Tribal Fanatic (June 30, 2007)
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Bluemofia
F=ma
Sweet. 
Can easily fit for a Polynesian warrior or something.
Can easily fit for a Polynesian warrior or something.
Ogedei_the_Mad
Caffeinated Khagan
A fascinating unit. 
Looks like something out of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." 
Looks like something out of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." 
Bjornlo
Deity
I am using this one to replace the indian warrior. Perfect unit for the role.
Blue Monkey
Archon Without Portfolio
This unit is worth 5 banana bhangra bollywood dances which is the closest I get to a drunken bacchanal these days.
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Naked guys with dreadlocks are all over India. Theyre called saddhus. Some of them are into the bhang, some of them live in graveyards, and some of them carry traditional weapons. They predate the Rastafarians by at least a couple of millennia since their type is mentioned in the Mahabharata.
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Blue Monkey
Archon Without Portfolio
Clubs and or maces are an important traditional Indian weapon. In one strand of Greek myth Hercules founded a dynasty in India; and, indeed, the mace can be anything from his style of huge rough club to a gold-plated head-splitter in a variety of sophisticated shapes. The mace is a symbol of virility & strength as you would imagine. Its wielded by everyone from demons and gods to heroes and kshatryas (noble-class warriors).
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Blue Monkey
Archon Without Portfolio
I regret the triple post, but I've already got a reputation for posts that are so brobdingnagian that they make children cry and grown men run screaming from the room, and this one looked too long to post in someone else's thread for even my taste, so I broke it up.
The Indian warriors in “Alexander” actually seemed to me to better belong to the period of resistance to Islam (approx. 12th CE); they'd do just as well as guards for Kali's temple in "Indiana Jones". I’ll have to work on some galleries of what the earlier period units would look like; the closest I’ve seen here are the Golden Warrior concept art, R8XFT's tool age spearman, this guy, and odintheking’s Crazy Sword Man and utahjazz7’s Asian Swordsman (the helmets especially are nice, although both of them would need dhotis or loincloths to be more authentic). I'd like to see a unit that combined some elements of all of them. (I'm really going to have to learn Poser, but that would cut into my posting time).
The worst part of all this creativity by everybody, with the buildings and the units and the leaderheads ..., is that I'll have to get serious about a Bharata Varsha Mod. But I'm going to hold out for Flamand's mysteriously invisible Vimana. And a Kshatrya Heavy Chariot.
Stormrage wins the Dr Who Memorial PsychoArchaeology prize in my opinion. This type of warrior would be appropriate from state-of-the-art Neolithic up to 20th remnant indegene. In the upper left of both these galleries is an image of a current Vedda tribal chief. They are the original, forest-dwelling, inhabitants of Sri Lanka, and may have been scapegoated as the raving demon warriors of the Ramayana.
The Indian warriors in “Alexander” actually seemed to me to better belong to the period of resistance to Islam (approx. 12th CE); they'd do just as well as guards for Kali's temple in "Indiana Jones". I’ll have to work on some galleries of what the earlier period units would look like; the closest I’ve seen here are the Golden Warrior concept art, R8XFT's tool age spearman, this guy, and odintheking’s Crazy Sword Man and utahjazz7’s Asian Swordsman (the helmets especially are nice, although both of them would need dhotis or loincloths to be more authentic). I'd like to see a unit that combined some elements of all of them. (I'm really going to have to learn Poser, but that would cut into my posting time).
The worst part of all this creativity by everybody, with the buildings and the units and the leaderheads ..., is that I'll have to get serious about a Bharata Varsha Mod. But I'm going to hold out for Flamand's mysteriously invisible Vimana. And a Kshatrya Heavy Chariot.
Stormrage
Ever Present Taskmaster
Yay! I won!
utahjazz7
Deity
I'm just glad someone knows a little bit about the unit. 
Keroro
Dororo: Ninja Frog
It is very informative isn't it, good to have a variety of specialists around. Blue - were the Saddhus ever a feature in armies, or were they irregulars?
Blue - were the Saddhus ever a feature in armies, or were they irregulars?
Blue Monkey
Archon Without Portfolio
Actually, saddhus are wandering "holy men". In the myths (Ramayana, Mahabharata, etc.) they show up to stand in for impotent kings who need a world-class hero for a son, or to raise the son in the forest and teach him all sorts of occult fighting skills before his true heritage is revealed, or to save the son in the nick of time by making pure shakti energy come out of their hand and sizzle a demon disguised as a gopi girl, or by meditating for a thousand years make the gods fork over a planet-busting weapon that can only be wielded by the hero, etc., etc.
But there are also similar looking crazy guys like the "Thousand-Finger Demon" who was sent to assassinate Gautama Buddha. He was basically a serial killer who wore the fingers of his victims as a necklace and wandered the countryside completely outside society.
So a "tribal fanatic" might be someone in between those two extremes - sort of an Indian version of the Fianna, or Ghân-buri-Ghân.
OH YES YES YES!!!!!!
i can't believe i didn't see this until now!
oh man, this guy is PERFECT for my mod!
i wanted a unit just like this!
he's gonna be either "Witch Doctor", or "Apedemak Priest",
or even "Village Mystic".
kinda like what Plotinus has the "Monk" do in Desert and the Mountain (great mod).
thank-you thank-you THANK-YOU!
DLing him now!
i can't believe i didn't see this until now!
oh man, this guy is PERFECT for my mod!
i wanted a unit just like this!
he's gonna be either "Witch Doctor", or "Apedemak Priest",
or even "Village Mystic".
kinda like what Plotinus has the "Monk" do in Desert and the Mountain (great mod).
thank-you thank-you THANK-YOU!
DLing him now!
Keroro
Dororo: Ninja Frog
Blue - thanks for that. Again, very illuminating.
I might have one in my scenario with the name changed to Plotinus. And another one called Blue Monkey.
Hmm, so maybe this unit should have nuclear attack?
I might have one in my scenario with the name changed to Plotinus. And another one called Blue Monkey.
utahjazz7
Deity
OH YES YES YES!!!!!!
i can't believe i didn't see this until now!
oh man, this guy is PERFECT for my mod!
i wanted a unit just like this!
he's gonna be either "Witch Doctor", or "Apedemak Priest",
or even "Village Mystic".
kinda like what Plotinus has the "Monk" do in Desert and the Mountain (great mod).
thank-you thank-you THANK-YOU!
DLing him now!
Breathe . . . breathe . . .
I'm glad you like him.
Keroro
Dororo: Ninja Frog
No, I'm saying that I think that you have a nuclear attack. I imagine you to look rather like a bust and be permanently surrounded with darkness.
Anyhow, the point of the story is that I'm using the unit, and it's great.
Blue Monkey
Archon Without Portfolio
Thanks for the compliment, and it would be cool to have a crazed serial killer saddhu running around banging heads as my namesake (really, since all my RL friends tell me I'm that real nice quiet easygoing guy who goes all Falling Down when you cross that invisible line with him
) but IMHO this is what a "Blue Monkey" unit should look like.
Keroro
Dororo: Ninja Frog
OK, I have a request - hopefully quite a small one. Could someone convert this unit to an army leader guy? Or nearly as good, could someone explain in idiot talk how I could convert it? Thanks very much in advance, and sorry for the bump.
Virote_Considon
The Great Dictator
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