Re: Upcoming Battlefield editions ideas
by ivrognardOriginal Post
Sengoku for me
Just imagine the time of the Japan unification and all those duels that happened on the battlefield. Or maybe something set in the Three Kingdoms setting. The macedonian conquest also seems cool to me.
So you like the samurai way of battle. Well, so do I. For lord, honor and duty, otogani ni rei!
Actually, it's just a convention that we, the players. invented.
The series is called Battlefield and because of that it can use whatever setting it wants. From the dawn of humanity until the future, as long as there is a combat, any battlefield can be used in the series.
Did anyone expected the popularity of the Battlefield 1? A game that has an unusual setting, to say the least, and a very underused one. I
Speaking about Napoleonic armies, I can equal assault with the charges of the dragoons, engineers existed at the time, too, support can equal with the grenadiers (the french had grenadiers regiments and the british had those, too, the grenadiers being considered elite troops at the time) and recon with the marksmen squads that existed even at the time (actually the marksmen existed since time immemorial and scouts were employed by armies since the ancient wars). The roles in Battlefield weren't invented in the modern times. They've existed in various forms since the dawn of the ancient history. I could probably take any era and find the equivalents for those roles.
I would love to see EA experimenting with various settings. I mean, who expected for For Honor to become popular?! Or Chivalry?! Would be interesting to see a Battlefield set in the Korean War, the american war between the North and South, the 100 years wars and so on. The series has more potential than modern warfare. A properly made game in an ancient setting can prove fun.
P.S.: a marksman was called the archer, the crssobowman, the arquebusier, the musketeer and anyone that could shoot a long-range weapon with great accuracy.
P.P.S: @IIPrest0nII hope i did not come as a raving madman. I can get very passionate about games and history
Will leave this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvU8LaE0-xw
And even more fitting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zSowOS4Wyg
@DarkBanishing I love japanese history. It was a tumultous one and the warriors played an important role since ancient times. It's full of contrasts. There was honor and duty, yes. But the most successful daimyo in the Sengoku era were the ones that gave up on those. People like Oda Nobunaga, like Toyotomi Hideyoshi and like Tokugawa Ieyasu. Those people won their battles using all the advantages that they could muster: firearms, cannons, ambushes, terror, diplomacy, politics. Most of them weren't great warriors like Takeda or Uesugi or Mitsuhide or Date. But all were great generals, ready to drop the whole honor/duty code to win their wars.
Definitely Sengoku was an interesting era. Shame that Hideyoshi and Tokugawa did not continue Nobunaga's politics: religious freedom (Nobunaga allowed christian missionaries in his territories, supported buddhism, but also the local religion, too), free trade, advancing in ranks people for their merits (Hideyoshi was the son of a peasant and not part of nobility or of the samurai class and was advanced in rank as a general for his actions), supporting culture, new technolgies and tactics. Nobunaga was vilified for his unorthodox tactics and actions for centuries, though recently i've noticed a certain current that might end up in acknowledging the man's merits and faults in a more accurate manner.
A good introduction reading about the samurai is The Samurai: A New History of the Warrior Elite by Jonathan Clements (the man is not an actual historian, but he definitely did his homeworks, his book being published in "A brief history of" book series). The book covers the ancient times up to the Satsuma Rebellion and also has included a wealth of sources to go to after this intro book.
Probably could go on, but i am afraid that i might bore to death people on the boards
Hey @ivrognard, I'm still alive after reading your post. Lol 
Nice to hear other passionate history lovers on the forum. My favourite eras are the ancient and medieval one. I also like the history of the great wars.
To be honest, i would love to have more access to various countries history. Especially from the likes of South America, Asia and Africa. World's history is fascinating (my opinion) and deserves to be better known.
I certainly can understand the appeal of the ancient Greece or Roman Empire, the medieval wars and the chivalry tales. But, i am more interested about the history as a whole. I like to see the history from all the possible angles: economy, society, culture and so on. After all, the history covers a lot of other domains and is using them to better understanding of a certain era.
Yeah...ranting again. Maybe because i meet less and less people interested in my hobby
