Egyptian Units

[Bakuel]

@callicles
Thanks! I’m glad you like the unmasked Knight. On the pants thing, I once read that the early robe wearing Chinese warriors used Chariots, after the introduction of horseback riding the Chinese warriors had to develop (that is to say borrow from Northern and Central Asian tribes) trousers in order to ride the horses comfortable. The Egyptian’s clothing might have developed similar; their warriors at the least have to develop pants. I just think that they would have worn a loose robe/pants combo like these guys,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/The_sortie_of_Messologhi_by_Theodore_Vryzakis.jpg
Perhaps some just wearing robes and short leggings so the knee down is bare. Of course I’m just talking about the robe/pants and how they fit together; I’m not going to make Turkish/Greek soldiers of the 19th century. Honestly.

Thanks Chugginator!
I’ll see to that armored horse, that’s a good idea and would make the guy look more medieval. About the Nubian bowman, originally there was going to be a normal Egyptian bowman too, this guy was more of a bonus unit I was making since the Egyptian were always employing Nubian archers. Sadly enough, while I was trying to finalize a design on the Egyptian bowman (black wig or cloth headdress thing?) for the update though, I got side tracked thinking about Egyptian rifleman. Since I said I would update today I just uploaded the finished units. Hopefully I’ll finish it some other time.

Added the missing pikeman screenshots!Sorry about that! It was 2:00 AM and I just wanted to go to bed, give me a break. The pikeman is loosely based on Kal-el's concept art.

 

[Chuggi]

Do you have BtS? There are some really cool armoured horses in the Charlemagne scenario. I can PM one to you if you don't have it yet.

Also I just remembered that an Egyptian archer came with Warlords anyway, so you can choose between the Nubian one or the Egyptian one I completely forgot about it before.

 

[Bakuel]

I live in the States, so I don't BtS have it yet. It would be great if you could PM a horse to me. Of course I would reskin it and rebone it to the companion cavalry animations before I upload it so I don't think I would be breaking any rules.

I forgot there was an Egyptian Archer, is there a longbowman too? I should check my files again.

 

[callicles]

@ Bakuel

I didn't mean to say that the Egyptians wouldn't be wearing pants, I'm just curious about whether they would be using the double-breasted, wide lapelled, tailed suit coats of European armies.

A google image search for "jannissary" has a lot of paintings that might be good models for your designs. Keep up the great work.

 

[Chuggi]

I think there's just the archer. I sent you the pm, also the armour on the horse is a separate mesh so it should be a lot easier just to move it on your horse than re-boning

 

[Bakuel]

@callicles I'm just glad someone supports my middle eastern robe/loose pants design.

A thousand thanks Chugginator! It's like a little piece of BtS before I can get my grubby hands on a copy, though it makes the wait even harder...

I'll get to work on the armored horse.

 

[NikNaks]

Cool. Could you do the same armoured horse for the Anubis knight?

 

[Bakuel]

That's a good idea! I'll see if I can do that too.

 

[NikNaks]

Brilliant! Any plans for other units?

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

if you ever move on to the Native Americans heres a unit lineup:

 

[cybrxkhan]

the new units look wicked! generic Egyptian, but thats fine. i think now for the gun units the hat should be Egypto-ish, maybe the rest of the uniform can be different, but i wouold see the hat as being pseudo-Egyptian...

but nice job anuyhow! wish i had time and the will to make some along with these!

 

[sepamu92]

The new units look great! I like the knight. Although, I don't know if Companion Cavalry animations is the best pick - those sickle things look more like a slashing weapon then a stabbing one.

And I'm looking forward to the armor too!

 

[Bakuel]

Thanks cybrxkhan! Don’t worry about the rifleman, when you look at him you will think, “Aha, an Egyptian rifleman.” Or maybe not that exactly, but something very similar I hope. The unit will look very Egyptian and have an egyptian hat.
You should learn how to make units too if you get the time. It’s not exactly hard or complicated, just time consuming.

@Sword_Of_Geddon
They look nice, the only thing that would probably change very much in them would be the medieval units will get some type of armor so they can go up against the old world iron/steel armor units. Since I’m helping with the Visimod it’s really up to Niknak93 what culture will get flavor units next after Egypt. But I’ll keep these in mind, I’m sure we will get to Native America someday.

 

[NikNaks]

As Native America has a fair few flavour units in BtS, we'll leave it for later.

 

[cybrxkhan]

You should learn how to make units too if you get the time. It’s not exactly hard or complicated, just time consuming.

no, im just kind of lazy sometimes. and my schedule is very unstable, so...

i'll be looking forward to the rifleman, then... and perhaps the marines and paratroopers and what not?

EDIT:

I also have a question for those who already have BtS: what kind of ethnical flavored units does Egypt share with? do they share with the mediteranean civs like the Romans, or with the Persian ones, or the arabic ones, or what?

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Thanks cybrxkhan! Don’t worry about the rifleman, when you look at him you will think, “Aha, an Egyptian rifleman.” Or maybe not that exactly, but something very similar I hope. The unit will look very Egyptian and have an egyptian hat.
You should learn how to make units too if you get the time. It’s not exactly hard or complicated, just time consuming.

@Sword_Of_Geddon
They look nice, the only thing that would probably change very much in them would be the medieval units will get some type of armor so they can go up against the old world iron/steel armor units. Since I’m helping with the Visimod it’s really up to Niknak93 what culture will get flavor units next after Egypt. But I’ll keep these in mind, I’m sure we will get to Native America someday.

Khmer could use flavor actually, and it will be hard getting pictures of their units at least concept art. But theres a few I can give you when the time comes.

 

[cybrxkhan]

the Khmer units couold be simply a generic Southeast Asian units. then, for example, their Marines could look liek VietCong.

 

[NikNaks]

Come to think of it, I don't know of any south-east asian units in the DB at all...

 

[cybrxkhan]

^there is a VietCong and Khmer Ph'kak (pikeman) unit, if i remember correctly.

 

[NikNaks]

I remember the Ph'kak now. Could you link to the VietCong for me?