Originally Posted by
spe801
First of all, let me say that so far it is awesome how much effort you have put in to the way the soldiers in this game would look. However, there are a few things that I think could make it even better. This won't be very organized, it's just kind of rolling out of my head. Also, it's basically all Confederate because that's what I've really studied.
1. When wearing blanket rolls the top of the blanket would hang over the left shoulder instead of right. If it hung over the right shoulder you would have a thick blanket impeding your aiming. Also, there need to be variants of blankets. Confederates had all kinds of things they would use for blankets such as coverlets, carpet, homemade, captured, or basically anything they could get their hands on. Also, it wouldn't hurt for every few of them to have an oil/ground cloth wrapped over their blankets.
2. The Confederates were very well noted as being particularly ragged and filthy during the Sharpsburg Campaign. What I'm saying is dirty them up/some holes in the shoes/fray their clothing/maybe some small holes/tears (I'm not saying give a few just loin cloths). I know the military stresses cleanliness but that's hard to do when you're marching about 20 miles a day, wiping grease on your pants, spilling stuff on your shirt or jacket, or always having your knees and elbows on the ground getting dirty when resting. Also, if any of you have been to reenactments, they did not sleep in tents while on campaign, all they had was what was on their backs.
3. It seems that everyone has the same canteen and haversack. There were several different types of canteens and haversacks that the Confederates used. I know it may be too much work but it would be very cool.
4. Maybe let the Confederates have some Federal gear captured from 2nd Mannassas? I'm not saying the cliche wearing captured federal jackets and pants (bowels release after death and I'd rather not take those pants off a dead man). I'm saying maybe federal canteens, shoes, haversacks. An extra special touch would be having the name of a Federal regiment painted on the back of the haversack, maybe one that took really heavy casualties at 2nd Mannassas?
5. I really like the 3 differing types of jackets that you use for the Confederates. An extra special touch would be to maybe add in civilian jackets and pants.
6. And finally, hats. If you look at pictures of Confederates in the field their hats are absolute junk. They may be issued a nice new hat, but once they get it they shape it to how they want it. After they get it shaped it gets rained on, dirtied, greasy, and the results can be pretty interesting
Thanks for reading if you did and sorry if I rambled or didn't make sense, I don't have class tomorrow so I'm enjoying some O-Be-Joyful.