More historical proto-vikings (Reskin mod)

[PaleBlueDot]

A few weeks ago, I requested a mod here which would turns all Viking DLC unit shields circular, as pretty much every shield found or depicted between the roman and viking age in Scandinavia has been a round shield. I ended up making the mod myself, and went on to alter unit clothing, faction colors and shield textures. I created this mod for myself, but would be delighted if others enjoy it as well.


- Light mod: No stats altered, only skins/textures and viking faction colors. Unit balance etc is in no way affected.

- Most units now have a large round shield. Some lights such as hurlers, pikemen and horse raiders keep small bucklers. (Large shields would make little sense stat-wise.)

- Typical Nordic Iron Age colors scheme (lots of deep blue and reds. Optimized for danish faction colors, but Geats and Jutes are altered as well.)

- Greater variety of Armours between individual units, reduced variety between unit types. Most units now wear cloaks, as iron age germanic warriors frequently wore.

- About 50 new shield textures created. Inspired by Scandinavian iron age/Vendel/Sutton Hoo/Illerup Ådal motifs: Odins crows, The midgard Serpent, simple patterns and contrasting colors. While it is very tempting to add familiar viking knotwork designs such as Oseberg style, these artistic styles were not developed several centuries later and were therefore omitted. Elite units generally use shields with more uniform and elaborate patterns than lower-tier units. Generals bodyguards and officers carry identical shields.


Link to full imgur-album: http://imgur.com/a/xtKXb#0


Nordic Levy:



Disclaimer: I am not a historian and did not aim to make this mod 100% historically accurate, only an improvement over the vanilla units.
I have no previous modding experience and would appreciate feedback if coding errors etc are found. I have not had any problems using the mod myself.
Feel free to re-use my textures, although credit is appreciated.

Edit: An additional version with some females in low-tier units such as nordic band and Levy has been added. (viking-reskinned-females.rar)

[GPM26]

Thanks for sharing your fantastic work. Downloading now. Brilliant would vote this up if there was a feature!

[PaleBlueDot]

Thanks for sharing your fantastic work. Downloading now. Brilliant would vote this up if there was a feature!

Thanks very much! I will share the mod on Reddit if people here like it. Then perhaps someone there will upvote it for you!

[Marcus Aemilius Lepidus]

Stunning units!

[Harðurāðaz]

Cool!!

[Delicate Strawberry]

These are amazing, great work! Would it be possible to have a version where the women are still included? Not a major issue, but the nordic spearmen card has a woman on it. (I think )

[GODzilla]

These are amazing, great work! Would it be possible to have a version where the women are still included? Not a major issue, but the nordic spearmen card has a woman on it. (I think )

Second that. I know it might be unrealistic, almost certainly even. Yet I currently enjoy watching the third season of Historys "Vikings" alongside playing the Danes in ATTILA, so women warriors are definitely a strong theme lol.

Maybe you could make it so that the northern factions have less women in their ranks compared to their southern brethren. Historically the southern tribes were much more pressured by both the romans, later the huns and women have known to partake in battle only under extreme circumstances, when the survival of the whole tribe was very uncertain for instance.


PS: But where are my manners, really now. This is the most impressive reskin-mod I've seen to date. No offense to the other modders, really, but you find the right balance between variety and realism. Again, no offense, but other reskin mods add an insane amount of very different shapes and colors to the shields and I found it unlikely that every single soldier makes and paints their own shields with unique pattern.

As with every profession there are most likely those in every tribe who specialize in making stuff. A smith makes the weapons, another makes bows, one builds ships and one makes shields. A natural thing imho.

Or in short: A bit of understatement is very welcome. I just feels more...authentic. Adding +rep in a second.

[Chris P. Bacon]

Very awesome!

Second that. I know it might be unrealistic, almost certainly even. Yet I currently enjoy watching the third season of Historys "Vikings" alongside playing the Danes in ATTILA, so women warriors are definitely a strong theme lol.

Maybe you could make it so that the northern factions have less women in their ranks compared to their southern brethren. Historically the southern tribes were much more pressured by both the romans, later the huns and women have known to partake in battle only under extreme circumstances, when the survival of the whole tribe was very uncertain for instance.


PS: But where are my manners, really now. This is the most impressive reskin-mod I've seen to date. No offense to the other modders, really, but you find the right balance between variety and realism. Again, no offense, but other reskin mods add an insane amount of very different shapes and colors to the shields and I found it unlikely that every single soldier makes and paints their own shields with unique pattern.

Or in short: A bit of understatement is very welcome. I just feels more...authentic. Adding +rep in a second.

I know the feel Godzilla

[GODzilla]

Very awesome!



I know the feel Godzilla

Exactly. I really can't judge how historical accurate the show is. I've seen some pretty silly documentations on the History channel, where for instance they tried to copy the style of the movie "300". The movie was fun, but it wasn't meant as a documentation, not in any way.

The term I usually go with is authentic. The amount of different colors and shapes on the all-round shields in the show "Vikings" feels authentic and to me it makes sense to invest a reasonable amount of time in something that gets scratches, splinters, bloodens and breaks in battle. A couple of hundred totally different figures and patterns is definitely over the top in my honest opinion. ^^

But this mod here nails it!

[PaleBlueDot]

I forgot to mention the removal of female soldiers . I'm off to work now, but I'll happily add a version with female warriors when I get back home.

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

Very impressed, like others have said, I cannot really comment on authenticity- fourth century Nordic tribes is not something I know much about at all. I do know one thing majority of current units in Attila seem to represent the sort of vikingr that sacked and burned lindisfarne in 793!

[GODzilla]

I forgot to mention the removal of female soldiers . I'm off to work now, but I'll happily add a version with female warriors when I get back home.

OMG, you gotta tell me your place of work. Have to phone them, have to convince them to let you go early!

[Delicate Strawberry]

OMG, you gotta tell me your place of work. Have to phone them, have to convince them to let you go early!

I second this.

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

I am your boss, take the day off

[Mortarion]

Looks good, probably my favourit faction/reskin mod so far.

It looks good, and dosn't add an insane amount of new units that i just end up never using and cluttering my recruitment screen

[Cochus1]

i like ur mod but dont have u think about add more variety on cloaks?? I mean Attila have a good cloacks roster

[KAM 2150]

In general wearing a cloak to the battle is a horrible, horrible idea.

[GODzilla]

In general wearing a cloak to the battle is a horrible, horrible idea.

I loled when even Superman in his latest movies learned this the hard way.

[Delicate Strawberry]

The only thing I'd say apart from the women is maybe put some variety between the Nordic Spearmasters and Elite Nordic Spearmen. Although that's just my opinion, I'm still using the mod regardless.

[Cochus1]

In general wearing a cloak to the battle is a horrible, horrible idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M68ndaZSKa8&t=137

Anyway they are cool, and some variety could be nice for the mod