Tir na n'Og and Eriu

[DrPraetorious]

Have you guys read any of Michael Moorcock's later Corum books?

They've got these knights who have replaced their blood with pine-sap, People of the Pines I think they are called.

They thrive in cold provinces, they're cavalry, they wear heavy armor and have a natural prot of 12 (bark skin), as well as a lot of HP for a human sized unit.

I was going to add them as a national summon for Niefelheim, but since they fought Corum Silverhand, I think they'd be more fitting as Fomorian units.

[HoneyBadger]

I haven't, actually. I think that would be a great idea, DrPraetorious. I love Michael Moorcock-the books he's written and what he stands for-but I haven't read many of his books, aside from the Elric saga. He's a very inventive man and a real role-model for how fantasy should be written, but it takes me a long time to get through one of his books, and subsequently I haven't read very many of them all the way through. I just bought his Jerry Cornelius collection and I'm working on that, but it's modern stuff.

I feel his work is a gold-mine for Dominions themes and units, though.

Dammit, now another nation idea (a tribe of various kinds of giant, poisonous frog-people) just popped into my head...

[DrPraetorious]

If there's one thing I know about frogmen, it's that they lust after human women.

So the frogmen come in all kinds of psychedelic colors (probably by clan), and so do the half-naked spear-wielding swamp women.



On a more serious note, LE Mictlan already does frogmen, so another nation of frog people would need an additional hook. Anyone know anything about the cultures of precolombian Brazil?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...e3/Kuarup3.jpg

Those guys certainly have the requisite bright color scheme.

[HoneyBadger]

I know just a little bit about the Tupis. They were excellent jungle-fighters in Portuguise Brazil. Apparently, they may have engaged in ritualistic cannibalism. Here's a nice "showpiece" of Native tribes in the Americas, the Tupis are at the very bottom:

http://aoe3.heavengames.com/gameinfo....shtml#natives

If you have trouble getting here, let me know, the tribes are in the bottom half of the page.

Since I borrowed it from a Civilization link, it even lists some appropriate units for each tribe-an added bonus.

[HoneyBadger]

oh nevermind the above, it's actually Age of Empires 3. I googled Civilization for the link, but that's where it took me.

[HoneyBadger]

You've got exactly the right idea, Dr. Praetorious.

I'm thinking the frog-nation will have access to human Maenad-types, Tupi (maybe hoburg)hunters, and some kind of psychadelic hashishiin.

They'll have a couple Nature and Death/Blood oriented national summons and National troops that consist of lots of different kinds of frogman. The most powerful (black with yellow-orange warts) will be sacred and have the most HP of any national unit in the game (a natural berserker/regenerator).

They'll probably be middle era, also.

[Kristoffer O]

Hmm, seems Fomoria will make it into the patch as well. They are almost finished. Still no descriptions and a few attack sprites missing, but otherwise ready.