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Wyrmshadow

Wyrmshadow

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This is where I will be posting my What-If Roman units. I have big plans.
Navy
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Spoiler :
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Roman Armored Cruiser

Spoiler :
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Roman Monitor

Land Units
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Roman Officer

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Roman Armored Grenadier

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Roman Armored Grenadier (civ colored)
 
Nice I esppeccialy like the land units.
 
Fantastic Wyrmshadow, I love these units. I.ve been using the musketman in one of my mods for some time but now I just have to add these ships. the armored cruiser makes me think of the ship-sub from the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Great work.


Thanks
 
I was just looking at the spoiler for the armored cruiser more closely and noticed an interesting detail about the bow. Is this ship a catamaran design or is that just an illusion.
 
No.. I made it a 3 pronged bow.
 
Does this mean that they also serve as a ram. That would be acurate for the tactical thinking of the day, even though the ram was much more dangerous to your own ships than the ships of your enemy.
 
Ambrosia said:
Does this mean that they also serve as a ram. That would be acurate for the tactical thinking of the day, even though the ram was much more dangerous to your own ships than the ships of your enemy.
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The late 19th century was a constant game of one-upmanship in terms of Armor and guns. For a long time armor could be built stronger than any navaly transportable gun could be made to breach it. So it was surmised as late as 1898 to go back to the ancient days of making ramming bows for the vessels. (Read H.G. Well's War of the Worlds.. HMS Thunderchild is described only as an Ironclad-ram.) Luckily guns eventually could be made to pierce that generation of heavy armor and so the idea of the ram died.

These ships are just ideas.. it's impossible to create a ramming attack AND a broadside attack for these ships in civ. But I kept the design because I like the look.
 
My curiosity was from a design standpoint only, was it intended to look like a ram visualy?


BTW, it's nice to see someone els reads H. G. Wells, and didn't the Thunderchild destroy a Martian craft before being destroyed itself. I haven' t read the book since the early 90s, I think I'll read it again soon.
 
Mesmerising...

Ave Wyrm! :salute:
 
I see that someone has been distilling Awesome Sauce :D

I'll be using that monitor as the Ironclad Ram in the Final Fantasy mod.

EDIT: I don't know if this happened to anyone esle, but for some reason I keep getting some stupid error code every time I try to download either of the two units.

Edit II: Never Mind... I just saw the announcement about the file server crash :wallbash:
 
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