Coolest Roman unit yet- the medieval infantry replacement!

[Xen]

well, one day I was thinking about what kind of a soldire would make a good midieval infantry unit for the Romans- had to be heavilly armoured, but it also should be based on what Rome had...

anyway, after playing a little civ, in one of my ever so rare bouts, I got to thiniking "hey, enginerring shoudl really be alot earlyer, considering Roan mastey of it..." (well, it wasnt that, but it was kinda close to it ), any way thats when it hit me- in civ3 terms, ROme actually survived quite a few techs into the middle ages- after all, if Cataphracts replace knights... well, I started looking for troops before the rise of cataphracts to fill the role of a "super heavey legionary"... and I found it

now, after looking at that undnyabley kick ass portrait of one of the mighty forms of soldires Romes used to kick everyoness collective asses with, you may wonder, "well Xen, what the hell did you find, and why are you pissing me off with a long story?"

well the answer is, I remember reading about a forum of "super heavey legionary" used in Emperor Trajans campaigns against the Dacians (the last of the people within the Thracian culture I might add), and as for the story, well, tough luck

any way, this sort of takes care of multiple birds with one stone-

A)a history based Roman replacement for the medieval infantry

B)a unit that makes sense in its placement given real history

C)a all around kick ass unit

this unit, in a way, extends the life time of the legionary unit, at least graphically, an dmakes sense- a VERY strong offensive unit right before the dominace of cavalry in old world armies...

 

[Xen]

dont be afraid forum browsers- post your opinions!

 

[Costa e Silva]

Someone have converted the Phalanx of AoE, that in red collor civ, become very similar to this infantry that you propose...
I use that for this.

 

[Zeekater]

It looks quite a lot like the civ legionnaire.

 

[Xen]

@Costa e Silva- ALL the AOE conversions SUCK

@Zeekater- thats the point- its SUPPOSED to look like the legionary

 

[Zeekater]

I don't get it, you want this unit to be created right? Who is going to create a new unit, that looks exactly like one we already have?

 

[Xen]

Originally posted by Zeekater
I don't get it, you want this unit to be created right? Who is going to create a new unit, that looks exactly like one we already have?

it dosent look exactley like it, if you would take the time to look, there a great deal of differnces- but thats only if you would take the time to look

as for who would create it- good point, my main man Utahjazz is out of action for the time being, so I will appeal to a differnt artist for the time being I have a few lined up- some skilled animators, and redorists who could all do this unit great justice, and IIRC, dont have a great deal on there plate at the moment

as a note, I've encounterd reasoning the same as yours before, but I still was able to get several cataphract units, and a late ROman infantry man out, and the legionary fulminata, a very "what if" oriented unit in production

 

[Kal-el]

that looks cool, I think I will draw a larger version of that and maybe make a couple of alterations.

 

[Xen]

Originally posted by Kal-el
that looks cool, I think I will draw a larger version of that and maybe make a couple of alterations.

ooo! like adding a helmet crest? your the best Kal

 

[Dom Pedro II]

I use the Civ3 Legionary for the med. infantry replacement and BeBro's Legionaire for the old spot. But I know you don't like BeBro's Roman animations so I won't even suggest it for you, Xen..

 

[Xen]

right, besides, the stadard civ3 legionary just dosent look "heavey enough" to really fit in with the midieval infantry

 

[Jonesie85two]

i personally think that a heavy-legionnaire is a wise idea... although i do think that making a new unit which looks alot like the original with a little more metal on him/her is a little pain-staking a task for someone... but as for weaponry, i'm abit of a swordsman

hint hint

 

[Xen]

I swing to the sowrds man version myself as well, the pilum throwers are just to give a better round about veiw of the potential unit

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Looks nice. You're getting close to a complete set of ancient/early medieval Roman flavour units. Whats next Xen, Roman Modern Armour?

 

[Xen]

nope, modern ROman infantry ;p

 

[Jonesie85two]

maybe the odd roman ICBM...?

 

[Xen]

I dunno, those all kinda look the same to me

 

[Costa e Silva]

The unit i have mentioned look "heavey enough", and this was my point...
I just wanna put my current solution for that...
Dom Pedro had put the another current solution, the firaxis Legionary, but like you said, it isn't look "heavey enough".
So, i will continue to use the converted unit. If someone build a more "acuracy" unit i will be glad...

 

[Xen]

then you support the unit- the purpose of threads liek this isnt to point out that a crappy alternative exists, put to push the creation of an awesome unit like this

 

[Louis XXIV]

I'm guessing you want a unit besides BeBro's Imperial Legionary (it is a bit taller than the Civ3 Legionary, though)

The one on the lower left.