Generic and regional uniform variants

First, the mod brings more variety : hair colour variation, more combination of uniform parts...

Generic units are not tied to a region, and their uniform is a random mixed of different possible armour or cloth parts.

For regional units, in my opinion the High Elves army is the most disciplined one. So I've decided that each regional variant will be much more uniformed than other races: each model in a unit will have the same armour part, and so will look a bit more like clones, except for a few units like rangers or shadow warriors. However, each province will be unique, with some differences compared to the other ones.

Rangers

Regional units have golden headgear, a cape, and most have pauldron or ornate gloves. 

Generic units have silver helmet, no cape, only a few have headgear, and most have simple leather gloves.

Hi!

Working on high elves.

High Elves have plenty of heraldry for the shields. More than they have units.Units with shields are: Spearmen, Pikemen (new units with longer spear), Silverin Guards, Spear Sisters (just a female variant of Spearmen) and Silver Helms, (I don't count Dragon Princes and Gate Guards), they have their own shield and heradry). I could add Sea Guards, with a bit of a stretch, and considering beside Lothern each port could field it's own variant of the Sea Guards.So that's 5-6 units.

As you can see with this overview, I have more shields than that. So I have 4 options- I use a different shields for officers and soldiers (I'd stll have too many anyways)- I discard some of the shields, and only kee one for each unit, picking the "best". A bit of a pitty, the shields already exists from WH2.- I have mix shields: a unit can have 2 or 3 shields textures, with a random selection. It would allow to use all of them, but it goes a bit against my current design concept, where all the soldiers in a unit for HE look like clone, as I'm going for very disciplined, organized and uniformed HE compare to all the other races. - Or last idea: a unit can have only one shield... but I make several variant of the same unit. And when you recruit it, it's randomly selected. For instead of getting 4 spearmen units, each of them has a random mix of 4 shields for its soldiers, you could get 4 different spearmen units, each has only one type of shield, but each unit is different.

After giving it more thoughts, here is the solution I'll implement for units with shields.

- Each unit type (Spearmen, Pikemen, Silverin Guards, Silver Helms, Spear Sisters and Sea Guards) will have its own set of 2 or 3 shield variants

- Units recruited as allied will show a random mix of these variants, in the same unit.

- Units recruited normally in Ulthuan will only have one shield variant in the unit. The variant will vary with the region where they are recruited. It will change a bit for each province/ unit: each region in Avelorn will have its own variant for Spearmen, but for Eataine, Lothern and Lysean will have one variant, Angerrial and Shrine of Asuryan another.

- Officers will also have their own sets.

See the table below

Here are sample of the Spearmen for each province. Showing only one shield variant (usable in Skirmish vs AI, other variants are for the campaign). Officers will be added later.

Avelorn

Caledor

Chrace

Cothique

Eataine

Ellyrion

Nagarythe

Saphery

Tiranoc

Yvresse

Citadel of Dusk

Fortress of Dawn

Tor Elasor

Knights of Caledor

Pikemen

A new units I'm adding, with a longer spear and heavier shield. They have the same torso armor as spearmen, the shorter scalemail leg armor (same as heavy archer), and a helmet with a plume.

Shown here with only one shield variant, they usually have two, some have 3, and few only one.

Avelorn

Caledor

Chrace

Cothique

Eataine

Ellyrion

Nagarythe

Saphery

Tiranoc

Yvresse

Fortress of Dawn

Citadel of Dusk

Tor Elasor

Knights of Caledor

Order of Loremasters

Silverin Guards

The generic version is not too shinny, and has white cloths and a generic shields

The regional version is very shinny (Silverin Guards?), faction coloured cloths and plums, and shield specific to the region.

Generic

Avelorn

Caledor

Chrace

Cothique

Eataine

Ellyrion

Nagarythe

Saphery

Tiranoc

Yvresse

Sea Guards

Why should Sea Guards all be from Lothern? It's the largest port, but not the only one. Therefore, I've made generic sea guards, and each province of Ulthuan (and colonies) also has its own Sea Guards, with regional colours, and specific shield.

Generic have metal armour with silver trimming, white arms and blue skirts. Regional have shinning armour with golden trim, and province-coloured arms and skirts.

You may notice that they have a quiver, and different hair colours (which is also used by Spearmen, Heavy Archers and Pikemen, but with more chances to have no visible hair for them).

Generic

Avelorn

Caledor only in skirmish battle, since they don't have port to recruit them in Ulthuan.

Chrace

Cothique

Eataine

Lothern

Other regions

Ellyrion

Nagarythe

Saphery

Tiranoc

Yvresse

Knights of Caledor

Order of Loremasters

Swordmasters

For the spearmen and archer, which are "base units", I've used very standardized uniforms, with all the soldiers from the same province looking the same. 

For the elite units, such as Swordmasters, which are not a tight formation, they keep their individuality.

The generic variant, recruitable outside of Ulthuan, are simply called "Swordsmen". Their armour is less shinny, with silver trim. And they are likely to miss some parts (like tassets on the leg, pauldrons, or mane on the helmet).

The regional variants, "Swordmasters" have shinny armour trimmed with gold. And for the variant recruited in Saphery province, or by Teclis, are true "Swordmasters of Hoeth", and have the highest chance to get all armour parts.

Generic

Regional

Saphery/Teclis

Phoenix Guards

They are elite units, but since IMO they are more disciplined, and more a kind of formation units than White Lions or Swordsmaters, I gave them the same uniform for all the soldiers from the same province (similar to Spearmen).

The generic variant, recruitable outside of Ulthuan, are simply called "Halberdiers". Their armour is less shinny, with silver trim. They don't have a cape, and have random variations for their armour parts. They have more faction colours than the Vanilla units, a bit darker.

The regional variants, "Phoenix Guards" have shinny armour trimmed with gold, and cape.  Each province has its own uniform variation, shared by all the soldiers for this province. 

The Phoenix Guards from Eataine, their home region, have a special cape. They have more faction colours than the Vanilla units, but brighter than generic.

Generic

Avelorn

Caledor

Chrace

Cothique

Eataine

Ellyrion

Nagarythe

Saphery

Tiranoc

Yvresse

Sisters of Avelorn

The generic variants available outside of Ulthuan don't have cape, and have silver metal. The regional variants have a cape, more faction coloured parts, and shinny metal with gold. 

Both have variations for hairs and eyes : 5 colours, + more random variation for hair and braids.

Generic

Regional (here Avelorn)

Reavers

Generic variant have less barding on the horse, and 4 different horse colours. The regional variants have more cloth barding, more faction colours, and shinny metal trimmed with gold. Reaver archers have pale sand horses, with cloth barding. Reaver lancers have light brown horses + scale barding.

Ellyrian reavers have shinnier armours, and wings on the horse helmet. Grey horses for archers, and white horses for lancers.

Generic

Regional (here Avelorn)

Ellyrion