Unit Request: Portuguese Arquebusier

[raen]

Portuguese dont have only sea units, If they had only that they couldnt conquer or protect. Thinking of those that dont want a Sea unit in Civ3 for Portugal and for Portugal having a land unit, I resquest this unit:

Portuguese Arquebusier

"This figure represents a Portuguese Arquebusier in the campaigns of India in the XVI century. The figure was based on the tapestries of ‘D.João de Castro’ that illustrate the siege of the Fortress of Diu in India in 1546. This soldier wears a Portuguese Combed Morion and a Corslet to protect his chest. He is equipped with Matchlock Arquebus (name derived from the dutch word Haak-Bus) and a powder flask. The arquebus was the main weapon of the Portuguese in the XVI century. This soldier is dressed in a green doublet, baggy breeches, purple stockings and cow skin shoes."

 

[Steph]

Check the Cossacks conversion thread, you will find a Spanish 17th musketeer that looks close to this unit.

In the Fight back thread, you will find other Portuguese units.

 

[raen]

Originally posted by Steph
Check the Cossacks conversion thread, you will find a Spanish 17th musketeer that looks close to this unit.

In the Fight back thread, you will find other Portuguese units.

Thanks.

yes its close, If someby can change the colors and put a breast plate it will be almost perfect Someone can do this?

The unit is here:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showt...32068&highlight=spanish+musketeer#post1132068

 

[Flamegrape]

Originally posted by raen
Portuguese dont have only sea units, If they had only that they couldnt conquer or protect.

In 1516 the Viceroy of Malacca wanted to obtain a share of the China trade and put it on an official footing. He enlisted Tomé Pires, an experienced and successful Portuguese trader, to lead a trade mission that landed in Canton, "the port where the whole kingdom of China unloads all its merchandise, great quantities inland as well as from the sea." Initially both groups were equally contemptuous of each other; the Chinese, "hold the Portuguese in little esteem, as they say they do not know how to fight on land - that they are like fishes, which, when you take them out of the water or sea, straightaway die."

See this website:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/portuguese.html

Specifically, this page:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/vasco3.html

Portugal's primary strength at the time was sea power.

 

[Madeira]

I second this request