UNIT: Eastern Horse Archer

[Kryten]

This is a new unit for Exsanqination's Alexander the Great mod, but is also suitable for Scythians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Sassanids, Huns, Avars, Maygars, Arabs, Seljuk Turks, Saracens, Mamelukes, and all the various horse archer tribes of the Asian steppes and Mongolian plains (in the future I want to make a Mongol horseman UU as well).

This unit can also be used to give non-european nations an alternative to Knights, because in reality the only people who used west european medieval Knights were....er....the west european medieval nations! It just don't look right having the medieval Muslim nations like Egypt, Babylon and Persia (and the Zulus, Aztecs, Iroquois for that matter) building feudal Christian Knights.

[Kryten]

There are TWO zip files for this unit, and BOTH are needed in order to make this animation work.
And all you have to do is the following:-

1) download both zip files to a temporary place on your PC,

2) use Windows Explorer to open the CivilizationIII/Art/units folder on your PC and right click the units_32 file so that you can rename it (otherwise it will be overwriten, and so you may want to keep a copy).

3) now just use the unzip browser to unzip both Horsearcher.zip files into CivilizationIII/Art/units. This will create a new folder called Horse Archer which contains all the FLICs and files.

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WHATS NEW

The two zip files have been updated and now contain Civilopeadia pictures and text, plus there is an alternative "standing-still-shooting-forwards" attack .flc as well as the original "galloping-on-the-spot-shooting-sideways" one, with very simple instructions so that people can customize the unit and use the animation they prefer.

[Kryten]

Here is the 2nd zip file. As I said before, you'll need BOTH.

Once unzipped, you will find a readme.txt file which contains full details of how to add this unit to civ3 by using the hacked 1.21f Civ3Editor, as well as some suggested stats for this unit and some very simple customization instructions.

[Kryten]

This is another view of the unit (note: the Horse Archer is shooting in the SW direction at the gallop).

[FrostyBoy]

I see what you've done to get that, great idea, great job!

One of these days I am going to make a commando unit, now that will be fun. Ahhh the old days with my commando in command and conquer. I know how Rambo felt.

[PGM]

Re: New Animation: Eastern Horse Archer

Originally posted by Kryten
This is a new unit for Exsanqination's Alexander the Great mod, but is also suitable for Scythians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Sassanids, Huns, Avars, Maygars, Arabs, Seljuk Turks, Saracens, Mamelukes, and all the various horse archer tribes of the Asian steppes and Mongolian plains (in the future I want to make a Mongol horseman UU as well).

This unit can also be used to give non-european nations an alternative to Knights, because in reality the only people who used west european medieval Knights were....er....the west european medieval nations! It just don't look right having the medieval Arab Muslim nations like Egypt, Babylon and Persia (and the Zulus, Aztecs, Iroquois for that matter) building feudal Knights.

It looks fabulous. Keep up the good work.

[WesW]

Would you email me the second zip? The first worked ok, but I dl'd the second part about 4 times and it is always invalid.
Thanks,

Wes

[Mizaq]

go to this thread to get a fix for invalid zips.

[Kryten]

Originally posted by WesW
Would you email me the second zip? The first worked ok, but I dl'd the second part about 4 times and it is always invalid.
Thanks,
Wes

....hmmm....well, you've done better then me, because I can't open either of them! They just download as some weird file called "attachment" that my PC can't open.

Both of these files were created using the zipper that comes with Windows 2000XP. I'll try rezipping the originals with WinZip32 which I have on my laptop, then use these to replace the two zip files at the top of this thread and see if I can download them.
Give me a few minutes.....

....nope, still didn't work. All I get is a file called "attachment", but it is the right size. I'll try something else....

[Mizaq]

rename the attachment to attachment.zip or whatever.zip and then unzip it. if it is an invalid zip, follow the link i posted above and run pkzipfix on it. It's a bug with apolyton not with your zip (let's hope).

[Kryten]

Originally posted by Mizaq
rename the attachment to attachment.zip or whatever.zip and then unzip it. if it is an invalid zip, follow the link i posted above and run pkzipfix on it. It's a bug with apolyton not with your zip (let's hope).

Cheers mate! You've sussed it! All I had to do is change the default name "attachment" to "HorseArcher.zip" BEFORE I download. Thanks a lot (mind you, I've made a right pigs ear of the first three posts. Give me half an hour and I'll clean them up a bit). Thanks again.

To repay you for all your help, have a free preview of a Macedonian Companion....

[godinex]

nice work!

[NeOmega]

Cool

just trying to get 500 replies.......
But I did download it, always looking for new units

[WesW]

Kryten, I thought some, and decided to add the unit to the Medpack III as a replacement for the Knight for non-European civs, like you suggested. Look for it soon.

[Kryten]

Thanks mate. And just in case people prefer a more conventional 'standing-still-shooting-forwards' attack .flc instead of my current 'galloping-on-the-spot-shooting-sideways' one (which is a bit....unusual), then by this weekend I'll have an alternative one done which I'll stick into an updated zip file on the first post, along with simple instructions on how to customize the .ini file so that everybody can choose the one they like.
Here's a quick preview of the alternative attack animation:-