Amazon:Total War

[Private Clark]

I like the new berserker, as for the warband and skirmisher, they look a little too generic compared to your other units, also, they look way to british, the colors i mean, they might get confusing, maybe you could add some stuff to the texture? I was going to vote for the second shield design but the way it turned out exceeds them both, good job

[SubRosa]

You mean the Britons look way too Amazon right?

I could change the hair on them, that is about the only variation the barbarian units have among one another. Or try to put that shirt on them which the Peasants and Mercenary Barb Infantry have. But that looks blah.

[SubRosa]

I found just the thing for the Berserkers.



That should about do it for them.

[Private Clark]

Much better, the only thing is that wierd texture stretch out of the skirt, but thats unavoidable

[SubRosa]

Oh, I was wondering if there was any way I could get rid of that. I suppose not.

[Andalus]

You could make it look slightly less weird by adding a flatter texture down that section, thus meaning it doesn't look so stripy and stretched. See something like Poeni Infantry (I think) for what I mean.

By the way, I also think you should change the hair colour for the skirmishers/warband. At the moment it is still all limey white. That the Britons and New Amazonians use similar colours doesn't help hide the similiarity.

[SubRosa]

By the way, I also think you should change the hair colour for the skirmishers/warband. At the moment it is still all limey white. That the Britons and New Amazonians use similar colours doesn't help hide the similiarity.

See Post #32

[SubRosa]

Here are updated Warband and Skirmisher textures.

[Private Clark]

Great improvment, slightly changing the blue really helped as well as the new hair colors .

[SubRosa]

After taking a break from ATW to work on unit cards for Andalus, I am back to work. I made all of the New Amazonian skins a darker blue, and did some touch-ups on some of the units. I have a few more to go and they will be completely finished.

I am also thinking to changing the name of New Amazonia to something else. I was never thrilled with it, and I would like something that helps distinguish them from Amazonia. Given that geographically they are in the middle of barbarian territory, and that I have given their units a strong barbarian influence, I think their faction name ought to have a similar barbaric flair. So far I have come up with the following:

The Disir - (essentially lesser female deities in Scandinavian myth. Freja was called Vanadis, meaning the Dis of the Vanir.)
The Asyniur or Asynior - (again, the term used for a female goddess, specifically one of the Aesir. Asynia being the singular term).
The Valkyrja - ("The Choosers of the Slain". Valkyries).

The rationale behind these names is that this is what the barbarians would have called the Amazons, and the impact that they left upon the barbarian psyche would have caused the name to enter remain in the form of myth long after the Amazons themselves had been gone and forgotten. Much like the Gorgons with Greek mythology.

What sounds best?


In other news, I have several non-Amazon units I am working on. The first is a unit I discovered there was a distinct need of in my recent Gorgon campaign. Nubian Spearmen Mercenaries. These guys will provide a much needed source of heavy infantry in the east half of Africa and the Sinai. Since I found that the regular version's stats were woefully poor, I buffed them up a bit as well.



I have also added a few more names, and will hopefully have more coming. Finally, I have received permission from Signifer One to use his animation pack, so expect to see hoplites and a few other spear units using their weapons over-arm in the future.

[SubRosa]

I know it is a little early to be thinking about a sequel, but a little bird whispered something in my ear yesterday. Why not make an ATW 2 that was set in Barbarian Invasion? I could even call it Amazon Invasion. The idea is very appealing.

There are several factions that no one would miss which could be used for new Amazon factions, such as the Roxolani and Lombards (both of which are just carbon-copies of other factions). I could easily fit New Amazonia (or perhaps the Valkyrja / Asyniur if that is what they turn out to be called) in the Russian forests where they are in ATW 1. They might even replace the Slavs as an emergent horde originating from that area. Amazonia might be found in the Armenian mountains between the ERE and Sassanids, which would make playing them interesting. The Gorgons could replace the Berbers, which I think would make Africa a lot more interesting than the backwater it normally is in BI.

That is of course if I wanted to keep the original 3 Amazon factions around. I would probably not want to do that. Creating at least one new Amazon faction would be ideal, and having at least one or two of the old ones be extinct.

This is still a long way off, if I decide to do it. But it is something I am going to keep in mind. One stumbling block (for me at least), is that I would need the services of a good modeller/skinner or two, as this would require all new Amazon units, and creating 100% new ones is beyond me.

[SubRosa]

My latest unit is a female barbarian archer. I created them to get some more female units in the barbarian rosters. Originally I was only going to make them for Gaul and the Britons, but I changed my mind and decided to replace all of the entry level barbarian archers with them. So the Gauls, Germania, Dacia, Scythia, and Rebels will have them, as well as the Britons (as a replacement for their Light Chariot crew)

[SubRosa]

The latest unit. Female Gladiators for the Romans.

[Silver Wolf]

barbarian archers are awesome... and I like the gladiators too...but it would be nicer to see them with some leather armor or something like that

[SubRosa]

The latest unit is a new skin for Cretan Archers.



I have also made them a regularly recruitable unit for all of the Hellenic factions, but only in the Aegean.