Civ: Germans (Cimbri, Suebians, Goths)

[real_tabasco_sauce]

2 minutes ago, Deicide4u said:

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j/k, it looks great. The fishing animation is natural.

 

I didn't do that part XD

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Any comments? If not, I'll go ahead and make the new icons.

[Stan`]

For rigged meshes prop points should be added to the armature unlike normal meshes.

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19 hours ago, Stan` said:

For rigged meshes prop points should be added to the armature unlike normal meshes.

Oh, so that's how I could have added oars while keeping the sail & sail animation?

[Stan`]

Yeah.

[Ultimate Aurelian]

On 17/05/2025 at 12:08 PM, Genava55 said:

But it has to be consistent and coherent with other civilizations. Too often, there's the immature temptation to want to put everything in every new civ, and this quickly becomes absurd and unbalanced. The Kushites underwent a similar development.

There might be enough justification for a heavier elite infantry.

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Here the greatest part and most valiant of the enemies were cut in pieces; for those that fought in the front, that they might not break their ranks, were fast tied to one another, with long chains put through their belts.

It is not described what weapons they had; but swords are possible.

We know the Cimbrian cavalry used swords.

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. Their horse, that were in number fifteen thousand, made a very splendid appearance. They wore helmets, made to resemble the head and jaws of wild beasts, and other strange shapes, and heightening these with plumes of feathers, they made themselves appear taller than they were. They had breastplates of iron and white glittering shields; and for their offensive arms every one had two darts, and when they came hand to hand, they used large and heavy swords.

But also the women of the Ambrones, so they don't seem to be only for cavalry.

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Those that got safe over, not daring to make head, were slain by the Romans, as they fled to their camp and wagons; where the women meeting them with swords and hatchets, and making a hideous outcry, set upon those that fled as well as those that pursued

 

[Genava55]

1 hour ago, Ultimate Aurelian said:

It is not described what weapons they had; but swords are possible.

Sure but why the Germans should have elite swordsmen and other civs not? 

It is the comparison and the coherence across the different rosters I am referring to. 

[Deicide4u]

46 minutes ago, Genava55 said:

why the Germans should have elite swordsmen and other civs not? 

Spartans have an elite swordsman, they were the precedent.

Carthaginians, Romans and Seleucids all have advanced infantry swordsmen in their rosters.

I don't think it's an issue, but perhaps it's better to give them a swordsman champion? One with a weapon similar to the famous Zweihander, just to be cheeky. 

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See

https://riseofnations.fandom.com/wiki/Solduri

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[Genava55]

1 hour ago, Deicide4u said:

One with a weapon similar to the famous Zweihander, just to be cheeky. 

This unit has been removed from the Britons due to a lack of historical accuracy. No zweihander.

[Ultimate Aurelian]

1 hour ago, Deicide4u said:

 

I don't think it's an issue, but perhaps it's better to give them a swordsman champion? 

That is what i was thinking, yes.