Byzantine unit DLC just curious

[Alexandre_007]

Thanks for the kind words! We put a lot of effort into getting these units right, so I'm happy to hear you guys like them so much : D And yes, please check out the africans too, they're a cool bunch, might be my personal favorite (camels! : D).

As for the shield, I'm gonna explain our thoughs on that one too : )

As I mentioned earlier, when designing these units, you have to take bits an pieces from maaaany different ages and eras in the army in questions (hence, we gave them the axe to remind everyone of the vangarians : ) ). Using a viking shield, we though was maybe a bit much, since we still wanted people to relate these heavy infantry guys to the byzantine troops. Looking at our historical sources, and the pictures we had at hand, the arab "teardrop" shield seemed much more common than the vangarians round one:
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/1796/byzantineinfantry1wf.jpg
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/9150/photo20058142124265mkjj8.jpg
(Pictures by the great, and late : ( Angus McBride)

THus, we went with the "most common" one, since the CKII-units are supposed to combine a lot of different aspects from the era/culture into one big "generic enough" look : )

Hope that helps! : )

awesome work Lando i love the way the lamellar armour looks on them

 

[tretii_sleva]

Is this DLC included in LoR? Or is it something completely different?

 

[nestorius]

Lando great dlc only thing, if its possible to change for some reason the new units are now also the new unit sprites for western slavs, possibly for other cultures too.

It doesnt really make much sense for Czech Polish and Hungarian to have Cataphracts, I would keep them with the same unit sprites as Germany. There were maybe a few other similar issues.

 

[unmerged(320188)]

Yeah the units are great I just kind of mistook the heavy infantry model to be based on Varangian guard but it seems it is made as a generic unit taking bits from some different historical units. Just a misunderstanding because of the axe hehe.

 

[Sleight of Hand]

So that's WAD, then? I noticed in my current Denmark game that the Baltic Pagans (Slavs) are using those Varangian-style infantry sprites.

 

[nestorius]

Great you changed it thank you very much.

 

[Sleight of Hand]

Great you changed it thank you very much.

What was changed?

 

[nestorius]

Bohemian heavy cavalry are no longer catathracts likely the same with poles and a few others need to reinstall though.

 

[Lando_Viggo]

Thanks for the feedback y'all! We really appreciate that you notice details like the vangarian touch on the Heavy Infantry, we put a lot of effort into getting these sprites to feel "right", and it's always nice to know that that is appreciated : D
Here's a line-up picture of the pack that we did earlier for a presentation, for those of you who wanna see what these guys look like up close : )