Glade Lord & Lady Tabletop Style 4K Reskin
This mod reskins several Wood Elf generic lord variants into closer resembling their tabletop equivalents.
The eagle helmed Glade Lords already existed in-game, but contrary to their official Games Workshop images, they were depicted in dark metal colorations that I felt made them blend in with everything else in-game, perhaps this was intentional, but I thought they should be more recognizable because it’s such a neat design. I have lightened the hues of the steel and given the rest a bone matte finish for contrast and replaced others with feathered eagle heads.
CHANGES:
-Two Glade Lady variants have been reworked, one with the eagle helm and the other being hooded with antlers.
NOTE: The eagle helm lady shares the exact same helmet with two variations, this is in part because CA designed Glade Ladies with 4 variants and Lords with 5, I may try and change this in the future.
-The two Glade Lord variants with eagle helms have been reworked with more pelt-like looks, one resembling a tabletop design and the other of 6th edition artwork I saw, this one has the black eagle (Ictinaetus malaiensis) coloration.
-One Glade Lord variant, the one that you will most often first recruit in-game and the one you will always see in custom game, has a closed face helmet based off the mounted glade lord design in the tabletop, a heightened crest of leaves, and a shock of blond braided hair coming out the back, which is not readily apparent looking at that model from the front but is there. This particular variant has a green gem in his helmet, in keeping with my tabletop inspiration.
-The other Glade Lord variant I altered had his look based off of the Wood Elves 8th Edition army book cover, and was not an official tabletop model but one I was always fond of because of how it echoed Asur/Druchii aesthetics with the horsehair plume. This particular variant has dyed green leather sheathes for his daggers, in keeping with the cover art.
-All lord armor has had its golden tones made more vibrant. All lord arrow fletching is now green.
-All portraits and unit icons have been altered to reflect graphical changes.
Many vanilla model variants are still in-game.
In custom battle, the eagle helmed Glade Lady and the closed face helm Glade Lord will always be deployed, respectively, so to see the other variants you must play in the campaign. The lord with the horsehair plume has his plume color dependent on faction colors, so the mainline Talsyn and Argwylon factions will show as green, Heralds of Ariel will display as purplish black, I don’t know what colors Drycha has for elf lords because I don’t recruit elves when playing her. This is also true of the hooded female lord.
MIND THE LOADING ORDER with this mod, it should work with most other reskins so long as it is loaded before them, I have seen spectacular graphic glitches when this is not done.
Many thanks to h3ro for designing AssetEditor, without which this mod would not be possible and to calm&normaltime for guiding me through proper AssetEditor usage, without either of them my dream of seeing more diverse Wood Elf lords would not have been possible. And ^1Shep^8ardov for the excellent 4K textures.
