Power of American Natives: The First Chapter (March 02, 2008)

Blue Monkey · Mar 16, 2008

Another breath-taking set! I peeked at the concept art for your 3rd set - I hope you're going to make the Wyandot chief. The interesting mix of Euro & indigenous costume would make an outstanding King or GL unit for several of the Eastern tribes. And maybe you ought to also try making an LH of him.

Virote_Considon · Mar 16, 2008

Wh00t! Thanks, Sandris!

Sword_Of_Geddon · Mar 16, 2008

OMW.....Great units.....Can't really say how good they are in words really...your so talented...an artist really Sandris.

Once I get the leaders and cities up for NAMII and the tech trees up I can't wait to sort out all the units availible, (Kinboats and Utahs old units I'm going to have to decide on what to do with) and your new ones will diffinitely be used.

Sandris · Mar 16, 2008

If you have any specific requests on new Mesoamerican and Native American units to be included in upcoming unit packs, you could post the pics and descriptions in this thread.

BadKharma · Mar 16, 2008

Very impressive..........I would like to see Native American horse units with a lance (spear) as well as with muskets. Then there would be flavor units to replace the horseman or knight and cavalry.

Sword_Of_Geddon · Mar 16, 2008

Sandris said:
If you have any specific requests on new Mesoamerican and Native American units to be included in upcoming unit packs, you could post the pics and descriptions in this thread.

Heres what Shiro posted the best of which I'll post here:

Moche:

Clubman and Warrior Priest:
http://www.garyhuntminiatures.com/_southAmericans.html
Spearman: http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa79/Vuk_Brankovic/ITW/2-1.jpg
Axeman: http://www.carloschaquiras.com/images/coleccion/esculturas/esc099.jpg
Archer: http://www.carloschaquiras.com/images/coleccion/esculturas/esc086.htm

Tlingit/Haida:

Musketman: http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/nwca/images/nwcah17d.jpg
Archer: http://www.shannonthunderbird.com/Warrior.jpg
Warrior: http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/haida/images/havwa02b.jpg

Mithadan · Mar 16, 2008

Sandris, this is totally out of hand! I was just thinking to myself this morning, "there are more Sandris native Americans coming..." and here they are, in glorious excess! :crazyeye:

(And just last night I watched the ever-controversial Apocalypto and had a wonderfully fun time...)

Blue Monkey · Mar 16, 2008

I'm scanning some clear simple color images & B&W line drawings of Tlingit/Haida right now. I'll edit this post with them - hopefully in a couple of hours.

Edit:

Two Galleries (they're very large, hence the thumbnails) -

Top Row: Haida + 2 Kwakiutl
Middle Row: Nootka & a couple of related tribes (for the sake of some variations in the cedar bark garments
Bottom Row: Tlingit

Two rows of tribes living a little further south but still considered NW tribes. Maybe some ideas here for headdress variations or or early era units.

Some notes on colors

On all the Haida/Tlingit/Kwakiutl clothes I have seen (Southwestern/Gene Autry Museum, American Natural History Museum, Museum of the American Indian) the predominant decorative colors are red, black, & white. The white is often button/bead work - abalone, mother of pearl, etc. The woven basket hats are black & natural straw colored.
In the illustrations you will see some blue - this was a very rare dye color until contact with the Europeans. If indigo clothes were gained in trade they were often leeched of all their dye rather than worn. Those might be good places for civ color.

postscript: all the images are by David Rickman from the Dover Press "Northwest Coast Indians" coloring book.

Stormrage · Mar 16, 2008

They are just awesome! The colors are just.. amazing. Thank you Sandris!

Ozymandias · Mar 16, 2008

... And the crowd cheered, "HUZZAH!" :rockon:

Ares de Borg · Mar 16, 2008

Wow... so many. So well made. Thank you.

againsttheflow · Mar 16, 2008

Every day you're making it harder to think of the day you may have to leave.

Ozymandias · Mar 16, 2008

againsttheflow said:
Every day you're making it harder to think of the day you may have to leave.

Did I miss an announcement of some sort?

againsttheflow · Mar 17, 2008

No, thankfully not. I was just thinking I don't wanna see this guy go.

TopGun · Mar 17, 2008

With every chapter you exceed my wildest expectations. Kudos to you.

imperator1961 · Mar 17, 2008

Sandris! What can I say that someone has not yet said to your work? Great! I put your units as possible in my Mod!

Leaven · Mar 17, 2008

imperator1961 said:
Sandris! What can I say that someone has not yet said to your work? Great! I put your units as possible in my Mod!

Too true, at post #122 there's not much each left to say. I too, try and put as many of these into my mods as possible. In fact, I just made a flavored version of the epic game just to have a place to put them all (and Varwnos' 3D cities). Thank you so much for these Sandris!

EDIT: Since you asked, I'd love to see some Inuit (Eskimo) units. Really just any unit wearing warm fur clothes would do for my purposes, but I found you some inspiration (I have more if you want):

Spoiler :

Usteros · Mar 17, 2008

I have no words too. Simply GREAT!!! :eek:

Grandraem · Mar 17, 2008

These will add greatly to my mod. Thank you, Sandris!

Heptadelphoi · Mar 20, 2008

Sandris really you know how to get to us with your packs, great work one more time. Exquisitez.

Power of American Natives: The First Chapter (March 02, 2008)

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