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I believe the LOEG Nautilus has a ramming attack, a torpedo attack, & some type of cannon. But that's from fuzzy memory. Probably the ramming attack wouldn't translate well into a civ animation. I also have vague memories of a grapple maneuver where tentacles come off the front. Use your judgement, unless somebody else has a clearer recollection.

For the landship I'd say go with easier to animate. You're the best judge of what will look good in game.
 
Oh I did a ramming attack already for my old Nautilus so thats not a problem
 
Anyone know how big the LOEG Nautilus is? I have not seen any concrete numbers online.

I found a description of commentary on a DVD by John E. Sullivan who did visual effects for the movie in which he describes the Nautilus as 900 ft. long. (though he shrinks it to 300 ft. to fit in the canals of Venice - an obvious flaw in the movie).

I also found a description of a model which has the dimensions 34" L x 6" H x 3.5 W

On another site, a 1/700 scale Nautilus is described as 43 cm (~1.3 ft.) long.

Maybe that helps?
 
Hey Balthasar, I wasn't being sarcastic. I meant it's good that we're on the same wavelength. I would be leaving more of these choices to you, but I know how full your plate is right now. Our agreement on the landship's look and the Nautilus show that all our back-room discussions have been worthwhile. I'll have to get the requests thread list updated to include Wyrmshadow's work.
 
Allow me to digress for a moment and post some ideas I have for our Barsoom Units:

Orovar & Firstborn Units

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The Firstborn could conceivably be a separate Civ.... So could the Lotharians (Yellow Martians) if I could find appropriately fur-clad asian units...

Barsoomian Beasts

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Obviously, the Civ units shown are placeholder suggestions until we can get someone to make a set of Barsoomian Beasts.
 
Wyrm, the Nautilus preview looks brilliant. And for the Well's Landship, if you haven't done it yet, i'd go for the broadside with a rotate. The Steampunk Rhomboid turned out great too. These units have got me excited about steampunk again.
 
Great work on the Orovar unit lines Balth. I like the idea of having separate civs for the Firstborns and Lotharians - Mars is certainly big enough on the map to accomodate 4 civs. The only downside is the extra work it's going to cause.

The beasts would be great if we could get bespoke units made for them but I just don't like the placeholder suggestions all that much. The thoat and the calot are ok but the rest just rob that sense of the otherworldliness that the Barsoomian Beasts should impart.

edit- here's a yellow martian to start you off: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=100279&highlight=yellow
 
I'm writing this from my phone so excuse the brevity.

Keep in mind that I'm not actually taking unit requests. These are all things I've wanted to do at one point but only now have I gotten in the mood to make them. The first steam tank was really just a coincidence of timing. The rest I just got off on a tangent from WW1. The Wells landship and LXG Nautilus were things I always wanted to do, so now I have an excuse to make them.

That being said, don't try to flood me with requests for the mod. Just because I'm here now, doesn't mean I will be here next week. I've got broader things to do.
 
Completely understand Wyrm. I'm just happy that you are making units that we can use in the scenario.
 
Last night I spent about 7 hours trying to come up with a good attack.. Then had to trash it all because couldnt make it look the right way I wanted. So after all that I went back to my old standby type of animation.

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But now I have to trash it all again because as you can plainly see.. it's too freaking big.
 
The landship is done.
 
I'm finishing up the Nautilus today. It will be the last steampunk unit.
 
Shame. I think these units are some of your best work. I hope you enter one (or all) of these into the monthly competition. You have my eternal thanks for such impressive input into the project.
Seconded. Short of the competition, it would nice to see them grace the new downloads announcements.
 
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