Swabians Puns

Of course, they do have their regions inside Bavaria itself, but I'm curious as to why they chose to keep Bavaria as it is, was it just preference for stability and "don't fix what's not broken"? The Allied powers made many changes to German state borders, so it's not like it's an unprecedented move.

Just for fun, don't take this too seriuosly. Of course the game doesn't need this civ - but I need it. :-)

Coming from the region in southern Germany which is famous for the world's most beautiful dialect, I don't feel represented well enough by the Teutons. After splitting the Burgundians from the Franks and the Sicilians from the Italians, why not add the Swabians? And after fighting at Tannenberg as Jogaila and Jan Žižka, wouldn't Ulrich von Jungingen's perspective be the next logical step?

According to the clichés, the Swabians are known as Tüftler (inventors) and Häuslesbauer (house builders), but also for being stingy and keeping their money together. So I took the challenge to turn these clichés into a concept for a playable civ which adds some new bonuses without being OP. The strengths of the civ are buildings, advanced technology, and using their gold efficiently. A nice defensive fast-castle civ with a good monk rush for Arena clowns like me.

Civ Bonuses:

• Houses and Palisades built 80% faster
• Can construct buildings of the next age (except fortifications) while aging up
• Technologies (including age advances) cost -25% gold
• Gold miners generate additional food (similar to Polish stone miners generating gold)

Unique Techs:

• Kehrwoche: Damaged buildings regenerate
• Peasants' War: Boosts attack and HP of all trash units in the field (one-time use)

Unique Unit:

Inspired by a well-known poem by Ludwig Uhland, this is a unit which just wants to go its way in peace, but can get really aggressive when being attacked.

• Swabian Crusader: Cavalry. High HP, but slow movement and attack rate. Special ability: Returns 40% of melee damage to the attacker (e. g. a unit which deals 10 damage also takes 4 damage at the same time).

Team Bonus:

• Can upgrade palisades to Fortified Palisades by researching Fortified Wall

Tech Tree:

• All eco upgrades available
• Missing Paladin, Siege Onager, one or two archer techs, Heresy, some dock techs, all non-European units

And, of course, the most important thing: their in-game dialogue, for example:

Select:

• Ha no!
• Dô be-n-e.
• Wa witt?

Move:

• Dô nom.
• So isch nô au wieder.

Attack:

• He macha!
• Emmr feschde druff!
• Aogschbitzt en Boda nei!

Select Monk:

• Griß Gott.

Move King:

• No ned hudla.
• No nix Narrets.

Construct Building:

• Schaffa, schaffe, Heisle baua.

I saw the recent post about the dialect that Einstein spoke and this link was in one of the comments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German

I’m an America who recently took a job located in America working for a company with their main plant (for my division) based in Ehingen. I was there for the past two weeks and didn’t feel confident enough to try to speak, but almost everyone I met there knew that I was making an attempt at learning. Many of them commented that I should be learning Swabian instead of German, which always lead to smiles and laughter from the other native speakers.

This has me mildly spooked, am I making a mistake by learning German through apps like Duolingo and Fluenz that don’t seem to follow the same dialects as mentioned in the wiki page on Swabian? I’d hate to sound like either an idiot or pretentious asshole because I’m using a completely different dialect than my coworkers.

Also, are most people actually prejudiced towards them?

Sorry for the akward wording, I hope you understand what I'm asking.

Thank you!

Question aimed for those who speak dialect at home.

When you hear your dialect, do you instantly feel "at home"? I'm Italian and we also have many dialects, and when I hear mine I sure do feel like at home.

And would you be friend with someone who doesn't understand a single word you are saying? Mainly aimed this at the frankonians since I've read their dialect is very different from hochdeutsch

There is a girl I like, and I know she speaks her dialect very well and at home she doesn't speak hochdeutsch.

Would you ever date someone who doesn't speak your dialect? I personally would since it's not a big deal, but maybe for Germans it's a big part of their identity? I'm just curious

I was playing Mount and blade Warband as a Swadian, and this is the first attempt I didn’t get massively bored or get beaten down in the early game with poor money choices. I was raiding a Vaegir settlement and not once, but twice I was interrupted by large tundra bandit and sea raider parties attacking me with the villagers. I think it was near 50-60 bandits between the 2 attacks. I also managed to get them all with one soldier’s death, one of my infantry. My only question was what made the AI declare war on the Nords swadians and that southern sultanate i can’t remember, with their entire kingdom being destroyed. I just felt like this random moment should be shared as my introduction to this subreddit.

The battle in Schwaderloh on April 11, 1499 (detail).

In the Swabian War of 1499, the Old Swiss Confederation fought against Habsburg Austria and the Swabian League. The cruel and devastating victory of the Swiss underscored their independence within the Holy Roman Empire.

https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2021/07/swabain-war-showdown-with-the-habsburgs/

In the late 18th-century the Habsburg Monarchy recruited people from southern Germany, beneath other countries of origin, to settle in regions of their empire, that were destroyed and devastated during previous wars. These settlement areas were mainly in Hungary, Romania and the former Yugoslavia. As the settlers came from countries around Swabia and found a new home near the Danube river, they called themselves ´Donauschwaben´(= Danube Swabians ). For over two centuries the Danube Swabians kept their language and their original traditions. Most of the people considered themselves German and didn’t involve much in the surrounding culture.

With the creation of Austria-Hungary however, at the end of the 19th century, Hungary aimed at integrating its minorities, which is why, for example, children learned Hungarian as their national language at school. So since then, most Danube Swabians were raised bilingual.

From WWI on, they experienced a difficult political situation. As a distinct ethnic group, they were torn between the different political interests: nationalists in their countries wanted them to discard their cultural heritage, the Nazis on the other hand promised to protect them as German ´ex-pats`. As a result, after Germany lost the war, many of the Danube Swabians were forced to leave their homes or fled out of fear of the advancing Soviet army, most of them seeking refuge in German speaking countries or the US.

In the remaining communities of the Danube Swabians, mainly the older people tried to maintain their language and customs. While before the end of the Warsaw Pact, for example in Hungary, it was poorly regarded to speak German, nowadays a lot of young people learn German at school. But this is not the same language, that the Danube Swabians speak. Since they originated from different regions and did not associate much with the surrounding communities, they maintained their ancient dialects. So, if you talk to older Danube Swabians, you can easily distinguish the region, their ancestors emigrated from.

Hello, Currently I'm writing a lot in English, but barely speak it and I'd like to change that, that's why I'm looking for somebody to voice chat with, ideally something long-term. I can offer to speak with you in German on a native level and to teach you the Swabian dialect, if that's your thing (if you don't know how it sounds like, it has some similarities to Swiss German). I'd like to learn to speak English really well, but more on that later.

A short introduction about myself. I'm male, 23 years old, live in Germany, Baden-Württemberg and I'd say my interests are mostly centered around technical subjects. Which would be stuff like programming, open source stuff, Linux and BSD. Sometimes I also spend my time dabbling in mathematics, mostly out of curiosity (I don't mind talking about it, but I found it a bit challenging finding the right person to talk about mathematical ideas). Otherwise I think it might be fun discussing philosophical ideas.

If all that technical stuff isn't your cup of tea, I can also offer to talk about music or the challenges we encounter in every-day life. For me something important is that it is something long-term, maybe developing a friendship. As for music genres, I do enjoy classical music and electronic music, if you like the sounds of synthesizers maybe we could go in that direction.

Ideally, I'd like to talk with somebody who speaks British English, because most English I was exposed to was American English, and I guess it would be nice to learn to speak British English properly. My goal would be to get on a semi-advanced or maybe native level, I think that's doable with the right person, in return I can speak with you lots of German (text or voice doesn't matter, as long as you're feeling it helps you).

We can talk over Jitsi Meet, Telegram, XMPP, Discord or whatever floats your boat. Though ideally I'd just prefer Jitsi Meet, because one can use it without registration and it just works (usually).

P.S: If looking for somebody who already has a basic understanding of German at least, I'm not good explaining the right grammar, because I speak languages mostly by intuition. And I would forget the grammar rules after a day, no joke.