I occassionally work on building a low-fantasy world with multiple military systems across different nations (organized standing imperial legions, feudal levies, mercenary-based city states, barbarian warrior tribes etc.) for a solo game for myself. This was very helpful, thank you.
I'm doing a militar fantasy novel were humanity faces superhuman crystal monsters and the aesthetics, devices and equippments are based around that. For example, instead of swords, the militia used against the crystal monsters are armed with hammers, that, although don't break the monster, they use it to toss it off since the monsters are almost weightless. Or, in matter of Shields, they use a common design made to connect between them to form barricades and are recovered in brea against the monsters lava spits.
Would be cool to see a fantasy world with orcs as heavy shock infantry, dwarfs as artillery crew, elfs as archers and wizards, centaurs as light cavalry raiders, humans as heavy shock cavalry, goblins as light infantry and so on, fighting under 1 flag with politics more driven more by ideals etc instead of seperated by races as it usually portrayed
You gave me an idea well I have something like this in a story I’ve been working for a while it’s a multi media project so hopefully when in donenwith book one I can show you some artwork and the story
0:41 never underestimate the rule of cool. This isn't a joke there are entire series spanning decades that are still talked about and loved which only depend on the rule of cool.
I don't know which ones you talk about but those that i know usually do something with the "rule of cool" and integrate it into the world - WH40k is a great example of that, without it's lore it wouldn't be as popular as it is today.
@@lordtea7688 Idk man, I don't think that a chapter of Space Wolves should win against inquisitors and go unpunished OR have a chapter of blue smurfs that win every engagement ever and have us believe that, apparently, humanity is on its last legs. There's actually a lot of examples of how 40k lore goes against how their universe is supposed to work or how the narrative that it tries to sell is not compatible with the stories that is written all for the sake of rule of cool. And it kind of works since WH40k is more popular than AOS or fantasy, no matter how much I think that is undeserved.
@@lordtea7688 Idk whats your definition of knowing much but there are a lot of internal inconsistency within warhammer lore, that much is a fact, its a consequence of having dozens of writers with different ideas of what the setting is about First numbers in 40k makes absolutely 0 sense whatsoever most of the time that they are explicitly cited by writers (seriously? A hive world with a military force of… 50k peoples, for a world of dozens of billions?) Outside of this, written lore is constantly being overwritten by stuff covering the same subject with different claims
I like your videos about worldbuilding and this one is honest and useful as usual. In an old D&D supplement (Martial 3.5) it is said that the more magic there is the more modern warfare is. And it is true - magic in war is just tech. But this leaves 3 important questions - how the wielders become wielders : such a power turns its wielders crazy and undisiciplined if they are not socially hold tight, like magicians in Warhammer Fantasy’s Empire. See skaven magic, see even Saruman - how the soldiers cope with highly murderous wars : it needs a lot of (hope of) prosperity, ideology and patriotism to make a WWI soldier. Bet the bannerman of a little baron runs away quite quickly in front of a Nazgul fell beast-like. To make them fight a dragon, you would need magic pervitin or captagon. And don’t ask what they’ll do when the fight is over huh. They did not need that to make fuss in the beginning… - how the environment will cope. Magic is usually like power under the form of a hidden web or currents. When you use it, it can destroy or alter environment. Past a certain display of power, it will have nuclear consequences. Sure their wielders won’t get popular in the area !
Funny enough, I'm casually writing 3 stories right now with one, a short story, that I've spent more time thinking how the military works than I have the general society.
Add in logistics and here is what you get : Writer : "I want to take a T rex army to invade a continent just like in in Warhammer" Reader: "how can a large lizard at the sea not eat the whole dam crew during the trip?" Writer: "mars bars they eat mars bars" I mean it might just work :D
Oh, don't even get me started. I introduced magic to the world I was building. I started to work through what this would mean. For example, water, simple right... NO, NO, IT IS NOT. Let's not even talk about the civil sector, this being an army video, and all. I wouldn't even get to the combat application of water magic. But do you know what it does to logictics. You mention dessert attrition. Well, with water magic, it became far less hazardous. Still, you probably don't wanna go through the desert. it's not pleasant and has other problems. To keep my sanity, I decided that magic water doesn't taste great, giving the soldiers a reason to look for natural occurring water.
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I occassionally work on building a low-fantasy world with multiple military systems across different nations (organized standing imperial legions, feudal levies, mercenary-based city states, barbarian warrior tribes etc.) for a solo game for myself. This was very helpful, thank you.
I'm doing a militar fantasy novel were humanity faces superhuman crystal monsters and the aesthetics, devices and equippments are based around that. For example, instead of swords, the militia used against the crystal monsters are armed with hammers, that, although don't break the monster, they use it to toss it off since the monsters are almost weightless. Or, in matter of Shields, they use a common design made to connect between them to form barricades and are recovered in brea against the monsters lava spits.
Would be cool to see a fantasy world with orcs as heavy shock infantry, dwarfs as artillery crew, elfs as archers and wizards, centaurs as light cavalry raiders, humans as heavy shock cavalry, goblins as light infantry and so on, fighting under 1 flag with politics more driven more by ideals etc instead of seperated by races as it usually portrayed
You gave me an idea well I have something like this in a story I’ve been working for a while it’s a multi media project so hopefully when in donenwith book one I can show you some artwork and the story
I belive the video game "Myth" did something like that.
0:41 never underestimate the rule of cool. This isn't a joke there are entire series spanning decades that are still talked about and loved which only depend on the rule of cool.
I don't know which ones you talk about but those that i know usually do something with the "rule of cool" and integrate it into the world - WH40k is a great example of that, without it's lore it wouldn't be as popular as it is today.
@@lordtea7688 Tbh 40k's lore is often nonsensical, making no logistical sense whatsoever.
@@KalashVodka175 So you don't really know much about the lore then.
@@lordtea7688 Idk man, I don't think that a chapter of Space Wolves should win against inquisitors and go unpunished OR have a chapter of blue smurfs that win every engagement ever and have us believe that, apparently, humanity is on its last legs.
There's actually a lot of examples of how 40k lore goes against how their universe is supposed to work or how the narrative that it tries to sell is not compatible with the stories that is written all for the sake of rule of cool. And it kind of works since WH40k is more popular than AOS or fantasy, no matter how much I think that is undeserved.
@@lordtea7688
Idk whats your definition of knowing much but there are a lot of internal inconsistency within warhammer lore, that much is a fact, its a consequence of having dozens of writers with different ideas of what the setting is about
First numbers in 40k makes absolutely 0 sense whatsoever most of the time that they are explicitly cited by writers (seriously? A hive world with a military force of… 50k peoples, for a world of dozens of billions?)
Outside of this, written lore is constantly being overwritten by stuff covering the same subject with different claims
I like your videos about worldbuilding and this one is honest and useful as usual. In an old D&D supplement (Martial 3.5) it is said that the more magic there is the more modern warfare is. And it is true - magic in war is just tech. But this leaves 3 important questions
- how the wielders become wielders : such a power turns its wielders crazy and undisiciplined if they are not socially hold tight, like magicians in Warhammer Fantasy’s Empire. See skaven magic, see even Saruman
- how the soldiers cope with highly murderous wars : it needs a lot of (hope of) prosperity, ideology and patriotism to make a WWI soldier. Bet the bannerman of a little baron runs away quite quickly in front of a Nazgul fell beast-like. To make them fight a dragon, you would need magic pervitin or captagon. And don’t ask what they’ll do when the fight is over huh. They did not need that to make fuss in the beginning…
- how the environment will cope. Magic is usually like power under the form of a hidden web or currents. When you use it, it can destroy or alter environment. Past a certain display of power, it will have nuclear consequences. Sure their wielders won’t get popular in the area !
Funny enough, I'm casually writing 3 stories right now with one, a short story, that I've spent more time thinking how the military works than I have the general society.
for me its pike n shot with some mid fantasy sparkled on it. also props for featuring gothic
I hear Gothic music, I hit like, simple as
Add in logistics and here is what you get :
Writer : "I want to take a T rex army to invade a continent just like in in Warhammer"
Reader: "how can a large lizard at the sea not eat the whole dam crew during the trip?"
Writer: "mars bars they eat mars bars"
I mean it might just work :D
Oh, don't even get me started. I introduced magic to the world I was building. I started to work through what this would mean. For example, water, simple right... NO, NO, IT IS NOT. Let's not even talk about the civil sector, this being an army video, and all. I wouldn't even get to the combat application of water magic. But do you know what it does to logictics. You mention dessert attrition. Well, with water magic, it became far less hazardous. Still, you probably don't wanna go through the desert. it's not pleasant and has other problems.
To keep my sanity, I decided that magic water doesn't taste great, giving the soldiers a reason to look for natural occurring water.
Then what is game of thrones exactly because is realistic in the same time but is also have you magic so how do you describe it
Low Fantasy, some fantastical elements but mostly grounded.