Russ Isaia
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What I see is poverty, malnutrition and disease. These are the villages of former serfs I'll wager, "sold" their freedom by Czar Alexander, with just enough land to raise vegetables and enough grain to maintain themselves, the few children who survived the first weeks of life, and some pigs or a cow. Remember, the great revolution is just 30 or so years back from WWII.
BTW, those look to be not log houses but houses of log trimmings: the first mill cut to square up logs. All the great lord would grant the serfs with which build their homes and barns.
But to get back to the game, I think the fields "out back" needs to be 2-3 hexes in depth to give that "put some fire on those houses and everyone else charge!" feel. And we need a new terrain type: the "denuded woods," to represent woodlands just above scrubland resulting from centuries of stripping the forests of every burnable scrap. Woods with no airburst effect for mortars?
BTW, those look to be not log houses but houses of log trimmings: the first mill cut to square up logs. All the great lord would grant the serfs with which build their homes and barns.
But to get back to the game, I think the fields "out back" needs to be 2-3 hexes in depth to give that "put some fire on those houses and everyone else charge!" feel. And we need a new terrain type: the "denuded woods," to represent woodlands just above scrubland resulting from centuries of stripping the forests of every burnable scrap. Woods with no airburst effect for mortars?