New Animations

[dragases1453]

templar is doing a completely new animation for order brothers in arms with axe..they'll fight with two handed axe and they'll attack from high to down(sorry for bad english)...soon some screens

[Pompei the Great]

We need an animation for trebuchets, so they can fire like a giant sling. how about an animation for longbowmen with their left arm held firm vertically and the the right arm draw from the back and release (the left arm shouldn't move while the longbowmen aren't marching).

[Nikephoros]

and don-t forget the greek fire throwers...

[Pompei the Great]

...and animation for different types of swordsmen (Arab scimitar, Western European broadsword, Byzantine xyphos)

[Nikephoros]

i think maybe it's a little bit too much, for now

[Pompei the Great]

I see your point, but these animations would be good for the final product.

[PurpleScotch]

and don-t forget the greek fire throwers...

yea those were used by the byzantines

[Maethius]

...and animation for different types of swordsmen (Arab scimitar, Western European broadsword, Byzantine xyphos)

Do you have some image or picture of how the xyphos looks like?

[Pompei the Great]

http://www.hellenic-art.com/armour/sword.htm

When Rome fell, Byzantium became mostly Greek and Eastern related. Their sword, the xiphos, is the sword that the Greeks used as hoplites.

[Maethius]

Thanks for the link, and I do say that is one mean little sword. :original:

Makes me wish, some times, that I were a knife/sword/weapon nut.

[Zenith Darksea]

Well, the xiphos fell out of fashion with the rise of the Roman Empire. The Byzantines mainly used the spathion/spathe (a longsword) or the paramerion (scimitar), though the paramerion arrived in the eleventh century AD.

[Maethius]

Hey, whater will do the slicing and dicing better is good for me.

[Pompei the Great]

It depends where you look. I've read about Byzantines using Greek weapons including the xiphos.

[Nikephoros]

i think we should need some new animations for the italian communal militia units (some kind of two-handed spearmen)