[Preview] House Greyjoy of Pyke

[Emperor of Hell]

House Greyjoy


The Westeros Total War team presents a new preview for WTW 1.0. House Greyjoy has a roster different from the mainland factions with little cavalry and archers but strong and much infantry.

Units by Emperor of Hell, coding done by Dux

Credits:

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Rusichi team for base models, textures
Baltic Total War for base models texures
Lord_Calidor for his great weapon pack
Taro_M for his Bag o' tricks
Dejawulf, Luigi and Narf for their M&B OSP models and textures
Lord Hamilton for some base textures
MBA for showing me the awesome powers of Cin-Ed

Roster:

Ironborn Raiders

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Mounted Ironborn Raiders

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Ironborn Spearmen

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Ironborn Archers

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Ironborn Warriors

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Ironborn Champions

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Ironborn Nobles

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Captain

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General

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AoR and special:

General's Bodyguard

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Greyjoy Household Guard

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Harlaw Reavers

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As always, these units might get little changes before the release. Lighter troops and perhaps Drowned men will be added later.

[Toho]

these bastards don't sow...

[Lord AcidRocker]

Very well done

[MasterBigAb]

Perfect, brilliant

+rep

[Lordinquisitor]

Notes:

Some faces seem to have a kind of "chain" muster on them.

The faces of the household guard and the bodyguard look, sadly, quite ridiculous. (The eyes, arghhh!^^)

The Bodyguard shouldn`t use spears, should they? I thought they were going to use two-handed axes.

The Nobles shouldn`t all use the Greyjoy kraken, and also shields made entirely from metal are unrealistic. Such shields weren`t used- Wood with metal bosses and rims, yes, but not entirely made of metal.

/But damn it, the Harlaw Reavers look even more menacing than the Dreadfort Infantry..

[Mercury]

Notes:

Some faces seem to have a kind of "chain" muster on them.

The faces of the household guard and the bodyguard look, sadly, quite ridiculous. (The eyes, arghhh!^^)

The Bodyguard shouldn`t use spears, should they? I thought they were going to use two-handed axes.

The Nobles shouldn`t all use the Greyjoy kraken, and also shields made entirely from metal are unrealistic. Such shields weren`t used- Wood with metal bosses and rims, yes, but not entirely made of metal.

/But damn it, the Harlaw Reavers look even more menacing than the Dreadfort Infantry..

I think Household guard need spears. First of all, all the other Household Guards have spears, and they r guards, which traditionally have spears, dont they? And they already have a heavy axe unit. And yes, the shields should be wood. There is a strategic reason for that; the wood catches enemy blows, lets them dig into the shield, this gives the shield holder the ability to wrench the enemies weapon away. metal shields just deflect blows. Theres actually a bit with Victarion in i think a feast for crows when he exhibits this pretty well, or is it ADWD? idk, whatever. And there should be more than just the Kraken represented, the Sythe of Harlaw, the Horn of Goodbrother and maybe a few others as well, but Harlaw, Greyjoy and Goodbrother are the most principal houses.

A fantastic Preview, much applause! very book accurate, pristine weaponry and armor, keep up the great work Westeros team!

Where are the levies? will they be the same defaults as the other westerosi houses?

I take it we'll have;
Peasants, Levy Spears, Levy Archers/Crossbows, maybe levy Halberds?

Also, I agree with whoever that was who said there should be a Drowned Man unit. Fanatics with minimal armour and wooden cudgels, just like the books said.

Great call on the minimal cavalry, very book accurate.

[Túrin_Turambar]

...And yes, the shields should be wood. There is a strategic reason for that; the wood catches enemy blows, lets them dig into the shield, this gives the shield holder the ability to wrench the enemies weapon away. metal shields just deflect blows. Theres actually a bit with Victarion in i think a feast for crows when he exhibits this pretty well, or is it ADWD? idk, whatever.

that was Brienne in Feast

[Lordinquisitor]

Where are the levies? will they be the same defaults as the other westerosi houses?

I take it we'll have;
Peasants, Levy Spears, Levy Archers/Crossbows, maybe levy Halberds?

Also, I agree with whoever that was who said there should be a Drowned Man unit. Fanatics with minimal armour and wooden cudgels, just like the books said.

Great call on the minimal cavalry, very book accurate.

At the time of creating the preview the levies weren`t done yet. (Like with the other houses) the levies of the various houses might get a preview on their own.

The Greyjoys will have unique levies, though, and maybe just two versions- One with a handweapon and one with a (fishing)spear. Archers don`t make sense for them- Hunters, or peasants that have some experience with a bow, are drafted into archer units, since one can`t learn how to shoot a bow properly in a few days or weeks, it requires years. The ironborn in turn would have not too many hunters on their islands, there wouldn`t be much game to hunt, after all, and they feed their population mostly by fishing.

Drowned men will be included, but will be made by murf.

[Mhaedros]

Nice one Smurfie

[Toho]

these small issues can be fixed no worries. its a matter of assigning X to Y

[Stannis Baratheon]

The skins are very nice, especially faces!! High quality work, +rep!

[Dux]

It was an honor to code in such great looking units. Once again very well done Eoh. And a very nice preview too!

But it isn't even sunday yet

[Toho]

I wont be around sunday and HxM said he had exams so. there you go saturday preview.

[Stannis Baratheon]

This is just a wild guess, but do you polish and preview factions in geographical order from north to south? Stark/Frey/Iron Islands/Vale/Tullys/Lannisters/Joffrey/Stannis/Renly/Reach/Dorne?

[Mhaedros]

No, rather on what's done first

[Stannis Baratheon]

I said polish, they aren't making factions from the scratch, most of them already have old previews.

[Emperor of Hell]

Well I think you should trust Mhaedros as he's on the team...

And we hardly polish. Mostly create new stuff.

[Stannis Baratheon]

Well I think you should trust Mhaedros as he's on the team...

And we hardly polish. Mostly create new stuff.

sorry mhaedros, didn't know you were in the team. It's going much faster than i thought, it seems the team is much larger than what it says in stickied thread

[the duke dude]

Nice. I love the Ironmen's rustic feel, they look fantastic! +rep!!!!!!

[Dux]

It is all new stuff, created by very good modelers and skinners

The coding has to be done from scratch to.