New Unit: Cipactli (Meso-American Ship-of-the-Line)

Orthanc

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• Jul 7, 2006

• #1

Well the thread title gives the gist of it, this was yet another request, yet again it proved very exciting to make. This ship is designed to be a Frigate replacement/advancement for Meso-American civs, it's name means "Crocodile" in Nahuitl (the Aztec's language apparently), which seemed appropriate, croc's being such powerful aquatic critters.

Here it be:
Cipactli




As you can see (well, pretty much just aaglo can), I went kinda nuts with the image mapping on this one.

 

LMR

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• Jul 7, 2006

• #2

AWESOME!! that is one beautiful ship, mate!

 

Sharon

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• Jul 7, 2006

• #3

That ship is amazingly beautiful. Keep up the good work Orthanc!

 

Sword_Of_Geddon

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• Jul 8, 2006

• #4

I think it deserves a spot in Heart of Destiny Orthanc.

 

Plotinus

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• Jul 8, 2006

• #5

This is a fantastic unit. Very imaginative and nicely realised.

 

Vuldacon

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• Jul 8, 2006

• #6

She's a Beautiful Ship Orthanc...Love the Wind in the Sails and Ocean Spray

 

Stormrage

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• Jul 8, 2006

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Amazing...simply amazing..

 

odintheking

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• Jul 8, 2006

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Beautiful, you're as good as aaglo!

 

MoscaTnT

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• Jul 8, 2006

• #9

A beautyfull unit. It's perfect

 

BadKharma

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• Jul 8, 2006

• #10

Wow what an awsome ship with great detail thanks for .creating this for Civ3

 

KingArthur

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• Jul 8, 2006

• #11

A very nice flavour unit. One of these days I'm eventually going to get around to creating my own flavour mod with all flavour units. This is certainly going in.

 

woodelf

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• Jul 8, 2006

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It's a shame to see it get blown in half. Very nice.

 

Ozymandias

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• Jul 8, 2006

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Spectacular!

 

Mithadan

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• Jul 8, 2006

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holy tamole!

 

Heretic_Cata

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• Jul 9, 2006

• #15

Very impressive.

 

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Afr!Ca

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• Jul 9, 2006

• #16

wtf..
it looks like a Dutch wooden shoe with a sail

 

LMR

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• Jul 9, 2006

• #17

a "dutch wooden shoe" is called a clog

and it looks like a ship to me

 

Goldflash

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• Jul 9, 2006

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Afr!Ca said:

wtf..
it looks like a Dutch wooden shoe with a sail

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Looks like a n00b to me.

 

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Afr!Ca

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• Jul 10, 2006

• #19

Goldflash said:

Looks like a n00b to me.

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well im sorry if i post negative comments but i really dont like this ship...
i dont understand if this is a mass madness but all you do is post "hoooraaay" "omg cool" "awesome " comments..
like wtf...
some of these unit creations are really pathetic...

 

aaglo

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• Jul 10, 2006

• #20

What do you mean "pathetic"?
I think this is very good "what if the meso-americans were in par with europeans in naval exploration" -unit.