High Elven Archer

[Moderator]

17:20, 2nd Sep 2012
HappyTauren: Well done, though, I've forgot to note for the other two, a mouth-opening portrait would be much better.

 

[Sumallo2]

I hope there's more to come... Especially something like the High Elven Spearman. I'm a fan of spearmen... and I must admit that there's a general lack of spearmen here on hive. If there are any, their animations aren't correct.

 

[Fingolfin]

The elven host, ready for battle:

Image

 

[vlekje5]

aggain
Good Job dude!
i'd give ya rep
but seems ur last person i gave rep lowl
strange since i stopped but i asume u had some other awsome model

 

[Mickey Frogeater]

All that's left for Lotr elven units are Gil-galad, Galadrial, Celeborn, Haldir, ElrondGlorfindel, Arwen and Elvish Buildings wonder if anyone will make them.

 

[Deleted member 212788]

Man, you sure know how to make quality models. If you make some green trolls I'll marry you 5/5 +rep!

 

[GhostThruster]

make some lorien elves pl0x. these guys didn't really fight in the war of the ring.

 

[APproject]

Remind me more of greek than high elves. Good looking though.

 

[Misha]

heh, groovy new units, man

 

[KaplanHorus]

300
Battle for Quel Danas

 

[Matarael]

The elven host, ready for battle:

Image

I have no words for this image but my genital is ready for love making.

 

[InfernalTater]

All three models are amazing. The archer and spearman are so good as to be worth a 6/5, and the swordsman is worth a 5/5.

 

[Orcnet]

EYEGASM!

 

[FromIronGrowsGrass]

Good lord, these are breath taking to behold, well done 8/5.
You know what else is great about these? They have a quite reasonable file size, great for online maps.

 

[Fingolfin]

make some lorien elves pl0x. these guys didn't really fight in the war of the ring.

Neither did the lorien elves. It was just something they added for the movie.
In the books, there were no elven reinforcements.

 

[Deolrin]

Wait, when did the elves fight in the movie? I don't remember any elves fighting at all. ><

Was it in the third movie? In the final battle for Gondor?

 

[Matarael]

Wait, when did the elves fight in the movie? I don't remember any elves fighting at all. ><

Was it in the third movie? In the final battle for Gondor?

Uh, Helms Deep?

 

[Horselord12]

Yes, that thing elven reinforcements from Lorien didnt exist in books.

Spoiler

But to be honest, the elves participated in War of the Ring. In that time was a war on the North independently about a South War( war against Isengard and Mordor). Lothlorien twice attacked by Goblins of Moria and Mordor, Mirkwood attacked from Dol Guldur and Dwarves fought also at Esgaroth and Erebor. And months passed after Fall of Barad Dur when Dol Guldur destroyed by Galadriel.
So elves taken their part in fight.

Anyway, the model is awesome.

 

[TheWhiteWizard]

the archer is great NICE JOB

 

[Deolrin]

Uh, Helms Deep?

Been too long since I watched the films, or read the books.

 

[GhostThruster]

@fingolfin: as horselord said :3 imo i like silvan elves more than noldorian, but that's just me.

 

[Blarto]

Making Peter Jackson's random Elves (Helm's Deep) from this is rather easy..

To make Lothlórien unit you just need :

1) texture variant for this (less golden);
http://www.theargonath.cc/pictures/hdelves/hdelves.html

2) modify helmet so portrait matches;
http://midnightsilhouette.deviantart.com/art/Lothlorien-Elf-Helmet-Sketch-97780459

Anyone with mdlvis and something that's not ms-paint can do it on his/her own in like 30 minutes.

alternatively, you can use this portrait



from here http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...rev=search=blood%20elf%20guardian&d=list&r=20


I might use these elves instead of my own models, which says something about their quality
But I don't like their cloaks.. simple foot soldiers should not have cloaks methinks.

 

[Fingolfin]

Actually, the head would need to be remodeled since it only has the face under the helmet, and it also needs hair. I will make sindar versions though, don't worry. But first, uruks.

 

[Uncle Fester]

@ Fingolfin: WOW! You realy hit the bull's eye with those elves! Nice, the Hives LOTR model collection is slowly growing!

 

[khazmorian]

Perhaps Middle earth in flames is the next big thing?

 

[Sumallo2]

Actually, the head would need to be remodeled since it only has the face under the helmet, and it also needs hair. I will make sindar versions though, don't worry. But first, uruks.

YES PLEASE!

Just a question though...
If you're going to make the uruk-hai pikemen, are you going to make their pikes really long like the ones in the movie? Or is that not going to be practical in Warcraft III because of the attack animations? I've never actually seen any pikemen on hive. Only spearmen...

 

[Fingolfin]

I will make them shorter than they were n the movies, but still very long (longer than most spears anyhow). But yes you're right, it is not very practical to have long spears in warcraft.

 

[Deolrin]

Why not? Can't you just simply set the range to something like 800?
And add a minimum range?

 

[Fingolfin]

I did not actually think about minimum range.
But then consider this: if the pikeman is attacked by cavalry with shorter range than the minimum, the pikemen would be useless against it. In the game, technically any unit could be microed to end up within the minimum range just to benefit from it.

 

[Deolrin]

You could engineer an entire game based on minimum ranges and maximum ranges, and you could always use abilities like Knockback to serve as counter-micro measures.

 

[Vortballat]

I think it could be better to be a female but this one is cool tew

 

[DoogleMcDan]

Another great elven unit, 5/5
Ya the Lorien elves did kill the group of orcs and goblins that followed the fellowship (pretty sure the Lorien elves in the book said they wouldn't make it to the other side of the woods) and so I'm pretty sure they had a standing military, plus there was the War in Mirkwood and the other wars in the North (But of course in the hobbit we actually get to see the army of Mirkwood so their are those elves for sure). But I don't know of Lorien elves ever being at Helms deep, I think it was in the movie to add loss when that elf died (Haldir?)

 

[Blarto]

Random off topic @ Elves not appearing in book and fighting.

In the book, during Helm's Deep battles, it is implied Lorien also battles with the forces of Sauron himself (source from Back Hate and Dol Guldur but not Minas Morgul). However, the Elves used one of their rings (Nenya), so it was a rather futile war on Sauron's side. Sauron doesn't have his Ring at this point and can't do anything about the Elven Ring, so he lost probably hundreds of thousands of warriors. All this concludes shortly after the capture of Isengard.

As for the movie, it wanted to make it more obvious that the elves are actually doing something, so Peter Jackson threw in some pointy ear cannon fodder to please the crowd


Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Middle-earth_wars_and_battles#Siege_of_L.C3.B3rien
because everything on wikipedia is true

 

[Sapprine]

AMAZING! But a little bit out of place for warcraft ][ ][ ][, don't you think. My computer crashes as soon as I test the map and a unit has this as an model

 

[hexhound]

i really like this.

 

[V]

Very Good!!!!

 

[V]

Good Job 5/5! Looks awesome!

 

[V]

Amazing!

 

[Barade]

Great model!