Suggestion for new Oceana units

[HoneyBadger]

I suggested adding a grey whale to Haida Gwaii as a Pretender, but apparently, you can't have aquatic-only creatures on a land province. Although, now that I think about it...maybe a whale totem that had a waterform grey whale? You'd have to teleport it, ofcourse, but that would be a nice balance for an otherwise very powerful SC chassis.

[HoneyBadger]

I also don't know much about plesiosauri teeth, I'm just going based on what my few minutes' research is saying. So if you want to look into that and see what you come up with, I'd love to know more

And-for sea mammals-I think the Narwhal ought to find a place in the game, as should human/dolphin transformers-or just dolphins.

As an aside: If/when we get the ability to edit the first post in a given thread, I'm planning on presenting a middle-era Aboleths nation based on real-world Mamluk culture. Alongside it, I'll be offering a list of spells for EA Aboleth prehistoric marine creature national summons.

[Wrana]

I'll try to get some links - now I'm speaking from what I remember from University years and from visiting Moscow Paleontology Museum.
Narwhal - yes, absolutely. And as you could see, I tried to depict Triton Chariot as being pulled by dolphins.
A Whale Totem is also good idea.
As for Aboleth/Mamluk nation, I would love to see it, even if I don't like Aboleths as such. Probably, if it's ready, you could just post it in Mods subforum? Speaking of which, maybe this thread should be also moved there?

[HoneyBadger]

It's not ready, unfortunately, although I'll probably post the info, like I have with my others.

And if you move this nation to the Mods forum, it will get even less traffic, and be likely to disappear. Mods forums only get maybe a tenth the traffic the main forum does, sadly enough.

[Wrana]

Pity. But in any case I'm planning to add some more here during weekend. Though my art would be as hopeless as ever!

[HoneyBadger]

Sadly, I can't look at your triton chariot, since it would require me to download something, but I know I've gotten better, the more I've done, so I think it's likely you will too.

If all else fails, you can always modify an existing image-that can be a real time saver-and it's good enough for modding purposes.

[Wrana]

I use this time-honored trick, too. But dolphin images sadly aren't present in Dominions currently.

[HoneyBadger]

no no, I mean you can go to Google, type in dolphin images, and it will give you a list of images on the web. Pretty useful. Then you can just copy the picture into a file, modify it with Paint, Image Forge, or a similar program (I miss my Image Forge), and you'll be all set. All of the prehistoric animals I presented in the Suggestions for New Cave Units thread were done in this way.

It works quite well for many subjects.

A similar trick is to find a picture of a miniature and copy that, then modify the picture like you would any other, in a graphics program.

Thirdly, their are literally thousands of free pixel images (sprites) in the Web, usually pretty high quality. Again, I wouldn't use even the free ones without modifying them somewhat, but they are available.

[Wrana]

Understand, though browsing through thousands of pages to find what is needed may be more tiring than making something myself, though it be horrible...

[HoneyBadger]

Horrible or not, it'd still be yours, and still be appreciated-although believe me when I say that people *will* critique it, especially if you post it in the thread. That can be very educational/helpful, though. It was for me.