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Yay! Titan Legions this summer!
Athmos
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PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2004 11:15 am 
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on the playtest forum, someone who disliked the "40k scale" look suggested to fill up the visor on the helmet to make it look more liike a wraithGuard or another "wraith-thing".
I think it may indeed work... the anime-look come mostly from the pose i think; in fact it make me think of 40k aspects warrior, so it must still be quite eldar-ish... While the "wrong scale" feeling bother me, i must say i consider the design is quite pleasing to my taste, and it look quite eldarish to me.

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PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:21 pm 
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Quote (Athmos @ 25 2004 May,03:15)
the anime-look come mostly from the pose i think; in fact it make me think of 40k aspects warrior, so it must still be quite eldar-ish... While the "wrong scale" feeling bother me, i must say i consider the design is quite pleasing to my taste, and it look quite eldarish to me.

I think what is missing for me is the sense of size. When I look at the original Eldar Titans there is a sense of mass dispite their thin structure. Same goes for many of the Epic models, they "feel" large.

I look at this model and I only feel the shape not the "size". I think that is what makes it feel like a 28mm model rather then an epic titan.

Now the fun part is how to get that feeling back?

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PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2004 10:26 pm 
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on the playtest forum, someone who disliked the "40k scale" look suggested to fill up the visor on the helmet to make it look more liike a wraithGuard or another "wraith-thing".


*cough* ..and thats just what I said earlier in this thread too....  spies are about I tell ya...  :blues:  lol...  :laugh:

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PostPosted: Wed May 26, 2004 1:23 am 
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on the playtest forum, someone who disliked the "40k scale" look suggested to fill up the visor on the helmet to make it look more liike a wraithGuard or another "wraith-thing".


*cough* ..and thats just what I said earlier in this thread too.... ?spies are about I tell ya... ?:blues: ?lol... ?:laugh:

Well, you know they just love to copy you.  :;):

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PostPosted: Wed May 26, 2004 7:38 am 
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Quote (stormseer @ 25 2004 May,22:26)
*cough* ..and thats just what I said earlier in this thread too....  spies are about I tell ya...  :blues:  lol...  :laugh:

It seems our dear warmaster escaped my Grey Knights after all... Time for some chastisement.  :p  :laugh:

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PostPosted: Wed May 26, 2004 8:10 am 
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Well, sorry stormseer, but as i read the 2 forum, i often forgot on which one i read some idea (mind you, many idea and opinions are represented here and at the playtest forum), or on which i read it first, and makes a mess of quoting.
Well, back to the scale issue : i wonder if basing will not save the revenant, as simple as it is, specially as the pose will let a lot of space on the titan base. ruins, wrecked vehicules or infantry will easily change it all; painting can also give proper sense of scale, but it may be quite hard to achieve (take a look at This to see what i'm speaking about; i'll concede that the photo is partly responsible for the feeling of hugeness of this mini).

To sumarize my opinions; i quite like the mini, even if i was at first quite surprised, but i'll reserve further opinions for when i've seen it painted and based (Maybe Mr Skull will show it to us once he's done with the buggar ? if he is the comissioned guy for it ? please ?).

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(Maybe Mr Skull will show it to us once he's done with the buggar ? if he is the comissioned guy for it ? please ?).

Athmos

If I do the revenants, I'll post pics as soon as I can.

However, Carl is now also working on some of the Eldar & since I've been ill I'm having to let more of the swordwind commissions slip so I dont actually know which pieces I'll end up doing in the next 2 months & which pieces will go elsewhere.

I'm hoping that for consistency's sake I'll end up doing the titans so all the basing matches - thats my claim to the job anyhow  :D

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Maybe you are right, with the correct basing and paint job it will look better.

I do like the TItan you showed. Well done. The "Walking down the street" look does the miniature good.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:55 pm 
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Hi,

I've begun gathering and building/painting a Speed Freek force (as part one of three of my Ork Horde, more on this later), and have been throwing around ideas for new units. First up, "Da Rokkitboyz". Primarily drawn up as a unit that I could bung into a Landa, or just to give the Speed Freeks some more infantry. I've scribbled a few ideas down which I would appreciate comments on, so that I can develop them further.


Da RokkitBoyz

Speed-crazed Orks that are thrown out of the Stormboy Korps for their undisciplined attitude and inability to follow orders join in bands with others who have developed a taste for all things loud,fast and dangerous, to form units know as RokkitBoyz. Severely lacking the discipline and control over their Rokkitpacks that the regular Stormboyz display, the RokkitBoyz simply put their Jump Packs into top gear and head maniacally towards the enemy. Putting what little concentration they have into steering, the RokkitBoyz don't have time to operate any long range weaponry. However, upon reaching their target, the RokkitBoyz plough into them at top speed, wildly swinging choppas and spraying Shoota fire at anything that gets in their way. This kamikaze-esque (sp?) charge has given the RokkitBoyz a formidable reputation, and their attacks have broken the lines of many opponents.


Here is my initial datafile:

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Type: INF ? ? Speed: 35cm ? ? Armour 6+ ? ? CC 4+ ? ? FF 6+

Weapons:
Shootas (15cm) Small Arms
Choppas (base contact) Assault Weapons

Notes: Jump Packs

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Changes from regular Stormboyz:

+5cm move - Purely a Speed Freek trait. Crazed speed-hungry Orks strapped to huge rokkits, it seemed logical. :D Not really a necessary addition, but fits with the feeling I wanted to give the unit.


Removal of Scouts ability - since they aren't disciplined like the Stormboyz, the Rokkitboyz cannot operate as such. Taking away this ability represents this quite well. I was considering removing the Jump Packs ability (without removing the Packs themselves ?:oo ), as this would represent their rather haphazard approach to Rokkit control, making dodging dangerous terrain a "bit tricky". :D


Unit size: 8 (not too certain about this until I playtest them.) And limiting 0-1 (possibly 0-2) per army.


Any feedback or comments is appreciated. They're made purely as a non-tourney formation, so I havn't considered points cost yet, but any thoughts on this are also welcome. Thanks in advance.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:00 am 
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You should add a note that on a failed intiative roll, they shoot off in a random direction D6 cm.  :)   That would Really show the lack of control.  Otherwise, looks good.

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Yep adds to the overall feel of the list too... good rule iblisdrax

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Hi,

I was trying to think of someway I could do similar, but couldn't think of a way to implement it. Thanks Iblisdrax, I'll add that to the unit as a special rule. I've got a game planned for this weekend, so I shall give them their first airing. :)

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Well, I played a short game of Necromunda last week, and we had a Wyrd that succumbed to Chaos and changed into a Demon.  Horrifying!  You just cant kill those things.  It finally left of its own will.  Anyhow, back to the subject, it moved via the random roll thing like I mentioned above.

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