Female Dominated Sarmatia?

[Eöl]

Basically it seems that it's impossible to have female military commanders in their armies is this going to be fixed?

 

[Laffertytig]

ok 2 points,

1 - i dont recall readin about to many sarmatian led armies in history.

2 - im playin as the bosporan kingdom right now and there are certainly female characters that i can choose if i so wish, can imagine why sarmatia would be any different

 

[Battlecry]

Since when can women be generals ingame? As I recall, they can't be generals period, and if they're married they can't be governors either, while they can still hold tech jobs.

 

[Eöl]

Since when can women be generals ingame? As I recall, they can't be generals period, and if they're married they can't be governors either, while they can still hold tech jobs.

Which doesn't make any sense in Sarmatia:
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/sarmatian.shtml

 

[TheLand]

Which doesn't make any sense in Sarmatia:
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/sarmatian.shtml

Perhaps not. Nothing can be done about it, though... except maybe define Sarmatian as its own culture_group and define male pictures and names for female gender and vice versa.

 

[Laffertytig]

hehe thought that might have drawn a reaction yeah your right enough, u cant select female generals my mistake, i was thinkin about governers and magistrates.

but where on that link that was posted does it state there there were female generals? the only one ive heard of was queen boudica who lead a british tribe against the romans. it alll depends if u want realism or fantasy i guess

 

[Battlecry]

I think he's basing it on this line:

"Burial of armed Sarmatian women comprise large percent of the military burial in the group occupy the central position and appear the be the richest."

Despite the poor grammar (which makes me question the source...) this seems to indicate that the female warriors held a certain prestige over their male counterparts, although it gives no indication of their actual rank among the living. I think evidence concerning actual female "generals" is lacking.

 

[Eöl]

I think he's basing it on this line:


Despite the poor grammar (which makes me question the source...) this seems to indicate that the female warriors held a certain prestige over their male counterparts, although it gives no indication of their actual rank among the living. I think evidence concerning actual female "generals" is lacking.

Ok here's a list of sites
Quite a few of them list their sources.
Given the amount of evidence it would seem unlikely that they wouldn't have played some sort of highly important role within the Sarmatian military especially given the equipment buried with them was in fact better than the men’s. Of cause this could be just ritualistic paraphernalia but what written documentation does seem to suggest a "women ruled society" at the very least.

 

[Laffertytig]

the lack of female generals seems to be upsettin u somewhat. if your gonna have sarmatian female leaders then i guess every country is gonna have to have them and thats when the game starts to get ridiculous.

throughout the history of warfare right up to the present day armies have been led my men. thats not to say women havent fought alongside men of course they have but they havent been the leaders of armies. thats not to say that wont change in the future but then thats hypothetical.

 

[benkern]

the lack of female generals seems to be upsettin u somewhat. if your gonna have sarmatian female leaders then i guess every country is gonna have to have them and thats when the game starts to get ridiculous..

No, that's a bit of a jump. He says the Samartians were special. They were all Amazoness-ey and had female warriors and possibly military commanders. Hence this should be reflected in EU:Rome. No one has proposed female leaders for any other country.

If you want to see that implemented in the game, I suggest you follow the advice of "TheLand" (nice name ) and mod it in there yourself.

 

[Laffertytig]

nah i like to see dudes leadin my amies, it just feels more in line with history u know what i mean

i dont know much about modding but id reckon it would be unlikely that only 1 nation could be modded to allow women generals.

 

[Sute]{h]

It would be nice if we could have the option to allow female leaders in the country files. That way we could choose to allow them or not based on the country in question.