Red Front for ToT

[Jimmywax]

Originally posted by fairline
Anyhoo, back on topic: an early screenie of some of the graphical mods to date - the German offensive in '41. The cities and resources have yet to be changed and feldgrau camo will give way to tricolour cammouflage by 1943. I'm still in two minds about using civ unit flags...

Personally I like the flags, I just like the flavor they ad to the visual image. You could also just have two units files, one with flags and one without. It wouldn't be too much work would it.

[curtsibling]

I like the national shields also - It adds some aesthetics to the units!

I would keep them!

[techumseh]

I wonder if anyone is up for doing some city art? The Nemo cities don't really look like European cities of the WWII era at all. There should be cathedrals and opera houses, etc., blocks of flats and the odd factory, in both German and Russian architectural styles. I'm unable to contribute at the moment, but I thought I'd suggest it in case anyone else is interested.

[curtsibling]

I have sent fairline some ToT WW2-style cities - If suitable, I will do some suburbs to match...

[jim panse]

That´s some puny (MGE) city redux I will use in my WW2 scenarios. I posted some of them earlier, maybe you can use them though they are only in 256 colours

On page 2 of this thread should be some more cities IIRC, btw.

[curtsibling]

With your permission, I will use elements of your great work to create suburbs...

STS shall be credited of course!

[jim panse]

@ curt: It´d been enough if you simply stated 'Hey! We want suburbs as well!'

[techumseh]

The skyscraper style building simply didn't exist in '30s and '40s European cities.

[curtsibling]

The cities need more colour depth - That is what I plan to do to them...

It is ToT, after all, and we should make full use of the bitmaps!

[fairline]

Originally posted by Sarsstock
Say Fairline, you wouldn't happen to be in need of a title graphic now would you? If so then perhaps I could lend my services.

That would be great Sarsstock, thanks

Maybe something along the lines of those 30's and 40's Soviet prpaganda posters would be cool

[fairline]

Originally posted by AGRICOLA
As for the unit flags, how much trouble would it be for you to post the identical screen shot without them?

Will do.

[fairline]

Originally posted by curtsibling
I have sent fairline some ToT WW2-style cities - If suitable, I will do some suburbs to match...

Thanks Curt, they are superb

BTW, my ISP has started labelling suspect e-mails as 'spam' and I have an OE rule set up to put all e-mails with 'spam' in the title straight in the trash bin; i see you put 'not spam' in the title Guess OE isn't clever enough so I only just saw it today after checking through my trash folder

Would you mind if I edited the skyscrapers out? Tech's right, there were multi-storey tenement blocks in the 30's and 40's but only the US had full-on skyscrapers. If you could make suburbs in the same style that would be excellent, thanks

[fairline]

Jim P: Those are nice cities but I would like to go with Curt's ToT icons Thanks anyway.

[fairline]

Here's the same screeny without unit flags.

I think I will include unit flags, if only to differentiate special units such as SS, Soviet Guard divisions and Guderian's Panzer Gruppe from their regular counterparts.

I guess I could include units files with/without flags as Jimmy suggested.

[techumseh]

Here's some city ideas I've been fooling around with.