This is a remake of some M&B animations, made to fit central grip shields. I hope ancient mods developers will find this changes particulary useful. All the gripping and blocking will be made according to the way roman, gallic, thorakitai and dark age soldiers held their shields, allways by the moss. Changes also aply to all the native shield models from warband, although the old models don't always position the warrior's left hand oh the proper griping position and the visuals may seem strange. I do intend to make some modifications related to the feet's positions, as it doesn't seem very natural to me the way M&B soldiers stand while holding their shields in blocking stance, at least when this mod is aplyed.... The mod is bug free so far, the only txt changes made were on the actions.txt and itenkinds1.txt files. Feel free to use this as you see fit, just remember to make a reference to Illew for the shield models I'm posting and to me for the animations made.

obs:
1- I have replaced the norman kite shields with some of Illew default gallic and roman shields. The player allready starts the game with them on the inventory.

2- So far, it seems that the hitbox has been propely moved exactly to the griping point of the shields, making them fully usable.

3- This mod is totaly compatible with Motomataru's and Mirathei's formations and AI mods. The combination of both made some owesome roman battles while I was testing my own total conversion mod. Mix them both and see for yourself!

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/705/mb2h.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/4/mb3u.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/819/mb1wc.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/269/mb10t.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5/mb8a.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/692/mb6mn.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/830/mb9b.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/269/mb10t.jpg/

FRONTAL DEFENSE: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/40/mb5q.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/mb12a.jpg/

RUNNING: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/mb16c.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/412/mb14i.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/714/mb20i.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/833/mb18j.jpg/