Re: New Unit at the com: Armoured Swordsmen
Well, I'm not exactly knowledgeable when it comes to medieval warfare, but the mail visible at the back and the cloth visible on the chest looks very peculiar (even if it is obviously held on by the crossing straps on the back). The sword also looks odd.
Quick question - would the 'skirt' thing get in the way\be vulnerable to being trapped, being so low at the back as it is?
Re: New Unit at the com: Armoured Swordsmen
Probably not. It's not like people who got behind such armoured juggernauts wouldn't have better things to do anyway, like stabbing them in the back as there's only mail for protection there...
It was quite common, indeed almost the norm, for the "skirt" of armour, be it the hem of a mail hauberk or the separate laminated "skirt" (can't recall the term) of plate, to hang quite low. If any robes, coats, jupons, or whatever worn under or over it also reached that long or longer was largely a question of current military fashion - and one presumes professional warriors wouldn't have been into fashions that actually hindered their battlefield survivability.
That said, the pointy "tail" of that outer garment looks pretty weird.
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Re: New Unit at the com: Armoured Swordsmen
While I disagree with this whole 10 years olds' catering fantasy fest Ive understood that its the ENGINE and NOT the game that CA is selling for people to modify...I just wonder why they waste all that cash on 3d designers and artists when they can simply release the bare code and modders will make a game for them for free.
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Re: New Unit at the com: Armoured Swordsmen
Yeah the skirt thing looks pretty absurd.
This is where CA's argument that perfect historical accuracy would harm gameplay goes out the window. Instead of saying "he can't afford a horse", why can't they tell the truth, that "he chose to dismount". In what way would writing that detract from gameplay? After the incredible amounts of effort that must have went into those graphics and all the other features, why can't they just do a little bit of research to make the game that big bit better by making it historically accurate?
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