Scandinavia/Viking: Total War

[Aldaceleb]

Im also from Finland . And what i have read from history studies Finns used as primary weapons Spear,javelin,bow and axe only the more powerful or rich men could afford swords.And in that point of time There were three finnish main tribes:The Finns,The Tavastians,The Karelians.but while finnish troops looks almost like tribesmanlike we have to remember that they could really cope with the vikings.example at 1187 fins sacked Sigtuna the capital swea and killed Swedens arcbishob and jarl.

Sword was quite common weapon that time. Richer men used swords and axes.

[Pewe]

EvilNed: Good Idea with a mod about this period of time and part of the word.
But why is not Åland (i dont know the name of it in English, but i guess you are from scandinavia, otherwise you schould not know so much about the history i guess).

[EvilNed]

EvilNed: Good Idea with a mod about this period of time and part of the word.
But why is not Åland (i dont know the name of it in English, but i guess you are from scandinavia, otherwise you schould not know so much about the history i guess).

I used maps to get the exactness (or at least pretty close), but small details, such as Åland, got lost becuase they were simply to small for the map. I'll go check out it's size, and see how big it and if it will fit into the map.

[EvilNed]

I've begun skinning the viking units, altough since I cannot model, most of them are rather uninteresting (putting a shirt or piece of armor ontop of a shirtless model looks really uncool...)

This is a list of the skins I've finished, and the model I used, simply to show off how not to expect something:

Thralls, using the warband model. New pants and shield, but other than that nothing interesting.
Spearmen, using the swordsmen model (but with a spear instead). New pants and shield, but other than that nothing interesting.
Swordsman, using the swordsmen model. New pants and shield, but other than that nothing interesting.
Armoured Spearmen, using the noble cavalry model. Looks pretty nice! Shame that most people won't build them, because people hate spearmen. :p
Archer, using the eastern archer model. That was the only model that was fully clothed!
Berserker... No new skin, just the same old berserker but with recolored pants.

As you can see this mod will be pretty uninteresting unit wise. But the BI pack will bring some nice barbarian models with it, luckily!

[King of Atlantis]

You should post those pics. I am certainly itersted to see what they look like.

[EvilNed]

Here's three pics. (Proper names still not in use)

Viking Swordsmen:


Viking Elite Swordsmen:


Viking Elite Axemen:


Those are three skins I made this evening. The rest are fairly boring in comparison, but there's more coming up. The Elite Axemen skin isn't quide done yet. It needs some more work to it.

EDIT: The units on the pictures are for the gothic (Dacia) faction. The only thing that will set factions apart is the shield. So the Svean swordsmen will look alike, but with a different shield.

[skeletor]

Hey EvilNed,

Good to see some real vikings comming to live

have you seen our Age of vikings and fanatics mod? I think we are covering the exact same era. It wold be cool if you stopped by our forum and take a look. Our presentation is not up to date yet, but you will soon see some new unit's. Maybe you could join the team?

Heres a little taste :


-Skel-