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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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Midnight_Carnival wrote:Your undead are beautiful, however I can't tell what is going on with the doom warden.
Perhaps animation would clear it up, I can make out the skull, that is about all. :?
Yeah, about the doom warden: i quickly frankensprited some axe blades and armour onto a skeleton and so it is a bit confusing. I unfortunately rarely have time to revisit my art work but if i get a chance i will clear that up.

Thanks for posting it is always good to know someone actually cares :D
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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Ok so LEO33 requested i make some 4th level units for the merman, outlaws and other units who have not currently advancements in my Reign of The Lords add-on.

So here are some images i have been working on. Firstly merman:
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OLD: The advancement of the merman netcaster
OLD: The advancement of the merman netcaster
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The advancement of the merman hoplite (EDIT I didn't make this its from TGA)
The advancement of the merman hoplite (EDIT I didn't make this its from TGA)
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OLD: The advancement of the merman javelineer
OLD: The advancement of the merman javelineer
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OLD:  The advancement of the merman triton
OLD: The advancement of the merman triton
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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Here are the other images i have recently modified:
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OLD: A not very impressive modification of a character from LoTi to look like an outlaw. <br />The advancement of the assassin, i will try to work on it more later
OLD: A not very impressive modification of a character from LoTi to look like an outlaw.
The advancement of the assassin, i will try to work on it more later
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The advancement of the troll rocklobber, a frankensprite of the armoured troll i found in TGA
The advancement of the troll rocklobber, a frankensprite of the armoured troll i found in TGA
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The advancement of the fugitive, a modification of the executioner from LoTi
The advancement of the fugitive, a modification of the executioner from LoTi
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The Forest Warden an advancement of the Ranger
The Forest Warden an advancement of the Ranger
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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Your sprites are looking more and more badass! 8)

I like your mermen (and the troll), but I have a few points...
I don't know if using armour and shields would be the best option for an aquatic species, I imagine their defensive style would involve mobility and evasion rather than anchoring themselves and standing their ground as someone on land might do. Your fishy armour looks great though, and I can easily see it being used effectively in conjunction with the defensive style I described. The merfolk would evade and swim circles around their adversaries who would only be able to get glancing blows in which the armour would deflect.

I'm still not sure about the shields, especially the one on the spearcaster. What I would do (just my preference) is I would change the praetorian shield so that it was narrower, more "surfboard" shaped, then I'd give it to both. I can't picture any advantage to lugging a heavy tower shield or large round shield around under water. It would slow you down, act as a sail in ocean currents, obscure your vision and formations such as you'd find in land warfare would have to work differently anyway, so I don't see as much value.
A surfboard shaped shield would still work as it is hydrodynamic and with its pointy corners it can be used to ram into opponents at speed as well as covering you from attack.

The humans look good, even the "not very good one" as well as the troll, but I don't have any suggestions for them right now.
...apparenly we can't go with it or something.
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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great! i was exactly needing these sorts of units for TGA! thanks for putting effort into this! :D

small idea though, could you make the lvl4 triton's trident look a bit fancier?
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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Thank you for your encouraging comments!

I will post the modified merman when they are finished, also if I have time I will animate the forest warden.

Also forest dragon asked (in PM) if I planned on doing the merman iniate line and the answer is yes! :D

I plan on franken spriting 4th AND 5th level units for every unit in wesnoth ;) of course that will never happen but i will try to get all the units at least one more upgrade. The drakes and khalifate are also on my list.
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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Hey Gnat,
Since you seem to be the most active Frankensteiner around atm, would you consider making a wolfrider walking corpse using the new zombie wolf sprites?
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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Yeah :D I will have a look at that and see what I can do, be warned though ;) that I generally only make a base frame and dont animate most of my Franken units.
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So as requested by unwiseowl here is the zombie wolf rider. Rather than sticking a human on him i have put a goblin because they are the ones who ride wolves.
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Also i made some animations, but i am undecided about whether which of these north attack animations is better:
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Which one do you like?

Also here is a full archive of all the stuff:
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Is this good? :D
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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Oh by the way for anyone who is wondering forest dragon made a nice edit of the infiltrator portrait i drew, here it is
Frankenstein (by ForestDragon) of my Frankenstein of the Elvish Marksman
Frankenstein (by ForestDragon) of my Frankenstein of the Elvish Marksman
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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And as midnight carnival suggested i have made changes to the praetorian and spearcasters shields
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Modified to have a circular shield
Modified to have a circular shield
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Also here is an update of the merman retairius that makes him bigger
Also here is an update of the merman retairius that makes him bigger
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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looks great! btw, the spear caster's shield could be silver instead of gold

the zombie wolf rider looks great, btw
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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Here is a Naga. Mechanical drew it originally as a tan desert Naga, forest dragon made it green and now i have made some slight changes to make it look more like the Naga Myrmidon:
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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I made a male version of the prophetess of fire (the prophet)
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Re: The Gnats Franken Dungeon

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the shields look great on the mermen.

the others look great too :D
...apparenly we can't go with it or something.
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