Unit Guide

[PaulTa]

Katank- Turks

Doug Thompson- Egyptians

Dan.06- Byzantines

PaulTa- Holy Roman Empire

Zulukiller- Screenshots; English

Faenaris- Sicily

Lars573- ?

Reapz- Scotland


Good to see that I could pressure you into selling your soul for a few hours Reapz. Glad to have you on the team.

[lars573]

Spain then the Moors.

Also what about unit crossovers? Like feudal knights, mounted x-bows etc.

[PaulTa]

I was thinking about that Lars... I think it's better to include them, because armored sarges for the french might be quite a bit more useful than the armored sarges for germany, or (Insert example here).

for example, regular pike militia wouldn't be any good for the french since they have pikemen, but they'd be worth the time and investment for HRE, who don't have another option aside from mercs.

[Dan.o6]

It will be pretty cool to see the different descriptions and uses of the non-faction specific units i.e. Spear Militia etc.

[lars573]

Well I got the text for Spainish reanged units and light cavalry done. I'll sork on some screen shots later. I'm thinking on trying to show the various armour upgrades in my screens. But I may have to switch to the minimal UI.

[PaulTa]

It will be pretty cool to see the different descriptions and uses of the non-faction specific units i.e. Spear Militia etc.

For some factions, spear militia are great. For those factions which have early access to the next thing better, spear militia wont be as great.

I also look forward to seeing the different inputs.

@Lars- Great progress so far mate. I'm waiting for finals to finish (the 14th) myself before I can get started.

[lars573]

Till I find another job time is all I got.

[PaulTa]

Well enjoy time while ya got it. College is a huge time drain.

[Dan.o6]

Luckily I have done most college work so I have the time.

[KARTLOS]

Il do poland mate

[Daveybaby]

Would love to have a go at one, but very busy at work at the moment. Might find some time in a few days or so, so will check back then and if theres any factions nobody wants i will have a go with them.

[Ferret]

I'll do venice but i'm not sure how to do screenshots (do you just press print screen?)

Shame about you being ignored KARLTOS... How rude!

[KARTLOS]

I'll do venice but i'm not sure how to do screenshots (do you just press print screen?)

yes - and the you will find them in the tgas folder inside the med II folder. i think you wil need a program like irfan viewer to view them - its a free downloand application.

[zulukiller]

PaulTa do you want to hold of doing this till after the second patch in febuary when the two handed units will get fixed.

[lars573]

I say right the guide then update for the new patches. But this whole project is going to take until (at the earliest) Spring '07 anyhow. Due to Christmas I haven't had a chance to sit down and make screens or write more text yet.

[Dan.o6]

Yea, I'm going to write up for every unit apart from the Varangian Guard which is ofcourse 2H, so i'll only have one unit at the least to write about when the 2nd patch comes out.

[PaulTa]

Katank- Turks

Doug Thompson- Egyptians

Dan.06- Byzantines

PaulTa- Holy Roman Empire

Zulukiller- Screenshots; English

Faenaris- Sicily

Lars573- ?

Reapz- Scotland

Kartlos- Poland

Bob_The_Great- Venice



"I say write the guide then update for the new patches. But this whole project is going to take until (at the earliest) Spring '07 anyhow. Due to Christmas I haven't had a chance to sit down and make screens or write more text yet."

Lars brings up a good point here. I would think it would be better to start the work now and update as the game updates. Remember guys, no huge time crunch for this, so enjoy your christmas and don't feel an obligation to jump on it right at this moment.

"Shame about you being ignored KARLTOS... How rude!"

I didn't mean to ignore anyone... If anyone has seen the news lately, I'm living in the NW of the United States... recently a huge storm left about 1.5 million of us without power for a few days.

[Ferret]

"Shame about you being ignored KARLTOS... How rude!"

I didn't mean to ignore anyone... If anyone has seen the news lately, I'm living in the NW of the United States... recently a huge storm left about 1.5 million of us without power for a few days.

I wasn't trying to be annoying its just that he posted before two other people that got acknowledgment from you and then he posted again so you listened to him.

[Ferret]

By the way I still can't find my screenshots after i press print screen in game.

[lars573]

They are in the TGA folder. As TGA files. I dl'ed a TGA reader and now I can use them. However the TGA folder only seems to hold about 00-19 pics.

[IrishArmenian]

I will write Russia.

[Dan.o6]

if you have Photoshop it should open them fine.

[Ferret]

if you have Photoshop it should open them fine.

Well for me photo shop says that they are an 'unsupported file type', any other programmes?

[Faenaris]

A good TGA reader is Irfanview ( www.irfanview.com ).

[Ferret]

Cheers mate!

[bones58]

I'll do Milan, but I will need to play as them for a couple more weeks to get a better idea and understanding of the faction.

[Beren Son Of Barahi]

A good TGA reader is Irfanview ( www.irfanview.com ).

i use cropper capture instead, it runs in the back ground, and handles the print screen function. it lets you save things as any format you could want, it also helps with the naming...

http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/articles/Cropper.aspx

[cassiusdio]

I'll do Milan, but I will need to play as them for a couple more weeks to get a better idea and understanding of the faction.

Beat me to it, i was about to volunteer to do it....

think i'll go cry

[bones58]

Well why not still do it? If it's better than mine then you'll get picked ahead of me

[zulukiller]

http://files.filefront.com/the_FAUST.../fileinfo.html

Thats just been posted on totalwar.com it could come in handy (unit stats)