New unit: Minoan War Transport (Nov 26th, 2004)

aaglo

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Hi,

This is a modified version of the bireme I did in the spring 2004 - this unit was requested by flamescreen. Modifications are:
- different sail pattern (provided by flamescreen)
- only one row of oars (the bireme had two)
- colour changes

Minoan War Transport

Here is a close-up picture
 

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Another wonder... :D
 
Niiice... :worship:
Another great naval unit. Keep it up, aaglo. :king:
 
Yet another great ship, thanks!


...ahh, the Bronze Age...
 
This makes a nice Pentekontere (light hellenistic warship as used before the Battle of Salamis).
 
Very beautiful work as usual.Here some info:
Homer classifies his ships into a number of well-defined types that have no exact parallel in the ships of the 8th century. There are, for example, small twenty oared galleys used for transport, exploration or dispatch duties. The fifty oared pentecontor (25 oars per side) which was used as a troop carrier, and the larger 100 oared vessels (50) per side) which were used as heavy transports.
 

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And aaglo said, "let there be ships", and there were, and it was good.
 
aaaaaaaaalgo, I tried using your other bireme (the 2004 model) in game, and had some problems with the ram attack. For some reason, ships have to be set with the "ranged attack" flag when adding them in the editor or they don't play their attack animations in the right direction, and other screwy problems. I got some even screwier results after trying to alter the frames of the flc. Is this ship using the same animation as the previous one?
 
Yes. The trick is, that all ships in civ3 need to have the 'ranged attack' flag on - otherwise things just get messy. Just be sure to de-select the 'rotate-before-attack' too :)
 
skam0073 said:
Very beautiful work as usual.Here some info:
Homer classifies his ships into a number of well-defined types that have no exact parallel in the ships of the 8th century. There are, for example, small twenty oared galleys used for transport, exploration or dispatch duties. The fifty oared pentecontor (25 oars per side) which was used as a troop carrier, and the larger 100 oared vessels (50) per side) which were used as heavy transports.

Hey thanks for the pics. They're good. :)
 
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