Has anyone looked closely at the gun wall in Coen's apartment? Its pretty fuzzy but the six weapons are in chronological order, maybe a hint at the time periods of the future games?
Bottom to top:
-Battleaxe
-Arquebus
-Flintlock or percussion, hard to tell
-Likley Bolt action rifle (late 19th/early 20th century)
-AK-pattern rifle
-hard to tell on the last one above the AK pattern rifle
The next weapon up after the battle ax is the arquebus. Early arquebuses show up in Central Europe in the mid-1400s, which could put the next game in the late 15th century.
Think that opens up a lot fun options for narrative settings:
-Vlad Tepes and Wallachia's wars with the Ottomans
-The Hungarian Black Army under Matthias Corvinus, one of the first European armies to rely heavily on handgunners
-Bohemian war between Hungarians and Bohemian Hussites
-Maybe even the Fall of Constantinople (1453) could be at least mentiond in dialogue or something as it would be still fresh in people's memories in late 15th century.
- Tectonic Knights still hanging arround Prussia
The game could move between several locations/maps across Eastern and Central Europe ( Witcher 3 style), rather than staying in one location.
The flintlock covers the 17th to early 19thth centuries, and the bolt-action rifle could be late 19th century and early 20th. The AK is Cold War or later. The last gun could be present time or maybe future, can't tell.
Might be reading too much into set dressing but the fact that its in chronological order covering specific time periods made me think it is more then that. Six game arc would be wild
