Originally Posted by Squirrelloid (Post 701877)

I would absolutely love to share art chores with other people =)

I'll take a look at what you have, see what I can currently use, and work from there.

Curved swords are historical afaict from the crusader states period. The scimitar seems to have been extant (from accounts of the Second Crusade, Saladin is supposed to have sliced a pillow perfectly in half with one following the armistice agreement as a demonstration for the crusaders - Richard the Lionhearted of England bent an iron rod as a demonstration of strength.) Of course, the word used at the time would have been different, as the word scimitar dates from the 15th century - but scimitar describes a general class of swords, not a specific type.

But too much earlier than that and yeah, i doubt you'd find much in the way of curved blades.

Edit: Love the sprites. They look crusades era to me, for the most part. Are they size 2 though? They look big to me... But they're absolutely gorgeous. Not sure about the leather armor on some of them though - all mounted islamic forces would have worn a fine maille. (Also, 'light' means 'archer' or at least ranged. Not that Dominions 3 gets this right ever).

Could i get a translation of "Mubarizun"?

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid (Post 701882)

"The early 10th century chronicler al-tabari lists the following essential arms and armour for a warrior. Mail, breastplate, helmet leg guards, arm guards, horse armour, lance, shield, sword, mace, battle axe, quiver of thirty arrows, bowcase with two bows and two spare bow strings."

I'm actually surprised at the lance. My recollection of the first crusades was that, in addition to incessant infighting, the muslims were surprised by the european cavalry charge. I'm guessing the referenced translation is using 'lance' in a more general sense and actually means spear. (Lance can refer to any vaguely spearlike object used from horseback, but in the specific european context it was a highly specialized implement by the 11th century).

Which means as much as I like your lancers, I'm not convinced 'lancer' is appropriate.

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid (Post 701892)

Lol, i figured out what I'm doing wrong. For whatever reason the program I am using to open them is opening the sprites with different sizes for the pixels. (Its a layout program, but its the strongest graphics program i have). It must be resizing your image to a smaller scale or something to fit on a 'page'. (But the pixels are most certainly a different size between them and the game's tgas when i open them... so weird).

To avoid any issues, could i get your folder of individual tgas - O'm thinking about playing with a couple of them.

Originally Posted by llamabeast (Post 701898)

Squirreloid, you should use GIMP. It's completely free (in the sense of being open source, rather than not being good enough to charge for), is quite easy to use and is ideal for doing sprites.