Byzantine Musketeers

**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.

**Musashi** · 12-21-2006, 09:17

PS: Ph33r.

**Musashi** · 12-21-2006, 12:48

PPS: Those masochists amongst you who have been asking for a step by step tutorial may now rejoice.

Behold!

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=75706

Don't say I didn't warn you though. The model DB file shall consume your soul as it did mine!

**Varangian Berserker** · 12-22-2006, 00:01

I hope the mod is going well, but can you develop a version that leaves the development of gunpowder within the original timeframe? Just add the new units so the Byzantines can expand their tech tree of buildings/units is all.