New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

A new EA nation, mainly inspired by Stonehenge and megalithic monuments.
Cantabira is a late-Palaeolithic/early-Bronze Age nation, with powerful mages and priests, but military quite underequipped. The nation have good summons and good sacred.



Cantabira:

Early Era


Strengths:
- Good mages
- Good national spells
- Good variety of national summons, including many animals
- Strong and varied sacred
- Heavy (but expensive !) wooly rhinoceros trampling cavalry


Weaknesses:
- Many cheap but weak troops.
- Bad equipment, some troops even have protection 0!
- Lack of archers and cavalry, except for rhino mounted cavalry (powerful but costly)
- Many good commanders are Cap only, limiting access to some magic paths and making some recruitment choices a bit more difficult.
- Sacred are good, but several are Cap only.

Cantabira currently uses unit slots 2400 - 2450,nation slot 86, magic site slots 840-842, weapon slots 920-922, armor slot 260.

Starting Units:

20 Cantabiran Slingers; 20 Cantabiran Spearmen; Clan Chief; Cantabiran Scout.

Starting Sites:

- Great Circle of Stones. Astral 2, Earth 3. Allows recruitment of Sacred King, Elder of Stones.
- Burial Mounds of Kings. Death 1. Allows recruitment of Mound Priest.
- Stone Circle of the Sun. Allows recruitment of Bride of the Sun.

PD:

- 1-20 : 1xCantabiran Clansman (w/ axe and shield), 1xCantabiran Javelineer. Commander: Clan Chief.
- 21-125 : 1xCantabiran Spearman, 1/2xCantabiran Warrior (w/ sword, scalemail and shield). Commander: Priest of Stones

Units:

- Cantabiran Clansman : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 10, Att 10, Def 12, Prot 0, Mor 9, MR 10, Mv 12(2), Prec 8. Weapons: Spear. Armor: Buckler.
Cost: Gold 9, Res 3.

- Cantabiran Clansman : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 10, Att 10, Def 14, Prot 0, Mor 9, MR 10, Mv 11(2), Prec 8. Weapons: Broadsword. Armor: Shield.
Cost: Gold 9, Res 6.

- Cantabiran Clansman : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 10, Att 10, Def 12, Prot 0, Mor 9, MR 10, Mv 11(2), Prec 8. Weapons: Axe. Armor: Shield.
Cost: Gold 9, Res 4.

- Cantabiran Clansman : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 10, Att 10, Def 13, Prot 0, Mor 9, MR 10, Mv 12(2), Prec 8. Weapons: Falcata (dmg 5, att 1, def 1, length 2). Armor: Buckler.
Cost: Gold 9, Res 5.

- Cantabiran Slinger : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 10, Att 10, Def 14, Prot 0, Mor 10, MR 11, Mv 11(2), Prec 11. Weapons: Shortsword, Sling. Armor: Shield.
Cost: Gold 10, Res 5.

- Cantabiran Javelineer : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 10, Att 10, Def 14, Prot 0, Mor 10, MR 11, Mv 11(2), Prec 11. Weapons: Shortsword, Javelin (ammo :4, unlike normal javelin). Armor: Shield.
Cost: Gold 10, Res 7.

- Cantabiran Spearman : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 10, Att 11, Def 13, Prot 0, Mor 10, MR 10, Mv 11(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Spear, javelin. Armor: Leather cuirass, Shield.
Cost: Gold 10, Res 6.

- Cantabiran Warrior: Hp 10, Size 2, Str 11, Att 11, Def 15, Prot 4, Mor 12, MR 10, Mv 11(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Broadsword. Armor: Leather cuirass, Shield.
Cost: Gold 15, Res 7.

- Cantabiran Warrior: Hp 10, Size 2, Str 11, Att 11, Def 13, Prot 4, Mor 12, MR 10, Mv 11(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Axe. Armor: Leather cuirass, Shield.
Cost: Gold 15, Res 5.

- Cantabiran Warrior: Hp 10, Size 2, Str 11, Att 11, Def 14, Prot 10, Mor 12, MR 10, Mv 10(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Broadsword. Armor: Scale Mail cuirass, Bronze cap, Shield.
Cost: Gold 15, Res 14.

- Cantabiran Warrior: Hp 10, Size 2, Str 11, Att 11, Def 12, Prot 10, Mor 12, MR 10, Mv 10(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Axe. Armor: Scale Mail cuirass, Bronze cap, Shield.
Cost: Gold 15, Res 12.

- Cantabiran Warrior: Hp 10, Size 2, Str 11, Att 11, Def 12, Prot 10, Mor 12, MR 10, Mv 11(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Spear. Armor: Scale Mail cuirass, Bronze cap, Shield.
Cost: Gold 15, Res 11.

- Cantabiran Warrior: Hp 10, Size 2, Str 11, Att 11, Def 13, Prot 10, Mor 12, MR 10, Mv 11(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Falcata (dmg 5, att 1, def 1, length 2). Armor: Scale Mail cuirass, Bronze cap, Shield.
Cost: Gold 15, Res 13.

- War Beast : Hp 55, Size 5, Str 12, Att 12, Def 14, Prot 12, Mor 13, MR 10, Mv 18(3), Prec 10. Weapons: Light Lance, Gore (Dmg 20, no strength added, att -1, def 0, len 1). Armor: Scale Mail cuirass, Bronze cap, Shield.
Trample, Berserk +1, Cold res. 50, Mounted.
Cost: Gold 100, Res 26.

- Sunclad (CAP. ONLY) : Hp 14, Size 2, Str 11, Att 12, Def 14, Prot 12, Mor 14, MR 12, Mv 9(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Golden Sword. Armor: Scale Mail Hauberk, Bronze cap, Golden Shield
Awe 0, fire res. 50, fireshield 4; Sacred.
Cost: Gold 35, Res 22.

- Painted Warrior : Hp 12, Size 2, Str 11, Att 12, Def 15, Prot 5, Mor 15, MR 10, Mv 11(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Broadsword. Armor: Warpaints, Shield
Berserk +1; Sacred.
Cost: Gold 25, Res 10.

- Stone Brother (CAP. ONLY) : Hp 13, Size 2, Str 12, Att 12, Def 13, Prot 9, Mor 14, MR 13, Mv 10(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Stone Spear, javelin. Armor: Furs, Shield
Reinvigoration 2, self-healing, mountain surv.; Sacred.
Cost: Gold 25, Res 5.

- Scarred One : Hp 14, Size 2, Str 11, Att 12, Def 13, Prot 10, Mor 15, MR 12, Mv 10(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Golden Spear. Armor: Scale Mail Hauberk, Bronze cap, Shield
Fear 0, regeneration 5%, 33% for an affliction; Sacred. When killed, change shape for Guardian of the Mounds and disappear after battle.
Cost: Gold 35, Res 16.

- Blood Maiden : Hp 11, Size 2, Str 10, Att 13, Def 12, Prot 5, Mor 14, MR 11, Mv 12(2), Prec 9. Weapons: Falcata, Falcata. Armor: Warpaints
Ambidextrous 3, Blood vengeance +1, self-healing; Sacred.
Cost: Gold 30, Res 11.

Commanders:

- Cantabiran Scout : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 10, Att 11, Def 13, Prot 0, Mor 10, MR 10, Mv 12(2), Prec 11. Weapons: Spear, Javelin.
No leader; Stealthy 0
Cost: Gold 20, Res 3.

- Clan Chief : Hp 12, Size 2, Str 12, Att 12, Def 15, Prot 10, Mor 13, MR 10, Mv 10(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Broadsword. Armor: Scale Mail cuirass, Bronze cap, Shield
Leadership : 40
Cost: Gold 40, Res 14.

- War Chief : Hp 13, Size 2, Str 12, Att 12, Def 16, Prot 10, Mor 14, MR 10, Mv 10(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Broadsword. Armor: Scale Mail cuirass, Bronze cap, Shield.
Leadership : 80
Cost: Gold 40, Res 14.

- Beast Tamer : Hp 12, Size 2, Str 12, Att 12, Def 12, Prot 0, Mor 13, MR 10, Mv 12(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Whip, Dagger.
Leadership : 10; Animal awe 1, ambidextrous (2), forest surv.; 20 % for 1 Nature, research -2; may summon 1 saber-toothed tiger/month.
Cost: Gold 70, Res 2.

- Sacred King : Hp 15, Size 2, Str 12, Att 13, Def 16, Prot 12, Mor 15, MR 11, Mv 9(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Golden Sword. Armor: Scale Mail Hauberk, Bronze cap, Shield
Leadership : 80; Standard 10; Sacred.
Holy 1
Cost: Gold 140, Res 22.

- Priest of Stones : Hp 9, Size 2, Str 10, Att 9, Def 8, Prot 1, Mor 13, MR 12, Mv 12(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Fist.
Leadership : 10; Sacred.
Earth 1, Holy 1, 50 % chance for Earth or Astral.
Cost: Gold 80, Res 1.

- Sacrificer : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 10, Att 10, Def 10, Prot 1, Mor 13, MR 12, Mv 12(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Dagger.
Leadership : 10; Sacred.
Earth 1, Blood 1, Holy 1; dousing bonus +1.
Cost: Gold 120, Res 1.

- Smith : Hp 12, Size 2, Str 11, Att 12, Def 9, Prot 1, Mor 12, MR 11, Mv 12(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Maul.
Leadership : 10; Fire res. 25, forge bonus 15.
Earth 1, Fire 1, 50 % chance for Fire or Earth.
Cost: Gold 80, Res 1.

- Seer : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 9, Att 9, Def 12, Prot 1, Mor 12, MR 13, Mv 12(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Quarterstaff.
Leadership : 10; Fortune teller 5
Earth 1, Astral 2, 50 % chance for Earth or Astral.
Cost: Gold 160, Res 1.

- Wise Woman : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 9, Att 8, Def 7, Prot 1, Mor 11, MR 12, Mv 12(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Fist.
Leadership : 10; Healer 15, research -2
Earth 1, Nature 1, 100 % chance for Earth, Astral or Nature.
Cost: Gold 140, Res 1.

- High Priest of Stones : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 9, Att 9, Def 12, Prot 2, Mor 14, MR 12, Mv 12(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Quarterstaff.
Leadership : 40; Sacred.
Earth 2, Holy 2, 100 % chance for Fire, Astral, Nature or Blood; 100 % chance for Fire, Astral, Nature or Blood; 10 % chance for Fire, Astral, Nature or Blood.
Cost: Gold 180, Res 1.

- Mound Priest (CAP. ONLY) : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 9, Att 9, Def 12, Prot 1, Mor 13, MR 12, Mv 12(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Quarterstaff.
Leadership : 10 /undead 30 (poorundeadleader + death magic 1= 10+20 undead leadership); Sacred.
Earth 1,Death 1, Holy 2, 50 % chance for Earth, Astral, or Death.
Cost: Gold 140, Res 1.

- Stone Elder (CAP. ONLY) : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 9, Att 8, Def 11, Prot 2, Mor 15, MR 12, Mv 12(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Quarterstaff.
Leadership : 40; Old; Sacred.
Earth 2, Astral 1, Nature 1, Blood 1, Holy 3, 100 % chance for Fire, Earth, Astral, Nature or Blood; 10 % chance for Fire, Earth, Astral, Nature or Blood.
Cost: Gold 300, Res 1.

- Bride of the Sun (CAP. ONLY) : Hp 10, Size 2, Str 9, Att 9, Def 7, Prot 0, Mor 15, MR 12, Mv 12(2), Prec 10. Weapons: Quarterstaff.
Leadership : 15; Awe 1, fire res. 50, Sacred.
Fired 1, Holy 2, 50 % chance for Fire, Earth or Astral.
Cost: Gold 120, Res 1.


Summons:

- Saber-Toothed Tiger : Hp 20, Size 3, Str 16, Att 16, Def 10, Prot 4, Mor 13, MR 5, Mv 20(3), Prec 5. Weapons: Bite (AP), claw.
Animal, forest surv., mountain surv.

- Terror Bird : Hp 18, Size 3, Str 14, Att 14, Def 7, Prot 4, Mor 13, MR 5, Mv 27(3), Prec 5. Weapons: Beak, Claw.
Waste surv., animal.

- Mammoth : Hp 72, Size 6, Str 21, Att 10, Def 5, Prot 13, Mor 10, MR 5, Mv 16(3), Prec 11. Weapons: Gore.
Cold res. 100, trample, animal.

- Wooly Rhinoceros : Hp 55, Size 5, Str 12, Att 10, Def 8, Prot 7, Mor 12, MR 5, Mv 18(3), Prec 5. Weapons: Gore (Dmg 2, att -1, def -1, len 0).
Animal, Trample, Berserk +2, Cold res. 75.

- Guardian of the Mounds : Hp 22, Size 2, Str 15, Att 12, Def 13, Prot 15, Mor 18, MR 12, Mv 8(3), Prec 10. Weapons: Golden Spear. Armor: Scale Mail Hauberk, Bronze cap, Shield.
Fear 0, cold res. 100, poison res. 100, need not eat; Sacred.

- Ancient King : Hp 26, Size 2, Str 17, Att 13, Def 14, Prot 15, Mor 18, MR 12, Mv 8(3), Prec 10. Weapons: Flint Sword. Armor: Scale Mail Hauberk, Bronze cap, Golden Shield.
Fear 0, cold res. 100, poison res. 100, need not eat; Sacred.
Leadership : 40 /undead 110; Death 1.

- Mound Wraith : Hp 33, Size 2, Str 15, Att 14, Def 17, Prot 10, Mor 30, MR 16, Mv 10(3), Prec 10. Weapons: Lifedrain.
Fear 3, cold res. 100, poison res. 100, need not eat, blood vengeance +1, poor amphibian, immortal, ethereal, chill 3; Sacred.
Leadership : 40 /undead 140; Death 2, 100 % chance for Earth, Death or Blood. 50 % chance for Earth, Death or Blood.


http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/attac...1&d=1226338456

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Well, everybody, I'm waiting for your advices.

Do you think it is balanced or not ?

Do you think Blood Maiden should be Cap only ? I hesitated about that.

Do you think the prices are OK ?


I will add national spells once they're completely done.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

I find it very hard to judge balance in this format. It would be better to complete the graphics and release the mod, and then hone balance afterwards.

It sounds like a fun idea anyway, I'd encourage you to go ahead with it.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Yes this one sounds good and I agree with llama in regards to the balance.

The best way to get balance suggestions is to release a mod, with a graphical preview, maybe get a multiplayer game or two set up with it. The feedback will then come and be more than cursory.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Graphics are almost finished, I'll release the mod probably next week...

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Great, looking forward to it.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

I added a general view of graphics.

I have to finish the sprites of two sacred (Scarred One & Blood Maiden), of summonable undead units, heroes and one more summonable (it will probably be called Earthborn). Plus possibly one or two other summons, I'm not sure.

I hope you'll enjoy the sprites !!

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Nounours, you've got a lot of talent for making sprites. :up:

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Very, very nice. I promised I'd try out your tibetan mod and I will right now.

But yes, excellent sprites. They fit very well in the dom3 world.

Btw I notice you used the Ogre Kingdoms rhinox sprite as a base for your woolly rhino - please feel free to use any of my sprites in any way that will help you or speed things up for you.

-two thumbs up-

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Sombre, thanks, your Ogre Kingdom mod is great.
In fact, I used the Rhinox outline, another attempt I had already made and a wooly rhino drawing I found... but the Rhinox saved me a lot of time :D!

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

I agree with others, you've got a talent for makings sprites. I recognize some of the sources (Tir Na Nog/Eriu troops for that bronze look, MA Agartha's Attendant of Oracles etc) but they fit together very well.

However, word of caution: if players can choose armored troops, they won't have any reason to buy unarmored troops. See EA Marverni - you don't have to buy the low-prot troops, so you don't. Mapmove 2, prot 10 units with shield aren't as good as MA Ermor/Pythium Principes, but quite close, and this is Early age, so your nationals are actually pretty good compared to some other nations.

Of course, in Early age other nations have Niefels and Palankashas and Burning Ones and Warriors of the Five Elements as recruitables, so the ccompetition is much harsher than in MA.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Yes, I tested the mod myself, and it appeared that I wasn't recruiting the low-prot units...

So I've considered raising the price and/or resource cost for armored troops, to reflect the fact that in Cantabira, bronze is yet a costful resource, and perhaps make unprotected clansmen a bit more interesting to recruit, at least sometimes.

What do you think of that ?

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Great work !

Some suggestions for new units/summons :

Cave Bear
Cave Hyena
Irish Giant Deer (Megaceros) (Can be a nice cavalry unit too)

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

That's what I'd do in your situation. High resource cost (for such a low-prot unit) might make it easier to mass cheaper units and cast Marble Warriors (or something) at them.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

These look great. I like the theme of prehistoric beasties. I'm a *little* surprised that you don't have any caveman units, though.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Aren't shields and swords too much advanced for a paeolithic/neolithic nation ? ( Ooops just have seen that you describe it as a an early bronze nation, so shields and swords are more common ! )

I Love your summons !

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Good news, Spendios, Cave bears are planned ! For Cave hyaenas & megaceros, I still don't know, it depend largely from my skills at drawing 'em.

HB, there'll be cave men, or more precisely Neanderthals. They'll be a summon (Cantabiran slaugther nearly all of them, but Cantabiran mages are able to "summon" some).

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Ok, I was just curious about that. Thanks for the info :)

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

A new summon for Cantabira : Fossil Beast !!

It's the big T-Rex-like undead thing at the bottom of summons, in the graphic overview (see first page of this thread).

Recruitable units' sprites are finished, I've yet to draw a few summons (neandertals & Cave Bear) and to mod a few more things before releasing the mod...

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

This is turning into a really unique and interesting mod Nation, Nounours.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Nice nation. Keep up the good work!

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Thanks you all for your encouragements and your advices.

I have to finish the graphics of Cantabira's heroes (only one is currently done) and to mod them, plus one or two summons, and the mod will be read to be released ! I've added the new sprites on the general graphic view.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

This looks great! I will definetly try it out. Love the summons. Needs a god though. When I can think better I might be able to make specific suggestions (medical reasons, resolved soon hopefully).

As for balance, let me put in my (didnt we expect this) comment.
If you want to, feel free to go unbalanced and shoot for a good AI nation. I would have just as much fun coming up against this nation as I would have playing it. Maybe even more so if it was designed to be effective as an AI. Just a thought.

Gandalf Parker

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

A few new things in Cantabira:

- New summon (First ones, sorts of neandertals).
- three new heroes (Eldest of Elders, Forever king and Undying).
- some corrections of typos in descriptions.
- two new pretenders.


Sorry for having been so long, and don't worry if Cantabira take a bit of time before being released, but I'm currently... hmm sort of modding something else. It's called "My Couple LA", and it takes place in Late Era, you know, this age when all things are going on the road to ruin & all that was once great, strong & beautiful is becoming sad remnants of a former glory... :o

Well, I still don't know, but it may (or may not) lead me to mod something I should call "My Divorce EA", with the utmost dreadful and unspeakable Doom Horror known as the Attorney :p ... Hope not, we'll see (and if somebody has the fortune teller ability, please I have bad events to prevent :D).

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Life is a sh*t cake, and you're forced to eat a piece of it every day.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Yum, yum...:D

At least, today was not a real bad day...

Yesterday, my morale was lower than that of a frightened militia with the battle fright affliction in an hostile dominion :p (an it is LOW indeed)!

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

That sucks, Nounours--as a person who's been through quite a run of failed relationships in my past, you definitely have my sympathies.

As far as the graphics go, you do beautiful work-some of the very best I've seen, actually, especially considering that you haven't been making mods very long.

I was wondering if that big T-Rex skeleton *was* infact supposed to be a Pretender chassis? I don't see information on him, otherwise...

Other than that, I'd like to suggest a Pretender chassis that I was/am going to use for Cimmeria: The "Bear-Skull Totem". It's basically just a big mound of paleolithic Cave-bear skulls, representing the very early (hypothetized, anyway) worship of cave bear bones by Neanderthals. I haven't done the graphics on it yet, or really defined it entirely, but, broadly, it will be a fragile, immobile unit, that's relatively easy to physically destroy (much easier than a Sphinx or a Monolith), but that protects itself by summoning, in combat, the spirits of cave bears.

Bear Skull Totem
Hp. 20iz. 4 Str. 2 Att. 12 Def. 8 Prot. 8 (8)
Mor. 30 MR. 18 Mv. Immobile Prec. 12 Weapons: None
Armour: None. Fear (0)
Earth 1, Nature 1, Death 1. 125 for new paths. Cost: 200. Dom. 2.
Produces: Bear Spirit (combat only).
Hp. 44 Siz. 4 Str 24 Att. 14 Def. 9 Prot. 0 (0) Mor. 30 MR. 9 Mv. 14/2 Prec. 5. Weapons: Claw. Berserk (6) Cold Res. 75%. Darkvision (50). Magic Being. Etherial. Animal.

A skeletal titan-chassis with a human/giant body and a mammoth skull head might be fun too.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Yea relationship can suck big time. But on a happier note I love the way this mod is looking!! keep it up. I have an idea if it helps. Maybe you could make a raptor the summon skeleton and the t-rex skeleton a pretender.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

In fact, the T-Rex is a summon. I'va planned a raptor version of the summon, but the sprite sucks, so...

As for the pretenders, they will be more "bronze-age" like than prehistorical... They will be gods of growth and fertility, this kind of stuff. I have also planned a Divine King, it's to say a sacrificed former Sacred King... I also have a fire pretender, a sort of huge fire spirit or elemental... Hope you will see them soon :D!

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

sounds good lookin forward to it.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

One great way to do skeletal dinosaurs of almost any type is just to research photos or pictures of their skeletons online, and then modify them into Dom3 sprites--not that difficult! There are literally *thousands* of these online, often in multiple poses. I could probably churn out a reasonable picture of a raptor in 4 hours or less, using this method.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

It's how I basicly do all my sprites so I'll have to agree there, the 2nd sprite usually is harder since you'll have to change stuff yourself and it just doesn't look as good as the original (when I do it at least)

The only thing is that bones for you skeletal raptor (small fragile stuff) might get mashed when you need a relative small sprite and resize the image (size 3 I'm guessing so about 64x64 would be the size to use but probably the creature would have to be a bit smaller).

Anyway I'd really try it that way, if you don't succeed I would be willing to try and steal on of the net for you :D

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Yeah, it was my main problem. Furthermore, I was busy doing other stuff (sprites for heroes, mainly), and lately I lack... concentration :D ... So, I will wait a bit before trying it again.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Is this dead? It seemed so near!

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Indeed, much like the tibet one it really does look superb!

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Woe is Cantabira! So close and yet so far.

It's a shame he never put up the attack sprites, or I'd do the mod for him.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

This looks awesome! I cringe my dribblers to you! When can I download! Why am I yelling! I don't know!

Seriously though, I can't wait to play them.


Holy bad posters, Batman! I didn't notice this was a dead thread! And I still seem to be yelling!

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Well, I'm back...

A few things have gone awry in my life, in the past two years, but I somehow managed to get through this, and I am back to work on my mods.

Actually, I'm working mainly on Cantabira, but also doing and testing a few changes to Shangri La & Shambalha (=EA Shangri La).

Thanks to Pyg and Globu for having cast "Revive Mod" (I will send you back your Death gems, folks ;)), and I have to give a look at the changes they have made. I don't know if I will keep it all, but their work is worthy of all my attention (and all my thanks for correcting my many mistakes & typos :D !), so I don't want to rush things...

So, Cantabira will probably go first, then Shangri La (both EA & MA, La will wait a bit). I'm also working on another mod, about cannibals, jungles, headhunters and dark magics, with inspirations mainly from Malay, Indonesian & Filipino myths, as well as R.E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp or H.P. Lovecraft.

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

I actually have done something in that line you might be intrested in. I had a early version of UWGIM with EA R'lyeh having that kind of coastal recruits. I dropped them out in a recent update, so their sprites are currently unused. If you want them, you can have them. You can see some of them in the middle of this image.

You can get the .tga's by downloading the UWGIM mod, they are still in the graphic folder of that mod (called OEM).

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Glad to see you back.
Your works are great and I heartily look forward to more

Re: New Nation : Cantabira, Land of Standing Stones
 

Hey Nounours,

I've just dug this thread up again as I was *really* looking forward to its release. Do you have anything you can give us? Even if it's not quite finished it would be great to be able to have a go with it, and if you've lost interest then maybe Sombre or Globu or I could do the last little bits if you tell us what needs doing - looks like it's virtually finished anyway!

Hope you're still around cos I'd love to have a go with this. :)