YuenHsiaoTieng Sounds, thanks for the great job you're doing! I agree with WeAreGoyim that Jorgito's horse archer is too European for be used for the Asians. If i could do a sugestion, byzantine knight looks so arabic, doesn' t looks byzantine, and Hun paladin doesn't seems a barbarian. Congratulations for the Byzantines sword and pike lines!!

@Zhizhou Zhang Sure thing! Accept my apologies.

@YuenHsiaoTieng
Can you include”Ivindor” in credit in the description of both the old and the new IU mod? since middle eastern paladin and Asian halberdier you used is made by me.
Thanks

Final Update: Byzantine scout line updated. Old light cavalry demoted to scout. New Light cavalry and hussar. This is the final update for this beta version. Support will be discontinued for this mod and a new mod will be posted in celebration of this (near) final form.

Today's Update: Replaced Asian and Hun knight and cavalier with TriRem's. Added new Asian man-at-arms. Demoted previous to militia.

@Zhizhou Zhang I'd really like your permission, but if you don't change your mind I'll change these immediately.

@Zhizhou Zhang. When do you plan on continuing your work? Might those cavalry units remain in the mod if Yuen ads you in the credits? It's quite difficult to find slp's with hifgh enough cuality. How about you collaborate and create the best ever mod for AoE2?

Today's Update: Added Asian crossbow. Removed "Roman" Byzantine cavalry archers. Added cataphract archer for Byzantine and Arab heavy cavalry archer. Added pretty pictures.

It will now be easy for everyone to see which units still need work/color fixes/shadow fixes. Nothing is final yet, but we're getting closer, so speak up now if there's a unit choice to which you have a particularly strong opposition.

Awesome updates, this is easily one of those mods that keeps me coming back, wondering why the original game didn't get this sort of love.

Today's Update: New Arab crossbow as previous was too monk-like in appearance.

Fixed it.

Today's Update: Yet another rework of Byzantine knights. They very similar to Middle Eastern knights but with slight differences. The Byzantine cataphract is now back to default. Middle Eastern and Hun paladins have also been changed. The three non-European paladins are all very similar but with different shields.

There is unfortunately a problem with the Byzantine paladin's shield for right now. It switches sides while running. I'll see what I can do.

Today's Update: The Romans have advanced to the middle ages! Byzantine sword and spear line have been reworked featuring all new units for pikeman, halberdier, longswordsman, two handed swordsman, and champion.

Today's Update: New Arab crossbow and arbalest! Byzantine camels returned to default.

New halberdier looks great!

Today's Update: New American archer. Replaced American arbalest with one experimented with previously. New Arab halberdier that looks much better and fits better.

@argos.odisseo Thank you for speaking up!

Today's Update: Byzantine crossbow and arbalest removed, archer remains. Color and decay animation fixes for Byzantine scout and New World elite skirmisher.

Thanks for the great job you are ding, but i agree with you that archers line of byzantines is not the best option. Is better the original archer line.

Today's Update: Added Byzantine archer line. Added Asian arbalest. Fixed Asian longsword walking animation.

I'm not married to these Byzantine archers. They look a little dull. I'm still not sure how the best Byzantine archers should look.

Today's Update: Replaced all Byzantine sword line except for champion. Replaced Byzantine knight line and cataphract. Using new skin for the cataphract only as new cavalier (old centurion) is too similar.

Today's Update: All new Arab sword line. New Asian pikeman, demoting previous to spearman.

This is going really well! Good choices about units :)

Today's Update: Complete Hun overhaul. All new sword line. All new spear line. All new archer line. New elite skirmisher.

Ah I see, thanks for your patience.
Also I'm loving your mod man, really it's a great work.

@Tiago-Zr Those porbably force the "original" data set, so the data mod isn't compatible unfortunately.

I mean the Forgotten/African/Rajas worked perfectly, but AOK and AOC campaigns does not load the unit reskins. They don't crash at all just start with vanilla units.

@Tiago-Zr Were they not loading at all for you? Were they crashing? I just tried one and had no problem.

Thanks for the help! One small problem though, all other campaigns worked fine except the AOK and AOC ones. Is there a way get these to load as well?

@Tiago-Zr Yes, there's a trick to it though. It won't work if you start a mission as soon as you open the game, but if you start a regular single player game with the data mod enabled then exit back to the main menu you will see the banner has changed. Once the banner has changed then the mod is active and will work on any campaign.

Same issues happens when trying to load replays. You have to start a dummy game with the data mod first, and only then load the replay. Otherwise the game crashes.

Does this mod work on campaigns?

Undid Arab skirm change as new one looked too monk-like.

This Morning's Update: Sacked yesterday's Byzantine elite skirmisher. Promoted yesterday's regular skirmisher to his place, and replaced that one with another Roman looking skirmisher. Replaced Byzantine scout.

Demoted Arab elite skirmisher and replaced with a new one. Added Arab spear. Changed Arab halberdier. Added caped archers for Arab xbow and arbalest, but these are experimental.

Today's update: Added Byzantine skirmishers. Replaced all New World archers and skirmishers. I'm still not crazy about this set either though. Many more changes on the way.

I have the camel rider somewhere.

By the way. The heavy cavalry archer that I suggested (part of the portuguese mod) was this: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1371435342&searchtext= Maybe SpaceDundee knows more about all these graphics...

It's not much. But I think having the informatin about who's the author is better than nothing. I hope this will be useful.

I see. The page it's kind of confusing. But take a look at this: https://ptcivmod.com.br/pcm2/credits/ About the graphics I've suggested I found these:

"fr steve, from AoKH: For providing me with Fortified Sea Wall and Gates, Cuman Archer and Hajduk graphics"

"Achesun, from AoKH: For making the 1.2+ Camel Archer, Sipahi, Mochareb, Blowgunner, Camel Lancer, Hajuduk, Almogavar, Tercio Pikeman, Naffatun, Caliverman, Cuirassier, Nihang, Crusader, 1.8e+ Foot Knight, Arsonist, Archer of the Eyes, Ronin, Gadrauht, Sohei, Navarrese Hero, Swahili Hero, Rodelero, Raider, Cavalry Raider, Archer Raider, Envoy, Moran, Spadaccino, Sepoy, Trader, Bishop, Knight of Santiago, Keris Warrior, Japanese Hero, Poison Archer, 2.4b+ Black Rider and Leonese Knight graphics."

@mayosrojas I'm having trouble finding the actual unit files.

P.D. All the suggested graphics were made by Miki_Wu94. I think...

Nice! Both changes are fine, I think. Nevertheless, I believe the previous "hunnic cavalry archer" wasn't bad at all. You should consider the possibility of keeping both, as regular and elite.
Anyway, Do you remember the graphics from the "portuguese civilization mod"? I have a few suggestions about it:

https://ptcivmod.com.br/wiki/File:Archer_of_the_eyes.JPG instead of crossbowman or arbalester for middle eastern civilizations, due the crossbows weren't so popular for them anyway.

https://ptcivmod.com.br/wiki/File:Genoese_crossbowman.JPG I think may be a good byzantine crossbowman.

https://ptcivmod.com.br/wiki/File:Hajduk.JPG for hunnic crossbowman. For real, huns never used the crossbowman.

https://ptcivmod.com.br/wiki/File:Camelancer.JPG or the middle eastern scout (the specifc one from the mod) instead of some camel. If you use any of them, you may be able to set different camels for byzantines too.

You're doing a great job. As always thanks for listening suggestions.

Today's update: New World pike and halb have been switched as I think the shielded guy looks better. More importantly, R_V_A has provided an updated Hun horse archer with more size and color.

The_Warmaster's elite skirmishers for Arabs have been added for today's update. Unfortunately, the data mod doesn't support ships or additional monk changes.

And here comes another suggestion. I think we both agree that Byzantines are very special and deserve special stuff. Do you like this https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=717681101&searchtext=byzantine ? I do for real. In addition I think now that byzantines have their own IA set and own units, the only thing that is missing are the ships. That muslims veils don't look very well on them. Thank you!

@mayosrojas I actually did :) Have a look :))

@SpaceDundee Oh! I didn't know it. He, he. By the way, I like a lot your stuff too. Greetings! :)
P.D. If you could publish the "tartar rider! as reskin for mangudai, I would thank you. It's a great idea too. Thanks!

I'm really happy about being useful about this. Thanks! I've found a couple of things more. You may check them and add them if you like. The first one is this: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=895556990&searchtext= a nice reskin for the elite skirmisher that may suit very well for middle eastern civilizations. The second one is not really a "finding" (this one can be found in the regular editor from the AoE 2 HD), I'm talking about the priest/monk from AoE 1. You could use him for the huns due they were not christians, and this priest is the only one that looks "pagan" (even like a chaman). Nevertheless, if you take huns in an "Asian context" the regular "buddhist monk" may be appropiated. Greetings! :)

He is actually one of jorgitos reskins for the special units of the civs , so the mangudai i think

mayosrojas the Tartar Raider or how you call him lol , i always used him for the mangudai but he can be any type of eastern/asian cav archer :)

@mayosrojas Thank you! I think I found him. In the process I found a Hun archer I added, and I added Asian set cavalry archers. I'm still trying to resize that last horse archer, but this guy is just fine and has easier to see colors anyway. Other than Arab horse archers, Arab and Asian light cav, and Byz hand cannon, we're just about wrapping up unless there are amazing xbows and arbs out there somewhere I've missed. You've been a great help.

Here it is! https://ptcivmod.com.br/wiki/File:Tatar_rider.JPG Unfortunately there are not screenshots from the unit in action, but I really hope this would be useful.