Unit Request Thread 3

[Tank_Guy#3]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Army has decided to pull the plug on the development of the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter

I remember seeing a news story on tv about this.

 

[König Markus]

At first, I have to say, I'm sorry for this request, since there are already a whole bunch of good Roman units.

I have a request for a late Imperial Legionary, indeed for a "Comitatenses" which was a rider.
Actually, I even prefer a non-rider, thus a legionary, since I'm still not happy about the current late Imperial units.

The unit should have:
attack1: pike attack
attack2: sword attack

Also great would be: road building ability


Information about the attached pic:
It's a late Roman cavalryman ("Equites octavo Dalmatae"), about late 3rd century AD/ early 4th century, so the time of Diocletian and Constantine.

I think, this unit would also fit for generic usage.

 

[Steph]

Not good enough?

 

[König Markus]

Does it have an sword attack or is it a only pike unit?

 

[Steph]

I think it's pike only.

Having pike and sword is difficult, as the animation would not flow very nicely from one to another, so I doubt you will find much unit with them.
Except perhaps the legionary, which throw is pilum and then switch to sword.

 

[tom2050]

The only way to have a spear and sword animation, would be possibly to have:

1st attack: Soldier uses pike, drops it and grabs sword from sheath; all in 1 animation
2nd attack: Soldier uses sword from here on out

 

[König Markus]

Except perhaps the legionary, which throw is pilum and then switch to sword.

Yes, this needed.
As far as I know, there isn't a unit which throws the pilum/spear and then attacks with the sword, besides the current legionaries.

Furthermore, that unit above it doesn't really look "late imperial".
Nevertheless, in generel I like the units of Sandris. His units are really good.

 

[Takhisis]

Then AttackB.flc should have to be a weaponless legionary drawing his sword from its sheath.

 

[spryllino]

If you did that, Takhisis, you'd get the opponent dying while the legionary was still pulling his sword from his sheath, which is eminently silly.

 

[Takhisis]

Only if the other unit had one or two HP remaining.
And, anyway, a legionary wouldn't have thrown his pilum, waited to see whether it'd hit and then said 'oh, are you still alive?'
(yes, I know about attacks A, B and C, but I couldn't resist it&#8230
srsly nao, you can paste that unsheathing part of the animation right after the end of the javelin throw.

 

[Rathvilly]

There are some good images of various Late Romans posted here <http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=175023>. I think Sandris' mostly fit the bill except it would be good to have a generic Heavy Cavalry (non Cataphract/Clibinarii) and Light Cavalry eg Equites Scutarii or similar...

 

[Ozymandias]

@KM - Terraform abilities (like "Build Road") are selected in the editor. NORMALLY, a unit must have all of them checked for the game to recognize the unit as a Worker and use it accordingly but, interestingly, the "Fall Of Rome" Conquest has both "Build Road" and "Build Fort" selected. I've seen many discussions about adding the latter ability to a unit ( ) but none about the former ...

Best,

Oz

 

[Bluemofia]

I'm going to request a Fencer, modeled after this:





And some stances to consider:

Left is the lunge, right is the en guard position.



Salute (fortify animation would probably be default position saluting, then moving to the en guard position)




And a Youtube video of 1880s Fencing moves
Fencing moves

 

[Meteor Man]

My sister fences, and she loves it. I think this would be a great unit to have as well. Seconded.

 

[Ozymandias]

How about kind of like this?

 

[Ozymandias]

... Maybe this?

 

[Bluemofia]

How about kind of like this?

First one, I'm already using for something else, and also doesn't fit quite as well for the role I'm looking for.

And second one, I was unaware of. Do you have a link to the unit somewhere so I can look at it more closely?

 

[MeteorPunch]

It's the renaissance assassin.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=178

 

[König Markus]

@KM - Terraform abilities (like "Build Road") are selected in the editor. NORMALLY, a unit must have all of them checked for the game to recognize the unit as a Worker and use it accordingly but, interestingly, the "Fall Of Rome" Conquest has both "Build Road" and "Build Fort" selected. I've seen many discussions about adding the latter ability to a unit ( ) but none about the former ...

Best,

Oz

I was just referring to this:

 

[Bluemofia]

It's the renaissance assassin.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=178

Thanks!

Not quite perfect, but it'll do for now.