Ships ahoy!

Actually these are two different versions of the Golden Hind:
- One version with almost-historical -looks (named Golden Hind)
- One version with Civ3 Man-O-War -looks (named War Galleon)

Here are the downloads:

Golden Hind (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/GoldenHind.zip)

English War Galleon (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/WarGalleon.zip)

Here are the animations of the Golden hind (the anims are exactly the same with war galleon - just the looks are a bit different)
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/HindDemo.gif

And here is attached the XL (256x256) of the English War Galleon. And I think you can guess why I call it English :lol:

[EDIT]: How convinient. I post specific english units to these forums, and my post count is 1666 - the year when the city of London was almost completely burned down :devil2: :lol:

First to reply! Looks great:goodjob:

Third post!

Perfect Aaglo! It's simply beautiful! I would have prefered it with more cannons, but it's still probably your best unit yet, IMO.

Ah Aaglo, very nice work. :goodjob:

It is kinda ironic, but I would have completely missed it ;)

The unit looks good, btw :D

The master shipwright strikes again!

Thanks, aaglo!

Very nice aaglo :thumbsup:

Both are great, but like I said in the preview thread, I like War Galleon's sails more. Therefore I proclaim it as your best ship so far. :)

:eek: :faint:

This ship is superb!! :omg!: :lol:

:goodjob: aaglo

calling this unit superb would be an understatement :king:

Nice one mate! :thumbsup:

:goodjob: Totally Excellent aaglo! Both Ships are Great! I Especially Love the Esthetics you applied to the English War Galleon...Absolutely Stunning. The English in my MOD have declared this aaglo Day in your honor. Goes Straight into my Game .......Thanks.

Originally posted by Drift
Both are great, but like I said in the preview thread, I like War Galleon's sails more. Therefore I proclaim it as your best ship so far. :)

I agree.

@Vuldacon: How about "We love the Aaglo day"?

Originally posted by Gogf


I agree.

@Vuldacon: How about "We love the Aaglo day"?

Come on, we already have that, nearly every day recently (not that I complain !) ;) !

What more to say except excellent, as usual! :)

Beautiful! -- You're spoiling us :D -- BTW love the sinking anim especially.

-Oz

Any ideas for application in the epic game? Anybody?

I think maybe I'm going to create a line of purely warships for civ...

I mean, there's very little naval specialization until Magnetism.

I think that maybe this could be a step between the Renaissance Galleass and the Frigate? Or perhaps more of a contemporary of the later Galleass but more powerful that could upgrade later to a Ship of the Line... thoughts?


EDIT: Silly me... I also meant to thank you and say that this could be, IMHO, one of your finest and most complex naval vessels ever.

Wonderful :goodjob:

I love your animation style, great work again :king:

Golden Hind should be obviously a Privateer replacement for English (with better stats). Then, War Galleon could simply replace Galleon, also with additional attack point or sumfin.
They're beautiful of course :)

:thumbsup::thumbsup: man your making my thumbs tired aaglo.

Holy ....! :eek:

Beautiful, mon. :goodjob: Thank you.

Downloading.....

Simply stunning.

Excellent :goodjob::thumbsup:

Where do you find the time? :)
You keep cranking out great units, one after another!

Aaglo, can I ask you a question? I decided I'm going to try to learn to do something in Pov-Ray, so can you post the files here? I want to see what they are like, and experiment a little. Thanks a lot!

Hmmm... so perhaps then these should simply be put towards making the English navy consistently superior to others throughout the course of the later part of the game?

Makes sense for those of us who want to really make ultra-unique civilizations.

aaglo I love your stuff. Any chance you can do late 1800s stuff. Civ3 only has an iron clad and I think there is a huge gap between galleon-ironclads to destroyer-transport navies.

Originally posted by embryodead
Golden Hind should be obviously a Privateer replacement for English (with better stats). Then, War Galleon could simply replace Galleon, also with additional attack point or sumfin.
They're beautiful of course :)

This is what I thought when I did these. I think, that English should have superior age-of-sail -navy.
And perhaps the french too. :hmm: :lol: (after all, the ship-of-the-line available in conquests has french emblems in the sails)

Originally posted by Gogf
I decided I'm going to try to learn to do something in Pov-Ray, so can you post the files here? I want to see what they are like, and experiment a little. Thanks a lot!

Here ya go

FAN

TAS

TIC

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I am two pages to late. Many thanks again, aaglo. This unit was sooo much needed. :worship:

It's GREAT! (both versions are great).

If you are going out of sailing ship ideas... how about a two masted sailing ship? ;) I think, a brigg or briggantine would be a good addition to all navys, privateer-fleets or trading fleets.

What can I say? It's so beautiful!

Thanks so much Aaglo :)!

These are perfect ships! :thanx:

:goodjob: :goodjob:

aaglo,

I too have no end of admiration for your artistic skills.

I have one request for a unit that should be very easy for you to do since it will be based off of your ancient age galleys: could you make a cargo ship from the galley models ?

I'll try to find some pictures for you, but a quick search hasn't yielded anything good. From the NG articles I have read, the ships were almost as long as the warships, but much wider to hold cargo. The one suggestion I would make would be to make the sails as the civ colour marker, though there is nothing as beautiful as a billowing white sail and some spray from the bow wave.

D.

:eek:

Holy crap... err... Gen. Dragon, there's a 5 line limit to signatures... lol

Sounds like a good request Gen.Dragon, but as Aaminion said, there is a five line signature limit.

Originally posted by gen.dragolen
aaglo,

I too have no end of admiration for your artistic skills.

I have one request for a unit that should be very easy for you to do since it will be based off of your ancient age galleys: could you make a cargo ship from the galley models ?

I'll try to find some pictures for you, but a quick search hasn't yielded anything good. From the NG articles I have read, the ships were almost as long as the warships, but much wider to hold cargo. The one suggestion I would make would be to make the sails as the civ colour marker, though there is nothing as beautiful as a billowing white sail and some spray from the bow wave.

D.

I could maybe try :crazyeye:

I'm posting a little late, but aaglo I did want to say that your units are top quality. IMHO these latest units have even surpassed those standards. Thank you for all your work!

This is going to my game for sure!

Great unit!!:goodjob:

Thank you, aaglo, for another excellent naval unit! Your work is always superb. Thanks again for sharing your artistic talent!

Originally posted by aaglo


http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/HindDemo.gif


:thumbsup:...:goodjob::thanx:

Sensational!! Thanks a lot!! :goodjob:

Can we have a preview of English War Galleon??? :D Of course it's quite similar as Golden Hind but anyway... :yeah:

Great! Added it to my game! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :)

Originally posted by bogdanSUPERIUS
Can we have a preview of English War Galleon??? :D Of course it's quite similar as Golden Hind but anyway... :yeah: Here is one. It's only the run animation and only one direction, but you will notice the finish cross in the flags.

Is the file server down cuz I can't download any files.

No, the server isn't down. To me DL works.

Originally posted by Arne
Here is one. It's only the run animation and only one direction, but you will notice the finish cross in the flags.
Thanks man :D

Hello aaglo

I join the praise with your great work in creating civ units.

I have a big favour to ask.
Any chance you could provide the civfanatics community with a "spanish" version of the golden hind unit? One without the three lions?
No markings on the sail. And if you want a version with a cross on one sail.

Would be much appreciated.

I'm trying to create a modified age of discovery
scenario with a potential spanish armada ;-)
The galleass unit will come in handy too.

Cheers
Capman

that spanish think actually isn't such a bad idea...
we shall see.

Originally posted by aaglo
that spanish think actually isn't such a bad idea...
we shall see.

would be great...

I'm using your corsair ship too, as privateer replacement.
The orginal privateer is way too modern for the 16th century.

What I'm also missing is an offensive land unit to raid harbour cities like Cadiz or caribbean ports. A pirate or buccaneer if you will. Wearing a big hat and handling a rapier and a pistol ;-)

Currently I'm using the man-at-arms unit, also found in this forum.

Great units aaglo :)

Ah, I love sailing ships :love: . So much better than ugly modern naval vessels.

Beautiful ships, already in my mod ... but I'd like to 2nd the call for a Spanish Galleon and (more importantly, for me at least) a land-unit PIRATE! Shiver me timbers, t'would be nice!

Ok, I searched the web for some pics of galleons, etc

Here are two quite good websites.

http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~ben/meagher.htm

http://www.greatgridlock.net/Sqrigg/squrig2.html

Visually the spanish galleon does not look that different from an elizabethan sea dog. Lower forecastles perhaps...

For the age of discovery scenario basically three types of ships are important.
caravels, carracks and galleons. The galleass is more a troop transporter and I can't imagine them leaving coastal areas...

As to a pirate unit. The swashbuckler from kinsman is already in use for that role, I read.

Additionally a dutch merchantman could be introduced as UU for the Netherlands. But I'm not sure if they would make sense in the period 1490 to 1640.

The frigate, man-o-war and ship of the line units are definitly pre 1640.

I think I definitely should do some sort of large spanish war galleon (even if it was the last thing I'd do).

And same goes for the "Henri Grace a Dieu" (french war ship).

I can't help it - I just love old sailing ships... :)

Originally posted by aaglo
I think I definitely should do some sort of large spanish war galleon (even if it was the last thing I'd do).

I think this, too.

Originally posted by aaglo
I can't help it - I just love old sailing ships... :)

Good for us. :D

Will love it, to see more aaglo sailing ships. :)

Originally posted by aaglo
And same goes for the "Henri Grace a Dieu" (french war ship).
Hm, french? The name of cource, but wasn't "Henri Grace a Dieu" an english ship? I think it's the same ship, wich was called "Great Harry" by the people. ;)

oh :blush:

so it was :lol: - I have only heard the name of the ship and saw pictures, never saw anything written about it. :lol:

Originally posted by aaglo
oh :blush:

so it was :lol: - I have only heard the name of the ship and saw pictures, never saw anything written about it. :lol: Don't worry about. :D If i wouldn't be interested in history of sailing ships, then I also wouldn't know that. And the name IS french, thats for sure. ;)

These are outstandingly good units! I like (and use) most of your ships (and bombardment units). Keep up the great work!