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Adding new units to rulesets often requires some corresponding new graphics. When they are not available, then you default to duplicate graphics. But I do not like this.
I am in the process of attempting to provide distinct 30x30 unit graphics for the LT ruleset.

Previously I improved (added little waves to) the Longship graphic, and cleaned up the (quite ugly) graphics for the Flagship Frigate.
Today I made a graphic for the Square Rigged Caravel, and soon I plan to get something distinctive for the Barge as well

update: added Steam Paddler graphic for the Barge, re-worked another ship graphic into a beefier "square rigged caravel" (Nau), used my own ship to replace the normal Caravel, and then fiddled with the Flagship Frigate graphic to make it look prettier.
Behold my progress!

old progress image: https://i.imgur.com/Gy84Vwe.png

You may be interested in https://freeciv.fandom.com/wiki/User:JT ... aringhouse, there's already a missile sub and the container ship could be used for the barge (I think there's an amplio2 barge somewhere).

You can find Wahazar's barge here:

http://forum.freeciv.org/f/viewtopic.ph ... sel#p99197

By the way, I prepared bunch of new graphics for LT50, probably they can be used also for other games:
http://149.156.194.203/~mczapkie/fc/server/LT50.ZIP (trident)
http://149.156.194.203/~mczapkie/fc/server/LT50a.ZIP (amplio)

It didn't occur to me to check for what work other people have done. I'll take a look at these.

It was lazy work, I reused some augmented2 graphics, you square-rigged caravel looks much better than my even not caravel but brig, imported from another game (under GPL license of course).

But some graphics prepared by XYZ meet freeciv standards.

I've given the RoundSquare tileset an "Age of Sail" upgrade.
http://forum.freeciv.org/f/viewtopic.ph ... 6&start=50


Ships from Left to Right:
Longboat, Caravel, Flagship Frigate, Barge, Square-Rigged Caravel.

I adapted graphics from XYZ's collection for the Barge and "bigger and better" Square-Rigged Caravel.
The one I drew was so slender that it didn't look the part, but will do just fine as a normal "Caravel".

I do however humbly request that the "square rigged caravel" be renamed the "Nau", which is what the graphic most accurately represents.
Those were the big ships that the Portuguese sent to India, escorted by smaller Caravels.

I made a modification for Trident which includes graphics for all LTT and Royale units players can build currently (November 2023)

I could be upgrading this, the next project is likely including LTX units and I will post here when I do.

- scribe has dark brown/dark red clothes
- pirogue has blue sail
- longboat has red sail and looks like a boat now
- swordsmen have swords, not spears
- crusader has a horse
- square-rigged caravel looks clearly different from caravel
- flagship frigate looks different from frigate
- barge looks different from trireme
- immigrants look different from migrants
- scholar looks different from diplomat and scribe with its brighter red clothes
- fanatic has a rifle instead of a sword
- infantry has dark green clothes unlike rifleman who has brown.
- missile has its own graphics, smallest of missile graphics
- nuclear bomb looks like a bomb with its own graphics
- nuclear submarine has its own graphics
- fusion fighter has its own graphics
- fusion bomber has its own graphics
- fusion battleship has its own graphics; it's a different colored battleship
- fusion armor has its own graphics
- operative has its own graphics
- intercontinental missile has its own graphics
- cargo aircraft has its own graphics

Link to download page here:

https://www.angelfire.com/pro/maximilia ... rident.htm