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Adding Dannevirke

Wagonlitz · 2016-06-05T15:34:54+00:00

@Trin Tragula As you may or may not know a huge fortification complex called Dannevirke was built almost at the edge of Jutland around 500 AD. It continued being in continuous use and staffed for the next little millennium. Later in 1864 is was used again shortly. It includes huge walls and dykes and also has several castles built into it. The reason for its placement is that at that particular spot Jutland is really narrow due to the marshes in the west which no army can traverse and the Sli---a fjord cutting deep into Jutland to the east. Hence it was practical and possible to build a huge defensive wall to protect Denmark---and it undoubtly deterred many trying to invade Denmark from the south. Due to being continually expanded and in use for around a millennium it has several different parts of course. Some of them can be seen on this map where you also can see the different parts of it. In total it had 7 main parts and many smaller parts. Here is another map showing it and the main trading route between Jutland and Germany---which also was the main route an army would take when invading. It even had a large gate at this route which essentially was the gate to Denmark. Even today it is still a monumental fortification despite having been in disrepair for around half a millennium. These brick and boulder walls, which are the ones seen under "Fase 8" on the first picture, were originally 7 meters high. Despite being out of use by then it was still important enough to be shown on the Carta Marina from 1539. That was the background. Now the suggestion: I suggest that Dannevirke is added to the game as a fortification. Yes the manning of it was discontinued around game start, but as far as I am aware that was solely due to it being expensive to man. So I would like to see it added with a large maintenance cost---and possibly you needing to upgrade it from time to time which would be expensive. And possibly an option to get it back in working order (which would be expensive) if you initially decided to not have it staffed due to the cost.

Thread starter Wagonlitz
Start date Jun 5, 2016

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Trin Tragula

Design Lead - Crusader Kings 3

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Jun 7, 2016

Do you have any account of Dannevirke playing a part in warfare from the eu4 era? Jutland was invaded from the south in the timeframe but I don't recall it being mentioned

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