Vikings DID come into contact with native americans. They called them "skraelings."
They were of the Inuit and Beothuk peoples, among others. This was during the early medieval period. Vikings had colonies in Greenland, Newfoundland, and even Maine.
And before that, Minoans had contact with Native Americans and Vikings aswell.
I highly doubt that. Around Lake Superior is the theory I read. That would be incredibly difficult and unrealistically amazing.
Dont we already have crude blunt clubs? The issue i see with stone hatchets etc is that they are also crude prehistoric European tools, much outdated. Whereas Asian themed gear is totally different.
I also don't think our perception of Native American technology is accurate to the same peoples the Vikings encountered, Viking sagas speak of the highly advanced and powerful societies they encountered in that part of the world, not a gang of nomads waving stone hatchets. Whatever diseases we brought to America not only decimated the native populations, but destroyed their powerful civilisations, emptied their cities and led to total technological collapse. I don't think we'll ever truly know how advanced Native American culture was before we unwittingly unleashed an apocalyptic-scale plague on them, our only image of their culture is what was left after their world collapsed.
What a brilliant idea. What next, Eskimo gear?
Europeans walked from Africa into Europe so.... They are Africans?
Yet we have many different European types of gear.
What a brilliant idea. What next, Eskimo gear?I assumed that was implied with "Native American".
They should add native american gears, if someone makes the models.
NOT aztec or 19th century navajo or anything...those are too late period.
Vikings DID come into contact with native americans. They called them "skraelings."
They were of the Inuit and Beothuk peoples, among others. This was during the early medieval period. Vikings had colonies in Greenland, Newfoundland, and even Maine. Greenland Vikings got their asses kicked so bad when they tried to establish a camp in "Vinland" (Newfoundland, more or less) that they only remained there about one year (or less, I don't remember exactly). They also had very bad relations with the Inuits who probably had a role in the Greenland Norse collapse, at least because the Norse didn't adapt to Greenland using Inuit techniques.
If medieval knights can fight samarai in this game by association (knights fought arabs who fought mongols who fought samarai)...then we should also have native americans by association.
It would be cool.
The Beothuk of Newfoundland:(click to show/hide)
In any case it wouldn't be very interesting or balanced. Inuits did not use metals, and most Native peoples used mostly spears and bows when europeans had plate. The Greenland Norse were outgunned by the Inuit and Beothuk because Viking society and military power relied on iron, yet the Greenland Norse had no more metal than Inuits, except the little they got from european imports.
They should add native american gears, if someone makes the models.
NOT aztec or 19th century navajo or anything...those are too late period.
Vikings DID come into contact with native americans. They called them "skraelings."
They were of the Inuit and Beothuk peoples, among others. This was during the early medieval period. Vikings had colonies in Greenland, Newfoundland, and even Maine.
If medieval knights can fight samarai in this game by association (knights fought arabs who fought mongols who fought samarai)...then we should also have native americans by association.
It would be cool.
The Beothuk of Newfoundland:(click to show/hide)
Wait, what?
'NOT aztec or 19th century navajo or anything...those are too late period.'
But we already have conquistador helmets->Morion from renaissance era.
Ok, Morion was used as early as the middle 16th century (so we'll say 1550.)from wikipedia:
Aztecs weren't encountered until the mid 1600's. I think 1600 is the cutoff, but I'm not certain.
from wikipedia:
The Aztec /ˈæztɛk/[1] people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to 16th centuries.
No European, Asian, or Middle Eastern cultures (the ones currently in the game) had contact with these people until the middle 1600's, hence it makes no sense to put them in the game. They were too late to come to the party.just give them run
European people DID have contact with Inuit and Beothuk people during the middle ages, so it it does make sense to put them in.
Gosh people, get it together.
Have the devs ever explained why this is so? We could have some cool diversity with the hairstyles, weapons, and garb the natives used during the medieval period. It's clear that the Natives had frequent contact with many European nations during these times as well. So why not add some Stone hatchets, primitive blunt clubs, and crude antler bows?Plot twist, remove Asian gear to compensate the absence of Native American gear !
Plot twist, remove Asian gear to compensate the absence of Native American gear !
Plot twist, remove Asian gear to compensate the absence of Native American gear !
They should add native american gears, if someone makes the models.And why not aztecs but the natives you are used to watch in those movies in the end of the 19 century?....
NOT aztec or 19th century navajo or anything...those are too late period.
Vikings DID come into contact with native americans. They called them "skraelings."
They were of the Inuit and Beothuk peoples, among others. This was during the early medieval period. Vikings had colonies in Greenland, Newfoundland, and even Maine.
If medieval knights can fight samarai in this game by association (knights fought arabs who fought mongols who fought samarai)...then we should also have native americans by association.
It would be cool.
The Beothuk of Newfoundland:(click to show/hide)