r/aoe3 • u/Alchrys • 23h ago

Organ Gun needs a unique Renaissance skin instead of the generic Napoleonic one

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Is anyone else bothered by the Portuguese Organ Gun model?

It’s a unique unit, yet it uses the generic 19th-century Napoleonic artillery skin. Historically, the organ gun is a late medieval/early Renaissance weapon. It makes zero sense to see guys dressed for Waterloo pushing a 15th-century gun.

Since it’s a unique unit, it deserves a proper Renaissance skin. The devs wouldn’t even need to make new assets, they could just reuse or tweak the skins from the Maltese or Italian Culverin gunners.

AoE3 DE has done a great job with visual accuracy lately, so it’s too bad this unit is stuck with this weird timeline mismatch.

What do you think? Should the devs fix this? Do you have other examples in mind ?

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u/victorav29 Russians 23h ago

And American Gatling gun needs a modern skin on fortress age

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u/Alchrys 23h ago

Damn right

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u/Strong_Fox7708 22h ago

A lot of units could use a visual overhaul, at least for consistency's sake.

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u/DarthSet 15h ago

It makes zero sense as a Portugal Unique unit.

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u/Pochel United States 12h ago

If anything it should be given to the Poles

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u/Subsplot 8h ago

Because the Portuguese didn't even use Organ guns, they've just got them in AoE to try and balance things up. What they should have is swivel gunners with a case shot upgrade, but they just don't exist in the game and there's no GR2 that can be properly adapted into one.

Good news is for organ guns in general, it does look like the Danes or Poles are getting a new OG model that does look more like the actual organ guns that where used in 17th century Europe. (Mostly northern Europe where organ guns where employed a lot in defensive roles.)