basically think Warmahordes cards but with epic stuff instead of warmahordes stuff, I'd want them to look really nice with artwork and background and nice fonts too personally
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| Author: | kyussinchains [ Thu Aug 06, 2015 8:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | War Engine cards |
so I've recently gotten into warmahordes and one of the things that struck me as a great transferable idea, was the idea of unit cards for the bigger warbeasts/jacks, on it there is a nice picture, a weapon summary and an area at the bottom for tracking damage and effects I was wondering if anyone has already made something like this for epic? I think having a smallish card (~A6) at the table edge for each war engine to keep track of shields, damage, single shot, slow fire, crit effects etc would help reduce the clutter that can sometimes build up on the main table, if you laminated the cards then you could use dry-erase markers to mark damage and shields, you could have ones with blank weapon fields for AMTL/OGBM etc so you could write the weapon loadouts in I'm going to have a crack at this but before I do, I wanted to check if anyone else already done something similar so I don't waste my time |
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| Author: | jimmyzimms [ Thu Aug 06, 2015 12:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
Nope but good idea. You going silhouettes similar to the old 2nd edition cards? Each unit should be slightly custom but yeah common items like DC and crit marks are obvious.Some others only make sense for specificunits, like immobilized gorgons. Might as well put a spot for the name as well and perhaps to note characters. There's someone doing new NetEpic cards from scratch that probably would share content with you if asked, I suspect. Might want to ping them. |
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| Author: | kyussinchains [ Thu Aug 06, 2015 12:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
basically think Warmahordes cards but with epic stuff instead of warmahordes stuff, I'd want them to look really nice with artwork and background and nice fonts too personally reference:
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| Author: | mordoten [ Thu Aug 06, 2015 12:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
Didn't IJW do cards for his plaguehounds and such? |
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| Author: | jimmyzimms [ Thu Aug 06, 2015 12:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
Never seen those before. Very nicely done. I'm thinking some FW artwork might be falling in your laptop soon  Give me a ping for some stuff you can use. |
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| Author: | gunslinger007 [ Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
I like the idea. Agreed it could serve as an effective way to clean up some of the tokens that end up on the table. Excited to see where you take this. |
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| Author: | kyussinchains [ Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
here's a very early WIP of the cards I'm working on, they will be intended to be printed 4 to an A4 page (sorry americans) I'll stick the template up when I'm a bit further along so people can customise their own 
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| Author: | Onyx [ Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
Fantastic stuff mate, very cool. |
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| Author: | kyussinchains [ Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
glad you like it also thanks for not pointing out that a volcano cannon is actually 90cm range
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| Author: | Onyx [ Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
I was waiting for you to realise... yeah that sounds good! 
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| Author: | mordoten [ Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
Looks really nice!! |
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| Author: | Kyrt [ Fri Aug 21, 2015 3:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
Yep have thought about this myself but way too lazy. Would be cool to have photos of your actual miniatures - of course that would also be a way to have consistent cards even when you don't have any artwork for the unit. |
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| Author: | kyussinchains [ Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
Kyrt wrote: Yep have thought about this myself but way too lazy. Would be cool to have photos of your actual miniatures - of course that would also be a way to have consistent cards even when you don't have any artwork for the unit. well as I said, I'll release the template so people can put whatever pictures they like on them... I'm planning on doing this for the common titans/gargants, then will make some more with blank weapon slots so people can fill them out, Apoc also suggested doing some skeleton templates if people just want to print them out and chuck them away in the recycling when they're done I know the bottom one isn't even in the same league as the sample one earlier, but hey I'm using word and I've got zero experience of graphic design.... hopefully I can make them nice enough that people will want to use them
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| Author: | atension [ Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
These are fantastic |
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| Author: | gunslinger007 [ Sat Aug 22, 2015 3:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: War Engine cards |
Great work Kyuss! That looks nice and clean. |
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