Pre-Steam Graphics Showcase

[Gagliaudo]

@fairline: s-o w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l !!!
Man, you're becoming quite 'boring'... and you're making us boring in writing how masterpieces you do always...
What could we say???
Keep on !!!

[typhoon]

OMG!!!!!!!

[Nilat]

Loooovely!

[Eivind IV]

Great job indeed!

[Cyrion]

Beautiful Fairline!

Just two comments:

1) the Burgundian Archer doesn't carry a bow... Uncommon for an archer (unless my english isn't as good as I thought and I'm missing something... )

2) no Swiss mercenaries??

[Gagliaudo]

@Cyrion: waiting for Fairline 'lights', I could try to explain about "Burgundian archer", it was a guard corp, and the armament became separated by the name. Btw, IIRC, I saw a Burgundian Archer on the OOOOOLD civ2 site of Fiera... He made a good "Guardia Vieja" (mounted "Old Guard"), too.

[fairline]

Thanks gents. Gagliaudo got it right - the Burgundian Archers were a Habsburg Guard unit who presumably had been armed with a bow initially. The source pic I used was armed with a broad-bladed spear.

Cyrion - I guess you could use the Landsnechts as Swiss as they were dressed and armed in the same fashion by this time. In fact I think the Landsknechts were the Emperor Maximillian's answer to the French using Swiss pikemen in the early stages of the Italian Wars.

[Exile]

You need a Janissary pikeman.

And some Swiss.

And some period artillery.

[fairline]

You're right ...and some Cent-Suisses and Archers Francais for the French. And maybe a Spahi for the Turks. However, I was thinking of trying my hand at Normans and Byzantines first

[Exile]

Yesyesyesyes . . . . .

Normans and Byzantines sound good. Very good.

And

Cumans, Pechenegs, and Khazars.

A special unit for The Golden Horn.

French, German, and Spanish knights c. 1000

Hospitalars, Templars, and King Richard Coeur de Leon'

Omayyads, Abbasids, Almohades, and Almoravids.

Burgundians, Georgians, and Bulgars.

I think that about covers it.

[ComradeCommisar]

Muscovites! Boyars, Polish winged lancers, Sicilians....

and of course the Golden Horde and all it's happy followers!

[Tiemuzhen]

Originally posted by fairline
Cyrion - I guess you could use the Landsnechts as Swiss as they were dressed and armed in the same fashion by this time. In fact I think the Landsknechts were the Emperor Maximillian's answer to the French using Swiss pikemen in the early stages of the Italian Wars.

that's no coincidence since Swiss mercenaries ARE basically Landsknechte, Switzerland mainly being made up of southern Swabia and Landsknechte are predominantly Swabians.

again beautiful units BTW, and I have a suggestion for the third Landsknecht, he could have the huge Flamberge two-hander and the Gladius-like Katzbalger sword.

[Cyrion]

Originally posted by Tiemuzhen
Switzerland mainly being made up of southern Swabia and Landsknechte are predominantly Swabians.

I think I might resent that! Just kidding...

Actually the Swabians were much more "sophisticated" than we were at the time...

@Gagliaudo: thanks, I knew I was missing something...

@Fairline, Exile, ComradeKomissar (Kruger??) : yes, please, all of them...

[ComradeCommisar]

Yeah, it's Krüger from CDG I am quite amazed to see such quality units from this period, we are so used to seeing excellenct Industrial - Modern units from Mr Fairline but this is just revolutionary Keep up the good work Gareth

[curtsibling]

Good golly!

Fairline, I have noticed that you have gained an even
higher level of quality with those late-medieval units!

Simply great stuff!