The Jungle Book Mod

[Hans Friedman]

You know how in RTW they had flaiming pigs and dogs right, so I was thinking, the Indian factions should get tigers! I think that would be really awesome. Think about it....

Edit: No way man! You get your tigers and send them to attack the enemy front lines! You watch as the maul the enemy and then you charge with your elephants! That would be Epic!

Who wants to try and mod them in with me? I have plenty of pictures of tigers.

Yeah! You have a guy with a sword riding on the back of a tiger! It would be very historically accurate too.

[Serious Spamurai]

That's the worst idea I've ever heard.

[OberonDark]

I'm considering repping you, dude.

Yeah, I mean, amazing idea. Just think of it now.

Tiger-riders. Have them leap towards the enemy and rip them in half. It'd be an awesome animation.

Oh, and once you research a special tech, you can make them cyborgs armed with lazers who partner up with the cannon elephants from M2TW.

You can also trade them to the Native Americans, who can inbreed with them creating tiger-men.

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[morganja]

Would the Tigers be able to invade by sea?

[OberonDark]

Would the Tigers be able to invade by sea?

Yes. They travel underwater inside the stomachs of Kraken buildable at Fishing Ports.

Oh yeah, this would mean that they're own Major Nation now.

[RedGuard]

thats a funny idea. you should have someone animate 3 people holding the tiger on a chain like in gladiator

[KingDave]

Fail.

[Mac Dhonuill nan Eilean]

Why stop at Tigers?

Let's have armies of Monkeys led by King Louis from the jungle book throwing coconuts at people.

[OberonDark]

Don't they all get shot in the Jungle Book or something?

[Chilly5]

Coconuts? That'd be too historically inaccurate...I'm absolutely certain that the preferred weapon of choice for monkeys against humans is their own feces.

[RedGuard]

and give the player the optin of lighting the feces on fire to cause more damage but is less acurate

[Darkpriest667]

Coconuts? That'd be too historically inaccurate...I'm absolutely certain that the preferred weapon of choice for monkeys against humans is their own feces.

1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Where'd you get the coconuts?
King Arthur: We found them.
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!
King Arthur: What do you mean?
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Well, this is a temperate zone
King Arthur: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
King Arthur: Not at all. They could be carried.
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
King Arthur: It could grip it by the husk!
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.
King Arthur: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?
King Arthur: Please!
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Am I right?
King Arthur: I'm not interested!
Second Swallow-Savvy Guard: It could be carried by an African swallow.
King Arthur: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Oh yeah, an African swallow, maybe, but not a European swallow. That's my point.
Second Swallow-Savvy Guard: But then the African swallow's not migratory...

[Hans Friedman]

I'm loving the brain storming here guys! Keep it up!

We'll call it the Jungle Book mod for Empire.

[TheBlobThing]

Spammy spam spam spam?

[OberonDark]

Spammy spam spam spam?

Stop filling the forums with your useless crap. I mean, there's no point to it at all. Really. None.

Anyway, I'm with you on this. Since feces aren't effective artillery weapons, I say we have them launch flaming tigers out of mortars that everyone will call overpowered.

And will Cyborg Tigers be Cavalry or Infantry?

[flannk]

And add the bear Baloo as a drummer and a special ability to use his obnoxious songs to scare the enemy away.

[Sharpe]

I say we add a Meatloaf unit in for laughs. He can Power-ballad his enemies into submission.

[Ketzerfreund]

Riding a tiger... Hmmmmm... Somehow a "He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe" total conversion is suddenly springing to mind...

[Hambino]

I'd like to point out that Tarabei 1, starting leader of the Maratha Confederacy, has the man-eating tiger person attribute. Rawr.

[Faris ad Din]

Just watch out for the rival Jungle Book factions' Mowgli unit that will use fire to scare away your tigers and ruin everything.

The mortars will have to be on mortar elephants that shoot the flaming tigers, and they will be crewed by flaming-feces-throwing monkeys. They will be an absolute terror on the battlefield - the only counter against them will be unleashing your flaming mice. Watch the flaming-monkey-feces-throwing-monkey-crewed-flaming-tiger-launching-mortar-elephants run amok and the ensuing havoc on their tiger cyborgs.

Coconut, anyone?