Oh no, with Novgorov, my dream of a “Cossak Civ” as Russ Variant is ruined, fufufu.
Well, my Cossack concept was in Delta phase (not even in beta), and Novgorov was my second option, so well, whatever.
Okay, time to theorize:
1).- Outremer, or the Crusader Kingdoms is one of them, Right?
2).- What unique units or mechanic do you think Novgorov will have?"
I can’t think of any for Novgorov, but for the Crusader Kingdoms, or Outremer I can think of quite a few:
OUTREMER / Crusader Kingdoms
Unique Units:
- Templar Order Knight
- Hospitaller Order Knight
- Teutonic Order Knight
- Grand Master of the orders before.
- Turkopole
Curiously, the Turkopole is the MOST IMPORTANT, because he is a Cavalry Archer, and was unique to the Crusader Kingdoms.
I want to suppose that each Order Knight are going to cost 2 population or be very Expensive, because in the campaign only a few of them were very broken.
3.- ARQUITECTURE and LANGUAJE of Outremer/ Crusader Kingdoms
I had the impression that they were going to wait to release Italians civs as Milan, the Genoese, Tuscany (Florence), Venice, before release Outremer, because many of the crusaders there were from many, but many cultures and kingdoms, but above all Italians.
The bad thing is that even for languages, the Genoese, Milanese and Tuscans, Venetians speak different pronunciations.
Will they use Byzantine architecture as a mold? So, will it be a Byzantine variant?
Noo, that’s very bad: I was already planning a Byzantine variant, the Roman Empire (27 BC - 476 AD), and yes, it’s a spoiler.
- It was going to be very pretty, with legionnaires, comitanenses and mercenaries from the ancient era, I already had everything ready. In fact, I was going to release another civ first (some clues are in my April Fools concept (The Seven Cities of Cibola (EL DORADO) - Concept by GoldenArmorX - April 1st) and then followed Romans.
Well, now I will have to wait for when they dare to release more than 1 variant per civ.
Although I’m jumping the gun, “it may not even be a variant”. In the Campaign, they used English, French and HRE Landmarks combined. Who knows what the final model will be. Since it was a mix of adventurers and soldiers from various kingdoms, perhaps it has a chimerical architecture? It will be interesting to see.