Updated - 2/25/2015 Viking Factions custom units. (For Viking Forefathers DLC)

[Zaskar70]

UPDATE - 2/25/2015 : Added another padded mail variation to the Viking ravagers and Viking Mounted ravagers.
Added 2 of the viking champions as officers to each new unit for fun.


Hi all, here are a few unit's I created for my own personal campaign as one of the Viking factions. I retextured the viking helmets and some chain to get rid of the horribly done gloss effects, somebody at CA went a little nutz with the gloss maps it seems.

I also made a bunch of new viking shield designs for them.

These units are not reskins but new units I created, I dont like to mess with vanilla so I just make new things .

1 Heavy melee (sword) unit.
1 Heavy axe melee unit.
1 Mounted axe melee unit.
1 Light tier 2 bow unit. (I found the nordic bows lacking later in the game)

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Download here: Viking_Ravagers.pack

[Slaxx Hatmen]

Great stuff Zaskar! Downloading now. +rep

[Aedh]

Beautiful units, man ! +rep
I especially love the shields (the shield design variety for the vanilla units is ... well ... abysmal)

[DramaBelli]

These units are pure real progressive metal combined with the best Death viking metal from the Northern Homeland, thank'u!

[Chris P. Bacon]

Nice units! What buildings do they come from?

[Dicer]

[Marcus Iska]

Very cool !

[5shackles]

Just the mod I'm looking for! Thank you.

[robtim92]

Beautiful units man! Are those custom shield textures? Also, what is the proper way to add multiple shield patterns to one unit, because every time/way I try to add multiple different shields, I get invisible units in game, or units without weapons and with blank shields.

[Påsan]

Love the shield designs! Add those round shields for all norse units!


Names are in style with Atillas viking factions, but kind of ...uninspired. Why do Romans get historical names and Vikings get stupid names like "Spearmasters"


Just call them Spear Hird or Einherjar or something else from Norse culture. Tons of stuff to choose from.

[hayesse7]

Thanks very much for this! love the archers.

[helmersen]

Beautiful! Do these apply to all the norse factions?

[ToonTotalWar]

Great looking units mate! + reps

[diegodmf]

Thanks!

[robtim92]

Just tested them out! Again great stuff, keep it up! + reps

[Spadde]

Amazing skins! Just got one problem, the units are extremely OP :/, could you nerf them a bit? I dont like steamrolling in my campaigns, I wanna make it believeable

[Zaskar70]

Beautiful units man! Are those custom shield textures? Also, what is the proper way to add multiple shield patterns to one unit, because every time/way I try to add multiple different shields, I get invisible units in game, or units without weapons and with blank shields.

With the release of Rome 2 CA implemented the texture array system for shields making it much easier to add many designs to one shield model.
The texture array file is exactly what it sounds like, an array of textures, or a list of the texture files you want the game to use on the shield model.

You can locate the texture array files in the patterns folder in the models_3.pack. To see whats in them you can right click them within packfile manager and choose open as text this will display the list of textures which you can then add to or delete as you see fit. The textures themselves will also be located in the patterns folder, these will all be diffuse texture files, the texture_array_diffuse will be the list the game looks at.

Hope this helps you out.

[Zaskar70]

Amazing skins! Just got one problem, the units are extremely OP :/, could you nerf them a bit? I dont like steamrolling in my campaigns, I wanna make it believeable

A nerf is entirely possible though I made sure not to be too crazy with them. The Hunters are less powerful than the elite germanic archers for instance though they have a faster reload. The heavy axe warriors and the heavy swords should be fine, the axe melee cav might be a bit too powerful, though you can change all this quickly using packfile manager in the land_units folder.

[Downey]

Damn Nice!

[VltimaRatio]

Looking very good. Any chance of replacing the bulging round shields with the flat ones with the new textures? For the raiders and so on?