Talk:Italians/@comment-177.124.57.35-20151007173129/@comment-24444169-20151008071619

I agree very much. I'd stated my concerns about this before - but why would the developers game. Haven't they always said the game was totally unhistorical and meant for fun only?

Not justifying them, I'm quite interested in the medieval scenario of the northern part of the italian peninsula; and seeing that this completely bogus civilisation was added shook me a bit.

Sicilians had very different architecture, culture, and thus even troop types compared to other 'italian' cities in the centre or the north. I'm not saying they all had totally different armies, the basic levies were likely armed with the same poor equipment of generic italic manufacture; the regional differences I'm mentioning were relatively small but everybody knows the cavalry, archery and even the swordfighting were different between say Lombardy and Sicily. Given the vicinity and political affinity with the HRE, for instance, I'm totally sure the influence from the german swordmanship schools was huge over the whole north - whereas norman and moor stuff was likely common in the extreme south like Calabria and the aforementioned Sicily.