New unit is up

[smoke]

And it's the Spanish Jinetes. Looking nice.

[shenmueguru]

Yes, a nice unit indeed. Hope they are useful. Diggin' the sheild as well.

[Belisarius]

Cool, find it at - www.totalwar.com

[IronBrig4]

Very nice. I'm looking forward to slaughtering them with my longbowmen.

[Hansa]

Nice, CA delivers once more, their recent skins are far better than the earliest (exept for the Zweihander)

[Spiff]

For those that cant be bothered looking through the site its here:

Jinetes
Mamluks
Vanetian Heavy Infantry
Strzelcy
Pikemen
Armoured Swordsmen
Hurcarls
Feudal Knights
Trebizond Archers
Zweihanders


Bit odd how when it rotates the spear changes position..

[Chuffy]

Bit odd how when it rotates the spear changes position..

Yeah it's a bit offputting.

Also, the Jinete doesn't seem to have any faction colours on it...could it be a mercenary model or a WIP? Or could those be the faction colours of Portugal?

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

Well portugal is blue and white so he got their colors.
And the javelin is a bit weird but I guess it is just the website that is abit screwy.

[Publius]

Maybe CA wisened up and didnt use garish faction colors like BI (lime green berbers, hot pink barbarians ...) but I doubt it.

[Chuffy]

Maybe CA wisened up and didnt use garish faction colors like BI (lime green berbers, hot pink barbarians ...) but I doubt it.

Well, unfortunately they are still using faction colors, however they seem to be a lot more sensible.

Don't worry, there won't be any neon blue thracians.

[wipeout140]

Well, unfortunately they are still using faction colors, however they seem to be a lot more sensible.

Every RTS Game haves faction colours AOE,EE,RON,

[Chuffy]

Every RTS Game haves faction colours AOE,EE,RON,

Your point being...?

[wipeout140]

Your point being...?

I was just pointing out it, and saying

[Last Roman]

Every RTS Game haves faction colours AOE,EE,RON,

I think he meant the skins for the units

[-=WingZero=-]

I like the colors, I cant imagine England being anything other than red, France anything other than blue and Byzantines anything other than purple.

I love the new models, everything looks much realistic and darker, shame they didn't do that for R:TW, but thats what mods are for I guess

[mark0701]

One of my favourite units in MTW. Looks very nice and not a single piece of plate armour in sight!

[Barbarian-Bob]

I don't really mind faction colours, as long as they're justified. I can live with red English and blue French, but not lime green Persians. God, my eyes took a beating out of those marsians.

[smoke]

Faction colours are simply a necessity, i think CA learned from RTW and made them a whole lot less neon-like. You simply can't ask for more than that.

[MadeManG74]

I guess faction colours become less important in TW games (at least on the battle map) since you have the banners above the units to tell you what side they are on. The model looks great though, i like the angling spear thing too, you see what it looks like in various stages of attack

[Chuffy]

Faction colours are simply a necessity, i think CA learned from RTW and made them a whole lot less neon-like. You simply can't ask for more than that.

I agree, the new subdued colors are so much nicer than RTW's and a good argument for the inclusion of faction colors. It's just with increases in graphical technology they become less important as you can identify different factions by how they look, not how they are colored* (unlike Shogun and Medieval of course). But yes, even with purple factions and yellow and red factions it's nice to see everything sensible and not neon.

*Although I guess thats why there is a mod community.