The use of mobile storage units or more all purpose feel very nomadic
The difference between Turks and Huns/Cumans is that the Turks spent a lot longer part of their history in the area where their architecture is based on.
Huns and Cumans essentially did a speed-run from east to west.
Depends on how you define a speedrun. Thereās a 200 years gap between the conquest of Xiongnu by the Xianbei and the appearance of the Huns in Western sources.
We also know that Huns didnāt build cities themselves ā even if some elites preserved oral accounts of their old cities built by their ancient Chinese subjects it ultimately did not matter, because now they were living in cities built by their Iranic, Caucasian, Germanic and Graeco-Roman subjects. Cumans meanwhile lived amongst other Turkic groups, Iranians, Caucasians, and Slavs. The ones that concerted to Islam ultimately adapted Islamic architecture, which is probably the reason behind their current set in the game.
This looks kinda more Chinese then the current East Asian set does.
I think military production buildings should look more like tents and buildings like the Town Centre and University shouldnāt have tents. I donāt really like this hybrid style where all buildings have stationary parts and tents. I think half of the buildings should be tents and the other half not.
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My point is that Turks became very much a settled peoples during most of the time-frame AoE2 is set in. Huns certainly do not, and the Cumans only do right at the tail end and are scattered in multiple different places.
Yes, though honestly this is also part of why I want the current Turks civ to basically just represent the Ottomans (Keep the Turks name though) and then make another civ for the earlier era Turks in central Asia. I know you could say Tatars cover that but iām not sure they do, theyāre a hodge-podge Turkic/Mongolic people. Whether Oghuz or Gokturks or Seljuks or whatever you want to call them I think there is merit in another civ to represent the more migratory Turks.
So back to my question. Why wouldnāt nomads have more mobil storage buildings
AoE2 is about ethnic groups/cultures. Turks covers all the Oghuz Turks; Seljuks, Rum and Ottoman. Splitting them up opens a can of worms.
Now that itās my turn to speak again I ask until someone pays attention: why wouldnāt nomadic civs have a mobile or more specialized dropsite while the more settled Incas or Armenian kingdoms did?
If the Huns had become permanent in Europe, would they adopt the local architecture?
If yes, then they should switch to Eastern European architecture. The Huns might have vanished in Europe quickly after Attila, but we are writing an alternative history here.
Might have, but didnāt. We have civs that focus on settled nomads anyway.
There should be a nomadic set.
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Nomadic set even in the Imperial age?
Am I being shadow throttled? Other than building set should nomads have a storage center that feels more fitting for civs on the move
It just seems a bit weird to have such a massive overlap
Give it to the Caucasian adjacent Steppe civs but beyond that? Probably not
No, theyāre ignoring you for some reason. Donāt worry, I know the feeling. Iām the guy everyone ignores in social situations.
Yes, I think that would be fitting, but it should be noticeably different from the Mule Cart.
Yes. Not every nomad abandons that way of life. Some even start nomad, become settled then switch back to nomad again.
Huns would end like how the Mongols ended up in Iran or China.
They would melt into the local cultures and then settle. There is no scenario in which they would remain nomadic infinitely. Not even the Golden Horde achieved that, despite the Moscow principality as a cultural barrier and cash cow.
Nomadic set would be ridiculous in the Imperial Age.
There are literally people still living nomadic lifestyles in Central Asia to this day.
Not to mention the Khitans were nomadic right before the Mongols wrapped them up into their empire.
I imagine something between Mediterranean, Caucasian, and Islamic Anatolian in the Imperial Age. Itād also fit other groups like Khazars and Cumans (maybe also Turks depending on how it ends up looking)
your point? current nomad lifestyles are not civilizations. Every civ (huns are not a civ) eventually settles and build cities with regular buildings, otherwise the wouldnāt have left enough legacy to be a civilization.
Huns are the ONLY exception because they were never a real civilization, they were just a very Big and short-lived Horde that people always overrepresent because Attila vs Rome, but they lack any real legacy of any kind, even their unique unit and language is made up. They came, destroyed and vanish.
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