Alexandros Preview 4: India

Today i give you the 4th preview for Alexandros, showing the units India will have in the mod. Once again, these units are partly accurate, and a lot of artistic licence has been used with them. Most of the models are based on unused indian models i found in the Alexander folder.

A big thanks to vikrant1986 for help with the unit roster and unit names.

And if anyone wants to help out Alexandros, i need a coder to do traits and ancilliaries for the mod, and someone to do new portraits and building pics for the Indians otherwise they'll end up with the Egyptian ones.

Cavalry

Kshatriya Angarakshak

https://img20.imageshack.us/img20/63...shakat3.th.jpghttps://img228.imageshack.us/img228/...shakgh2.th.jpg

This general is accompanied by his own bodyguard of war elephants

Youdha Gaj

https://img150.imageshack.us/img150/...agajnm4.th.jpg

Heavily armoured elephants with bow armed riders.

Gaj Dal

https://img223.imageshack.us/img223/...jdalmk5.th.jpghttps://img143.imageshack.us/img143/...jdalmf3.th.jpg

Elephants with javelin armed riders.

Rath

https://img241.imageshack.us/img241/7540/rathrw2.th.jpghttps://img150.imageshack.us/img150/326/rathmq3.th.jpg

Chariots. The crew are lightly armoured archers.

Youdha Rath

https://img206.imageshack.us/img206/...rathrq7.th.jpghttps://img134.imageshack.us/img134/...rathfp2.th.jpg

Heavy chariots. The crew are well armoured archers.

Ashwarudh Taalwaarbaaz

https://img182.imageshack.us/img182/...baazzz6.th.jpghttps://img134.imageshack.us/img134/...baazsw3.th.jpg

Mounted heavy swordsmen with a large round shield for protection.

Ashwarudh Bhalafeki

https://img206.imageshack.us/img206/...fekinf7.th.jpghttps://img100.imageshack.us/img100/...fekiwe6.th.jpg

Light javelin cavalry best used for skirmishing.

Infantry

Bhaladhari Sainika

https://img85.imageshack.us/img85/65...nikaqv2.th.jpghttps://img245.imageshack.us/img245/...nikanm9.th.jpg

Levy spearmen who are lightly armoured. Cheap and numerous, but no match for better units.

Bhaladhari Kshatriya

https://img85.imageshack.us/img85/84...riyacl7.th.jpghttps://img177.imageshack.us/img177/...riyalg4.th.jpg

Well armoured spearmen used to form the main battle line.

Sainika

https://img85.imageshack.us/img85/218/sainkagw0.th.jpghttps://img245.imageshack.us/img245/...nikaso1.th.jpg

Lightly armoured swordsmen. They carry a large round shield for protection.

Kshatriya Yodha

https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/...odhari9.th.jpghttps://img88.imageshack.us/img88/86...odhajd9.th.jpg

Elite, well armoured infantry, armed with a bamboo bow and sword.

Bhalafeki Sainika

https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/...nikanp9.th.jpghttps://img136.imageshack.us/img136/...nikayj8.th.jpg

Javelin armed skirmishers who also use a large shield.

Dhanurdhari Sainika

https://img85.imageshack.us/img85/45...nikamf6.th.jpghttps://img171.imageshack.us/img171/...nikaaw5.th.jpg

Lightly armoured archers. They use a bamboo bow and a sword.

Gaj Shikari

https://img228.imageshack.us/img228/...karias1.th.jpghttps://img171.imageshack.us/img171/...kariqi0.th.jpg

Elephant trackers armed with a double headed axe and bamboo javelins.

And some pics from the redone Battle of Hydaspes:

https://img142.imageshack.us/img142/...pes1cp6.th.jpghttps://img142.imageshack.us/img142/...pes2ct0.th.jpghttps://img246.imageshack.us/img246/...pes3ku9.th.jpg

These are great looking units, well done. :2thumbsup:

If you can manage to shoe-horn the Indians into the campaign, that would be a great improvement. Ideally, I'd see them as acting like the Civil War in RTW or even the Mongols in MTW - providing a nice end-game challenge.

The Indians will be in the campaign, Muizer is very kindly doing a new campaign map for me, this thread some some very early wip shots of it in it: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=56652

Why did CA make units that have those silly balls on their heads? They don't look anything like turbans, and most of their soldiers didn't even wear turbans.

They're not turbans, they're hair knots.

Looks good :smile:

Im looking forward to playing this mod one hell of a lot, as i was a bit too disapointed with alexander.