Pikemen are up

[hsimoorb]

Go to the .com site and navigate to the units section, Pikemen have been added.

[Lord Tomyris]

First time in a while! Wonder what prompted this revival? Nice find, cos we might not have known otherwise, as irregular as this update was!

[Flogger]

My eyes! Too... bright...!

Seriously, all of the units looked AMAZING up until that one...

[Shaun]

They arent too bright at all.... they are meant to be from later times in Europe, and odly enough thats how the people who could afford to dressed. I think it looks very nice, probably from the early renassiance.

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

They look great.
The colors are fine too.
Was a ripped tunic fashion ??

[Prof]

I think, the unit looks cool, but the clothes look a bit...damaged

[shenmueguru]

I think, the unit looks cool, but the clothes look a bit...damaged

Says that was the style

[Keresztes]

They look great.
The colors are fine too.
Was a ripped tunic fashion ??

Depends on the time period. Renassiance period German mercenaries (Landsknechts) liked the "puffed and slashed" style. They'd rip or slash an outer garment, then pull through a differently colored undergarment to create a fancy getup.

[philip augustus]

i wonder if theyll show swiss pikemen next time

[Flotch]

not available for the french version? :p
quite good to see that they will give us some screens (I hope!) and units before the game is released :original:

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

Depends on the time period. Renassiance period German mercenaries (Landsknechts) liked the "puffed and slashed" style. They'd rip or slash an outer garment, then pull through a differently colored undergarment to create a fancy getup.

Oh yeah, forgot about that.
Nice detail by CA

[DavidtheDuke]

What matters is if they'll move in a lame phalanx spear fashion where only the tips of the spears have any physical relevance to reality

[LoudHoward]

For those that can't get there:


Looks good - that's what I imagined they'd look like, adds a bit of colour, and maybe they'll splatter mud and blood over them so they won't be so clean :original:

[Sidus Preclarum]

For those that can't get there:

thanks. Can't access the damn site on the Uni libray computers since CA riddled it with flash stuff...

[mike007]

Thanks LoudHoward, i was waiting for someone to do this.

how weird is the 'ripped tunic' thing!? still, i guess its no different from ripped jeans of today!

[Lord Tomyris]

Yeh, the ripped tunic does come across as slightly odd...but if it's what they did! At least with model variation, we'll see it ripped in different ways!

[Sitarus Originalus PM-30+]

cool, thanks for telling us =) they look great =)

[Ewan]

when sites seem to have a real sence of professionalism about them , thats normally when all regualr details seems to disapear :S

[Captian Marcus Cornelius]

well I guess I'm wrong,I was going to say that the ripped tunic was just CA showcasing their new technology in rendering battle damage. but I guess I am wrong than, pretty cool though the if every time the unit that hit with say a swordthat a damage Ward actually show upon the unit's skin.

but I guess ripping your tunic would make a much less a concern during battle,as you don't have the care about damaging your tunic in the course of the battle because you already Did it today before.

[Destraex]

don't like em, they look 1600s
I like the earlier armoured swiss and german pikemen