The Saxons are coming!! This is an updated version of my Hengist leaderhead from Anno Domini now available in all four eras.
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Hengist of the Saxons : 3D animated era-specific leaderhead with pcxs
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The Saxons are coming!! This is an updated version of my Hengist leaderhead from Anno Domini now available in all four eras.
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#RACE_SAXONS
^The Saxons are $LINK<expansionist and industrious=GCON_Strengths>. They start the game with $LINK<Pottery=TECH_Pottery> and $LINK<Masonry=TECH_Masonry> and build $LINK<Saxon infantry=PRTO_Saxon_Infantry> instead of $LINK<Medieval_Infantry=PRTO_Medieval_Infantry>.
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^The Saxon people or Saxons were a large Germanic people located in what is now northwestern Germany and a small section of the eastern Netherlands. It is important to note that the historic Saxons did not inhabit the modern German federal state called Saxony. They are first mentioned by the geographer Ptolemy as a people of southern Jutland and present-day Schleswig-Holstein,
hence they appear subsequently to have expanded to the south and west. The word 'Saxon' is believed to be derived from the word seax, meaning a variety of single-edged knife. The Saxons were considered by Charlemagne and other historians to be especially war-like and ferocious.
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^A majority of the Saxons remained in continental Europe dwelling in a territory known as Old Saxony. The Anglo-Saxon historian Bede writing around the year 730 remarks that "the old Saxons have no king, but they are governed by several eorldermen (satrapas) who during war cast lots for leadership, but who in time of peace are equal in power".
However, the territory appears to have consolidated itself and by the end of the 8th century there was a political entity called the Duchy of Saxony.
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^The Saxons long avoided becoming Christians (see Ewald the Black) and being incorporated into the orbit of the Frankish kingdom, but were decisively conquered by Charlemagne in a long series of annual campaigns (772 - 804). With defeat came the enforced baptism and conversion of the Saxon leaders and their people. Even their sacred tree, Irminsul, was destroyed.
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^Under Carolingian rule, the Saxons were reduced to a tributary status. There is evidence that the Saxons, as well as Slavic tributaries like the Abodrites and the Wends, often provided troops to their Carolingian overlords. The dukes of Saxony became kings (Henry I, the Fowler, 919) and later the first Emperors (Henry's son, Otto I, the Great) of Germany during the 10th century, but lost this position in 1024.
The duchy was divided up in 1180 when Duke Henry the Lion, Emperor Otto's grandson, refused to follow his cousin, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, into war in Italy.
#DESC_RACE_SAXONS
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^The region in southeastern Germany known as the Kingdom of Saxony between 1806 to 1918 and the Free State of Saxony after 1990, was not a traditional homeland of the Saxon peoples. This region acquired its name through political circumstances and was originally called the Margrave of Meissen. The rulers of this area acquired control of the Duchy of Saxony in 1423 and eventually applied the name Saxony to the whole of their kingdom.
Since then this section of southeastern Germany has been referred to as Saxony (German: Sachsen), a source of many misunderstandings about the original homeland of the Saxons, mostly in the present-day German state of Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen).
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^The label "Saxons" was generally applied to German settlers who migrated during the 13th century to south-eastern Transylvania in present-day Romania, where their descendants numbered a quarter of a million in the early decades of the 20th century. Most have left since World War II, many of them during the 1970s and 1980s due to the Romanianisation policies of the Ceausescu regime.
^The Saxons are $LINK<expansionist and industrious=GCON_Strengths>. They start the game with $LINK<Pottery=TECH_Pottery> and $LINK<Masonry=TECH_Masonry> and build $LINK<Saxon infantry=PRTO_Saxon_Infantry> instead of $LINK<Medieval_Infantry=PRTO_Medieval_Infantry>.
^
^The Saxon people or Saxons were a large Germanic people located in what is now northwestern Germany and a small section of the eastern Netherlands. It is important to note that the historic Saxons did not inhabit the modern German federal state called Saxony. They are first mentioned by the geographer Ptolemy as a people of southern Jutland and present-day Schleswig-Holstein,
hence they appear subsequently to have expanded to the south and west. The word 'Saxon' is believed to be derived from the word seax, meaning a variety of single-edged knife. The Saxons were considered by Charlemagne and other historians to be especially war-like and ferocious.
^
^A majority of the Saxons remained in continental Europe dwelling in a territory known as Old Saxony. The Anglo-Saxon historian Bede writing around the year 730 remarks that "the old Saxons have no king, but they are governed by several eorldermen (satrapas) who during war cast lots for leadership, but who in time of peace are equal in power".
However, the territory appears to have consolidated itself and by the end of the 8th century there was a political entity called the Duchy of Saxony.
^
^The Saxons long avoided becoming Christians (see Ewald the Black) and being incorporated into the orbit of the Frankish kingdom, but were decisively conquered by Charlemagne in a long series of annual campaigns (772 - 804). With defeat came the enforced baptism and conversion of the Saxon leaders and their people. Even their sacred tree, Irminsul, was destroyed.
^
^Under Carolingian rule, the Saxons were reduced to a tributary status. There is evidence that the Saxons, as well as Slavic tributaries like the Abodrites and the Wends, often provided troops to their Carolingian overlords. The dukes of Saxony became kings (Henry I, the Fowler, 919) and later the first Emperors (Henry's son, Otto I, the Great) of Germany during the 10th century, but lost this position in 1024.
The duchy was divided up in 1180 when Duke Henry the Lion, Emperor Otto's grandson, refused to follow his cousin, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, into war in Italy.
#DESC_RACE_SAXONS
^
^The region in southeastern Germany known as the Kingdom of Saxony between 1806 to 1918 and the Free State of Saxony after 1990, was not a traditional homeland of the Saxon peoples. This region acquired its name through political circumstances and was originally called the Margrave of Meissen. The rulers of this area acquired control of the Duchy of Saxony in 1423 and eventually applied the name Saxony to the whole of their kingdom.
Since then this section of southeastern Germany has been referred to as Saxony (German: Sachsen), a source of many misunderstandings about the original homeland of the Saxons, mostly in the present-day German state of Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen).
^
^The label "Saxons" was generally applied to German settlers who migrated during the 13th century to south-eastern Transylvania in present-day Romania, where their descendants numbered a quarter of a million in the early decades of the 20th century. Most have left since World War II, many of them during the 1970s and 1980s due to the Romanianisation policies of the Ceausescu regime.
Reserved for the city list - maybe Plotinus could help with this?
Thanks 
!! Probably Egypt will be the next destination with an era-specific Cleopatra.
!! Probably Egypt will be the next destination with an era-specific Cleopatra.
William GBTW
73h 1337 H4x0rz
I like it great work Rob.
great work Rob.
TopGun
258 kills
"Evullllll"!!! Especially the modern rendition looks very very sinister... Awesome job! Many thanks, Rob! 
TopGun
258 kills
Goslar*
Hildesheim
Halberstadt
Brunswiek
Memleben
Northeim
Salzwedel
Paderborn
Detmold
Soest
Dortmund
Münster
Bentheim
Osnabrück
Minden
Lingen
Wildeshausen
Verden
Bremen
Buxtehude
Lüneburg
Hamburg
Stade
Walsleben
Quedlinburg
Ballenstedt
Poehlde
Stormarn
Meldorf
* = capital
Hildesheim
Halberstadt
Brunswiek
Memleben
Northeim
Salzwedel
Paderborn
Detmold
Soest
Dortmund
Münster
Bentheim
Osnabrück
Minden
Lingen
Wildeshausen
Verden
Bremen
Buxtehude
Lüneburg
Hamburg
Stade
Walsleben
Quedlinburg
Ballenstedt
Poehlde
Stormarn
Meldorf
* = capital
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
That'd be the wrong Saxons, I'm afraid - Hengist was the (legendary) leader of the earliest Anglo-Saxons to settle in Britannia.
conquer_dude
Imperial Slave
The modern age head looks a little gloomy though. Other than that this is very good!
Thanks for all the comments guys! Do people prefer that I add the extras, such as the units/wonder that I put in with Hengist?
Stormrage
Ever Present Taskmaster
Maybe two dls*? The LH, and the extras?
I think its great, one of your best
I think its great, one of your best
Ares de Borg
Norman Knight
Awesome, as always. Will you redo all of your AD leaderheads?
TopGun
258 kills
The Last Conformist said:
Looking at Rob's 'pedia entry methinks that the "German" Saxon cities could work. But you are right, Hengist was the Saxon king who led a war party of Saxons to invade Britain... Maybe I'll research a "British" Saxon city list...
I think I'll keep the units etc in with the leaderheads as one download (as it adds comparitively little time to the download) but also offer "unit packs" - so these plus others I have could go into a "Dark Ages" pack in the units section.
Rob! Seriously now! Everytime you do this I have to go back and change stuff in the Gallic Wars mod! I will use the ancient one and the wonder(modified) will also be useful and maybe one of the units too.
Nice one, my workaholic friend!
Nice one, my workaholic friend!
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