MA: Jomon: The Courts of the Ryu - Looking for insight

[legowarrior]

I have been hesitant to start on that. I'll probably look later this week, but I (or I should say we, since Shatner is probably far more important to the development of this nation at this point then I am) will be reusing most of the units from the later Jomon.


Units
Ashigaru (Yari) - We will just steal reuse the image from the later era.

Ashigaru (Bow) - If it is the same, I am inclined to steal the Bandits from the same era.

Attendant (Naginata) - I'm hoping to take the Samurai with the same weapon and still the Ashigaru head on it.

Attendant (No-Dachi) - This is the trickiest one, since the No-Dachi Samurai carries heavy armor. If the heavy armor looks the same, I'll do the same as before, stick a Ashigaru head on it.

Samurai - Samurai Archer, maybe painted red or something.

Samurai (Mounted) - Reuse the later era one. I don't think the heavy armor makes a huge difference.

Wokou - Depends on the final weapon use. I'm thinking the Slinger Body, Ashigaru Head and Ninja Arms (I wonder if I can do that?)

Onna-Bushi - ??? No idea.

Miko - ??? (Imperial Consort, colored red with Long Bow?)

Shark Warrior and the rest, the same!

Leaders
Monk, Shugenjas, Onmy-ji, Gokenin, Ninja all stay the same!

Envoy - depends on the weapons on him, but I'm thinking the Sea father might be alright.

Jito - Ashigaru with different weapons maybe? Bandit Leader perhaps with some changes?

Shugo - No sure yet.

Saigu - Imperial Consort again? Does anyone have suggestions. I'm looking a female Kannushi I think.

Anyway, any suggestions on how to do with is welcome, any art would be great and play testers are also happy to be seen.

[shatner]

I offered to write the .dm file for Legowarrior so he could focus on unit descriptions, sprites and brainstorming. I've already got a working version done but it's only got placeholder sprites and unit stats for now.

I had a thought concerning the Miko and Saigu sprites. You can probably steal the sprite of one of T'ien Ch'i's heroes (http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Immortal_(Ho_Hsien-Ku)). As is it might work for the Saigu (I'm not really sure what they're supposed to look like in the first place), and if you edit in a long bow then it could work for the Miko as well.