New Unit: Umkhumbi

[Orthanc]

This is a fictional african vessel, a 'what if?' ship, for if the africans had ever developed ocean-going navies like Europe did. The name comes from the zulu word for "Ship"

This was done by request, and I'll be making a few more smaller vessels with the same general design, eventually.

The file:
Umkhumbi

Preview attached, enjoy!

 

[Gojira54]

This is a fictional african vessel, a 'what if?' ship, for if the africans had ever developed ocean-going navies like Europe did. The name comes from the zulu word for "Ship"

This was done by request, and I'll be making a few more smaller vessels with the same general design, eventually.

The file:
Umkhumbi

Preview attached, enjoy!

Any chance of a screenie? Either a flic demo or even in-game screenshot?

I really like what I see so far, and may include it in the X-Mod if it looks as good as it I hope it does.

 

[Orthanc]

Alright, I do have a program (the Flic2Gif from these forums) for animated previews, but remember the quality isn't perfect with this program, the flics will look a lot better in flictser. Here's the run animation anyways:

 

[Gojira54]

Good enough to DL. In she goes. Now sailing civs with knowledge of Zebras may build it!

 

[LMR]

Very nice Orthanc

 

[Ekmek]

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

whats next?

 

[Zion_Withrow]

Looks Great.

 

[Spacer One]

just when I thought no more good units would be coming out anytime soon (as Civ4 is coming out soon) you pop this beauty out...very nice...

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Very, very nice. I was looking for more African ships .

 

[TopGun]

A much needed unit!

You make me really think about learning Pov-Ray....

 

[Steph]

For preview, you can also download Paint Shop Pro from jasc, and use the animation shop.
It give nice results.

 

[Bjornlo]

nicely done. You've done many nice units in the past; but of all the units to launch from Orthanc's shipyard, this one is my favorite.

 

[Supa]

Oh, it's great !
For gif, you can use unFREEz. It's a loseless converter (gif->animated gif).

 

[la_dav]

Wowoooooo... nice ship, good !!

 

[tjedge1]

That is going into the Mystara expansion for sure.

 

[Rambuchan]

Good to have more choice in big sail ships! Nice one!

Where did you get the design of the sails from?

 

[Orthanc]

Wow, thanks everyone. The praise I get for my work is pretty much what keeps me going.

The next ship will be an 18th-19th century Schooner, and the sails for this ship were based on the sails in this post, which is in my Orthanc's Creation Thread.

 

[Vuldacon]

Orthanc...Great Ship and the Zulus Thank you for this Super Advancement

...Here is a Civ Specific units_32.pcx with correct palette for your Umkhumbi if you want it:

 

[Gojira54]

I just thought I would say I really do like this, and many of your units. Not sure I was clear on that before.

 

[Goldflash]

Does this have a cannon or arrow attack?