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    Black_Nebula's Avatar Tiro
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    Default Ireland Re-skin

    After reading a post on how bad Ireland was and how they should be removed from the game and replaced with another faction, I decided to give them a shot, and they quickly became one of my favorite factions to play. When I began skinning they were at the top of my list to re-skin.
    Burreck's re-skin of Scotland have always been some of my favorite skins, and I wanted to incorporate some of his ideas of adding kilts into the units
    Special thanks to Midnite who did the Ostman units and shields in this pack. A while back I requested he re-skin the unit and he obliged, fueling my inspiration to start skinning, and to complete the Irish roster.


























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    sweet ! + rep

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    Looks amazing.

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    good job!
    I'am lithuanian and I'am proud of this.

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    Ok, sorry if this comes across as a stupid question but how do I use this? Stainless Steel is the first mod I hav ever downloaded for a game. Its great by the way!

    Why did everyone want Ireland replaced? I've been waitiing a long long time to play are Ireland as Im Irish. Looks great!!
    Last edited by UnitedIreland; July 30, 2009 at 05:10 PM. Reason: Needed to add an additional question
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    It was replaced because all the AI ever did was sit around on its own island not doing anything. It was basically a neutral faction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UnitedIreland View Post
    Why did everyone want Ireland replaced? I've been waitiing a long long time to play are Ireland as Im Irish. Looks great!!
    The main reason for me is...and please don't take any offense at this as I dont mean it in a derogatory way...is that in the medieval period, Ireland never really participated on the international stage. That for me is the main reason to include or exclude a faction from the game. Ireland as a faction worked in the Britannia kingdoms campaign, but not so much on the bigger grand campaign map of all Europe.

    That being said, I do like the look of this reskin. Much better than vanilla

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    Quote Originally Posted by Caesar Clivus View Post
    The main reason for me is...and please don't take any offense at this as I dont mean it in a derogatory way...is that in the medieval period, Ireland never really participated on the international stage. That for me is the main reason to include or exclude a faction from the game. Ireland as a faction worked in the Britannia kingdoms campaign, but not so much on the bigger grand campaign map of all Europe.

    That being said, I do like the look of this reskin. Much better than vanilla
    Fair point, but no one is going for complete historical accuracy here. That's why factions like Scotland can completely conquer the map.
    By the way, has anyone ever added a better archer unit to the Irish faction? Gaelic Archers.. well they can work, but not very well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UnitedIreland View Post
    Ok, sorry if this comes across as a stupid question but how do I use this? Stainless Steel is the first mod I hav ever downloaded for a game. Its great by the way!

    Why did everyone want Ireland replaced? I've been waitiing a long long time to play are Ireland as Im Irish. Looks great!!
    Extract the data folder from the zip into your SS folder. voila.

    I've been using this skin for quite a while. It's loverly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by UnitedIreland View Post
    Why did everyone want Ireland replaced? I've been waitiing a long long time to play are Ireland as Im Irish. Looks great!!
    I never liked the Irish as a faction because, quite frankly, it feels like an incomplete faction. Almost all of its cavalry is sub-par to the other factions, they have only one unit of longbowmen, and without any sort of late-game prowess, they are, like the Byzzies, effectively an early era-only faction. However, unlike the Byzzies, most of their units are sub-par, and there isn't much gameplay to set them apart from the other British Isle factions.

    Low number of available units, inferior cavalry, next to no missile troops, uninspired gameplay/location, and to top it all off, the CPU never did anything with them.

    It boils down to the fact that they don't spice up the British Isles, and could be replaced with a faction that does spice up another location.

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    Thanks all, glad you like them
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    I really like the unarmored peasent/archer/spearmen skins. They look very Irish to me.

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    I completely agree Adding a greater variety of irish units would help like the ones they get in brittania and you could even reskin those to make them look awesome like the ones you got now

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    I am not irish, but i very like them with this mod it will be more interesting to play with them , thanks + Rep
    This can be installed on SS 5.1?

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    Finally a mod that makes the Irish look a bit better! Now alls I need is one for the Romans!


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    So you don't think CBUR makes the Romans look 'nicer'?

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