WIP: Dale Dragon Knights

[wlesmana]

WIP of Dale's elite unit: The Dragon Knights, armed with a 2-handed claymore Highlander style and a face covered helmet with an ornament of a fallen dragon, a symbol of Dale's triumph over Smaug. They'll be the strongest offensive melee unit Dale can get but still in need of support units so they wouldn't get overwhelmed.

[Mataputas]

Awesome model

[Hopit]

great work, as always

[Principe Alessandro]

amazing work!!!

[Elphir of Dol Amroth]

Looks amazing! Keep up the good work!

[Wulfburk]

Awesome, i always liked to play Dale now will be more awesome!

[intel]

Very nice work. May I ask what resolution is the texture? I hope that not the usual 256x256...

[wlesmana]

It is 256x256. The model itself is 782 poly.

[Mataputas]

Well, looking at the first post, I can say that resolution is good enough for me...

[intel]

I think that chainmal texture could be improved a lot if the resolution was higher.

[Mataputas]

I think that chainmal texture could be improved a lot if the resolution was higher.

The question is: Would you notice that improvement while playing? And what would be the impact in performance of a high res texture?

[intel]

The question is: Would you notice that improvement while playing? And what would be the impact in performance of a high res texture?

1. Yes
2. Almost no impact, since polycount is relatively low and it would be the AFAIK the only unit with higher res texture. And I pressume that unit size isn't big either.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Agreed with intel on that.

[Bardo]

The same could be said about all other unit models too... the larger the texture the better they will look in game.
I personally like this mod with low poly models and low resolution textures because it allows much more soldiers in battle. I rarely zoom units while in battle to notice the difference you talk about.

[paradamed]

I really liked this unit. And I have to be honest, Dale was the least appealing faction in my opinion, they really needed some new units.

[wlesmana]

Even less appealing than Dunlendings??? Really???

[paradamed]

Yes. I really like some dunlending units, specially the bodyguards.

[wlesmana]

A closer to final version of the Dragonknights:


Screenshot of the brave knights in action:

[timpi]

awesome, can you post their stats?

[wlesmana]

Right now practically the same as Gondor Winged Swordsmen. It's up to the balancing team to tweak them. I'm envisioning they will be a bit more expensive, slightly more men and slightly less defense.