inuit lancers(!!)...

**DisruptorX** · 03-30-2009, 21:50

Walrus riders would honestly be more appealing. The inherent absurdity and the fact that no one would mistake them with reality.

Also, I thought that smiley was a sad guy with a beret. >.>

**Sheogorath** · 03-30-2009, 21:51

Originally Posted by DisruptorX

Walrus riders would honestly be more appealing. The inherent absurdity and the fact that no one would mistake them with reality.

Also, I thought that smiley was a sad guy with a beret. >.>

I don't think anybody could mistake an elephant in a box for reality either. Especially not one that collapses into a black hole when the box is open ;)

**seireikhaan** · 03-30-2009, 21:56

So I don't suppose anybody remembers the Kensai from STW: Warlords ed.?

**Sheogorath** · 03-30-2009, 21:59

Originally Posted by Shinseikhaan

So I don't suppose anybody remembers the Kensai from STW: Warlords ed.?

Hey, everybody knows katanas are the best weapons ever. They can cut through tanks, you know.

I saw it in an anime once.

**DisruptorX** · 03-30-2009, 22:05

Originally Posted by Sheogorath

I don't think anybody could mistake an elephant in a box for reality either. Especially not one that collapses into a black hole when the box is open ;)

I should have been more specific. I meant in relation to Inuit lancers, Huron Men-at-arms, Georgian line infantry and the like. Keep pushing for your idea though. It could work similar to Dark Eldar portals in WH40k. The Timurid commander could rush forward, open his webway portal right in front of the enemy, and suddenly dozens of elephants with twin-linked puckett guns emerge to rain death upon the enemy.

As for Shogun, I started with MTW 1. I do remember Jedi kings who could personally slay hundreds of men, however.

**seireikhaan** · 03-30-2009, 22:13

Originally Posted by DisruptorX

As for Shogun, I started with MTW 1. I do remember Jedi kings who could personally slay hundreds of men, however.

Kensai were units that consisted of a single man, who was personally capable of slaying entire armies by himself if he wasn't shot to death first.

**DisruptorX** · 03-30-2009, 22:21

Originally Posted by Shinseikhaan

Kensai were units that consisted of a single man, who was personally capable of slaying entire armies by himself if he wasn't shot to death first.

That is what I seem to have gathered from reading about them elsewhere on this site. And given the mediocrity of missile weapons in the shogun/mtw1 engine, that would probably be no easy order?

**BeeSting** · 03-30-2009, 23:27

Originally Posted by Shinseikhaan

Kensai were units that consisted of a single man, who was personally capable of slaying entire armies by himself if he wasn't shot to death first.

LOL I remember that... once again, CA beat Hollywood.

**Malkut** · 03-31-2009, 18:30

Requesting Inuit Dogsleds of Doom in the next patch.

**drone** · 03-31-2009, 22:56

Originally Posted by Malkut

Requesting Inuit Dogsleds of Doom in the next patch.

**IvarrWolfsong** · 03-31-2009, 19:39

Honestly, they just need to make native american infantry "stuck" in light infantry mode, reduce their reload and increase the melee ability. IRL their strength would come from moving fast and stealthfully (with out a ponderous supply train) through a land that they had better knowledge of. I don't know how they could simulate that but native Cherokee crusader knights and the 103rd Iroquois Mountain Howitzer division is not it.

Inuits are completely different than the other tribes. I am not aware of any great inuit military culture or raiding hordes. I think their special ability should be called "can_survive_in_arctic_or_tundra_unlike_european_armies"