In a recent interview on Rock Paper Shotgun, Isgreen mentions a “completely unique” mission:
…I decide to stick with the subject of scenarios, and ask Isgreen and Duffy their favourite moments from AoE4’s campaigns. Isgreen answers immediately. “There’s a mission in the Hundred Years’ War campaign that is… completely unique. When I read the mission layouts and found out what we were doing with it, I genuinely had to check it was based on a real event. It feels like something that happened in a video game. I try to bamboozle Isgreen into revealing what historical event he is talking about, and while he is tight-lipped on the whole, he does end up expressing his disbelief that “they just completely stopped fighting to do this.”
What do you think might make this ‘completely unique?’ To my initial impression, this sounded like a simple mission that focused on micro- of a small number of units. Or is this a different mission altogether?
“And let us right there try ourselves and do so much that people will speak of it in future times in halls, in palaces, in public places and elsewhere throughout the world.” - Jean Froissart
Little did he know it would be recreated for the world to see and experience
Can’t wait for the exaggerated french and english accents when saying famous quotes!
There are definitely similarities between El Cid’s quick champion fight to gain the favour of the King but this particular battle is actually quite controversial and much deeper meaning. It was a tournament between the English and the French over who would occupy the area, which may have been depicted in some sources as chivalrous. However it is a sense of nationalistic pride for the French as they won the battle, and a statue was built in its honor. For the English it was a remembrance of disgrace as they see it as the French cheating. I really wonder which perspective the production team will use.
Will they include the charging of the French cavalry at the end of the fight, leading to the ultimate loss of the English to depict the English side of the story that the French cheated. Or will they exclude the cavalry to continue with the French narrative of a chivalrous victory over the English.
Looking at the view point of AOE II with the French as the victims to the English, I suspect the latter! Especially if we are playing Joan D’Arc’s perspective in the Hundred Years War. But then again, I do see a Cav on the French side so…
Although i’m a bit sad that they used the traditional AOE II method of just having a random cav as a hero that looks similar to other cav units with possible little adjustments, but a marker on top to say it is a hero. Unlike AoM that made completely new units for each individual hero in which you could differentiate them from any other unit from a mile away!
