Ancient TW - Original HTW Troops > Editing , Improving & Modifying

[dimitrios the samian]

For those not in the know , the troops used in Ancient TW are the originals created by the Hellenic TW team & those by Duke John , I believe ? . ( if they are some peopleI have missed please let me know ) The same team that brought us HTW began another mod & when it was about 50% ? of the way thru their Bronze Age Mod ceased , that is until Macsen stepped in & revived it & released it , the rest is MTW Modding History & it continues .

Macsen with the troop bif plates available has gone on to create a plethora of troops by mixing & matching weapons & shields .
In the beginning modding was all new to me , as were Cdrives , folders , tga's , bmp's , photoshop etc etc
I did manage to create a Review Panel & I caught the bug
With such a variety of soldier types already fielded in Macs mods , I have started my journey into the animated side of things only recently & I'm enjoying it immensely so far .
I am familiar with RTW & have seen many hours of battles on later releases , but the reviews of the players is the same frustration followed by more frustration , superb I candy yes , but MTW still has the best tactical battlefield AI of all !!
Anyway , I will repost a few pics from last week & my modding journal continues here .



This figure (bif) is the first one im going to finish & send to Macsen to use .
It is a very popular one , Originally used by HTW for Akondistes , Toxotes , Cretan Archers , Light Archers , Skirites , Peltasts & Thrasian Peltasts .
Well when I'm done they will be much improved . All will have belts + sandals or leather footwear & a mixture of swords & quivers .
I will look at making a Thracian bif & I have plans for a different Cretan Archer ( more on these two later )
So back my first project , I did have a slight problem creating the new bif but it has been solved ( covered in the main thread)
I will continue the work necessary so these poor little guys look like they are wearing & fighting in more than a plain tunic
In the interim only today , I doodled on PS for a while & created two more , just one pic one 1 plate , but its a start , here is a peek



Anyway , I'm back working on the Akondistes & Peltasts as of spare time tomorrow.
More soon on those as it become available ......
cheers