Zulu Mod!!!

[Abokasee]

hay my idea with hindu sodeirs was a good idea! was it?

please answer yes or no if it was a good idea

please answer yes or no if we should put hindu soldeirs into the game

PLEASE NOTE I AM 100% NOT HINDU (OR PERHAPS 99.999% BECAUSE ONE OF ANCESTORS MIGHT BEEN A HINDU PROPALY NOT,ANYWAY THAT DOSN'T REALY MATTER)

[dclare4]

Hi there Abokasee,

Tell you what, if you can find a verifiable referenced source that says that a full Honourable East India Company Indian Regiment or battalion sized detachment or Indian Army Regiment or battalion sized detachment was sent to South Africa to the specific Natal/Durban/Zululand/Transvaal region during the time frame 1800-1885 then we will consider the unit for inclusion. Otherwise I'm afraid it will have to wait till someone decides to do an Indian Rising 1856 mod.

Best I can do,
Harlechman

P.S.
Well I guess it's your area of interest. Same with me and the Zulu or Lace Wars. I'm not actually Welsh either

[Abokasee]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

british used indian soldiers (so they were probally in afriaca at the time) but indian soldiers were given enfleid rifle's indian soldier were not happy about this so they rebeled were ever they were.

[Sundjata Keita]

While it is probable that there were Indian men in the British army in South Africa no actual company was formed until the Natal Indian Ambulance Corps during the SECOND Boer war. The mod will not cover the second boer war and therefore will have no specific Indian regiment. Hope that has cleared things up

Sundjata Keita

[dclare4]

I thought as much. I'm afraid what you're thinking of is the Indian Rising that took place in India circa 1856-57. Which is very much outside the scope of this mod. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see an Indian Rising (or Mutiny) mod or even a 'conquest of India' mod - there was a game, Sword of the Raj, a long time ago that I think would do great as a Total War mod with the Moghuls, Mahrattas, Hyderabad and Scindes, Sikh's, Gurkhas and Afghans competing with the British, French and Dutch East India companies for the subcontinent. If you want to get a team together I'd support you and maybe help with research but I'm afraid that Indian or HEIC units are not going to appear in this mod.

Sincerely sorry,
Harlechman

[Sundjata Keita]

Well due to the mass of new threads in this forum and the relaxing of the pace of this mod this thread nearly reached page 2. So to stop that happening here is a small update.

Models

I have been working on the early Zulu regiments and trying to get the correct feather arrangements. I have also been playing around with the vertex weights of British units and trying to get the animations smooth. Here is a screen of the induna model. The render does not take into account alpha so that is why the feathers have black around them.



Here is one of the 1930s British irregulars although it is still a work in progress and still needs to be textured properly.



More updates coming soon...

Sundjata Keita

[dclare4]

Wow! Like that running man I'll resend those blasted textures this week (my diskette died on me last sunday) and that Thin Red Line site had details on British army accoutrements for the campaign w/c will certainly make our mod one of the most detailed photo-realistic ones I hope! I'm thinking, If I could do the textures (lets say for the Warwickshires) could you place them on the model? I'd like to (if possible) include all those nice little details - since the photo will be the one providing the detail the actual model could just have flat or minimally detailed areas for these detail areas. What do you think?

Cheers!
Harlechman