Ireland Re-skin

**Black_Nebula** · July 17, 2009, 03:01 PM

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.

Download Link:

http://www.filefront.com/14063581/Ireland%20Skins.rar

**knight_12** · July 17, 2009, 03:44 PM

sweet ! + rep

**sumaznguy** · July 18, 2009, 10:49 AM

Looks amazing.

**SANCHEZZZ** · July 18, 2009, 07:27 PM

good job!

**UnitedIreland** · July 30, 2009, 05:04 PM

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!!

**Darioos** · July 30, 2009, 05:11 PM

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.

**Caesar Clivus** · July 30, 2009, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by UnitedIreland

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

**gall0glaigh** · January 23, 2010, 06:33 AM

Originally Posted by Caesar Clivus

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.

**JiangZiya** · July 30, 2009, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by UnitedIreland

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.

**King Siegfried** · January 23, 2010, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by UnitedIreland

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.

**Black_Nebula** · July 31, 2009, 10:12 AM

Thanks all, glad you like them

**baronfuming** · August 02, 2009, 05:21 PM

I really like the unarmored peasent/archer/spearmen skins. They look very Irish to me.

Excellent work.

**Jellybe** · February 15, 2010, 10:25 PM

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