Swan Knight & Vile Knight

[Larrel]

wonderful!

 

[Hazop / Sarven]

Fantastic and stylish knight! Rare to see a mounted knight with a lance..

Also will this spell anim replace the one currently on the Knight of the Blazing Sun? This one would fit perfectly with it.

This is also a perfect Bretonnian Knight!

 

[Kyrbi0]

This is crazy-good. Love the Teutonic feel, all that heavy armor & full face-plate and those cool helmet-pokey-up-thingies. Spell anim is an extra bonus.

 

[Galadgod]

Holy crap, looks amazing!

 

[SNIper of DARKness]

"attack - 2" lel

Good model, you should focus more on mounted models as they are quite lack luster on hive.

 

[Zess]

Fantastic work, but "attack 2" is... kinda unpractical.
But, on the other hand, I understand that a lance is a weapon for which it is difficult to make many different attacks of animation.

 

[HerrDave]

Fantastic work, but "attack 2" is... kinda unpractical.
But, on the other hand, I understand that a lance is a weapon for which it is difficult to make many different attacks of animation.

I'm thinking about removing it, but I'm unsure if the lack of variety in the animations will get me roasted again or not :<

 

[Jaina Proudless]

Looks just like those riders from rise of the witch king. Simple but so useful especially for more lore based maps and campaigns with multiple human factions.

The interesting thing about Dol Amroth though is that this whole concept seen in games workshop models and in rise of the witch king is not canonical.

Spoiler

Like many other locations very few details are given about Dol Amroth and its denizens. The few facts given to the reader are: they're a pure-blooded (mostly) numenorean people, they live in a coastal city, Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth came to aid Denethor with a troupe of soldiers and knights, Prince Imrahil is among the greatest warriors in middle earth who 'emerged unscathed' alongside Eomer and Aragorn from the terrors of Pelenor Fields.

Judging by this information the image of late-medieval paladin lancers is quite ill-fitting. Numenorean sea farers, unlike the rohirim, weren't known for their cavalry and the martial prowess of Imrahil and his knights is more of a result of their nobility and of their numenorean blood (see the Grey Company of 30 numenorean Rangers who defeated 3 Corsair armies on their way to Minas Tirith) as opposed to their horseback mastery or their heavy paladin armour. I would imagine a host of Dol Amroth, just like the host that travelled alongside Imrahil, would consist mostly of Infantry with the noble knights being mounted but just as skilled on foot... their army should look quite similar in composition to that of the elves of the North as opposed to that of Rohan.

 

[Zess]

I'm thinking about removing it, but I'm unsure if the lack of variety in the animations will get me roasted again or not :<

Well, maybe Instead of the attack 2 - the usual poke with a lance, and the attack 1 can be edited a bit: the knight lowers the spear at a greater angle and kinda... nailing(?) enemy to the ground, and he sharply pull out the jammed lance before returning to its start position.
P.S.
I doubt the correctness of the translation, and I'm afraid it will be easier to make a picture of this or to remade it by myself, so that it is more clear what I mean

 

[Tovio]

Absolutely gorgeous.

 

[StormKnight]

by the emperor a knight model that uses the spear

for once my dream has come to pass i can die a happy man now...

 

[Sinandur]

Nowhere near enough dedicated lancers on the Hive and this one is wonderful.

I actually prefer it shieldless; the only shield that would really make sense with that kind of heavy armour is a heater shield* and it'd look pretty silly, given how small they were, compared to kites or the bigger round shields. It'd probably end up looking like a buckler on a hulking knight like this.

The model is great on its own, but I love it when coupled with CloudWolf's Gondorian skins.

5/5.

Edit: I love how small the file size is, too. Alas, I have no more stars to give.

* For those interested, it traded in size for thickness, as it was meant as a way to defend against the anti-armour weapons that developed to combat plate; not many arrows could pierce the later period armour. Of course, once guns got good, people started to sacrifice protection for mobility... beware of Saruman, eh?

 

[Archian]

Love it! We need more Cavaliers like this in our database. Liking that attack animation.

 

[SNIper of DARKness]

Please do more Mounted units, the Hive really lacks them severely.

 

[SonsOfSami]

The shield is nice, but why didn't you keep the old variant in a different version?

 

[HerrDave]

I kept getting too much flak for not sticking a shield on him :\

I stuck an experimental jousting shield on him, but it looked too small and silly compared to the rest of the Warcrafty proportions.

The shield is easily removable as it's polygons are not close to others of the same geoset, so people can just select them in an editor and hit [Delete] and it'll be the same as it was pre-update

 

[infrenus]

@HerrDave , if you like the tiny modifications I made on mine, you can import the animations from it, the shield clips a little bit less agaisnt the knee

 

[Hazop / Sarven]

Spoicy Shield

 

[SonsOfSami]

That new variant looks great, but what about this:

Spoiler: Vile Knight

Also, i think the old attack -2 should be re-added to the vile knight, that would be nice

 

[stein123]

A Chaos Knight!

 

[HerrDave]

I might recreate Attack - 2

The old Vile Knight got scrapped, his texture was taking up too much of another omni-skin :<

 

[SonsOfSami]

I might recreate Attack - 2

The old Vile Knight got scrapped, his texture was taking up too much of another omni-skin :<

It looked so great...

 

[SNIper of DARKness]

Thank god that I downloaded this before he made that ridicolously useless edit of a shield.

 

[HerrDave]

Thank god that I downloaded this before he made that ridicolously useless edit of a shield.

Ouch..

 

[Kyrbi0]

Yeah seriously. Poor taste, @SNIper of DARKness . He's right here.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

The only vile thing about that knight is his ridiculous weapon.

 

[BrazilEmperor]

Looks Great!
Much better with Shield!
i do not known why so many people disliked him.

the Vile Knight is a Teutonic Knight that follows Sauron's Army.

 

[pleasancer benediction]

I don't you if you are open for suggestion so i was thinking that perhaps create a unmounted ver for this one?

 

[HerrDave]

The only vile thing about that knight is his ridiculous weapon.

xD

I might have oversized it juuuust a bit.

One second, I'll hammer it out right.

Concept for the Vile Knight, far left knight

Spoiler: click to expand

 

[Shar Dundred]

Lovin the vile knight a lot.
Could you do a version without the eye on the helmet maybe though?
No offense to the Great Eye of Sauron, but I think it could look even better without it.

 

[HerrDave]

I could

I'm thinking about adding the spiked skull between the horns as a replacement, but I'm not quite sure yet...

The Vile Knight serves as the Evil cavalry in my WotR map, but also is a means for me to test the water for Warhammer Fantasy Chaos models

 

[Shar Dundred]

The Vile Knight serves as the Evil cavalry in my WotR map, but also is a means for me to test the water for Warhammer Fantasy Chaos models

More WHF Chaos models is something I like.

Edit: That update looks just great!

 

[Fenryr]

Well done, the design is just amazing!!

 

[SonsOfSami]

- Made capes double-sided, no more flat TC on underside

The Swan Knight still has flat TC

 

[HerrDave]

I think I was drugged, I'm doing everything half-assed today D:

 

[BrazilEmperor]

I think I was drugged, I'm doing everything half-assed today D:

Do you can give me permission to edit your Vile Knight (just to remove skull)?

 

[JimmyJoJameson]

Gorgeous as usual. You never fail to amaze.

 

[HerrDave]

Do you can give me permission to edit your Vile Knight (just to remove skull)?

By all means, you can modify any of my models to better suit your projects

 

[BrazilEmperor]

By all means, you can modify any of my models to better suit your projects

Thx,bro.

 

[FuR]

Please provide BTN and DISBTN

 

[HerrDave]

<-- Sucks at making icons

I'll try to crack some out for ya though

 

[Jaina Proudless]

Good thing we still have the bascinet knight for the shield-less version.

 

[ClariceGonzalesBR]

5/5

 

[General Frank]

Works in-game, performs appropriately and is a good addition to the model section. Excellent work!

 

[jintlox]

Against all odds, this model doesn't seem to be working for me. Any idea why? (checked and there's nothing wrong with geoset anims)

 

[HerrDave]

Against all odds, this model doesn't seem to be working for me. Any idea why? (checked and there's nothing wrong with geoset anims)

Which one are you testing?
- Vile Knight
- Swan Knight

Is it textureless, invisible, a green cube, what does it look like on your side?

 

[jintlox]

Which one are you testing?
- Vile Knight
- Swan Knight

Is it textureless, invisible, a green cube, what does it look like on your side?

Even after reloading, the Swan Knight doesn't appear properly, but is a green cube. Haven't tested the Vile Knight yet.
It appears correctly on the Model Editor however, and I detect no problems with the model itself.

 

[HerrDave]

It might be the particles that are breaking it.
Example - Reforged broke all of the WotK tank particles (Dust3x.blp, WeatherCloudx8, etc)
It could be that Reforged has moved/stored Yellow_Star, ShockwaveWater1, Dust3x, and RibbonBlur1 in a different folder - neatly breaking the paths and the model.

Which version of the editor are you loading it on, SD or HD?

 

[jintlox]

It might be the particles that are breaking it.
Example - Reforged broke all of the WotK tank particles (Dust3x.blp, WeatherCloudx8, etc)
It could be that Reforged has moved/stored Yellow_Star, ShockwaveWater1, Dust3x, and RibbonBlur1 in a different folder - neatly breaking the paths and the model.

Which version of the editor are you loading it on, SD or HD?

PTR