New unit: Roman/Hellenistic Siege Quinquereme

[Mithadan]

Originally posted by mrtn
You still need a land unit with the amphibious ability, iirc you can't enter a city from the sea, even if it is undefended.

Really? That sucks! I guess I was just remembering back to Civ2 or something. Oh well, good to know, thanks for giving me the heads up!

 

[Ozymandias]

*sigh* -- I keep looking at this beauty and thinking, "What if it had treads?"

-- There was an "alternate history" novel with the Roman Empire surviving into modern times -- sadly I cannot recall either title or author -- without competition, these latter-day Romans built just that sort of "land battleship" ...

... Any takers?

-Oz

 

[lukaspl]

Is anywhere similar to this naval unit a land unit? Romans were well-known from such wheeled-towers and I'd like to find it somewhere.
Just to collect some ancient units and make a big scenario

 

[Mithadan]

I believe Aaglo is going to make this into a land unit too, but that won't be for a while, I guess. Apparently he's on a bit of a "vacation" now.

 

[Amenhotep7]

By the looks of his sig, it's in queue.

 

[aaglo]

Yep,
sometime in the near future I will get on with it - again

 

[Thorgrimm]

Ozy the name of the book you were talking about was called the New Barbarians by Kirk Mitchell

Cheers Thorgrimm

 

[Ozymandias]

Originally posted by Thorgrimm
Ozy the name of the book you were talking about was called the New Barbarians by Kirk Mitchell

Cheers Thorgrimm

Ah! Thank you, Thorgrimm -- Do you think my imagining this beastie with treads comes near fitting the bill?

Best,

Oz

 

[Thorgrimm]

It would be spot on as the cover of the book has what looks like a trireme with a huge gun castle, with treads on the bottom of it.

Cheers Thorgrimm

 

[Gogf]

Uhg! I can't get it to work. Here's what I did:

Specify scenario search folder: "Basic Israel" (sorta odd for this unit, but still...)
Go to PediaIcons (in Basic Israel/text/PediaIcons.txt), and add in: "#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Macabee
Enkidu Warrior
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Siege_Quinquereme
SiegeQuin
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Three_Man_Chariot"

(included two next to it for clarification...)

and I got a cannot find file (in the game):

"Basic Israel/text/PediaIcons.txt
ANIMNAME_PRTO_Siege_Quinquereme"

Folders to animation in Basic Israel:
"Art/Units/SiegeQuin"

What did I do wrong?

BTW: I got this after a built my first one, and I made the fortify animation "SiegeQuinDefault", as well as default being "SiegeQuinDefault".

 

[aaglo]

You should check if there are any additional 'spaces' in {HERE} (there shouldn't be any spaces there) :

#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Siege_Quinquereme{HERE}
SiegeQuin{HERE}

And also re-check all the spellings (in the editor, ini-file and txt-file) - for the additional 'spaces' too.

 

[Gogf]

Thank you.

 

[Gogf]

Well, I got it to work!

 

[Gogf]

Uhg! I can't get the icon to work. I put the image files into the folder with all of other other units, and did this:

#ICON_PRTO_Macabee
art\civilopedia\icons\units\x2_Endiku civpedia lg.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\units\x2_Endiku civpedia sm.pcx
#ICON_PRTO_Siege_Quinquereme
art\civilopedia\icons\units\SiegeQuinLarge.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\units\SiegeQuinSmall.pcx
#ICON_PRTO_Three_Man_Chariot
art\civilopedia\icons\units\X2_3ManChariot civpedia lg.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\units\X2_3ManChariot civpedia sm.pcx

So, shouldn't that be the right icon? Well, I keep getting (in the qeue, haven't checked civilopedia yet, but's it's probably okay there) the icon of the one I have it set to in the editor (destroyer). How do I fix this? I can't edit the icons sheet, and there is no icon that correlated to this unit. What do I do?

Thanks in advance.

By the way, my Basic Israel mod will feature this unit:

A.D.M/B.R.ROF: 2.1.2/4.1.1

A little strong, but all civs can use it. Upgrades to frigate.

 

[Ozymandias]

You misspelled "Enkidu".

-Oz

 

[mrtn]

Those are just the civilopedia icons, you have to add the right icon in the units32.pcx to get it to show up correct in the build queue.

 

[Gogf]

Ozy: I didn't change how they have it. I have not changed the file name of it in the following screenshot, look it up yourself:

mrtn: How to you edit it? I can't find any "paste" option. Please help.

 

[Ozymandias]

Originally posted by Gogf
Ozy: I didn't change how they have it. I have not changed the file name of it in the following screenshot, look it up yourself:

They misspelled THEIR OWN UNIT!

 

[Gogf]

Yeah, they did, but help me with this icon thing, please.

 

[mrtn]

Firaxis has been crappy at spelling from the start.

Gogf: you need to have the right graphics software that can edit palettes. The most used are Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop.