This AOE mod is developed by Ivindor. The mod aims at making varied looking generic units for different civs in AOE, thus enhancing the game quality and making it more historical accurate.
For the first time you will get a chance to control Chinese lancers when you choose Chinese,to control Arab cavalry when you choose Saracens, and to control Yari Ashigarus when you choose Japanese.
In this mod, you will feel a whole new gaming experience when faced with the the real collision between different civilizations. Different civs will have different cavalry and infantry in their own unique cultural looks, not like in the original AOE every civ uses the same knight..
Here goes the screenshots
Chinese vs Mongols
New units in this screenshot:
Chinese(blue): Lancer(new skin for Chinese Knight)
Mongols(orange): Heavy Cavalry(new skin for Mongol Cavalier), and a new skin for Mongol Hussar
Saracens vs Crusaders
New unit in this screenshot:
Saracens: Eastern Cavalry(new skin for Saracen Knight)
Now you can see a real collision betwwen the West and the East, not like in the original AOC everyone uses the same European knights
Japanese Army
New units in this screenshot:
Elite Yari Ashigaru(new skin for Japanese Halberdier)
and a new skin for Japanese Champion
Byzantine vs Turks
New skin for Byzantine Halberdier (shared by European civs)
New skin for Turks Cavalier and Janissaries
In this mod, I only modify the look of the generic units, stats remains as before. For example, a Chinese Eastern Lancer data is all the same with the European knight's , they only have different looks.
Very impressive. I agree it did look strange seeing a european man at arms in asia xD Cant wait for the extra flavour!
Hope you will get the barbaric civils like the Wikings, Celts, Huns, Germans (Goths) a replacement for their horses, In Europe they share the largest Horses the Shire Horses which get up to 25% bigger then the southern horses and were pretty intimitading at the time.
Langstrofsche-stubentiger.de
They are quite similar to the new cataphract look but on a bigger horse with less goldish armor and different weapon sets.
Page contains a few more eastern european units like the "balder" horsery archers from the Kiev Rus, those were swedish vikings the entered Russia in 900+ so this may give them a different look for the mounted archers.
Should make this mod for "The Forgotten" update.
it will already be..look at the faction list.
Nice idea to make different models/skins for each civ. I hope you'll release it soon :) good luck!
Very impressive; I've long wanted a mod that has appropriate appearances for non-European civilizations' units. A few questions/requests though:
-Will the Indians and Magyars from the Forgotten mod be supported in this? They shouldn't be too hard to do since the Indian units would be identical to the other Middle Eastern units and the Magyars would be the same as the Slavs.
-I don't really see why you can't have the Huns in the mod. You don't really need to make unique Hun units I'd think, the same appearance as Gothic, Magyar, Slav, or Mongol units would work. Besides, the less excluded civilizations the better, right?
-I think it would be best to include the Amerindian civilizations at some later point, since this appears to be a cosmetic mod if I'm not mistaken.
Any news ,4 month later :) ?
I'm afraid this mod is temporarily stopped, cause I don't have much spare time now. You know, way before I posted this thread I've already made this mod for two years, and two thirds of the graphics are finished.
Aww :o,so you are gonna leave it here for a bit.
PS if you are gonna plan to leave this mod at some time(hopefully not)it would be cool if you upload your current work for use since its better than nothing :P
Como baixa esse mod? eu gostei! =D
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