Hello,
I don't know how it goes here... Should I just ask for unit designs?? It feels a little bossy!
Here's what's in my mind:
a) I have not found early maceman units, which is kind of strange as before ~1200 BC there were few if any swords so most melee combat was either with spears, axes or clubs/maces. The famous image of Egypt's first pharaoh uniting Egypt for the first time by subjugating a competing king, has the pharaoh with a club for example:
Here's a reconstructed version:
Taking many models from several guys here at Civfanatics the closest I could get is shown in this picture. As you can see, it's far from "correct". The African, Inca, Mesoamerican, Native American, and Indian models are reasonably acceptable. The Middle Eastern and Eurasian (Central Asian) ones have the correct weapon but look "too dressed up" for an early unit. The rest are plain wrong, having the wrong weapon (I had to basically choose between getting the weapon wrong or the look wrong (there are macemen available but all medieval-well-armored looking), and I tended to incline to the former).
So would you get interested in early, ethnic, macemen??
b) I have not found a Mesoamerican (Aztec, Maya) simple swordsman, that is, an ethnic unit actually holding a sword. Most Aztec/Maya swordmen I've seen are either heavily armored, or have other weapons in hand but call them swordmen anyway. Some people have created units that instead of a sword use a neat historically-accurate mace-with-obsidian-blades, which is cool, but I'm looking for a "what if" unit with a sword. Would you consider it?
c) In Southeast Asia many (most?) sailing ships had canted sails. That is, one or at most two canted rectangular sail hanging from a top spar, as in the following pictures. As you can see, these ships had some times complimentary oars as in galleys, or no oars at all. The last picture should be considered the most accurate for medieval times, as it is a real drawing from the times by some european observer. "Prahus" is the carchall term for most southeast asian ships.
Maritime historians of Asian ships pay mandatory attention to the so called "Borobudur ship", a ship depicted in one of the walls of the gigantic Borobudur temple in Java. It is usually considered to represent a typical mid-size southeast Asian ship during the centuries preceding european intrusion, and it shows canted sails and an outrigger. Larger ships (as in the ship above this text) had no outrigger. Here's the actual bas relief and some stylized versions:
So, would you try a prahu?
c) Also in southeast Asia, war at sea was carried out mostly in oared vessels, many quite big with many rower-warriors. Although some models had a complimentary sail, it was normal not having one. Rowers seated in big outriggers (not on the ship main body!), while the central part had a platform for extra warriors. Raids and piratical activities in these ships were widespread and much feared by Europeans. In the Phillipines they were called Kora-Kora and some times the term is used to cover all like ships elsewhere. They looked like this:
Would you try a Kora-Kora?
d) During China's first empire (and somewhat before), when sailing was still meagre, war at sea was practiced in sail-less oared ships with a deck that eventually evolved to multiple decks. Later trebuchets were added, and then later firearms. Like in these pictures:
Would you consider making one of these "tower ships"?
Thanks in advance.
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