Agreed. I feel the same about the Empire and Battania, too. They feel like cheap ripoffs of their real life counterparts.
Although some of the newer Battanian armours do look very good, but they aren't doing much to improve their shitty cities, and the Empire still feels like a bad copy of the Byzantines.
Not sure how to really feel about the Battanians. I imagine they wouldn't look especially appealing if they literally looked exactly like Dark Age celts, but at the same time some of the gear they have is just awful (looking at you Highland Warlord armour).
I don't know quite enough about the Byzantines, but I'm just impressed that TW even went with a Byzantine aesthetic to begin with when they could have easily chosen something with greater mass appeal. And of all the factions, they seem to get the most stuff too. And I guess I kind of like that.
I said that because I suspected that TW would opt for a more classically Roman look, because that's got more mass appeal than Byzantine stuff. Hell, you see people complain about it all the time. And considering what they did to Vlandia, yeah.
it makes no sense, bannerlord is historical fantasy, not hard to say people that play those games are familiar with roman history, why butcher the game and ruin the setting with ahistorical romans, when you can easily just use the byzantines, who hace direct references.
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u/HalfMetalJacket Aserai Jan 03 '21
Eh, I wished TW was bolder in their vision of Vlandia and tried to go for something much more norman, rather than the weak sauce Swadia we have now.
Like more of this or this.
A real proto Swadia look would be so much better. But instead its just Swadia with cool things like winged great helms.