Hey mates!
I have long cherished the idea of this mod(s). The main goal is not to make historical accurate units (if you searching for more variety and history you should look at global mods, such as Vae Victis), but to give vanilla units more cultural and ethnic conformity, and maybe add just a couple of new units.
So, the first part is about Parthia and Armenia.
Both of factions belongs to Eastern culture in the original game. So they have similar appearance, similar faces, similar equipment and mostly similar battle fashion.
And that's completely untrue and historical inaccurate.
Armenians ethnicity must be kind a mix of Greek/Assyrian maybe.
And the Parthians are Iranian/Nomads and shouldn't look like other Easterners in the game (just look at this famous statue for example).
So I'm not looking forward for making tons of new fancy shiny units, I'm trying to give units some unique look including skins, hair/beards, equipment and armour.
Talking about new items, there are plenty of new textures for existing models and some new models I made before. No glance and no generic vanilla colors
Special thanks to Ahiga for "Scythian like" hats and for raw models of Iberian hair (I made Parthian hair from those models ), and to Lukas' OSP for base for my maces models.
Let's take a look at units we have there:
First, the units which are similar for both factions (except light foot and horse archers, Parthia has it's own)
All screens made with another my mod - Armoured Horses. Use it for better experience
Next the units available to just one of those factions:
And at last new units.
Parthians will have two hybrid lance/bow cavalry units - light/medium and very heavy:
Armenians will have heavy archers, heavy swordsmen and Nakharar nobles:
Nakharars can use maces at close combat:
I will be very appreciate to any screenshots from this mod (I just collect them ). So feel free to post them here. Thank you!
Should be compatible with any unitpacks.
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Hope you'll like it.
Regards!