After already proposing my reworked unit models for some units in the suggestion forum, I will now open up this thread to gather all my work and hopefully discuss with you about my creations.
My intend in the first place is to give proud and elite armies from elves, dwarves and men a more uniform and professional look. I always was a bit sceptical seeing elite units with different weapon choices, differing armour details and so on. Sure this is my personal opinion but in my world elves form up in small, elite and evenly equipped battalions, dwarves also are proud of their finaly crafted armour and axes and the high tier units of men would love to be compared with the glory and uniformity of these two powerful races. Just imagine how dishonoured the legion units of Khazad Dûm would feel even considering grabbing different shields without the dwarven runes showing of their ranks.
On the other side I completely understand a unit of militia, farmhand and especially orcs to grab everything they can to outfit themselves for battle leading to different weapons and shields.
So far to my reasoning.
I already implemented the models in my game and they work perfectly fine. You can also see proposed name changes for some units. Currently I create new UI for the units and plan to expand my work on other factions.
Following is a detailed list of all the changes I made to the units. Some units got absolut minor changes which are barely noticeable (listed as cleaning the model) but make the units look so much more clean.
My models are intended to be used as the last available armour upgrade.
If you are interested in using some models in your own game feel free to contact me.
I am trying to release my models as a submod for DaC if there is enough interest.
Looking forward to hear what you guys think and suggest.
Thank you!