Units!
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Legions4Ever
Chieftain
Why does noone post here anymore?
CivPartisan
King
HELLO!!!
Now that's what I'm talkin' about!!! Good to see this thread in action again...What we really need are some new units that are unique and focused on new themes...POST THEM!!! There are a lot good units sitting on someone's hard drive waiting to come out...I just know it!!
John
Now that's what I'm talkin' about!!! Good to see this thread in action again...What we really need are some new units that are unique and focused on new themes...POST THEM!!! There are a lot good units sitting on someone's hard drive waiting to come out...I just know it!!
John
Jimmywax
Chieftain
Blasphemer, how dare you talk with such a vile tongue.
insurgent
Exhausted
They look awesome, gazza! 
Nemo units are just simply better, than those ugly thingies you call "high res"...
Nemo units are just simply better, than those ugly thingies you call "high res"...
insurgent
Exhausted
Exactly...
anarchywrksbest
Deity
My Star Trek graphics were high-res and I am sure you will admit they were great 
CivPartisan
King
I often find that there are literally thousands of Civ II units out there, but when you discriminate as to the ones you would ACTUALLY use, their numbers are often a bit smaller in scope.
Hi-res units are the result of mass-production for a lot of designers or contributors. Yes, we should all spend hours making each unit perfect, but sometimes (and I'm certainly guilty of this) need necessitates haste.
When I say we need more units with different themes- I'd like to also say, there is nothing wrong with finding ways to make existing units better! Nemo's units did contribute a lot to style and I would like to see other artistic renditions of units as well.
For what its worth, there is definitely room for hi-res, but lets face it- original art really rocks.
John
P.S. anarchy...thanks for the ST units man!
Hi-res units are the result of mass-production for a lot of designers or contributors. Yes, we should all spend hours making each unit perfect, but sometimes (and I'm certainly guilty of this) need necessitates haste.
When I say we need more units with different themes- I'd like to also say, there is nothing wrong with finding ways to make existing units better! Nemo's units did contribute a lot to style and I would like to see other artistic renditions of units as well.
For what its worth, there is definitely room for hi-res, but lets face it- original art really rocks.
John
P.S. anarchy...thanks for the ST units man!
anarchywrksbest
Deity
Dont mention it 
The ANZAC
Prince
fairline: good to see you here I didn't see that Tier before: I like it
I didn't see that Tier before: I like it Hey Anzac,
thanks for the welcome. I'm not so sure it's universal though after I dared to post some Nemo-esque units here .
Never realised there was so much strength of feeling against them. I'll know better in future..............
Isn't this thread supposed to be for graphics posts, rather than slagging off one particular style of unit presentation? (I guess I'm guilty of that when I brought up 'hi-res'). To my mind, as long as some time and effort, and hopefully a bit of artistic skill, have been put into a graphic it shouldn't matter whether they are stylised isometric or ripped from bigger pictures. I like both Nemo type and 'photo-realistic' units as long as they are done well. What I hate are scenarios with thrown together units files with no common style, often using the same crappy scans of larger pics without any care put into cleaning them up.
So lets see some posts of the best of both worlds.
thanks for the welcome. I'm not so sure it's universal though after I dared to post some Nemo-esque units here
.Never realised there was so much strength of feeling against them. I'll know better in future..............
Isn't this thread supposed to be for graphics posts, rather than slagging off one particular style of unit presentation? (I guess I'm guilty of that when I brought up 'hi-res'). To my mind, as long as some time and effort, and hopefully a bit of artistic skill, have been put into a graphic it shouldn't matter whether they are stylised isometric or ripped from bigger pictures. I like both Nemo type and 'photo-realistic' units as long as they are done well. What I hate are scenarios with thrown together units files with no common style, often using the same crappy scans of larger pics without any care put into cleaning them up.
So lets see some posts of the best of both worlds.
insurgent
Exhausted
I really love those tanks, gazza (or Fairline?)! And the others are good too.
And the others are good too. 
Morten Blaabjerg
Settler
Gonna post these in the right place, in order to not get caught in the fire of the increasingly silly ANGA-anti-ANGA nonsense... 
Naval units :
1st line, medieval ship types : knarr, cog, another cog, hulk, galley
2nd line, late medieval/early modern ships : carrack, caravel, another caravel, great carrack/nau, war galleon
3rd line, modern ships : corvette, 2 nearly identical 3-masted frigates, troop transport, small whaleboat/gunship
African units :
1st line : zanzibari workers, pioneers, shooters, porters carrying supplies, ammunition and ivory, and slaves/pathfinders
2nd line : manyuema warriors, archers, chief, pygmies, cannibals, steppe warriors, and ruga-ruga (raiders)
3rd line : H.M.Stanley, european officer, Emin Pasha, native garrison, interpreter, egyptian officer, and missionary
Naval units :
1st line, medieval ship types : knarr, cog, another cog, hulk, galley
2nd line, late medieval/early modern ships : carrack, caravel, another caravel, great carrack/nau, war galleon
3rd line, modern ships : corvette, 2 nearly identical 3-masted frigates, troop transport, small whaleboat/gunship
African units :
1st line : zanzibari workers, pioneers, shooters, porters carrying supplies, ammunition and ivory, and slaves/pathfinders
2nd line : manyuema warriors, archers, chief, pygmies, cannibals, steppe warriors, and ruga-ruga (raiders)
3rd line : H.M.Stanley, european officer, Emin Pasha, native garrison, interpreter, egyptian officer, and missionary
Jimmywax
Chieftain
Once again they are damn fine units!
Morten Blaabjerg
Settler
Thx
-I think it's time to end this silly hi-res vs. nemo thing... I honestly don't care so much how graphics are made... as long as they do the job and are pleasing to the eye. And I see a lot of damn fine work in this thread, regardless of graphical styles. Its a damn good thing that civ2 is still being played and has such active support, with so many new scenarios coming up and so much quality artwork being made.
-I think it's time to end this silly hi-res vs. nemo thing... I honestly don't care so much how graphics are made... as long as they do the job and are pleasing to the eye. And I see a lot of damn fine work in this thread, regardless of graphical styles. Its a damn good thing that civ2 is still being played and has such active support, with so many new scenarios coming up and so much quality artwork being made.
