And they look marvellous! :thumbsup2
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And they look marvellous! :thumbsup2
Chainmail isn't necessarily European, chain mail hauberks nearly identical to those used in Europe were used and had been used in the middle east for quite some time.
Though, I may agree that there...
Awesome, these guys will be cool!
I am just wondering... will they have any armoured units? I've seen some pictures of armoured african horsemen (think it was DBA online), they may have been...
For cavalry it is a tie between the Mamluk heavies and the Knights Templar (can't wait to see both of these smash through my enemies, or being one and having a hard fight against the other)
For...
One excluding the other would only happen in individual cities/castles, not in the entire kingdom.
You could make the Templars and the Hospitallers mostly the same (at least the mounted version), but have the building they require give different bonuses. Say make the Templar's chapter house give...
The Daylamites are still going to be included in the game, though?
The mongols were simply masters of playing people up against each other, they were actually pretty admired by the Sunnis after they had destroyed the power of the Ismailis and before they wrecked...
Actually both should use fench (I assume Xenophonia will make that as well), as that was kind of the lingua franca at this time as well as latin which was used by the clergy to communicate which each...
There's just one thing I have to say before you do the generals...
I NEED TO SEE THEIR FACES! You see I hated the robot tin-can the Europeans had in MTW2... especially the captain model.
Nice that you point out that, longbows were not exclusively Welsh or English, in fact they were usually used all over the world were composite bows were not used, "if you can't make the bow stronger...
The wood they used was yew, which is mostly found in Northern Europe and is very good for making a large bow out of one piece. I don't think such longbowmen should be recruitable however, but they...
Well, 12 shots per minute is what a lot of sources say, so either the Englishmen couldn't achieve that rate of fire, or they didn't actually try to achieve such a high rate of fire. You also have to...
Here are some concepts from various Islamic dynasties in various centuries.
Firs up is a Turkoman leader, perhaps good for the Seljuqs...
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That sounds good, but then you should definately go for the Qara-ghulams and not some Bedouin horse-archers, they will then fill the need for "Mamluk horse-archers". Anyway Mamluk horse-archers...
Here you go! Not all are 13th century... though, they didn't really change much. Note the Mongol style armour, the Mamluks considered the Mongols a military ideals, both when it came to tactics and...
You're thinking about the later more advanced crossbows, with the earlier crossbows this is not the case, though they do take longer to draw and then you have to place the bolt on the crossbow, but...
Crossbows were very effective, and at the time it was the most popular weapon for professional soldiers. I said it was simple to make, but I said it took a long time, I'm not a bowyer and I don't...
Crossbows are actually very simple to make, you just have to know how, me and a friend once made one. You just have to have the bow (which we already had), which may or may not be composite, it's not...
That's true, but it's also true that they were usually used to fire at a flat trajectory, rather than an arced trajectory as one did with bows, hence they should have shorter range according to how...
Concerning Richard and longbowmen: I've never actually seen any real historical sources for the use of longbowmen by Richard I, save for the Crusades trilogy by Jan Guillou (a very good book series,...
You could use "Harafisha" the one that means "rabble" (or something), as I said it was often used when talking of infantry or simply "soldiers of lower value".
I've never heard of this, but it actually sounds more like a mercenary unit, if you ask me. Like the 5000 Turkomans.
I think there should be a few Arab mercenaries hanging around in the Middle...
Anyway concerning the Maghrebi marines, they don't necessarily have to be "Maghrebi marines" they could just as simply be "Egyptian-" or "Coptic marines", as most sailors and marines in the navy were...
Couldn't they just use on the Ghulams made my Strelac? Preferably the light one.
Wait a minute hasn't that been said in this thread earlier, that they were going to just be Strelac's light Ghulams?...
Just thought I'd share something on this, as I think that this is a unit you should include in the mod (likely only one unit)
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/6286/futuwa1vf1.jpg...
Well... ok, then :laughter:
Would it really be more work using a low tier infantry model from the respective faction than using one of the levies? I guess both models would have to be edited by removing main weapon and shield...
Hey, I was just wondering wheter or not you are going to include new skins and models for the crews of siege engines as well as the Naphta throwers for the first realease.
I think it would be...
:thumbsup2 Can't wait to use this army against the Franks!
By the way: Will the Nubians have new models or will they just be reskinned versions of the Abbassid Nubians? And the Qaraghulams, what...
Still looking great, AlphaDelta! :smile:
The Ayyubids, I like how they fought in history, and I absolutely LOVE what AD has done for them so far, plus I want to fight the Crusaders and and rule Egypt and Syria.
Damnit! I knew they would out-badass everything when mounted! :thumbsup2 Also I notice that the lances are made of bamboo, nice detail! :thumbsup2
*Read what I added to my last post
A name you could use for the infantry would be "Jund", as far as I remember this is the name of the old Arab provincial armies, which consisted of tribal...
Yes, those are the ones I meant! You read my mind.
I like the guys with the helmet, large mail coif and the coat (many of these should have armbands with Arabic writing, I think, as you can see...
Looking good AD, can't wait to see them mounted! :thumbsup2
And a question: Will the Ajnad infantry by any chance look a little like the foot soldiers seen in Kingdom of Heaven? :P Just guessing,...
Look at the Osprey guy from this picture...
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/3135/tawashi2nz1.jpg
If I remember correctly the description of this guy in the Osprey book "Saladin and the...
Also don't make the same mistake that Caius made with his Crusades mod, he made wonderful models and skins, but I was a bit disappointed when Muslim cavalrymen wearing chainmail AND iron lamellar...
Looking great, can't wait to surround and annihilate those arrogant knights with these beasts.
The mod will also for once teach that European armour was not actually any heavier than Middle...