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UndyingNephalim β Labrynna Regime - Guide Excerpt
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Published: 2016-10-03 03:30:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 9620; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 903
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Download the PDF to check it out.An excerpt from a player's guide I've been writing for Hyrule: Total War, this bit focusing on Labrynna and their steampunk empire of doom.
The fonts, layouts, and appearance of the guide is heavily inspired (nay, outright based entirely on) the Official Nintendo Player's Guide for Ocarina of Time: zeldauniverse.net/wp-content/uβ¦
The cover of that guide was the very first image I ever saw of anything Zelda related, and pretty much was my entry into the series. That guide itself is pretty unique as well: instead of telling players exactly what to do it was written as a Historical document, chock full of chronology and lore (I know, something extremely rare in the series these days). As such I've modeled my guide in a similar manner: avoiding dumping numbers and statistics on players except where necessary and treating the volume as a historical document.
Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress. Some of the technical aspects (such as Rupee costs) are prone to change as the game is balanced over time. Some features may be removed or have not been fully added in yet as well. Let me know what you guys think, and stay tuned for the other factions to show up!
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Hmm, I would have thought that a unit of spear-wall style Pikemen would have complimented the Labrynna doctrine of gunnery quite nicely, not to mention fitting in with the renaissance-style shift towards professional armies that Labrynna seems to be in the middle of.Β
The steam-tank was a nice touch though. Loved them in Call of Warhammer, although they killed my economy almost as fast as they killed the enemy. The bear cavalry is another awesome addition.
All in all, my biggest regret is that my cryo-chamber is not working properly, so I can't freeze myself in order to make the time to update pass by faster.
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Why use professionnal spearmen to stop charges when you have slave to do this ?
Honestly, I think that bear cavalry is one of the best cavalry of the game ^^
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Very interesting faction. I like Ralph ! I hope he will have an important role in hyrule historia.
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Would Auru from Twilight Princess be potentially of Labrynnian descent? In the main games, he's described as being a tutor to Zelda (which is somewhat similar to the Professors here) and utilized a weapon not unlike a bazooka, which would seem to be a more heavy-duty version of what we see the Hand Cannoneers using here.
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His weaponry definitely has its origins in Labrynna, though he probably is a Hylian in blood. Without spoiling too much a lot of Labrynna's tech falls into the hands of Hyrule as it begins to spread across the Great Sea.
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Is the helmet the only form of worn protection that the light infantry have? I used to think that the yellow piece on their chest was some sort of cuirass until a closer look into the first page showed me that it was just part of their clothing.
Is the uniform padded? I researched a while back on various armors as well as how the Conquistadors managed to conquer the Americas, turns out that chain mail, padded leather/cloth, and gambesons were actually more protective than pop culture depict them as, and the spaniards resorted to wearing layers of padded cloth to keep themselves cool while still protected from aztec and mayan weapons. Is the same applied here?
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Yes Labrynna has padded outfits, their armor is not particularly heavy other than their knights. Their reasoning is probably similar to a lot of post colonial era armies, where they felt gunpowder was so superior that they'd not have much in the way of melee aggressors. That and they'd just fall back and let their knights take the brunt of attacks.
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If colonials really did think that way, then they were pretty short-sighted (irony) to neglect that their guns had a pretty long reload time.
I just remembered that you're going to implement education in the game which speeds up discoveries of new technologies. Will you also implement a tech-tree system like in Total War: Warhammer that unlocks permanent buffs for units and cities such as faster recruitment and replenishment rate or more armor and damage? or is that too much work?
fun fact, one of the medieval enthusiasts I've been watching says that a knight's complete gear (his regular clothes, then the gambison, then chainmail, then plate and helmet) isn't that heavy and the weight is evenly distributed throughout the body. The Darknuts, on the other hand, must be incredibly strong to lift all their gear (either that or their stuff is lighter than it looks) but how they manage to walk around all day underneath the hot sun in the middle of a desert wearing it is beyond me.Β
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Say, did you model some of their architecture off of The Ruined Mansion temple from Twilight Princess? Cause the schools and prison buildings look just like it to me
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Their architecture is not based off the Manor from TP, mostly just post renaissance era universities and colleges.
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I felt something was wrong with the muskets but I could not figure it out until I look a normal Medieval's guns, They are way too short. I do know it it is the way they hold them or the length but they look like large pistols instead of muskets.
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I saw a video of them in action and they really are that short. But they're not muskets they're rifles, so I guess their range and accuracy can be from the rifling rather than the barrel length.
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Your tendency to turn something one note in the saga of the legend of Zelda into something with actual substance keeps being as impressive as ever.
You have turned a faction that was a copy-paste of hyrule into something unique.
You have turned a link wannabe into a really interesting character.
You seem to put more effort in making a good story that some nintendo writers do, and this guides, wheter one likes the changes from the original material or not, show it perfectly.
May I ask, coud Lanayru province be next? It is one of the most plot heavy factions in the current state of the game, and i would love to know more about it. Whether is the case or not, the qualyty of those guides definetly make up for the wait.
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I will do Lanayru Province right after the Fairies, which are in the middle of being made at the moment.
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There was nothing wrong with Labrynna at all in Oracle of Ages.Β
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Of course there wasn't-- but most Zelda games do emphasize gameplay more than story, really. And it's not like Neph took a running theme hinted at in the games and embellished on it. As far as I'm aware there really wasn't that much to base a steampunk more modern Labrynna off of. It's just imagination and creativity.
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Exactly, it's an amazing way to make the Labrynna province just as unique as any other HTW faction, but I think the original Labrynna wasn't a copy-paste of Hyrule.
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i see someone plundered certain bits of warhammer loreXD,anyways great work here, also BEAR CAVALGARY!!!! plus the Maku tree is truly an errie thing, they literally turned a magic/spuerstition being into an unholly amalgam of brass and wood
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Warhammer is awesome.
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Real made well guide once again, but you misspeled sergeant.
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Man, I think you did good makingΒ Oracle of Ages'sΒ Labrynna intoΒ Total War.
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Flat earth atheist slave driver imperialists are fucking awesome foils to the rest of the races that populate Hyrule.
Amazing work!
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how is the world are the flat earthers? They are extremely pro-knowledge and understanding. They are also not completely evil, they have public education, high social mobility (for non-slaves), cheap food for everyone, some of the best medicine and doctors in the world, have civilized prisons, and most likely more goods open to the common people. Let us not forget the the KoH is just as imperialist in their own zealot way, and that Ordiona uses slave labor in the form of serfs.
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"Flat earth atheist" doesn't mean they believe in a flat earth, it means they're atheists and take a rational positivist scientific approach in a fantasy world where magic and gods actually do exist.
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.phpβ¦
And none of anything I said was meant to paint the Lybrynnans as "evil." The only thing "evil" about them is that their Queen is being manipulated by an unseen force
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I love the inspiration of Conquistadors and European Imperialism meshed with Industrialization. Also love me some good steampunk. So with their views on atheism andΒ quashing ideas of superstition, how does Labrynna react to actual deities and supernatural forces that physically exist in this world? XD
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I'd imagine Labrynna tries to rationalism or naturalize the deity figures, or just trivialize them as forces of nature. There's not exactly anything wrong from taking that approach I think, though the problem arrives in the arrogance of assuming their brains are even capable of rationalizing some of the supernatural elements at play.Β
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That'd make enough sense, and it would certainly play into the arrogance of their imperialistic attitude, trivializing and demeaning anything they don't like and don't want to think about.
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They know full well of their existence. They are taught that everything supernatural is actually rooted in undiscovered laws of reality and phenomenons. They believe that all mystical creatures are just natural animals created from evolution and that wizards are using scientifically grounded biological abilities born from either the development of specialized organs, genetic structure, or mental manipulation of matter that they pass it off as magic as they have little understanding of their own abilities. They also view deities to be ancient aliens with incredibly advanced tech and specialized anatomy. Β I don't know what they think of ghosts. They either don't believe they exist, or that they are a naturally occurring phenomenon like an echo of a person whose consciousness left a psychic imprint on the world, basically the real person has died and mental capacities have somehow projected themselves into the world, probably these ghosts come from wizards whose psychokinetic abilities have created an amalgamation of different memories and aspects of the deceased's personality, essentially a talking shadow.
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