Unit Preview: Modern Legionary

Looking Good! And yes... you should make his pants (or maybe just a prt of his pants* Civ, specific. Not enough Color otherwise. Then again, this will be a UU so it doesn't Really mater, but... yeah.
 
Since this is such a UU, maybe you should leave it as is and not make the pants civ-specific.
 
Great Scott!
That looks really good kinboat! Absolutely astonishing.

About the civ-colouring: just make the scarf around his neck twice as thick :p - I think too, that this unit is so specific, that the regular amount of civ-colouring is not necessary :)

Good job, man! :thumbsup:
 
Aaglo wrote:
I think too, that this unit is so specific, that the regular amount of civ-colouring is not necessary

I agree with Aaglo, since this is very specific unit, the normal amount of civ coloring is not required. Also can you imagine this unit running around with Hot Pink pants? ;) :D


Cheers Thorgrimm
 
Excellent unit!! I aggree with those who say that Civ-specific coloring is not needed, or perhaps make the top of his helmet civ-specific. This looks perfect for the Yevon warrior monk UU in my FF game. :goodjob:
 
Wow! Normally I don't go for hypothetical time-line units, but this guy is freaking cool, Kinboat!
 
AWESOME!

I have to say, this guy is looking one fo the awesomeest looking guys anyone has made period.

afew notes-

-civ specific colour-
I agree with most other people in that the unit really dosent need it.:D though the only good looking place i can imagin would be if you made a bacback or somthing with the imperial symbol on it or somthing

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the other thing is the gun- or specifically the colour- this guy strikes me as either coming from modern times (which is what I was thinking when I first saw the art work), and really dosent have "wooden hafted rifle feel to him", and although I weoul hope you woul dmake a modern counterpart with a metal gun anyway (;)), I think this guy also has very a "feel" to him that he should have a metal gun as well- perhaps you could try it out with that color, and see what it looks like
 
Snipers still use weapons with woodworks (well, I don't know how to say it, but You know what I mean :) ).

And a guy with a rifle like that sends this message quite clearly:"WE DON'T WASTE BULLETS" ;)
 
:eek: Amaazing! Great job, Kinboat. I say no more civ-specific coloring. Who could confuse this unit?:cool:
 
aaglo said:
Snipers still use weapons with woodworks (well, I don't know how to say it, but You know what I mean :) ).

And a guy with a rifle like that sends this message quite clearly:"WE DON'T WASTE BULLETS" ;)


what armies are you talking baout? I know that at least in the US, no military equipment has any wood on it any longer- its all more or less military grade (I'm assuming, since thier are "gun metal" made items, that such a distinction exists) steel/ other metal...

besides, the Infantry man in civ3 represetns both WWI, and WWII type troops- no reason he cant have the rifle from WWI, but with a more WWIIish feel by making it metal
 
Xen said:
besides, the Infantry man in civ3 represetns both WWI, and WWII type troops- no reason he cant have the rifle from WWI, but with a more WWIIish feel by making it metal

Altough this is a sort of a threadjack, I'm gonna say this (sorry everyone).
I agree with you with the first part of that quote, but I strongly disagree with you concerning the last sentence. According to my knowledge only some submachine- and machineguns were completely made of metal. I have not seen any single-shot-rifles made completely of metal (all of them have had a wooden buttstock for example). As a matter of fact, I haven't seen a modern sniper rifle made completely of metal.
So making the weapon completely metal it would make it a very modern soldier.

uh... I think discussion is rather irrelevant. :lol: (It wouldn't bother me if those 4 pixels were dark gray instead of brown.. :crazyeye: )
 
aaglo said:
Altough this is a sort of a threadjack, I'm gonna say this (sorry everyone).
I agree with you with the first part of that quote, but I strongly disagree with you concerning the last sentence. According to my knowledge only some submachine- and machineguns were completely made of metal. I have not seen any single-shot-rifles made completely of metal (all of them have had a wooden buttstock for example). As a matter of fact, I haven't seen a modern sniper rifle made completely of metal.
So making the weapon completely metal it would make it a very modern soldier.

uh... I think discussion is rather irrelevant. :lol: (It wouldn't bother me if those 4 pixels were dark gray instead of brown.. :crazyeye: )

Hmm, Thor is probaly the only one who can anwser this Q about what the stock is made of. But the US uses for the most part cheap plastic for it's sniper rifles. :p And the M16 was not a bit of wood in it either. :D I know before the M16 most if not all of the worlds weapons had a wooden but. Through I think that was more in keeping with tradation then anything else. The only weapons that I know of that did not have wood in them were submachine guns and Machine guns.
 
if any more civ coloring is added I think a patch or stripe on the legs would be the place for it.

as for the rifle, keep it as it is, please. This is supposed to be WWI, so, as you know, the design you have going now is most appropriate.

fantastic work as usual.
 
Aaglo wrote:
As a matter of fact, I haven't seen a modern sniper rifle made completely of metal.

Sorry to continue this line of thought, but in the intrests of accuracy i needed to.
Aaglo sorry to bust your bubble, but i was a scout/sniper in the Corps for 12 years, and as my pic shows, our weapon does not have any wood what so ever. As a matter of fact, the US's last weapon with wood was the M-14.
Even the M-40 winchester sniper rifle has a plastic buttstock. The nickname for the M-16 was the 'Mattel Toy'. As it's plastic parts were made by the Mattel toy company.
The pic is an M-82A1 Barret .50 BMG sniper rifle.

Cheers Thorgrimm
 
He looks good except for one thing.. he's fat. I'd like to see him closer to the size of the Firaxis American, British, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and normal infantry unit. Also his pants need to be more WWI/WWII style where they aren't as long as normal pants and socks are hiked up. Still it's a nice job.
 
Looks great as it is :thumbsup:
 
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