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Post by andres on May 27, 2014 12:06:39 GMT -5
No one seems to have mentioned this about Cadia's real world inspiration . The fortress city of Iraklion in Krete Greece was named Candia in the 16th century . It was a big fortress right in the nose of the ottoman empire (a real threat to europe back then ) Candia was heavily fortified by the venetians and it took 20 years to fall in its final siege . Any possibility its the inspiration for the fortress world standing right next to the eye of terror ?
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Post by cheminhaler on May 27, 2014 14:20:50 GMT -5
Actually I never realised. I've never visited Crete either, I think the only Ottoman era fortress I've seen was in Rhodes, though I've seen an interesting museum in Meteora with lots of muskets, costumes and yatagan knives from the 19th century. The skull reliquary room in one of the monasteries and an icon showing heaven and hell were among some of the most bizarre stuff I've ever seen; it was well worth going.
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Post by RedsandRoyals on May 27, 2014 15:25:12 GMT -5
Isn't the one on Rhodes actually a Knights Hospitaller fortress that the Ottomans just captured?
As to the original post, It's entirely possible and fairly probable that that's where the name and theme of the plant come from, given how many bits of GW fluff are little references like that. Good work on putting two and two together, though, I've never seen that connection made before.
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Post by andres on May 27, 2014 15:57:35 GMT -5
Yes the Knights hospitaler knights of Saint John controlled Rhodes and a couple of other Greek islands for a couple of centuries . Suleiman the great conquered them in the late16th century
As for meteora yeah it is pretty awesome .
Also did they not have a regiment called byzant jannissaries ? Pretty confusing since ottoman Janissaries led the charge on byzantium aka instabul constatinople on 1453 .
Bottom line come to Greece it's interesting nice we play 40k and need every tourist we can get
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on May 27, 2014 21:22:05 GMT -5
If there's one thing that GW seems to be educated on, it's European history.
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Post by Captain Zapp Brannigan on May 29, 2014 2:48:10 GMT -5
This makes so much sense...
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Post by beaviz81 on May 30, 2014 13:40:37 GMT -5
If there's one thing that GW seems to be educated on, it's European history. What do you expect from Brits? I sort of took the Cadians to be Canadians. Always a fun thing to bring up to some fans as thats a berserk-button, but then again I care not at all for them, it a freaking hobby nothing more. |
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Post by jenburdoo on Jun 2, 2014 7:25:55 GMT -5
The early designers also cut their teeth on '70s historicals. They certainly got the loose, "narrative" attitude and vagueness of rules from there, but when it comes to complexity, it's like they looked at Featherstone and said, "I bet I could make this waaaay more realist!@#$% I mean, more complex, and multiply the pagecount by 100 into the bargain.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Jun 15, 2014 16:45:26 GMT -5
The early designers were still less moronic than the current ones. This is not an accomplishment.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 8:18:04 GMT -5
Hmm I tend to see Cadia as a mixture of most modern military forces today... Similar to a heavily militarized modern day America...
I mean, their equipment, doctrines, etc... are among the finest in the Imperium and they export significant amounts of weaponry and training to other planets...
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