LOL !!!!!!!!!!!! Many Thanks, "pay not attention to what's behind the curtain" ... No those are packs of minis in the painting que ! Since I'm semi-retired, I'm painting my massive amount of 6mm Sci-fi minis ALL the time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of the reasons I have not bought any Onslaught ... YET ...

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I'd say that their big drawback would simply be their numbers - they should always be outnumbered, but each warrior should be like ironman.

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Great intel ! I've seen the Aqua alien vehicles before ... and they are not too bad ... But ... Deacon can probably do something more Toad/Frog like-ish ...

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Remember if you follow "ancient astronaut" theory(s) ... The region, which the Assyrians lived in [modern day Northern Iraq] ... Their "Gods" in the ancient Mesopotamia/Sumeria region were the Annunaki from the planet Nebiru http://andromida.hubpages.com/hub/annunaki ... And they were drawn as winged upright humanoids with bird heads ... or Reptilian ... http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ann ... &FORM=IGRE just FYI ... Some food for thought when designing "new" alien races ... Of course I like the Frog/Toad man idea completely ...

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

I've drawn up some concepts that I will scan in later tonight - I think you guys will dig it - think humanoid froggies in ornante armor ala the big star gate thugs, only with an aztec style...

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I like it !!!!!! I'm a big star gate fan !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

When you see pictures of real life frgos, they're almost always relaxed hunched down. Backlegs folded, ready to jump away from danger at an instant.

Maybe you could design the Tzacol as hunched, like they look they're motionless. But their movement is always teleport. So when they move, it's FWOOOOSH at long distance further, suddenly.

Advanced races won't use legs for motion. They teleport!

To make them have a negative effect, they might need to recharge their backlegs-jump-teleport-engine...

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I agree - they should "hop" through space time. They get a movement rate like everything else, but ignore all terrain when "moving"

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Hi!

Looking forward to them!

Primarch

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One thing, If the Tzacol rely on teleportation for movement and have done so for millenia, then evolution would dictate that their legs would be underdeveloped. At least compared to frogs. It's even a possibility that they should on general be physically retarded, while mentaly brilliant... Hutts spring to mind

Hi!

I would think the ruling caste would be like that, since their powerful minds would do most task and menial task wold be done by drones or a lesser caste that could even be used as shock troops.

The "hutts" slug like form would be real cool on the "boss" models.

Primarch

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Yeah,

I see four ways they would do battle.

Through genetically engeneered clones.
Through battlefield drones, controlled from afar or from a on table drone controller.
Through interfacing their minds with various warmachines piloting them.
Through mercenaries.

Or a mix of all four

Would depend on how long a generation cycle is for them. From the suggested background, I get the idea that they live for many hundreds, if not thousands of years, and that they probably have low to zero population growth, suggesting new generations don't come around that often, so millennia for them might be no more than a few hundred years for us. I mean, you have to go back quite a few millennia on earth to find significant physical differences in humans.

Basically, while you have a valid point, there is enough wiggle room in the premise that I don't think deacon needs to do it if he doesn't want to.

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Hey guys! Here's some concept sketches I came up with a possible grunt armor design in a couple of color schemes:







Whatcha think??

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Hi!

I like how the armor looks. It's quite distinctive and very close to what my minds eye imagined they'd look like.

I would say the facial features should be a tad more "bulbous", but that a detail best left to the modelling phase.

Primarch

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