New unit profile - Graal Knight

**King of Atlantis** · 09-24-2005, 04:28

Man, that unit is beautiful. To bad its not historical, but hey its moddable..

**lars573** · 09-24-2005, 05:37

True it's not that historical but it does fit into the design ethic that CA seems to have made for the Romano-Britons. That is that all there units are either the same as the western empires (archers, Sarmation auxilia, commentines) or inspired by (Monks for priests coastal levies for limetines). Graal knights seem to fit into the inspired by category. They appear to be the super heavy elite cavalry like the scholrae palantina.

**NodachiSam** · 09-24-2005, 05:55

I think it looks cool. ~Given~ I don't know about the historical part of this. War masks don't seem that much of a stretch. I know the japanese samurai had masks, they add some face protection and aided in the psychological aspect of fighting.

rebelscum: Ah good old Lego...

The monty python quote is unexpected but welcome

**edyzmedieval** · 09-24-2005, 08:28

Excellent graphics. I like it.

I started to ignore how historical BI is. If it's moddable, then little do I care.

It is fictional, but it's good.

**ScionTheWorm** · 09-24-2005, 10:02

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

I started to ignore how historical BI is. If it's moddable, then little do I care.

Yeah. Just so weird that they choose to be wrong. But since they're choosing it, I think it's a commercial aspect into it, which I can't really debate. If it was 100% historical correct and everything was great, our mods wouldn't be of much use either.

Look at the guys at total realism and what they have done with the game.

I noticed Tyr was removed from the credits in the intro movie at 6.1

It's a great mod, but I find the unit models a little too vanilla, thinking about what they could achieve with their resources

**edyzmedieval** · 09-24-2005, 10:53

Originally Posted by ScionTheWorm

Yeah. Just so weird that they choose to be wrong. But since they're choosing it, I think it's a commercial aspect into it, which I can't really debate. If it was 100% historical correct and everything was great, our mods wouldn't be of much use either.

Yeah. True. Maybe that's why they are doing fictional stuff. Anyways, it's a good addition to the game.

**KSEG** · 09-24-2005, 11:02

Seriously, what exactly is wrong with this unit?
For me it looks like some people is just trying to bitch about CA, no mater what the subject is.
And how the hell do you know what is 100% accurate?
We will never know what is 100% accurate.
No one knows how the ancient soldiers looked like except from some writing, some abstract sculptures, and some archaeological research.