: Myth looks just like any other medival society on the
: surface, but it isn't.
: There are several differences.
: Myth society ( before the great wars) was ruled by the
: emperor, he was the leader of the entire
: human world east of the cloudspines, he also proerly
: claimed to be the rigthfull ruler of the west or
: at least the south west.
: The emperor in Myth is a very strong ruler, The Cath
: Bruig was properply a terrible centralized
: country with all power concentrated in Muirthmne.
: The Army was under complet imperial authority( unlike
: mediaval europe, were the kings would have
: to rent soldiers everytime they went to war)
: The nobels had a minnimum of power, they weren't allowed
: to have slaves and the emperor
: properply checked if anyone was living like slaves.
: Also in Myth the cities a very very very big, especially
: in the west were the cities because a past as
: city states was equally important, in the east the power
: was more centralized but still Myth is very
: urbanized.
: A very signifcant difference between the Myth and the
: real world is that Myth armies dosn't fight
: medival stylewith alot of horses, and badly equiped
: footmen, The myth army are fighting in heavily
: diciplined formation, more like a roman style, Actuely
: the whole society seems like a roman style society,
: with great cities and such.
: they have just putted a medival skin over it.
: I know that Gurps claims that Alric dosn't like horses
: because h was some leveller before. But as some of you
: may have noticed i am not so naive that i support
: every dum thing that Gurps claims.
: I haven't seen one evidence that horses have ever been
: used in myth, have you.
: The only horses i have seen ithe one dragging the wagons
: with dead people to Keep kildaer, and they are working
: horses not fighting and riding horses.
: And if you then look at roman society then you would see
: that they didn't use horses very much and the cavalery
: they had was not high quality.
: I think that if there is horses in myth they are propeply
: something that only babarians and people from Gower
: would use, while the "civilized countries
: wouldn't use that kind of babarius weapons"
: Thats all for new
Old no response that I can tell thread...
Some comments:
1) The Cath Bruig Empire is like the Byzantine Empire... only it's going up rather then down.
2) the Byzantinian (Byzantine Empire) army was a standing army, like the Legions in Myth seem to be.
3)Just because in the real middle ages horsemen were very popular does not make the footmen myth armies unmedievil... horsemen are expensive.
4) Large cities?
So? The real middle ages had some decent sized cities and there are not even half a score (a score is 20) "large" cities that we see...
Madrigal, Muirthemne, Tyr, Covenant, Scales, Tandem
(all I can think of the top of my head.)
6) The roman cavalry was low quality? that's news to me, because the cataphracts of the Byzantine Empire were quite good cavalry
I know it's unlikely anyone will do anything with this post but I would like to know if anyone else thinks myth is not prefectly medievil.
Seraph
