![]() “One key aspect of the economy of the Bronze Age is its utter dependence on trade. For Homer and his audience, doing something out of love and being commanded by Aphrodite is one and the same – but we make the distinction.” Dealing in multi-resource economiesĪnother aspect of the Bronze Age that has been carried across to TROY is the use of a multi-resource currency – as Maya says: “Our modern economy is so reliant on it that we can hardly imagine a time before money existed, but the Bronze age was exactly such a time.”ĭuring the Bronze Age, bartering – the exchange of objects and commodities – was the way people traded, and gold – and of course bronze – was just another of these commodities. That’s why you won’t see gods stomping on the battlefields of TROY. ![]() In the Iliad, gods often appear as if physically present, but a closer look reveals that in most cases they manifest only through the thoughts and actions of mortals. This is something that we need to constantly remind ourselves when working with Homer’s epic. Gods were often regarded as part of the world, and natural phenomena as their manifestations. “It’s an age of heroes, gods, and monsters in which religious myth is to the people then what scientific knowledge is to us now. So how does Bronze Age culture feed into the game? Maya explains: Additionally, some researchers believe that the story of the Trojan War is a direct result of this tumultuous period in history.Ī Total War Saga: TROY focuses on the late stages of the Bronze Age, just after the Minoans on Crete have declined and the power vacuum in the Aegean is being filled by the expansion of the Mycenean Greeks. The time period was referred to as the Age of Heroes by the Classical Greeks, and culminated in the catastrophic Bronze Age collapse that precipitated the beginning of the Greek Dark Age. ![]() Rulers often claimed divine status – like the pharaohs in ancient Egypt – or at least divine origin – as seen in Greek myths – to justify their own undisputed right to rule. It was a time when gods were worshipped in monumental temples and kings ruled from formidable fortresses. Its name – as you probably already guessed – is derived from bronze being the metal of choice for contemporary tools and weapons. The Bronze Age is a vast period of time that spans more than 2,000 years and encompasses the rise and fall of multiple ancient civilisations including Egypt, Sumer, Babylon, the Hittites, and the Assyrians. This time, we spoke with Creative Assembly Sofia game director Maya Georgieva as well as senior game designer Milcho Vasilev about the ins and outs of the time period, multi-resource economies, and how Bronze Age battles really went down. It’s time to take another behind-the-scenes look at the development of A Total War Saga: TROY!
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