to shield maiden, ona bushi, or whatever
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But they did not. Women did not participate in any actual fighting. It is a mythological trope.
Shield Maidens are as real as Balrogs.
There is also no need for another Scandinavian civ, specially since the one we already got is fantasy as it is, There was no Viking culture, Viking was a job.
Trung Sisters, vietnamese. They had armies that had women in it.
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Boudicca was in the AoE1 timeline, and even then she failed massively, and her armies were composed of men.
Could be a Hero unit for Aoe1.
The Trung Sister commanded Men, not Women into battle, and the Vietnamese suffered greatly after they were crushed.
But at least they were real, not Fantasy, like the Shield Maidens.
You see, it is not hard to find singular examples of women bearing arms in combat, it is hard finding examples of them doing it en masse, or having women armies, because they would be crushed quickly.