Recent content by Bakuel

Thanks, it's good to be back. :D

I'm still alive. Numerous life and work issues as well as personal idiocy has kept me away. But I've decided not to let this project die. The Java and Malay Industrial units *will* be coming soon. Hopefully next week. Until then I uploaded a British Napoleonic Light Infantry unit...

The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army. Formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts and skirmishers, they were soon renamed the "Rifle Corps". In January 1803 they became an established...

Sorry for the pause, I'm still alive. I've just been busy at work and the modding has slowed down. I'm still making the units though, just at a bit slower pace. I'll try to finish up the rest of the gunpowder units for Java, Maya, and Aceh sometime this month. Hopefully I'll get some Japanese...

I'm not *too* worried about doing the Xia Dynasty/Pre-Shang era as there are little to no good primary or secondary sources for how armies looked during this time. I'll probably just make a pre-Shang Warrior and Scout based on basic clothing from that era. I actually plan to combine the...

Sword of Geddon is right. While we know through archaeology that there was *some* form of complex bronze age society in northern China before the Shang Dynasty, (1), no one knows how it ties in with the Xia Dynasty found in the Chinese historical records which where written centuries later. Some...

You're right, Japan only begun to import horses in large numbers sometime around the fourth century or so. By this time, chariot warfare had been obsolete for centuries in the mainland. By the way, sorry for the slow responses and unit making, I've recently started a new job. The next batch of...

Thanks for the kind words! I'll try to post some more units in a few weeks. Don't worry, I plan to make ancient Japanese units. The Japanese ancient unit pack will probably have a Jomon warrior and scout, plus various Yayoi and Nara units. The medieval pack will be based on the long period...

That's interesting, how powerful were whalebone crossbows? That's probably further evidence for Karl Friday's expansive animal materials theory. How many whales did ancient Japan bring in a year and how expensive was whale bone? I actually went off in a tangent and I saw that hand harpoon...

Thanks for the pictures, I'll use the stone crossbowman as a reference when I get to Japan. The basic dress is historically accurate, even if the weapon is odd. Besides, he's wearing one of those nifty hats, I love those things.

Thanks! That's a much better explanation! Don't forget that early Song fire lances were mainly used in sieges. I don't know that much about pre-sengoku era Japan (12th-15), but I'm pretty sure that sieges were rare. With the lack of massed armies there would have been very little use for...

Thanks for the kind words! :D I wouldn't blame the Firaxis 3d artist too *much*, they were probably expected to produce a complete art style, map graphics, leaderheads, unit models, and animations within 2-3 months to parade in front of the producers and money men to show how much work was...

Thanks for the kind words! I'm going to do some industrial units for Malay, Java, and the Philippines then I'm going to make some Khmer units.

Thanks! :D And here is the horsearcher! Sorry for the month wait.

Xyth requested a generic South-East Asian horsearcher and here it is. It uses the same model as the Javanese Horseman in my Java Ancient Unit Pack (Mataram). Horse archery was never very popular in South-East Asia but there are a few odd references to its use on the mainland. Supposedly...