Global War (Tech)

WE SHALL SUCCED

Idea about people and nations! * steals the dramatic music and anime background from Von Bismarck jr *

This is... a spilt choice for technology tree! I forgot where you Bismarck came up with a list of different peoples (can't find it anywhere now). It went something like Latin (roman), latin (french), latin (spainish) etc...

A thought about Germania and the early Frankish empire. It had spilt up into three factions. West Franks, East Franks, and Burgundy (not EU4, this one is a more early Burgundy actually). West Franks evolved into using a more Latin-based language and became today France. The East Franks remained the true Germanic Franks. Burgundy was trapped between the west and east, eventually chopped up into pieces and absorbed by the west and east, but not before expanding and nearly became the precursor to the Holy Roman Empire before disappearing. East Franks later however continued splitered into tiny kingdoms in the mountainous Germany.

So the idea here is... what if at the time of historical times where a group would spilt off, the tech tree offers a choice to spilt into a more specific name but still uses the same cultural group.

Back to the Franks, why not allow at the end of the Ancient times, a choice to become French (means you switch to the Latin group - or same as Roman, but don't get benefits of being Romans themselves), Teutons (gives access to Teutonic Knights), Goths (gives a bonus in military or combat, something like that), Maybe one Germanic spilt choice for agricultural preference (bonus for population or production).

Latin or Roman spilt to Italians (keep Roman bonus), Spanish (gets a naval bonus instead)

And so forth... you could even have a spilt in the ancient times for picking the difference between Greek or Roman.

Babylonians or Assyrians or Persians for Arabic cultural group.

Natives could choose to be Sioux, Cherokee, Iroquois, or Azetc with different bonuses or access to different cultural heritage, or even access to special actions like sacrifice slaves to Azetc gods.

Understandable, I think the GWs in general should offer a choice that real life people faced, so they might actually follow history or might choose something that is alternative history!

So in GWII, the cultural groups should be limited to say.. 5 or 6 with broad categorization but can be offered a spilt into more specialized niches within the same cultural group (or even migrate into a different cultural heritage)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrous_metallurgy
^ Links provided for reference for game designing.

I noticed that Iron working was put in the medieval era, that's a gross misunderstanding. Yes, they developed a better forge around that time, but the art of iron working predates far before that. The Ancient times was divided into three periods based on the materials used: Stone age, Bronze age, and Iron age. The iron age part is basically the high period of Greek/Macedonian warfare, Roman legions and so forth. Largely of what people think of "ancient times" is essentially only the iron age part.

Here's my proposal - add those phases of metalworking to the Germanic tech tree. You already have Bronze Working unlocking the Swordsmen. Great. What about basic metalworking techniques? It could be added to the tribal tech trees for all cultures.

(for Germanic)Basic Metalworking - 20 PP to research, require Community

Civilization - 70 PP to research (raised +10), add prerequisite Basic Metalworking to its requirements Tribal Law and Rally Points

The phrase iron working definitely needs to be bumped back into the ancient tech tree instead of where it is now. Tech - "Iron Working" can be changed to "Blacksmith Recruiting" (or whatever you call it).

Blacksmithing Recruiting- 60 PP, unlocks the Blacksmith Shop, when built in a city, adds +5 to city production. Blacksmith Shop cost # of PP to construct per city. (No idea what you think is fair here # -> 20?)

Back to thr Anicent times... maybe change "Swords" to "Bronze Axes" for clarification? And nerf the Sword bonus from +2 to +1? I'm not sure if that makes things too frustrating for the players trying to improve the BP of their military... The Latin tree should have a stronger effect in upgrading than the Germanic barbarians, but weaker in the Medieval era until the Renaissance. I would think it's easier to sort things out if you call the German Swordsmen -> Axemen and keep the term Swordsmen to the Latin cultural group or something.

The whole post here refers to the German tech tree, I haven't seen the Latin tree.

A new tech called "Iron Working" and put in the Ancient Era for Germans.

Iron Working - 40 PP to research, prerequisite Bronze Working, unlocks the Iron technology for military.

Iron Axes - 70 PP to research, prerequisites Bronze Axes and Iron Working. Gives another +1 on top of the Bronze Axes bonus +1 (Bronze Axes were nerfed down to +1).

Hordes - 100 PP to research (unchanged), change prerequisite from Swords to Iron Axes, still require Formations

Brutality - 55 PP (decrease -5), require Hordes, adds a +2 for the Horde's bonus points on rolls. (3+2 now)

I think my suggestions does adds to the barbaric personality to the Germanic barbarians: the axes thing, a slight better bonus for the horde. Now the Romans are scared of the Hordes plus whatever Iron Axes are around in the flanks too. It takes more work for Germans to research up to the part of getting the Hordes now with the added techs.

German Medieval Era needs to have a tech for Feudalism, Noblity, and Serfdom.

Serfdom would allow the farmlands to be farmed more, but brings negative bonus to cities due to poor conditions.
Loyality, Noblity, and Serfdom required for the Fedualism to work. Then Fedualism unlocks Chivalry.

"Iron Swords" change to "Iron Pikes"
Forge Mastery
Steel
Steel Swords

My suggested Medieval era for Germanic Cultural Group:
Blacksmith Recruiting requires 60 PP to research. Unlocks Blacksmith Shop.
Serfdom 100 PP to research, gives +5 to regions but -10 to each city.
Militia requires 70 pp, Blacksmith Recruiting and allows you to train Men-at-Arms which add nothing to die rolls but cost only 10 pp to train.
Loyalty requires 70 pp and adds +1 to All Medieval units' die rolls
Iron Pikes requires Militia, and Loyalty. Adds +1 to Man-at-Arms die rolls.
Forge Mastery requires 50 pp to research, Iron Pikes. Adds +5 boost pp to each Blacksmith Shop.
Noblity 40 PP to research, require Serfdom and Loyalty, gives you a Lord.
Fedualism 110 PP to research, require Noblity, unlocks the Fedualism govt for your civilization.
Chivalry requires 100 pp to research, forge mastery, loyalty, and feudalism. Allows you to train Knights which cost 50 pp to train and adds +4 to die rolls


Phew! That's a lot of typing and editing on the phone!

I forgot about the Steel technology, you could incorporate those techs, adding to the rolls for Men-at-Arms and Knights.

Idk what the Romans' tech tree look like, but I would be happy to help you with it.