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    Default Shieldwall Previews

    As we plan to do weekly previews of our progress, we will use this thread to organize all of the stuff we preview for the mod.

    Sea Kings and Welsh Kingdoms Army Preview
    Berserker Unit Preview
    Norse Shields Preview
    Throwing Weapon Preview
    Norse Shield Update
    Great Viking Army Preview
    Last edited by Kinjo; February 10, 2019 at 01:21 AM.

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    A small preview of WIP Norse armoured archers. In melee they use their shields along with seaxes [weapon knifes]
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    Previews will probaly come once every 2 weeks or once a month so that we can focus on getting the mod done from here on out. Also added a link to the throwing weapon preview in the op.

    Unleash the new Berserker unit card!



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    Last edited by Kinjo; September 15, 2018 at 01:13 AM.

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    Loving the berserker card, looks real neat! Also can't wait for more previews, you guys are doing fantastic work!

    A posh raider fellow wuz 'ere~

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    Small preview of new patterns based on Gotland picture stones
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    A new preview is coming soon, stay tuned
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    Has this mod been updated to the recent Steel & Statecraft update?

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    Jomsviking banner

    The runes on it say:
    Heilir hildar til
    Heilir hildi frá

    Whole to the field of fight,
    Whole from the field of fight,
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    A little sneak peak of the Saxons in progress.
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    experimental Úlfhéđinn along with reference
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kinjo View Post
    A little sneak peak of the Saxons in progress.
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    These look pretty good, I would remove the mail coifs (aventails would be more appropriate) and kite shields if your going for late 9th century though. I would also suggest refraining from having the troops dress in faction colors in order to get a really historical look.

    This link I'm posting here is a really good source I'm using in my Attila Dark Ages mods that you guys can use, if you scroll through it they give some nice historical details on the military structures and dress of all the different peoples during this era:
    https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7...5WQnllaEZqUWZN
    Last edited by Athos187; January 04, 2019 at 02:35 PM.

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    What you see on that screenshot is mostly late units. Late ones have mixed kite and round shields. We give the units the most color variation we can. But in order not to make the battle gameplay a guessing game of who's the enemy and who's your ally we keep the factional colours, though we do not exclude a possibility of editing the colors in order to make them more "authentic" in the future.

    Norronir Holumenn - Sailors
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    This is a very good mod, love your work.

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    Welsh Levy Spearband

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kinjo View Post
    Welsh Levy Spearband
    Did they really fight barefoot? It was cold there...

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    They are often depicted as barefooted in Osprey books and with historical based miniatures, truth of the matter is there really isn't much out there for the Welsh as far as sources go that I have came across. Maybe there is and we are just not aware of it, seems like most of the stuff we come across is either before or after the period the game takes place in.

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    Irish work in progress:

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    Retextured darker mail armor
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    New shield variant - The shield is covered on both sides with painted leather
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    Quote Originally Posted by Athos187 View Post
    These look pretty good, I would remove the mail coifs (aventails would be more appropriate) and kite shields if your going for late 9th century though. I would also suggest refraining from having the troops dress in faction colors in order to get a really historical look.

    This link I'm posting here is a really good source I'm using in my Attila Dark Ages mods that you guys can use, if you scroll through it they give some nice historical details on the military structures and dress of all the different peoples during this era:
    https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7...5WQnllaEZqUWZN
    I'm assuming that much like vanilla ToB this mod is going for unit designs from all of "Viking Age" Britain, from the game's start to 1066. By 1066 AFAIK the Saxons were using Kite Shields. I was always skeptical that they completely replaced the Round Shield with Kite Shields like is depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry, but they seemingly did adopt the it, so I'd say the mod's current position of having late game units mix Kite Shields and Round Shields makes sense and is a nice compromise, better than the vanilla game completely removing them from late game Saxon Armies at least IMO.

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