AOE3 - PUP NOTES

[SirBarnzy1]

Just a silly thing (no way as important as other things!)

Unique units get unique skins, so I’d love to see British Manors get a unique art to differentiate from standard Houses.

British Manors

The British Manor House is uniquely named and hold special attributes by giving the player a free settler, yet shares the same model as the French and Dutch. The Swede’s Torp is unique despite also being a house. Giving the British a unique design for their manors would be a fun addition!

British Cottage concept art

@SirBarnzy1 has mentioned the idea a few times of the British Manor house getting a custom skin and being renamed to “Cottage” to help make it stand out and give it an identity. I thought this was a great idea and I had my base image layers from my Australian architecture concept (Australia - #8 by TheSquidEmpire) ready to go, so I thought it would be fun to do a concept for the British Cottage! [aoe3Cottage] The second row version includes some gardens. I wondered if the building gets a cus…

Units That Still Need Attention

I’d stick Manor Houses here as unique building that needs a new skin, as it has different costs/HP/etc As mentioned in other threads, I’d actually change that name to Cottage and the model to a quintessential British cottage (little stone wall and gate surrounding it), justified by the fact that Ensemble Studios obviously had ‘unique’ view that all the houses settlers were building were mighty Manors! The reality is that Cottages were super-common and Manors were just for the gentry (and in fa…