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Echo La Roacha has Age of Empires II (2013)

7 Apr, 2018 @ 5:19am

Squad warfare request

I always felt like the units in AOE are representations of an army, likely the amount of soldiers to each unit would be around the same amount of units as the health bar number.

Are there any mods out there that change the sprites to represent entire units rather than just a single man, and how easy would it be for one to make such a mod? I always thought it'd look pretty cool to have a "wider" view of the battle against thousands of men rather than just hundreds like in the vanilla version.

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masec

19 May, 2019 @ 12:44pm

I remember back in the day before HD, there was a mod with this particular multi-unit model. it is possible for sure, but it absolutely requires modding. It may be possible to create a sprite representing multiple units piled in, just as a single unit, but it will be just that, a model from a single unit.
Let me see if I can find it so I can propperly tell you what mod you need and if there is one of those here at HD

Last edited by masec; 19 May, 2019 @ 12:45pm

Kaffeeaffe has Age of Empires II (2013)

29 May, 2019 @ 12:31pm

I thought of something similar for quite some time, but there are some issues. For example:
If you use the original graphics, they wouldn't fit into the given space and will overlap with other units, making it all a big mess. You could circumvent that by making them smaller, but then it again becomes a mess since the units themselves will be too small.
If the squad attacks, what do the units farther back do? they will most likely be too far away from the "front".
I think there were some more points but I can't come up with them at the moment