(268) Unit equipment requests

[ealabor]

  This thread will be reserved for model requests and equipment feedback

Equipment request overview

7. Bronze cuirass chest with cloth sleeves
13. Leather cuirass with cloth sleeves

    Factional

Macedonian equipment:



Hellenistic Cities equipment:

1. Ovular shaped crescent shield

Ptolemaic Empire equipment:



Seleucid Empire equipment:

1. Persian Kapuris tunic


Iberian Tribes equipment:

2. Montefortino helms with facemask variants

Carthaginian equipment:

1. Bruttian style helms
2. Ovular shaped shields

Sarmatian equipment:



Dacian equipment:



Roman equipment:





Aid links:

Roman - with some Greek:
http://www.romegiftshop.com/romshielanar.html - mostly beyond the game date
http://www.myarmoury.com/feature_shield.html
http://www.by-the-sword.com/acatalog/Roman_Shields.html
http://www.esford.com/armouryroman_greek.htm - lots of good  still useable weapons, armors, and helms for the time period including a montefortino helm model

Montefortino

Iberian Coolus "Jockey Cap"

Additional Thracian helm models

Boeotian Helmets (Companion cav.)

 

[ealabor]

Done models

A: Roman Attic  B: Phyrigian  C: Thracian  D: Corinthian  E: Greek Attic  F: Montefortino  G: Illyrian  H: Iberian  I: Ectrusco-Corinthian

 

[Rosacrux]

Would you think about renaming the leather thorax to "Spolas"? It was the ancient Greek name of the hardened leather cuirass of the timeframe

 

[Merlkir]

a hastati tunic reskin. I realized too late I messed a bit with the mesh itself so it probably needs to be re-rigged. (also the mapping is to a native dds sheet..) Might serve as a better placeholder..

 

[ealabor]

very nice

 

[Rosacrux]

How about adding pactorale as a cheap demi-cuirass? (it came to me seing it in merlkirs pic  )

 

[Merlkir]

Roman shields (the patterns are from the well known painting. Not sure if EB would approve of it's authenticity, but RTR did ) (the polycount is about 135 and it's the same as the celtic red scutum..)

 

[ealabor]

Roman shields (the patterns are from the well known painting. Not sure if EB would approve of it's authenticity, but RTR did ) (the polycount is about 135 and it's the same as the celtic red scutum..)

they are gorgeous

really should add some robust flavor to the Roman lineup.

 

[SPQR]

looks fantastic 

 

[Merlkir]

OK, here are the files so far. The shields seem to be fine, BRF edit imported the objs no probelm. The hastatus tunic seems to be screwed, it won't load. Maybe someone with Max or something can figure what's wrong with it, the export function from Cinema might be broken...

http://rapidshare.com/files/102026345/RomansMerlkir.rar.html

 

[Lord_Kosmos]

Nice work Merlkir.
Those skins look especially good since they are not just photographs looking fresh out of the armory, but real "used" armor.
This would also be needed for the celtic shields (and other gear) since they lack this kind of "used" look

And I already thought you could only nag around , I'm glad I was wrong

 

[Merlkir]

the big nagger naga, that's me.   :mrgreen
They look so worn out because they're based on a photo of a real shield corpus and heavily painted over. I'm a bit sick today so the lines aren't very straight...

 

[LusitanCenturion]

Excelent work, Merlkir!!!

 

[Xenophon]

Can we have pugios? Please? I think they were in Gladiator for .808.

 

[Highlander]

Yeah, they were from Raptor. In Gladiator mod we had a sica too. I don't know if it was well done, though.

 

[LusitanCenturion]

Iberian Tribes equipment:

1.  Rhomphaias / rhompha
2.  Bronze breastplate (leather "jacket" with a circular plate size bronze disk covering chest)
3. Montefortino helms with facemask variants
4. Bascinet-type bronze helm (the shape of the helm conforms to the head)

Theres one thing lacking on the game and in the requests: the caetra shield, oneof the most used shields by the iberians. Its an little weird to have caetratiis with large ovular scutums instead of the shield that gave them their name. And most cavalry and skirmishers of the iberians used caetra like shields

 

[ealabor]

Iberian Tribes equipment:

thats a nice find. i'll certainly append it

 

[LusitanCenturion]

thats a nice find. i'll certainly append it

Iberian Tribes equipment:

1.  Rhomphaias / rhompha

I'm not an weapon expert but werent rhompaias thracian weapons?
If iberians are lacking some weapons are the falcata and maybe some factional javelins.

 

[ealabor]

I'm not an weapon expert but werent rhompaias thracian weapons?

Yes. Actually its supposed to be in the dacian or multi empire slot 

 

[LusitanCenturion]

Poorest of Iberians used javelins without metal point, just sharpened sticks hardeneds with fire. You could ask Chel from the EGII to their bear clan sharpened sticks as they would fit very well in the Yovaman (sp?) levy skirmishers and maybe in other low tier units.