Hero Renders

**Zenith Darksea** · November 25, 2005, 05:14 AM

Well, if you read about Idomeneos in the Iliad, he gets into a few scrapes. Or if you read about King Minos in say, Ovid's Metamorphoses, he gets all over the Eastern Med conquering people. When talking about the 'real' Minoans, it is extremely difficult to say one way or the other. They are generally renowned by the ancients though as having had naval supremacy of the Aegean. I think that it's much more likely that they did have warriors, but so little solid evidence survives that it's not easy at all to tell. We based our interpretation off 3 things, basically: 1. Their representation in myth 2. Surviving material remains and symbolism 3. General evidence from the Greek Bronze Age

**Zhuge_Liang** · November 25, 2005, 06:14 AM

Aias (Athens)

**Claudius the God** · November 25, 2005, 10:27 AM

That is Aias son of Telemon (Ajax) isn't it, not Aias son of Oileus (Ajax the lesser). He lookes great!, as do all the others! BTW will Paris and Aeneas be in the mod as well?

**Zenith Darksea** · November 25, 2005, 10:50 AM

That is indeed Telemonian Aias. I'm afraid that the Lesser Aias won't appear, or at least not in the first release. There are too many heroes as it is! Paris and Aineas however certainly will show up, and you can look forward to taking them and kicking some Greek rumps (or running away, if you're Paris).

**Zhuge_Liang** · November 25, 2005, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by The Sword of Cao Cao

Thank you m8! Thank you! You made her non-blonde! I hate blonde chicks, but you actually made Penninsula or Pennsylvania or whatever her damned name is hot!

God I hope you put her in a thong..

One of the Amazon Units is blonde, some levy archer i think

**Zhuge_Liang** · November 25, 2005, 11:59 AM

Thersandros (Thebes)

**Zhuge_Liang** · November 25, 2005, 01:11 PM

Agron (Lydia)

Alternate Achillies/generic phthia (Phthia)

Rhesos (Thrace)

**Osceola** · November 25, 2005, 02:44 PM

Awesome as usual! However eh... dont you think our Thracian friend's shield needs a little work? It's a bit... vanilla RTW'esque.

Oh and I loved that Minoan dude so much, I made his render my wallpaper! ^^

**~~Atheist Peace~~** · November 25, 2005, 03:03 PM

Damn...that's some great work you guys have done. I can't wait for this mod.

**bdh** · November 25, 2005, 03:15 PM

I knew you could get really accurate faces on skins! Finally some one did that! Those characters are excellent and very realistic looking

**Zhuge_Liang** · November 25, 2005, 03:36 PM

Odysseus - version one with no helmet & old shield (Ithaca)

version 2

**Zhuge_Liang** · November 25, 2005, 07:30 PM

Menelaos (Sparta)

only one more to go

**Zhuge_Liang** · November 26, 2005, 05:26 AM

Originally Posted by bdh

I knew you could get really accurate faces on skins! Finally some one did that! Those characters are excellent and very realistic looking

thanks

**Zhuge_Liang** · November 26, 2005, 09:17 AM

Thats all of them

Diomedes (Argos)

Zhuge

**The White Knight** · November 26, 2005, 09:32 AM

Hmmm... I don't like all of your renders because they're modelled after the actors in the movies. Please! I would 'accidentally' lose when Brat Pitt is commanding my army...

**Nobunuga oda** · November 26, 2005, 10:00 AM

Its unlikely they are gonna have perfectly good pictures of 1 man which was about 3000 years ago, they had to use the movie as a reference because there are not many sources on the war and they look good.

i have no idea what i said but i think it has meaning. :sign_what

**Zhuge_Liang** · November 26, 2005, 10:03 AM

6 of 15 are modelled after movie actors, and hektor, aias, and odysseus were due to requests that they be modelled after the actors. It seems that most people either like it or don't mind it this way.

As for Brad Pitt, it seemed right to include a vague likeness. It was either going to be for all myrmidonoi or achillies... and since there is only one achillies as opposed to potentially 100's of myrmidons we decided to go with achillies.