Talwar means sword so its sword swordsman 
It would be good if we can see the unique buildings in the civi selection screen alongside the uus in future.Line one UUs line two UB.
I mean isn’t the Jian Swordsman the same situation? lol
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I dont know chinese but google tells me its a type of sword.
Oh, ok. I thought I heard people saying Jian just meant sword…or maybe that was with the Dao Swordsmen in AOM…I dunno…nvmd lol
In Bangla, we call it both. Talwar is a bit more used.
Yeah. But design of Talwar is different from Longsword or Two Handed Sword. So same situation like Jian Sworsman imo. I don’t know if there is proper English word to describe the design of talwar. If not we can call the unit Talwar Man or Talwar Warrior.
This is a better term for the unit similar to eithopian uu.
Not sure if a Talwar Warrior will be accurate for Bengal and Dravidians because the curved Talwar is said to be coming from Central Asia.
The talwar belongs to the same family of curved swords as the Persian shamshir, the Turkish kilij, Arabian saif and the Afghan pulwar, all such swords being originally derived from earlier curved swords developed in Turkic Central Asia
The inner parts of India used the straight Khanda sword. The Bengali Ratha Warrior as well as the Pala Campaign has Khanda Sword. Rajendra Chola Hero also has Khanda Sword.
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Correct. Bengal Sultanate use them though in game Bengalis is mostly based on Pala Empire.
I know. Maybe Khanda Warrior will be more appropriate for Bengalis and Dravidians. And Talwar/Tarwal Warrior for Gurjaras and Hindustanis.
Not for Gurjaras, as their primary sword of choice was also the khanda.
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Sorry for the long post. Let a native speaker try to answer.
Jian 劍 refers to a double-edged sword, while Dao 刀 refers to a single-edged sword In Chinese. There may not be a single character that accurately serves as a general term for swords regardless of whether they’re double- or single-edged, so in many cases we directly combine the two characters into the compound 刀劍.
When translating English words that contain sword, such as swordsman, Chinese usually renders the sword part as jian, and then chooses the character for the man part according to context. For example, 劍士, 劍兵, 劍客, and 劍俠 are all commonly used to correspond to swordsman. In all of them, jian represents sword, while the character corresponding to man introduces subtle differences in meaning: roughly warrior, soldier, vagabond (I’m not entirely sure about this one in English), and folk hero, respectively.
Therefore, when a unit is called Jian Swordsman, a literal translation would become “劍劍士” (jian jian warrior), quite awkward. As a result, in Chinese localization it is actually named 吳越劍士, literally “Wuyue Swordsman”, creating distinction by adding a regional name at front. However, adding this regional association that does not exist in the original meaning makes it feel somewhat odd for other civs to use this unit.
In my suggestions for the Three Kingdoms civs (check the details), I would prefer to rename the Jian Swordsman as “Dare-to-die (死士/敢死軍).” Using the name of a unit that actually existed in the Wu Kingdom avoids the translation issues related to weapons altogether.
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Can anyone estimate how much time it takes to create a skin? I’d be interested to know, as I have no idea about that sort of thing. From that, one could then deduce when we can expect something like regional generic skins.
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Hot take, I want Mamluks (Egyptian) and Kanem-Bornu Empire.
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The game uses pre-rendered 3d graphics, so at the very least it isn’t fast.
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Wingless Hussar for Non-Polish Civs
Concept made by Mahazona.
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won’t that be hard to distinguish from light cav?
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We have Two-Handed Swordsmen and Champions looking pretty similar. These guys are bigger models with more details, so should be fine.
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2HS has the big yellow (golden?) pauldrons, they are super easy to distinguish
the difference between light cav and this model is a tiny feather?
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