Ironworking requires infrastructure, so typically the Nomads would kidnap smiths from ironworking civilizations, settle them in a weaker vassal, and then take iron as tribute from those civilization.
Functionally they just spread iron along the entire Steppe borders as a result.
This is harder than it sounds, since it's very labor intensive, and replicating refractory ceramics is difficult except for ceramic and metalworking civilizations with advanced kilns, but the net result should be an explosion in slavery to power the bloomeries.
Stirrups however made horse archers MUCH easier to train, since it gives them a platform as stable as a chariot to shoot from.
Shooting straight from bare horseback is super hard unless you grow up on horseback.
Actually historically it was quite possible to fortify most large fording points, or at least put a tower where you can watch every known ford. They are common for single person fords, but fords that can handle hundreds of people with any kind of speed are rare.
I usually base it off a snapshot I take shortly after the update. Sometimes this happens before AN finishes the edits
Possibly inspiring plays and ninja art? Fancy masks are a thing, and wearing a Crow mask without earning it gets you a beating so...other animals?Elaborate mask designs? Trainees practicing stealth by being theatre stagehands and trying not to be noticed by the audience?
It was mentioned that Heroic stats are different from era to era. It takes a LOT more skill to be recognized as Heroic in a later era than an earlier.
We wish we had that problem...
Huh, got a cite for that?
Must have missed it, though it matches my analysis, want to be sure it's actually WoAN.
