New unit: Skeleton Archer (Jan 11th, 2005)

[aaglo]

How does an advanced skeleton warrior sound? Maybe a worn out breastplate, rusty shield and an axe/sword?

Well, we have the all-wonderful skeleton warrior already - and he has an axe.

I was thinking about trying to make a screaming skull catapult and a bone giant (see warhammer fantasy) for starters. We'll see if I can come up with any good ideas about that advanced warrior (I would propably make that ohe have a sword).

 

[Drift]

Anything related to this theme will be useful for me as well.

I forgot the skeleton warrior has a shield as well. Pretty strange as it's a very visible unit in MoM. The advanced warrior should really be something else than the axe/shield combo.

I'm not sure if you realize it yet, but making this unit was like a opening a can of wor... requests. There's so many units I could use from the skeleton theme. Mostly replacements for some of the not so good graphics of some death mage units in MoM. For example, if you ever decided to make a Skeleton Mage or a Skeleton Spearman, you wouldn't find me objecting.

Seriously, do what you want and whatever sparks your interest.

 

[aaglo]

Wonderful... and you managed to avoid the skinny bones problem that has been keeping me from animating a skeleton I made up.

Well, I'm not sure if I completely avoided the skinny bones problem. But hey, you can too - just do the thickness of the bones 'over'. Just like in all units for civ3 (IMO the limbs of the units should be overly thick because of the problem you have recognized above). I wouldn't mind if you had some skeletons in your closet. . .

 

[muffins]

Very nice

 

[Gomurr]

Bone Giants and Screaming Skull Catapults sound awesome, aaglo.

As for an advanced skeleton and what not, I'd just like to humbly point out that the Tomb Kings army lacks the vast majority of its skeletal units - general skeletal swordsmen and pikemen, Tomb Guards, bone horse arches and lancers, and the skeletal chariots are all unmade. If you feel like making skeleton warriors, I would request you look there for inspiration.

 

[aaglo]

...the Tomb Kings army lacks the vast majority of its skeletal units - general skeletal swordsmen and pikemen, Tomb Guards, bone horse arches and lancers, and the skeletal chariots are all unmade. If you feel like making skeleton warriors, I would request you look there for inspiration.

Indeed

Of those you mention above I feel moderately confident on making these :
- tomb guards
- swordsmen
- pikemen

I'm a bit hesitant on making these :
- horse archers & lancers
- chariots
Why? I'm not very happy (nor confident) with my animating skills on 4-legged creatures. Besides, I have issues with horses . . .

 

[muffins]

Why? I'm not very happy (nor confident) with my animating skills on 4-legged creatures. Besides, I have issues with horses . . .

But ... these are dead horses! All you would have to do is animate them laying on the ground. It would be Civ3's first ever immobile chariot unit!

Also, you could try ghostly horses that are semi-visible and peter-out into fully invisible at their lower regions, theyby avoiding legs altogether

 

[skam0073]

A skeleton horse with a skeleton archer on top will be amazing..
Great unit there aaglo

 

[tjedge1]

Any skeleton units would be awesome. I can use pretty much all of them.

 

[Plotinus]

That is one beautiful skeleton. Might be a descendent of the race of skeleton people they found in Egypt (hehe):

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4052&n=1

Love it! Proof at last!

 

[Yoda Power]

Wow !

 

[Snorken]

Very nice unit muff... er... aaglo!

 

[Steel General]

You continue to amaze with your excellent work!!!

 

[Portuguese]

Perfect!

Major flaw, at least for you, is: Now we all hope you to make a skeleton spearman, a skeleton worker, a skeleton settler, a skeleton swordsman,...

But as always, a excellent job by one who make us used of that

 

[Yoda Power]

Perfect!

Major flaw, at least for you, is: Now we all hope you to make a skeleton spearman, a skeleton worker, a skeleton settler, a skeleton swordsman,...

But as always, a excellent job by one who make us used of that

Actually he is maknig a Skeleton Swordsman and Spearman just as we speek

 

[Ivan the Kulak]

Crikey, what an evil unit. Makes me think of the original Diablo, hmmm, I wonder how a Diablo mod would work in civ3? I could see a nice big continents map made of dungeon tiles, with skeleton warriors and zombies and such running about. For tech advances, let's see, mummy wrapping, flesh stripping, and demonic possession come to mind. aaglo is going to have to make us some goat people and pit vipers and such though.

 

[Goldflash]

I dunno, Aalgo.. it looks pretty lifeless... HAHAHA BAD JOKE!