Today we're publicly welcoming a new Dev Team Member: PythagoreanBeans has joined us to redo ALL battlemap unit models! So far he has redone the Britons, the Anglo-Saxons and the Continental Germanic factions with the help of Urbgen and his new obsession: designing shields. Here's a look at the very promising results, starting with those of the Brittonic factions.
We all knew that, apart from the very inflated economy and the confusing buildings, Insularis Draco's unit models were one of its weakest links. A couple of months ago, though, we got an exciting screenshot from one of our Discord members: PythagoreanBeans. He'd started redoing some of the Roman units for fun and I decided to take him on board! Our first order of business was creating some officers, generals and kings and then we moved on to completing some missing elements from the amazing Roman roster by Fall of Rome's Razor.
Roman professional Funditores (Slingers)
We then moved on to Romano-British troops based on Razor's units. These guys look decidedly Roman, so they'll only be available in the 5th century and not after.
Powysian Legionmilguir (Legionaries)
Powysian Vindices Britannorum (Heavy Javelin-Sword Infantry) and Telu (Household Guardsmen)
5th century Imguanguir (Lancers)
Teilu Cernou (Cornubian Household Guard)
Then we moved on to the Brittonic rosters. We decided I should go ahead and make 4 levels of 6 shield designs for the Brit factions and then he'd make full textures for them.
Our resident Briton-expert Benfras looked up some excellent and historically accurate art from 5th-6th-7th century Britons and I adapted them into shield designs. Other elements were taken from the illuminated manuscripts. Here's a small sample of the results:
Cornubian noblemen tiers
Dumnonian mid-tier shields
Ebraucian Low tier shields
Powysian lowest tier
On to the units!
Minor faction Campguir (Champion Swordsmen) with 'generic' (non-faction coloured shields)
Minor faction Uchelguir (Noble Spearmen)
Gododdin Cledauciaun (Swordwielders)
Lowest tier shields from the Gododdin
Strathclyde high and mid-tier units
Gwynedd mid-tier units. Note the cloaks and different styles of historically accurate caps (Pannonian Pillbox and Phrygian) and cloaks (Based on the Birrus Britannicus)
The Telu Crabon (Bow-Longspear Household Guardsmen from the Kingdom of Craven)
The Torchauciaun (Torc-Bearers), the absolute pinnacle of Brittonic warriorhood.
One of our shields in use in a totally different game: the Bannerlord mod Anno Domini requested to use some of our designs!
Next time we'll have a look at the finished Germanic rosters which are a real sight to behold!
Wait, is the last picture from Bannerlord? o.O
Yup, from the Anno Domini mod, set in barious stages of the Early and High medieval eras. There’s more of our shield designs that made it!
Ultra sexy
glorious
wait till you see the Germanic units! PythagoreanBeans has really outdone himself
when will the new update released?
Annoyingly I am having the busiest couple of months of my irl career so I can't do any dedicated modding, but I do keep at it. If you wanna stay updated on my smaller edits, join the discord server where there are almost daily previews!