To counter massed archery attacks, soldiers will stay in formation, raise their shields, and form shield walls to deflect incoming enemy arrows, working similarly to the Roman Testudo mechanic found in Ryse: Son of Rome. Now most battles will consist mostly of melee sword and shield clashes with the occasional archer-dedicated Cohorts arriving to battles here and there to "blot out the sun" and rain arrows en-masse upon their enemies. Research into historical based armies of the Roman Empire and Vikings along with the lore + concept art of the Imperial Legion/Stormcloaks has been used to determine the new soldier/unit types, battle tactics, organization, and formations of the Imperials and the Stormcloaks.
To help simulate a real war, a large amount of soldiers will be constantly be moving throughout Skyrim at all times, in groups of anywhere from 5-28 soldiers, often supporting one another in large massive invasions or counter attacks (General Tullius and Ulfric Stormcloak are essentially playing a military RTS strategy game against eachother). "For those who aren't familiar with the mod, what is the Skyrim at War? It is a civil war mod with the goal of simulating a real war occurring in game down to the very finest of detail, where unpredictable yet very intense, large-scale, cinematic battles can take place literally at any moment on the map as a result of armies naturally crossing paths with one another, where the player can decide to either watch from the side and watch the scene unfold as if they were inside a movie, or decide to partake in the battle as either a regular soldier or a commander leading their forces to finally get a REAL experience of what it is like fighting a war in ancient times, all while staying true to lore and just right outside the limits of Skyrim's engine to deliver this experience.Īt its core, rather than overhauling the Civil War questline, the mod introduces an independent sandbox war game to Skyrim that allows the player to take part or launch military campaigns around the world while making a few tweaks to the vanilla war questline.
I've been trying to figure out this issue myself, so I went ahead and created the Skyrim at War with the sole purpose of improving the civil war, and at it's current stage it is finally complete, and below is a post I made not too long ago about the mod: The civil war is a favorite topic of mine because it has the most potential in the game in terms of creating the most exciting gameplay and experiences.
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