New unit: Roman Pikeman (22nd May 2005)

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

I'm glad you knew what I was talking about Xen...

Plotinus, I actually have absolutely no idea what the commerical was selling, but whatever the case, it was a cool commerical that will probably remain in my mind forever.

 

[WildWeazel]

Great unit, Zulu! This is one of the best units I have seen from a new creator

 

[Mithadan]

screw civ 4, I ain't gonna stop modding Civ III until zulu stops making units!

 

[tjedge1]

Wow, can't believe I missed this one. THanks for bumping it so I could find it. I now can get rid of the ugly Thyatian graphic I had in place in my mod. Great look. Good work Zulu!

Note: Thyatis is a fantasy nation in the world of Mystara that was based on Roman and Byzantine empires.

 

[Olaf_The_Great]

two me it seems to be a etruscan hoplite(or a very early roman hoplite when they still had them

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, is that the "christogram" on his shield? (a greek R (P) over an X) If so shouldnt this be a byzantine unit?

 

[Plotinus]

Re-read Zulu's post 13!

 

[Kyriakos]

you mean post 15 i guess. But there isnt anything there about the byz empire. The christogram is one of its symbols though

 

[Ares de Borg]

I use it as Skoutatos, the byzantine medieval infantry. It looks practically the same.

 

[Plotinus]

The Chi-Symbol isn't intrinsically Byzantine. It's just an early Christian symbol, and one which Roman troops had on their shields from the early fourth century onwards. So if Rome had survived long enough to make it into the early Middle Ages and start building Pikemen (in Civ terms), they would have had the Chi-Rho symbol as well.

 

[Kyriakos]

I didnt know about early use of that emblem, however the christogram (which just means: "letter of christ", 'christoletter' ) was definately in byzantine flags of a late period; iirc in the nika flag (remember the nika stasis?)

 

[krazydude]

This looks very very nice