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[Ahiga]

Thanks to Imperator of Rome we've now got a legit Angon for the Germans.



I have to see how thrown spears look as projectiles. It should be terrifying but I want to make sure it doesn't quite look -too- weird. There may be the inevitability of victims with shields carrying gigantic angons pierced through them, but nothing I can do about that. Ignore the odd hand, that always happens in TWEAK

[Hadrien Ier]

I thought there was already a angon model in the vanilla game. If you want to minimize the possible effect you mention, you can do a easy trick by reducing the size of the model in 3DS MAX, assign it as the projectile in the VMD and use the regular size as the weapon. All the thing is to not much reduce the model to not looking too odd by contrast.

[Ahiga]

Yeah that's the trick I did, it worked well. And there is a quasi angon ingame, but the metal hardly goes down the shaft like a proper angon should (as Imperator of Rome's does).

I'll probably make it so middling Western Germans with angons use the celtic barbed javelin and the elites use this proper angon.

[Maximus183]

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[Ahiga]

Hard work but well worth it.

[Maximus183]

Yeah, almost done now. Little more than halfway through the original bunch, but I'm planning on adding 3 more variants, so we leave it at an even 20 rather than 17.

[eliasandersson]

Everything is amazing! And I find the sitting saxon king very regal, cool and nice. Please keep him that way!

[Maximus183]

Guess whoooooooo

[juanplay]

celts?

[Maximus183]

Correctamundo. For the next update we'll have another placeholder reskin added for the celtic factions. Features a lot of plaid and weird shield shapes.


Here's some more shots from that same battle. An ambush in the woods.

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When I say placeholder pack, I mean it's just there mainly to get rid of the vanilla stuff and to let you guys play around with some of the new stuff. The unit stats/roster/setup etc has not been changed in any way. This has also been done without any real thorough research, so there may be inaccuracies. Once we get around to our full rework of the Celts, things will be majorly improved.

[Black9]

Correctamundo. For the next update we'll have another placeholder reskin added for the celtic factions. Features a lot of plaid and weird shield shapes.

Very cool. I'm hoping that the faction-wide guerilla deployment will be removed and the faction balanced correctly, not like whatever CA was trying to do.

[Iulian Bashir]

Will the team reuse C:ROC Sassanid unit in FOTE?

[Ahiga]

I'll be porting over bits and parcels of it, and redoing a great deal else. So for instance the decorative mail + split tunic will be re-used (maybe mail redone), the helmets I edited from CA's will be re-used, the spara shields will be as will the oval shields. Some of the helmets we used as placeholders will not since we have better/CA models to use, and some armor will be re-used but others will be redone.

[lizardwizard]

Quick question, are you planning to do a quick update for the romans in the last roman so they look as good as the main campaign's romans?

[Ahiga]

I'm personally not - I don't own Last Roman yet, but if anyone on the team or a fan wants to they'd be welcome to.

[Maximus183]

Here's a little shot of one of the new Roman Emperor skins featuring a bodyguard tripping balls in the background.

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

Looks pretty dam good, he looks like a general though. Having said that after Theodosius and briefly Constantius III emperors didn't take to the field.
Another good general picture
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...85a5bd7c29.jpg

[Maximus183]

Yeah I realize that. But since we have the option to use Emperors as battlefield commanders there's gotta be something distinguishable about them. So all the fancy colours and gems and such will mostly only appear on faction leaders and high ranking generals. One of those game mechanics vs reality compromises I'm afraid.

[Dead*Man*Wilson]

Here's a little shot of one of the new Roman Emperor skins featuring a bodyguard tripping balls in the background.

Absolutely beautiful!

Spaniard! Spaniard! Spaniard!

[Hadrien Ier]

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