Ancient/Pre-Steam Unit Graphics

[Boco]

Originally posted by LiquidNerve at CivFan Thread: Byzantine Arab Units

These are a few units from the era of Arab expansion shortly after their embrace of Islam. The file also features Byzantines from that epoch. The swordsman in the top-left square is more a Western European (Dark Age) style than Byzantine. This unit will be part of a later set from the Charlemagne and Viking eras but I just wanted to squeeze it in here.

I saw these excellent units at CivFan (see the link above).

[Eivind IV]

Originally posted by Boco
I saw these excellent units at CivFan (see the link above).

He also made some excellent crusader units:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=159572

[techumseh]

These look like they've been ripped from another game. Yes?

[fairline]

I'd say not. There are elements of size-reduced BeBro units in the second compilation and some in the first that have been heavily edited from BeBro. The rest look to be very well drawn from scratch (with maybe the castles size-reduced and edited?). All round they're very nice indeed!

I would think that there has maybe been some corruption of the colours when they were saved (maybe using MSPaint?) which has pixelated them a bit, and they need the civ2 palette loading for use in mge/fw. Pretty good drawings though

[Uncle Dead Bird]

Could I request some good Celtic warriors, a Norse hersir or jarl, and a kebenit (ancient Egyptian warship), please?

UDB

[tanelorn]

Late medieval generic, 100 years war troops, though a couple look a bit more English or French.
Fairline mods mostly, I admit.

P.S. The ships are very good, especialy.

[jim panse]

Excellent work, tanelorn

[Sarsstock]

Very excellent indeed there Tanelorn! Whether they're mods or not the work is seamless and profesional looking and at the end of the day thats what matters most .

Besides, there are few unit artists out there who can say they're work isn't based on Gareth's in some way.

[fairline]

Nice one Tim

[Harry Tuttle]

Very nice Tanelorn. Very realistic.

[barocca]

I needed a Schooner and a Sloop circa 1700's,

i have three "unit gifs" packed with ships i have gathered from various scenario's around the 1600's to 1800's,
but not a single accurate schooner (made in jamaica) or sloop, both very popular with pirates,

so i did a little cut/paste/tweak and here we are

the proud parents and their kiddies

Schooner and Sloop
(second row is 2x magnification)

(download for the unit gif that contains these four ships- and a ton of other ships created by others)

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=79137_ships1.zip

[curtsibling]

Blooming heck!

An explosion of creativity in this thread, chaps!

I am highly impressed by all these new ancient units!

[Eivind IV]

Great one's tanelorn and barocca!

[barocca]

i need some inspiration/help

this is my first "person" unit

the top wench is the one i am working on,
the bottom wench i made too bright


it's the hat
i cannot get it right,
anyone care to have a go?
mybe rake it back a little, add a plume too if you wish,
(it would fit with the theme)

i included the lighter version to give you some more colours to play with,
please only use the colours in the file so i can feed her back into her unit gif



i will most likely put her lighter hair back on, (i had to make the clothes darker),
so if you wanted to add back her lighter face and hair feel free.

(if you wanted to play with her weapons, make the sword a cutlass or modify the pistol or whatever - go for it)

i'll give her a shadow later

thanks
B.

[curtsibling]

Originally posted by techumseh
You are the Prince of Pachyderms!

That is the most unique honour I have heard in a while!