New Unit - What is it?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

This shouldn't be too terribly difficult. But there are three questions here for those folks who play and follow the mod:

1. What is the unit depicted?
2. What faction does it belong to? (It is a faction variant skin)
3. Who skinned/modelled it?

Enjoy! There will be a little reward if it's figured out.

[Olaf The Great]

I'm going to assume Seleucid's (because I'm biased against the color grey)
Its some sort of Medium Peltast.
I have no idea.

[BigTex]

It's a Baktrian medium peltast. As to who skinned it, no earthly idea.

I'll take a wild guess though, the indian peltast reskinned for saka?

[Imperator]

RTR has something like this on their forums too, it's a fun way of releasing some cool new skins. Ok, lemme think...

is it a medium peltast? heavier than antakotai (sp) but less armoured than peltastai
It looks pretty Eastern Seleukid or Baktrian to me.
uh...I have NO clue as to who skinned it.

EDIT: dang- Olaf beat me to it. alright, never mind I don't know what that beauty is- is it in .81?

[Bava]

Hm, medium peltast, Ptolemy, Spirit_of_Rob?

[Geoffrey S]

Some kind of peltast for the Saka Rauka; I'd also guess Spirt of Rob.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Two of the the three answers have been guessed correctly, but by no one together yet.

[Kugutsu]

Indo-greek peltast, Bactria, Spirit of Rob?

Edit: The lack of shield is strange. I thought skirmishers usually had small shields. I guess the armour makes up for it...

[Bava]

A small hint perhaps? At least for the faction...

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Someone will get the 1 of the 3 that hasn't been guessed yet, but we picked this one because we knew it would be fun to watch the guesses, so no more hints!

[abou]

1. Medium or heavy peltast.
2. Very much Eastern Greek because of the scales and helmet. Since they are iron scales I am going to say Seleukid, but if they were bronze it would be a Baktrian unit.
3. Style looks similar to Spartan Warrior's others so I am going to say that he did the unit.

[Bava]

You wouldnt be so mean and show us a mounted unit without the horse, would you?


Hippoakontistai , Arche Seleukia, Spirit_of_rob?

Edit:Changed from Baktria to Seleukia

[Caesar Vastator]

1)Medium-Heavy skirmisher cavarly
2)Seleukids
3) ???

PS: is the gift the release of the 0.81 patch??

[Teleklos Archelaou]

It's actually brand new - it won't be in the 0.81 patch, but the next one. Cut off on new units for 0.81 has been made already.

[Fondor_Yards]

Baktrian, Some sort of Peltast, and oh god how are we suppost to know this....guys should really put their name somewhere on their skins........um antiochus epiphanes?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Kugutsu is closer than anyone so far. He's got the faction and the artist right. And he's even on track - at least puzzled by the right thing - with his questions about the unit itself.

[Tuuvi]

maybe it is some sort of a theuroperoi(sp?) type unit?

[Spoofa]

Light infantry? Bactria, Spirit of Rob

[Kull]

Candlestick, Drawing Room, Colonel Mustard?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

I must say:
Skirmisher, Bactria, Spirit of Rob

[CountArach]

Candlestick, Drawing Room, Colonel Mustard?

HAHAHA! It's a bit like that...

Saka, Saka-Greek Peltast, Spirit_of_Rob (Great man, love his work )

[Bava]

Hm, if i remember correctly the peltasts on elephants normally dont have shield... so javelin-throwing-guy-on-elephant (please translate into ancient greek ), Baktria, S_o_R?

But i think Kull already won ( he is supposed to know it, right?)...

[Thaatu]

Xaxiphaxiphrataxi, Bartix, God.

Umm.. I mean:

Ekdromoi hoplitai, Bactria, Spirit_of_Rob

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Hm, if i remember correctly the peltasts on elephants normally dont have shield... so javelin-throwing-guy-on-elephant (please translate into ancient greek ), Baktria, S_o_R?

ding-ding-ding
We have a winner. "javelin-throwing-guy-on-elephant" is ok, because the unit doesn't have a name by itself, it is part of the elephant unit (which is named already). They keys were the fact that it doesn't have a shield, and that it has no greaves (since they will be protected). Rob has done some great variants, for Mercenary, Baktria, Seleukid, Carthage, Epeiros, Macedon, and Ptolemies.

Here is another one of the variants, whose faction you can easily figure out:

[spirit_of_rob]

Those who said spartan warrior are also sort of right as it set of as one of his models and textures altered where it was needed :)

[Zenith Darksea]

Oh, so it's an elephantakontistes then! If that is a valid compound word.

[MiniMe]

"javelin-throwing-guy-on-elephant" is ok, because the unit doesn't have a name by itself, it is part of the elephant unit (which is named already). They keys were the fact that it doesn't have a shield, and that it has no greaves (since they will be protected). Rob has done some great variants, for Mercenary, Baktria, Seleukid, Carthage, Epeiros, Macedon, and Ptolemies.

Are you saying that EB team is planning to introduce javelineers-on-elephants in 0.82 and there would be different textures for every elephant-breeding nation?
elephant-killer_elephant... with, perhaps, TWENTY javelins...

fantastic news!!!

Are you going to replace unarmoured_elephants_with_archers with these or you are going to add a third specie?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Those archers will be gone I believe. We won't have two sets of elephants like that (arches in one and javs in the other).

[Caesar Vastator]

The second "javelin-throwing-guy-on-elephant" posted that should belong to Chartage it's awesome!

[Watchman]

His shoulder guards seem to sport that Carthie illuminati-triangle symbol thing, so I figure it does.

'S hot.