Bigger settlements and warfare?

[Homocommando]

There is no evidence in iron-age Finland of any formation of villages at all much larger than the ones represented in game. There is evidence of hillforts, which may have acted as some sort of occasional trade hubs, but the archaeology has so far overwhelmingly disproved that any examined sites would've been characterised by a population beyond even a hundred people. If that. No excavated sites, or much less any written evidence, indicates a definite city-type place anywhere in Finland before gradual Swedish immigration and conquest around the start of the 1st millenium. It is not impossible that there could have been something like a city, but highly unlikely considering that absolutely no evidence of such a structure has been discovered. In short, it simply seems like the pre-christian finnish population was highly mobile and not interested in forming many long-lasting and large settlements. Agriculture, a typical example of a factor producing settled life, was in Finland also highly mobile, as the traditional forms of agriculture demanded a frankly huge amount of forest, which was left more or less unusable for growing plants after a few years. And, as others have already pointed out, finnish lifestyle was also largely marked by hunter-gatherer activities which also do not enable dense settlements or a settled lifestyle.

You have a point. It was hard for me to estimate how big those settlements could be, and I based the estimation on wrong factors, but even then by "somewhere in the hundreds" I meant quite possibly just above 100 ))

But I still think, if there was just one bigger village per culture, just bigger enough from other villages to have a different vibe, it might be realistic, and even if not, urw is not 100% realistic anyway. There are some things that are non-historical, unrealistic, and some that are just based on educated guesses )) And I think it would be a good feature.

With all that said, trade posts and hillforts could absolutely be added.

Nice )))