Legion "The lost units"

aurelian2 · Post by **aurelian2** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:51 pm

Dear Iain,

Long, long time ago the following message was posted on the now defunct Legion HQ at Wargamer.com:

"Legion Surprise (30.08.02)
We have been blessed here at Legion HQ - we can now present to you ALL Legion unit animations ever created, a good deal of which never made it into the game for various reasons. You can now download them here or at the downloads page.

Enjoy!"

Since you are no longer able to download from the site anymore please tell me more about the fate of the lost units. Is it possible to excavate them from their data grave at Slitherine?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:59 pm

Taibi is the best person to ask about this. We never actually stored these files as they were mods created by the gamers.

aurelian2 · Post by **aurelian2** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:23 pm

To be quite honest I am a little bit confused.

So is this post referring to the units created by Lt1956 which were eventually made available for download at Wargamer and can still be downloaded from Slitherine? When I read this post I accidently assumed it is about a different set of units that were omitted from the game by a kind of directors cut since the game engine is supporting a limited amount of units only. Another reason that led me to the belief that there could be some lost legion units somewhere is the fact that you can read the abbreviations itnobles and itarchers in the Legion squad.txt file. Since the Italians in Legion have Greek Cavalry and Gaulic Javelins I thought that you may have created Italian units and did not include them in the game for reasons of space.

Please let me know whether I got it right now.

Greetings,

Aurelian

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:26 pm

I'm assuming these are mod created units as the only animation left out of the game was the Legionary pilum throw animation. There are no other files that were cut. I guess they could be the same ones we recently were sent & added to the site, but I can't say for sure if this includes all the user mods that were ever created.

taibi · Post by **taibi** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:13 am

It was a file with all Legion unit animations in them, created by Slitherine, of which one or two didn't make it into the game. I got it from Iain and posted it on the site.

You can get the file here: ftp://ftp.wargamer.com/pub/Legion/Official/Legion Units.zip

Just copy and paste the above.

It doesn't do well with DL Managers, so you might have to disable those. It is about 6.5 mb.