Trading card style unit cards for offline use

[Basileus Seleukeia]

strange, you're right, ive just checked that file and there's no trace... wondering where is it expressed that "fast moving" trait...

I had teh same thing while searching for ''can go berserk'' trait. Nothing in the EDU! That's strange...

[Arkatreides]

Due to RL time committments only a small update today: The start of the Sabeans

[NeoSpartan]

Now this is what I call a card game!!!!

Keep it up man, I will definetly DL it. Then print them!

[Kugutsu]

Awesome work man. I wish I had the time and know how to do stuff like this!

Just curious: do the Saba Noble Infantry use spears? How come the description talks about their swords?

[Arkatreides]

Just curious: do the Saba Noble Infantry use spears? How come the description talks about their swords?

Actually they are special types of super-ninja chameleon swords that look and feel like spears when seen from the right angle and stuff ... ... yeah well spotted ... typo of course!

Here is the corrected (and extended) Saba set:

[Birka Viking]

Realy good cards man..Keep it up

[Arkatreides]

Corrected and extended Aedui set:



Next up: Sweboz

[Tellos Athenaios]

Ah, see there is a problem with that one - I cannot see it from the EDU alone. That means in order to see whether a unit has it or not I need to fire up the game and since I pretty much do all the editing without looking into the game that one isn't easily achievable without having a long list of who has it and who hasn't first.

I will probably get it done at some point, but it will take more time then the other stats.

I believe you started a thread on that topic, not so long ago. Have a look.

[Arkatreides]

I believe you started a thread on that topic, not so long ago. Have a look.

Yes I remember, but after looking at that file I needed therapy

[Tellos Athenaios]

I believe EB has cured another one of it's followers of the opinion that adding a bunch of new units is just a matter of "copy, paste and test". Still, though I'm not expert on the EDBM, I'm of the opnion that for your purposes you just need to look at the skeleton names. Anyway, how's the Sweboz set going?

[Arkatreides]

I believe EB has cured another one of it's followers of the opinion that adding a bunch of new units is just a matter of "copy, paste and test". Still, though I'm not expert on the EDBM, I'm of the opnion that for your purposes you just need to look at the skeleton names.

I can honestly say that I have never been of that opinion. I have the greastest respect for the EB team - it is not often that a mod is created that is quite as brilliant, deep, educational and outright fun to play

Anyway, how's the Sweboz set going?

See for yourself

[CountArach]

This is so awesome!

How are the Romans coming?

[Kugutsu]

Thanks for the germans, very useful as I am currently raiding there and razing their cities in the hope it will make them leave me alone!

I hate to be a pedant, but you have labelled the Sahnotoz (swordsmen) as having spears and no swords...

[Fondor_Yards]

I had teh same thing while searching for ''can go berserk'' trait. Nothing in the EDU! That's strange...

It's the 1st word in the stat_mental line. The line would read something like this if the unit could go berserk, "stat_mental 16, berserker, untrained"

[Arkatreides]

I hate to be a pedant, but you have labelled the Sahnotoz (swordsmen) as having spears and no swords...

Not pendantic at all! I want people to point out the typos - they tend to crop up due to the copy and paste nature of the creation process.

Anyway it's fixed now.

[Arkatreides]

HIC ROMANI SUNT!

[Arkatreides]

And the remaining Roman Infantry plus the Samnite Mercenaries

[Lucidus]

Great work,congrats :)

[CountArach]

Good job! Thanks for those!

[Teleklos Archelaou]

There you go mate. If you do use them, fade them quite a lot (reduce contrast, increase brightness) so they don't overpower things.

[Arkatreides]

Thanks for the templates, TA.

I am just not sure it is adding anything to the cards, here is a first attempt



It is fairly pale and when you print it it kind of becomes a mass of grey. The problem is if I make it any darker the whole card kind of loses contrast, so I am not sure this is the way to progress.

Playing with the colours gives something like this, which is nice, but makes some text difficult to read:



I will try to see whether I can include the templates in some other way.

Will keep you guys updated - in the meantime, let me know what you think.

[Arkatreides]

The Eastern Greek template looks much better:



and so is African

[Arkatreides]

Right, here is a sample of 5 backgrounds, African, Roman, 'Barbarian', Western and Eastern Greek.



Still not very happy with the Aedui one

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Yeah, that barb one is too overexposed now. The first way you tried it was better I think. Like at the top of post 81, or close to that. Looks like the background was alpha'd out for that Aedui unit also - They are on all units, but it depends on how you copy them as to whether or not they would appear on something you paste them onto.

[Arkatreides]

The more I look at it, the more I agree. I will play around with some settings and see what I can come up with. I might even change the RGB channels so that it doesn't interfere with the script on top quite as much.

There is also this (which doesn't look too unnatural when printed out)



BTW: you don't happen to have the Western Greek background with the marble relief? The other one is ok, but I am just wondering whether that one would be even nicer.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Here you go. Just make sure the darkest parts are still light enough to see the text clearly.

[Arkatreides]

Massive upload on the front page - all new cards in full cultural colour! Have a look and enjoy!

Note: The sickly green colour on some of the cards is an error - will be updated soon.

[Arkatreides]

Koinon Hellenon with new marbled background - Thanks TA for the image:

[Obelics]

great update, it could be usefull to have it stickied to not have it lost away... (even if you cant print them out, they are very handy to check and make comparisons)

PS what are that black balls on the right-side of the unit picture?

[abou]

Looks as though it represents the required MIC to recruit the unit. 5 dots for the Spartans would mean the 5th MIC.