Evil and Chaos wrote:
Athmospheric wrote:
Hum, I am maybe alone in this, but "skinnerz" is rather evocative of more sadistic tendency aliens to me. In Grandma Wendy Lands, that would sound like Dark eldars, or possibly chaos cults. The name in itself is good, and obviously funny for those "in the know", but I'd reserve it for another faction.
What GW does with its factions and background is entirely their own concern.
Our naked gorillas can enjoy skinning their enemies if they want to!
Of course you are not GW. But the orcoid figure still has "traditional" associations, which predates GW quite a bit. I was only referring GW as they use clear-cut archetypes that everyone here knows, but Blizzards Orcs, Mantics games marauders, shadowrun orcs, etc, all tend to portray orc-like creatures as a warrior/raider culture, rather than one of torturers and sadists. I understand the need to differentiate from GW, but really this is not a GW thing, and archetypes gets established for a reason.
I suspect going against these archetypes may put off or disorient newcommers. It is confusing that the miniature use the visual identity of an established sci-fi archetype (muscular, hunched, ape-like proportions, pillagers, ragtag gear, etc), then the background is clashing with it.
At least that's my feeling. I'd like the background to be relatively consistent and interesting, not only taccomers joke. In the end, the result might just be for the name to be substituted for another - not ending up that different. While the joke is good and the name sounds good too, it just isn't for these aliens I think.
