Bay 12 Games Forum

and another release: drow mod 1.1

added loads and loads of equipment, a new metal, a new plant and fixed some graphics for the land holder nobles

Quote from: Rhenaya on July 16, 2010, 08:18:04 pm

well i was more asking for people who actually make uniforms and not just "fit together whats best for this release"-uniforms :/

Actually mine are more "fit together the best of what we have"-uniforms.  The weapons are almost inconsequential since my military never fights anyone, and won't until some more bugs are squashed.  It would take 45 Dwarves to fill out your list of military positions, at one squad per type.  I am lucky to find 10 Dwarves that I am willing to spare from more productive activities.   

45? i dont know how you count :p but well i HAVE half my population in a squad. but only half of them some active job (aka "no schedule" for the other half) all military get some widely used jobs like mason, wood burner, furnance operator, hauling jobs and the like. so i use them actually more militia style than most other dwarf players, which actually have "militia commander" as position :p

i have one commander position get some extra love, as this is mostly the one i name "rhenaya" on embark with some fighting skills from beginning
the squad will be most likely empty for most of the time, as i use her to hunt and scare of animals in the first 1-2 years.
then i have the captain position as squad leader
each squad will have 3-6 of male and 3 female soldiers with the named weapons in my first post.
2 or 3 squads maybe.

and then i will have one or more ranged squad... maybe 1-5 per squad, positioning on guard towers and that stuff, also i will use them on chokepoints to use fortifications a level above that point from opposite direction to shoot down what comes near, while my melee military awaits behind that door.

and the assasines squads (2-5 are later used what i use my commander in early game: flank enemies, scare of animals and that stuff.

so i guess this is something could need a thread (if there was one i missed it :p)

i play with my drow mod frequently so thats where i use most time of makeing uniforms too.

1. "Priestess" Set (for my house priestess, the militia commander position in my drow mod)

2. "Sqaudleader" Set (house captains)

3. "Swordsdrow" Set (for male soldiers)

3. "Macedrow" Set (for female soldiers)

4. "Marksdrow" Set (ranged soliders)

5. "Assasine" Set (amazingly agile soldiers, used for a quick deploy squad to get rid of thiefs and animals)

i am not really used to the dying stuff now as it can be really pain in the ass to dye specific items, else i would add some colors too.

noone likes the idea?

uniforms should get some export/import and maybe a copy function, because its damn annoying if you set up a couple of armors (various weapons and stuff) have to leave your fort and start annew... maybe a couple of times

[BODY:2EARS]
   [BP:R_EAR:right ear:STP][CONTYPE:HEAD][HEAR][SMALL]

[CATEGORY:EAR]
      [DEFAULT_RELSIZE:15]
   [BP:L_EAR:left ear:STP][CONTYPE:HEAD][HEAR][SMALL]

[CATEGORY:EAR]
      [DEFAULT_RELSIZE:15]

[BODY:2EARS_POINTY]
   [BP:R_EAR:pointy right ear:STP][CONTYPE:HEAD][HEAR][SMALL]

[CATEGORY:EAR]
      [DEFAULT_RELSIZE:25]
   [BP:L_EAR:pointy left ear:STP][CONTYPE:HEAD][HEAR][SMALL]

[CATEGORY:EAR]
      [DEFAULT_RELSIZE:25]

and also make this into the creatures raws for elves, gnomes and all the kin with pointy ears, make them bigger so we can cut them off more easy

i know that, but i am still not sure if i should use it that way :X