Byzantine Musketeers

**Kraxis** · 12-20-2006, 15:19

Actually that skin isn't half bad... I can only think of the helmet to be the kettlehat instead.
They have fluffy clothes, which the Byzantiens certainly liked (they were known for being stylish), and their armour might not be terribly Byzantine but within the possible range. And we have to assume, given this 'advance' for the Byzantines, that they would get this kind of armour as well.

**Stig** · 12-20-2006, 15:31

I'm with Tarrak, that skin is pretty good, besides if you are only using this as a mod, do you really NEED it to be THAT realistic

**Musashi** · 12-21-2006, 01:42

Hehe, I just want to see them with that characteristic Byzantine look. I can't help it.

Here's the final update of them until such time as kitbashing can be done. They have an icon and text now!

**katank** · 12-21-2006, 02:38

Sweet. The Byz spearmen firing had a hilarity factor all its own though. Reminds me of fire lances from Rise of Nations.

**Varangian Berserker** · 12-21-2006, 04:14

Could it be possible that if the Byzantines had lasted long enough that some of the gunpowder units would've been "mercs" like the old-school Varangian Guard and Poronai Allagion/Byzantine Lancers (Knights paid off w/ gold)?

Of course I use the term "merc" loosely since they play more like regular units instead of mercenary ones in-game, but still.

**Kraxis** · 12-21-2006, 05:30

Well, one could imagine a sort of French Musketeer styled unit among the Byzantines. They were very much into these kind of things after all.
I suppose a unit of Spaniards or something. Good with musket and good with sword.

The Spanish Guard.

**Musashi** · 12-21-2006, 07:26

Yeah but it's not the direction I want to go. The Varangian Guard weren't really mercenaries, they were simply paid professional soldiers. I mean, it was a permanent employment, they weren't freelancers.

They're more comparable to Janissaries than anything.

What I'm personally aiming for it for them to have a Militia Musketeers unit comparable to the standard Musketeer, and then the professional Byzantine Musketeers, who are much harder punks.

But again, I'm developing a relatively specific alternate history here.

Basically I'm positing an earlier development of gunpowder, in a period when Byzantium was at the peak of it's power.