Wu-shan, Holmgard and Padmassa

[DrPraetorious]

Nice! Thanks!

How do you want to be credited?

[Shovah32]

With cash?

[Sombre]

Heheh. No credit needed. Are you relatively happy with the look of the auroch? (forget the rider, that one I did doesn't really look like any of the units you described, I just got carried away) I had some other shapes I was working on; one that looked more like a buffalo and so on.

The lizard is finished though. I can give you the tgas or you can just make them from that bmp.

[DrPraetorious]

Will make from bmp.

I rather like the black rider with a whip - the auroch is quite handsome. I might use him as a hero.

I'll just credit you as sombre - unless you want not to be associated with the image library

[Sombre]

Ok after ten minutes or so tinkering with barding I have something more to show and need input. I don't know much about Persian or Assyrian barding, but I googled it and found some pictures and I also had a book with some nice sassanid heavy barding in it, so I started a couple of barding prototypes. Not trying to make a polished looking graphic, just get the design of the barding/saddle roughly right. I had a more complicated design but in the end this simple one

It's not finished at all, it's basically just a rough marker showing where the barding will be. You could also use it as a placeholder I guess, although it would look pretty bad ingame. Anyway, I need to know if this was the kind of barding you had in mind, or if you wanted less, or some other style entirely. This has kind of a cataphract feel to it but you can still see the colour of the auroch underneath and there's lots of opportunity for detail on top. A closeup of a persian barding pic is above it. Lemme know what you think. I figure this is good experience if I want to start messing around with other weird kinds of cavalry :]

[Sombre]

Holy crap. I just realised I'm going to HAVE to make zebra/gazelle/alpaca/camel cavalry now. Seriously.

Well I was planning on making some kind of machaka mixed with north africa thing in the future, so I guess it's all cool.

[DrPraetorious]

That is, in fact *exactly* what I had in mind.

I'd originally called those units "Cataphracts" rather than "Knights" but decided the terminology was too confusing. Whada ya think?