07-06-2006, 11:05 PM
I'm helping the development team for the Rome Total War Europa Barbarorum mod on making the 'Sweboz'/Germanic faction units more distinctive and authentic. We are reducing the number of sword-armed units and replacing several of them with club-armed warriors instead.
One of the modellers has come back to us with some great new unit models, including some suitably wild and shaggy-haired Chattian 'oath warriors', but the clubs on these units are wooden with metal spikes, which is definitely not accurate.
To give him a guide for adjusting him, I'm trying to find some primary source material which depicts Germanic war clubs, but with no success so far. I seem to recall some Germanic clubmen auxilia in one scene on Trajan's Column (?? I think), but can't find a picture of them anywhere.
Can anyone help?
One of the modellers has come back to us with some great new unit models, including some suitably wild and shaggy-haired Chattian 'oath warriors', but the clubs on these units are wooden with metal spikes, which is definitely not accurate.
To give him a guide for adjusting him, I'm trying to find some primary source material which depicts Germanic war clubs, but with no success so far. I seem to recall some Germanic clubmen auxilia in one scene on Trajan's Column (?? I think), but can't find a picture of them anywhere.
Can anyone help?
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