Speculative Graphics Showcase

[curtsibling]

My dream involves myself as a dashing Luftwaffe ace pilot, tons of red bull, and Jenny Aniston in a tight leather catsuit!

But let us not go into that!

[curtsibling]

And since we are on the subject, I think Fairline, Tanelorn Jim and Harry Tuttle are the leaders of an fine CIV2 unit renaissance!

One not seen since the heady days of kobayashi's ZWK or Nemo's 2194 days of war.

But all our creators/posters here do a great duty, keeping this madness alive and making a legacy of CIV2!

Long may it remain so!

[Catfish]

Originally posted by fairline
My all-time top 5 civ2 artists, in no particular order:

Similar to mine . You sell yourself short BTW. Have you seen Erwan's units? His website is dead these days, but I believe his units are superior to Alex's.

Originally posted by Palaiologos
Well if i was Prime minister i would have that Ferrari,Kylie Minogue(or a Greek equivelant), the bag of coke PLUS power.

What's the fascination with Kylie Minogue? Ordinary looks and even worse music.

BTW nobody has answered my question about MGE? It has an editor, but what else does it have over ToT? Everyone seems to want a ToT/MGE hybrid.

[tanelorn]

Well, one thing is for sure, MGE achieved far better sales, whereas ToT lacks the audience...
I really do not think it is superior to ToT in any way. You cant even edit most of the Civpedia descriptions in MGE, and you have to accept limitations in unit number, event space, event choices, quality of graphics (the list goes on...)
The sad truth is that ToT never caught up with MGE, because of dumb marketing policies, not because it wasn't as good.

Kylie is sort of good looking for a dwarf. I'd say her sister is much nicer, if only she kept her mouth shut.
(That would be a huge improvement for the entire gender but hey,...)
Actually a woman that knows what to say and when to say it beats an army of good looking "babes". It's brains over looks, definitely.

I'd be surprised if this didn't draw the moderators attention

[curtsibling]

I never use the MGE editor.

I prefer hands on scen creation any day, I think ToT has some good points, but suffers from an ugly vanilla graphics range, and various small drawbacks.

MGE is the player's choice, due to it merely being a multiplayer incarnation of CIV2.

I really get steamed at it's lack of unit and events choices but cannot really complain at the graphics.

I think it would have been wonderful to have MGE scens to be importable into ToT, it wouldn't have meant too much work.

Instead of the shady animated sprites no-one uses, they (microprose) should have made ToT a big base case for all CIV2 scenario scenarios.

A ToT editor (or lack of) is not a big deal...
But one that took care of multi-maps would have been a winner...

Just my 2p.

[Catfish]

Thanks guys for the heads up on MGE. My preconceived viewpoint of its capabilities was pretty much on the mark then. I was just curious as to why it had such strong support here.

Originally posted by tanelorn
Kylie is sort of good looking for a dwarf. I'd say her sister is much nicer, if only she kept her mouth shut.

LOL. I'm not one for gossip rags and women's mags, so I can't comment on your second statement. I think the Minogue sisters get more media attention overseas than in their home country these days.

Originally posted by curtsibling
I prefer hands on ceation any day, I think ToT has some good points, but suffers from an ugly vanilla graphics range, and various small drawbacks.

You're not wrong there - they are total arse IMHO. However, the graphics can be substituted with ones that are superior to vanilla ToT and its predecessors.

Oh yeah, what was the topic again? "Speculative" graphics. Hmm...

[tanelorn]

I meant her auful singing, I am somewhat offended by that comment (though I'm not into pop and it all sounds like crap to me, anyway).

[curtsibling]

Now guys, let's not fight over her.

Jenny Aniston is far nicer anyway!

[fairline]

Originally posted by Catfish

...Have you seen Erwan's units? His website is dead these days, but I believe his units are superior to Alex's.

I thing Erwan's use of colour and shading was excellent, but I prefer Alex Mor's unit poses and proportions, so I guess it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. They were both great artists.

Alex's WW2 infantry were superior to his other stuff IMHO. I think my favourite Erwan units would have to be his chariots;his female units are second to none, as well.

BTW, I lost my Erwan unit collection when my PC died some time ago. Anyone know where I can get 'em?

What's the fascination with Kylie Minogue? Ordinary looks and even worse music.

Her 'music' is truly appalling

[EZRhino]

Here they are.

[fairline]

Thanks EZ

I'd forgotten how good his 'king' and diplomat units were.

[Catfish]

Originally posted by tanelorn
I am somewhat offended by that comment

Apologies man, didn't mean to offend. I misinterpreted your comment and then made an unfair assumption. Certainly I was having a dig at this kind of mentality. It's likely that both our Minogue comments may offend some people.

Originally posted by curtsibling
Now guys, let's not fight over her.

I thought we already gave them away to you Brits.

There are a few missing from Erwan's collection, notably his settler/engineer units and a couple of his Atlantis thingies...


And then of course there are his cities. The isometric ones are especially good.

[curtsibling]

It's all amazing stuff!

[Catfish]

More ToT fantasy units, some dating back a few years. Once again the source material for most is photographs; some are game rips and others are combinations of both. There’s a mixed bag of general fantasy units and Lord of the Rings stuff.



1st row: Nazgûl, cave troll, orc, orc archer, orc, Rider of Rohan, Haradrim cavalry, Easterling cavalry, poncy-looking elf/Celeborn.
2nd row: storm golem, 3 dwarves, king with sword, assassin/spy, wizard, spell-caster type, sorceress.
3rd row: villager, hero, spearman, axeman, swordsman, king, knight, beholder, siege tower.
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A few notes: The shorter humans are generally of an older vintage – my Civ2 FW bias back then. The Rider of Rohan is a combination of a photo (rider) and a rip from AoK (horse). Similarly, the Easterling unit is a modified Erwan Mongol on an AoK horse. The Haradrim is a modified AoK camel rider on a heavy cavalry archer horse. These 3 mounted units were made before the LOTR movies came out. The beholder and siege towers are rips from Baldur’s Gate and AoM, respectively.

What do some of these units look like in game for those without ToT?

[St Leo]

Please you PNG or, if you are really unable, BMP for posting high colour graphics. JPG is a lossy compression and always results in blurring.