Giveaway: M2:TW signatures.

**Shahed** · 04-24-2007, 18:19

Greetings All !

Last December I made some signatures for myself, as I noticed I'd taken hundreds of screenshots during one month of playing this game. Don't even ask me how MUCH space that took up on HD.

Anyway I posted some of the shots at the .org and with a few I made myself some sigs, and here they are.

If anyone wants to use them please feel free to do so.

Be aware that my GFX card is old and the quality isn't that great but if you like one, go right ahead and use it. Remember to check if the size is 500*150, 10KB max (as per the forum rules).

If you do use it I'd prefer if you uploaded it to your own imageshack, photobucket etc. But if you have to just copy the link and paste it.

As my favorites are Turks, and I love horses, most of these images reflect that. Some have my name on them, this can easily be removed in Photoshop though, so help yourself if you want to.

I've added a brief description of what's happening in each shot, in case it's not obvious to all.

Salute ! and GAME ON !!!

GALLERY 1

On campaign in the Arabian desert.

Mercenary Bedouin in action.

What the enemy sees, on the horizon.
An all cavalry Turkish army, note the number of banners.

Celebration.
Aftermath of the battle. Not a single enemy soldier stands.

Encircled
The final moments of an enemy army.

Flanked !
Missile cavalry streaking past the right flank of an enemy army. Moving to the rear, shooting all the way !
(Needs resize. 500*150, 10KB max)

LEADING THE FORMATION !

Yeni Ceri.
Raining missile fire on the advancing enemy.

Tekbir !
The call of fate. Yeni Ceri charging an enemy position.

Kapikulu.
On the march.

Armenian mercenary cavalry ambush.

Pride of the Sultan, the standard of the Turk.

Form lines ! Ready the charge !

Unrelenting under fire!
Turkomen attack an enemy artillery postion.

Solitude of the unknown soldier.

Sultan's Guard.

Awaiting the order to STRIKE !

I think my wife is in the enemy army !

Break ranks ! Fire at will !

Ambush !
A enemy army in column desperately seeks to survive.

Silent & deadly.

Mongol raiders.

Mongol raiding party, at the steady.

Displaying our colors.

Last vision of an enemy infantryman.

Shoot to kill !.
Missile cavalry flanking, shooting and encircling enemy cavalry.

Thanks for sig, Moriendi !

**edyzmedieval** · 04-24-2007, 18:21

You are worthy of your status, Sinan.

**Shahed** · 04-24-2007, 19:45

Thanks for the compliment EDYZ, status means little to me.

I am very grateful for the recognition I've received from this community over the years.

If I can share, help or make someone happy that's worth more to me than any status.
Sounds corny, I know !

Added commentary for each shot.

I should buy a better card/PC and get into GFX heavy. I love Photoshop, not that I'm any good at it though (LOL!).

I've also posted this at the twc:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...69#post1697469

But I posted here first, so you guys would have first choice.

**Brutal DLX** · 04-24-2007, 20:10

Nice shots! I always seem to forget to take screenshots myself.. probably because I'm too focused on directing my forces...

**Shahed** · 04-24-2007, 20:14

HAHA ! Thanks DLX.

Well as you know I love screenshots, so I'm usually doing that in between orders ! Multitasking ya know ? !!! ;P

Sorry some are slanted, I might figure out how to change that, but I don't know how right now.
I'd do you an HRE one, but my GFX is le suck. I fried the one I took those screens with and now I have some junk in here, might still be able to pull it off. Do you want one ? You'd probably be able to do a better screenshot than me. You have a better system.

**Brutal DLX** · 04-24-2007, 20:33

Multitasking? What's that?

I'm a click-by-click guy, but don't tell anybody

Probably I could do it, but then I don't use signature pics anyway, I just admire the nice scenes, so don't do HRE ones just for me!
Btw, are you able to get into the MP lounge by now?

**Ranos** · 05-25-2007, 09:27

Hi sinan, i have a question about 1 of the pictures you made.

England_SigL3 (Sorry i dont know how to link pictures)

It looks like the king of england on a horse, but i have never seen him looking like that ingame. How do you get him to look like that?

**Shahed** · 05-25-2007, 09:52

Dag Ranos ! That's from the historic battle, but you can also mod the game to have him in the game. I don't have a link handy but someone in the M2:TW modding forums should be able to help. Doooiiieee !

Foz thanks for the compliment, request noted. How about taking a line from these Nordic sounding lyrics ?
It has to be very short though because long text obscures the image:

Gods of war I call you
My sword is by my side
I seek a life of honor
Free from all false pride

Cover me with death
If I should ever fail

Down from the sky
Into the fight
Hearts full of rage
Full of thunder and glory

Swords in the wind
Crossing the sky
Lords of doom
Bring an end to their story

Father on bended knee I ask thee
Raise thy hand
We the sons of odin
Await thy command

Born under the sign of the hammer
We stand
And here we all may die
Our blood on the ground, the
Battle horns sound
Let thy valkyries fly

Down from the sky
Into the fight
Hearts full of rage
Full of thunder and glory

Swords in the wind
Crossing the sky
Lords of doom
Bring an end to their story

Today is the day, we die in the fight
None shall remain, to pass one more night

Now valhalla's calling us immortal
We are gods of war
Immortal
We are gods of war

Odin here the fallen waits
To join thee by thy side
Let valhalla's gates
Open wide

Born under the sign of the hammer they lived
And here they fought and died
Their blood on the ground,
The battle horns sound
Let thy valkyries fly

Down from the sky
Into the fight
Hearts full of rage
Full of thunder and glory

Swords in the wind
Crossing the sky
Lords of doom
Bring an end to their story

Today is the day, we die in the fight
None shall remain, to pass one more night

Now valhalla's calling us immortal
We are gods of war
Immortal
We are gods of war

Down from the sky
Into the fight
Hearts full of rage
Full of thunder and glory

Swords in the wind
Crossing the sky
Lords of doom
Bring an end to their story

Raise thy weapons on this day
Ye shall not die alone

Fight and die let valkyries fly
For they shall take thee home

I promise thee that on this night
Ye shall be by my side

Asgard's halls await with heroes
Brothers that have died

For thee we wait at asgard's gates
Come join us by our side

Valhalla waits so choose thy fate
For all of us must die!

Everyone else, I'll be back with some sigs soon.

**ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88** · 05-25-2007, 20:49

Hey Sinan,

I give you a VI Pic (will include one more), so now here's a few MTW2 pics of Swiss Guard (including in Battle)

plus, here one or two for my Polish Knights, if you can make a sig for them to :).

Swiss Armouded Pikemen (VI):
https://img260.imageshack.us/img260/...let2522cc7.jpg
Swiss Guards8 .vs. Mongols:
https://img238.imageshack.us/img238/...sguard8fc6.jpg
https://img238.imageshack.us/img238/...ssland8yy5.jpg
(above is my favortie one,I prefer if you use this one above)
https://img46.imageshack.us/img46/38...guard82qf5.jpg
https://img465.imageshack.us/img465/...guard83in0.jpg
https://img46.imageshack.us/img46/22...guard84tc9.jpg
https://img104.imageshack.us/img104/...guard85sa8.jpg
https://img376.imageshack.us/img376/...ssland8gy0.jpg

Polish Knights .vs. Mongols:
https://img261.imageshack.us/img261/...oland88fk0.jpg
https://img57.imageshack.us/img57/60...nights8dj4.jpg
https://img116.imageshack.us/img116/...oland88en5.jpg

**Foz** · 05-26-2007, 08:26

Wow Sinan... you weren't kidding when you said how much fun this is. I sat down to see if I could figure out the cinematic editor... and before I knew it, I had a camera set up and rendered like 10 GB of game footage, lol. I grabbed a screenshot of a scene I liked, cropped it, slapped some effects on it, added text, and saved a JPG. It feels funny, though, that from 10 GB of game footage, the end use is a mere 10 KB. That's something like a 1,000,000:1 ratio, isn't it? It's pretty hilarious to think about.

Anyway, I guess that means you don't have to worry about my request! Sorry if that steals your thunder or anything, I didn't really mean to, it just kinda happened. OTOH, it looks like you have plenty of requests rolling in to keep you busy. Speaking of those, I'll see what screenshots I can get to since I've gone to the trouble of learning how use the cinematic editor.

For anyone who's interested, you can see the end result of the sig in... well, my sig

and here is the initial screenshot plus 2 pics from stages along the way:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**Kobal2fr** · 05-27-2007, 21:34

Oooh do me ! Do me !

(Ahem.)

This one will probably be quite hard to do (or maybe not, I don't have enough disk space to work with the Cinematic Editor or even FRAPS so... I have not one clue, really. Like that's ever stopped me from talking) but here's one shot I'd like.
Picture this : close up on a French lancer or noble knight, dismounted during his charge on a pikewall (maybe fully upgraded Tercio ?) in that head-over-heels move knights sometimes do on impact, with the shot taken when he's halfway off his saddle.

Extra points if you can get frame/angle it in a way that looks like he's going to fly right into another pike.

And the caption ? Why, "God's bum !" of course !