PREVIEWS: Future works

[LouLong]

Originally posted by Dom Pedro II
Lou, actually, I knew that. I made the icon myself since the model had nothing to really make civ-specific.

Seemed satisfactory...

Sorry I sounded patronizing. I think it is OK but still rather funny on a boat ! And I wanted to share in the fun with the non-Chinese readers around !

BTW about your alternative cavalry.
I think it is in this thread (cannot find where) that someone requested a camel with a canon. It actually existed at least when Afghans sieged and took Ispahan. The camels had two small cannons on (one on each side). Not very powerful against walls but mobile and efficient against cavalry. If you were interested in that one, I can even find the name for it (z... something).
Of course they might have exsted elsewhere, at other times and with other names.

 

[Louis XXIV]

How are the Velites coming?

 

[ShiroKobbure]

I understood that he put the kanji for water on a boat, ^ ^
is the korean solider going to have a rifle, a spear, and a bow?

 

[ShiroKobbure]

dom, have you thought about making ww1 units? japanese ww1 infantry (just change the brown to black for chinese infantry), german ww1 infantry, ^ ^

 

[Dom Pedro II]

Lou, I didn't mean that you sounded patronizing. I just meant that it was very much an intentional decision. I just typed in "chinese water symbol" in Google images and this was what I got...

I figured boat, water, there's a correlation.... I couldn't think of anything else...

Louis: The Velites is already finished (rendering)... but it, like all of the other "finished" units still need to have the storyboards made.

Shiro: I haven't given tremendous thought to making World War I units, but I have been considering making a Chinese nationalist infantry. These, however, are low on the priority list since I'd rather make much more distinctly unique units....

 

[LouLong]

Dom Pedro, do you read your PMs ... sometimes ?

 

[Dom Pedro II]

hey hey hey... i got your most recent one but i've been busy trying to get these units done

 

[embryodead]

hey, it's saturday. you don't want to ruin my date, do you?

 

[Dom Pedro II]

Don't worry, you and your girl can still make the LAN party...

 

[Dom Pedro II]

Here's the design for the two Mongolian infantry units I'd like to do.... One is basically a replacement for the Musketman and the other for the Infantry (and maybe a third one for Rifleman since it doesn't make sense not to make one of those too).

But basically, the idea behind this is to take the regular Mongol infantry dress of the 14th century and apply it throughout the rest of the timeline. I mean, it can essentially work right up until modern times. The helmet is not unlike those used by countries in WWI. Furthermore, the Tibetans in their efforts to modernize the military in the aftermath of growing tensions with China just prior to the invasion used helmets strikingly similar to those used by the Mongols in the 14th century.

So the main difference between the two here is that the tunic has been shortened a great deal, the soldier has been given some pants and better footwear, the gun has obviously been modernized, and I think I'll give him a backpack as well.

 

[aaglo]

god damn those are nice

 

[ShiroKobbure]

yes ^ ^ those units are cool (^o^)//

 

[Risbinroch]

What about making even more differend kind of these mongol units? So that they can replace even more units? marines, guerilla, paratroopers etc? Different helmets/or hats, one with feathers etc? with and without backpack? submachinegun, automatic rifle etc? Just minor changes and you can make all the "modern" rifle units for the mongols... Other things: You could even mount one of these guys and make a cavalry aswell...

And oh, they look just lovely!

 

[Dom Pedro II]

Risbinroch: Yes, I was thinking of making more varieties of infantry for the Mongols using this uniform as a base structure.

But not cavalry however... for that, I already have a uniform..

 

[Dom Pedro II]

This is the cavalry unit I will be making. Though I may give him some pants...

 

[Mackel-Loos]

What kind of unit is it, Ming Cavalry ?

Do you have preview an armoured one ?

 

[Bóreas]

Is the GG elephant ready?

 

[Kal-el]

How are things going?

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Thats Kal-El's Knight of Anubis if I'm not mistaken.

Take your time on ALL of these units Dom Pedro, I've found that the more time is spent on something, the better it turns out in the end.

 

[Onza]

Guys, just a word in:
maybe I'm wrong, but... the Mongols actually did not have and thus did not use any infantry untill very late in the XX century... - They were and still are people of the horse and all they did was using lightning-fast cavalry attacks, especially with arrows and bows (the preferred distance fighting until their enemy were really weakened and then ended up the matter with one quick assalt).
Well, in fact, the did have infantry - as a small-numbered emperor-guard forces, but their horrible army was all horsemen.

Anyway, footmen were really tremedowsly useless in the surroundings the Mongols lived and in the warfare style they used. Even in Yuan dinasty of China (the one that was founded by the Mongolian Khubilai-Khan after the Horde took China and overthrown Song dynasty) the infantry was all the Chinese and the ethnic Mongols formed elite horsemen forces for quick actions and swift rides throgh the stepps.

The most fantastic example of devotion of those people to their horse-wars were the futile attemps of invasion to the Japanese islands from the mainland China:
they constructed thousands of huge rafts- you know to do what? - No. not to use them as a vessels for transportation of regular medieval warriors from their Chinese stronghold to Japan. - They tried to use the rafts as a pontoon-bridge to allow immense hords of the Mongolian cavalry to invade Japan through the gulf.
But - the chldren of the stepps did not take into account a Mosson climate of the Pacific Asia - a rather strong (but really just typical) typhoon-wind ("Kaze" in Japanese) destroyed the impromptu bridge and the invasion into Japan failed. The Japanese saw Will of the Gods ("Kami") in this events.

(the legend of the "Sacred Wind" was revied during WWII)

So... I would not mbe so sure about the "Mongolian infantry" - this is a very BIG fiction.