So as Techno can testify to I sent him many PM's annoying him as to when the Flodden range was appearing so I could get some for Warband, and it was mentioned in another post that he will be working on the Dragonman range soon
Could we get a basic idea of historical period that they will be based on at all?
Cheers
It's going to be a bit of a mishmash of different periods and styles but we've not discussed it just yet. I'll be having a chat with Steve Hardy to get his input and then me and Phil will work it out. There's a whole host of options, the Flodden style stuff we've just done, earlier Medieval, Rohan or Gondor types, GoT Starks or Lannisters, the list goes on and on!
Personally I'd prefer something not quite as historically accurate, but not as far as GW's massive swords, pointy helmets and skulls everywhere...
Phew!
Quote from: Leon on 14 October 2015, 11:30:12 PM
Personally I'd prefer something not quite as historically accurate, but not as far as GW's massive swords, pointy helmets and skulls everywhere...
I concur. ;)
The Dragonmen were designed with an eye on the 'traditional' D&D style sort-of-late-Medieval stuff (with a mental lingering around the Dragonlance imagery), which would fit well with Pendraken's historical figure range, and also mesh closely with 'fantasy men' from many other ranges.
As with all the armies in the book though, they've purposely avoiding being too prescriptive about appearance, in order to give players the space to let their imaginations run wild.
So, '
There's a whole host of options, the Flodden style stuff we've just done, earlier Medieval, Rohan or Gondor types, GoT Starks or Lannisters' gets my vote. :D
In terms of bespoke sculpts, i'd really like to see the dragon theme coming through strongly.
With riders on big flying dragons with large wings, that could be used for Melniboneans please?
cheers
Ian
And how about an inspiration in orlanthis of Glorantha setting
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?634801-King-of-Dragon-Pass
http://kingofdragonpass.wikia.com/wiki/Special:NewFiles
I am NOT making men with ****ing duck beaks on them ! ;)
(Unless I'm ordered to.......But then I'll make the cost prohibitive. :P)
Cheers - Phil :D
:D
Lewis - MEN WITH DUCK BEAKS NOW !!!!!!!!!
IanS >:( >:( >:( :d
GO AWAY, Ian. ;)
I've got a few ideas for the 'Dragon theme'.....Whether they'll work at this size....... :-\
Think I'll start with the mages.......But there won't be any duck beaks ANYWHERE. :P
Cheers - Phil
Poultry decision.
Quackers! :)
I don't think your ideas on Dragonmen is quite right yet, Techno. Perhaps a few more months contemplation before you put Dremmel to flesh.
Why don't you make some nice Korean War infantry, or Warsaw Pact, or Napoleonic somethings instead? While you're thinking. Eh? Makes sense.
Give it a few months. After Christmas would be OK for Dragonmen. Christmas 2016. But you want to get it right. Better not to rush.
Korean War now, doesn't take thinking about at all. Oh look! Here's a handy illustration!
(http://www.diggerhistory.info/images/enemy/enemy-korea.jpg)
Eider the mallardy lingers on, or it doesn't - FSN
Modern stuff would be too much of a distraction. What he needs is something more fantastical. An army with weird non-metallic weapons, exotic costumes resembling anthropomorphic animals, blood sacrifices, winged serpents ... I believe one of the forum members mentioned a South American army a little like that, though I don't think he's too fussed if it gets made or not, he hardly ever mentions it ;)
Quote from: Techno on 16 October 2015, 07:33:31 PM
GO AWAY, Ian. ;)
But there won't be any duck beaks ANYWHERE. :P
Cheers - Phil
NOI can shout louder than you ;)IanS
Quote from: Ithoriel on 17 October 2015, 01:17:59 AM
Modern stuff would be too much of a distraction. What he needs is something more fantastical. An army with weird non-metallic weapons, exotic costumes resembling anthropomorphic animals, blood sacrifices, winged serpents ... I believe one of the forum members mentioned a South American army a little like that, though I don't think he's too fussed if it gets made or not, he hardly ever mentions it ;)
I'm nervous that if I do, someone will produce a range of Mallard Warriors just out of spite!
(http://cdn.static.ovimg.com/episode/300745.jpg)
I feel that soon, I may be forced to abuse the facility that allows me to modify other peoples' posts. :P ;)
Cheers - Phil
Got a good libel lawyer ???
IanS :D
More Knights Ducky !!
Ian,
Shouldn't that be:
More Knights, ducky?
What's the big idea!?
Quote from: Techno on 17 October 2015, 10:33:52 AM
I feel that soon, I may be forced to abuse the facility that allows me to modify other peoples' posts.
Sorry, what? ;D
See.....I've changed your change to my quote.....(Says - Phil :P)
To paraphrase a certain car manufacturer misquote, 'you can make any figures you want as long as they're Dragonmen'. :D
Quote from: Tawa on 17 October 2015, 12:05:50 PM
Sorry, what? ;D
See.....I've changed your change to my quote.....(Says - Phil :P)
Touche! ;D
;)...... ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Hey it's Fantasy,
Why not Duck men we have Ratmen and walking skeletons! :D :D
Read .........My .........Lips .........
;)
If we ordered armoured ducks as a private range how much would the bill be?
If you refuse to do armoured ducks could you sculpt a monstrous range of half duck half feline figures. Some sort of Duck billed puttied puss
Thanks
X_X
Are you trying to 'out oik' Nobby, Steve ? ;)
Cheers - Phil
Face it, Phil isn't going to give you duckmen.
Not even an ordinary duck - standing, swimming or flying!
Nope, he just doesn't give a flying duck :d :d :d :d :d
Where's the Chief Coat Chewer, when you need him ? X_X
Cheers - Phil ;)
Runequest used to have armoured ducks.
(http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/applelane.jpg)
I think their favourite weapon was a polearm of some kind ... not a pike ... nor a halberd ... it had a hook ... and a pointy bit ... now what was it called?
I liked armoured ducks. Can we have armoured ducks? Only things they were scared of was orange sauce.
I think duck men would be an ideal opponent for Dragon men.
When the Dragons toast them you will have crispy duck, all you need is some pancakes and some hoi sin sauce. Yum Yum :D
My one and only Runequest character was a duck warrior - I still have the figure - great fun to play but every time the party wound up in a tavern I got stuck with the bill :D
My first ever RQ character was killed by a duck
Beshrew me ! X_X
Cheers - Phil
Are you offering armoured shrews, Techno?
Novel.
(http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRxqFQoTCMjUquDB0MgCFYwTGgodAXcCzg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.giantitp.com%2Fforums%2Farchive%2Findex.php%2Ft-182689.html&psig=AFQjCNHw2UGJiI54ZlrZS6IvqDiToJdnBg&ust=1445412028067189)
So that's Shrews, Ducks, Koreans and then Dragons.
Quote from: fsn on 20 October 2015, 08:22:26 AM
Are you offering armoured shrews, Techno?
Novel.
(http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRxqFQoTCMjUquDB0MgCFYwTGgodAXcCzg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.giantitp.com%2Fforums%2Farchive%2Findex.php%2Ft-182689.html&psig=AFQjCNHw2UGJiI54ZlrZS6IvqDiToJdnBg&ust=1445412028067189)
So that's Shrews, Ducks, Koreans and then Dragons.
As a Shrewsbury Town fan...
FSN your picture link no works!
ARMOURED MEN WITH DUKW BILLS NOW NOW NOW.
IanS ;)
Where did I put the raw steak for Nobby ?
IanS
Quote from: Ithoriel on 19 October 2015, 10:52:24 PM
My one and only Runequest character was a duck warrior - I still have the figure - great fun to play but every time the party wound up in a tavern I got stuck with the bill :D
Words fail me.... :D
Going back to RQ wasn't it in first edition where duck characters were more susceptible to disease and poison?
The ones we met on my our adventures always seemed to have some sort of mallardy
Quote from: mad lemmey on 20 October 2015, 08:30:35 AM
FSN your picture link no works!
Apologies
(https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOhTGum9UFxaL4x9Har1bucusOGTbataGBlZDJKCQNqrgZncIy)
Give me strength ! X_X
Cheers - Phil
Strength to make shrew archers?
Shrew pikemen?
Shrew cavalry on frogs?
Light vole auxilliaries?
Water shrew marines?
Mouse ninja?
Duck infantry with the long pole arm thingies ... like a glaive ... partizan ... hookie-endy-thing ...
Oh dear! I think I may have broken Techno!
Could we just have a Tales of the Riverbank army instead?
As a suggestion could we start with this sort of Command structure?
The bravest animals in the land are Captain Beaky and his band
That's Timid Toad, Reckless Rat, Artful Owl and Batty Bat
They march through the woodlands singing songs
that tell how they have righted wrongs.
Fenton:
Isn't tales of the River Bank Hammy Hamster et al?
It is. But he could wear a duck fancy dress outfit and get away with it I think
With his bill pike weapon give him a padded jacket (A.K.A. Chinese Korean War) and he could be a Peking Duck
Regards
Sean
;D ;D
Hoi! Sin!
Quote from: Sean67 on 20 October 2015, 07:03:44 PM
With his bill pike weapon give him a padded jacket (A.K.A. Chinese Korean War) and he could be a Peking Duck
Regards
Sean
;D ;D
Great idea . A real plum of an idea in fact
Quote from: Fenton on 20 October 2015, 05:56:53 PM
Could we just have a Tales of the Riverbank army instead?
NO !...... :P
Though there
are a couple of tiny creatures on a couple of the new 'Runestones'.
('Spose I
could always put a duck on the Runestone for the Dragonmen.......In your dreams.)
Quote from: fsn on 20 October 2015, 05:36:13 PM
Oh dear! I think I may have broken Techno!
I'm perfectly capable of doing that myself, thank you, Nobby !
X_X
Cheers - Phil
If we all request Duck men repeatedly on the request list it will get to the top.
Then the Dark Lord will say "Let there be Duck men" He will raise his right arm point at Techno and say " what I have commanded YOU WILL MAKE"
And Techno knowing that The Dark Lord is right in all things will Turn to his bench, his Dremel and his putty and maketh that which the Dark Lord hath commanded.
If Techno transgresses and refuses the rightful commands of the Dark Lord, The Dark Lord will go to the one who has The One Ring of Power ( All hail M'lady). In her righteous wrath she will turn to Techno and her fearsome voice will boom out saying " YOU REFUSE TO DO THE BIDDING OF THE DARK LORD, HOW DARE YOU BE SO INSOLENT. DO HIS BIDDING OR I WILL CAUSE A CURSE TO FALL UPON YOU AND YOU WILL SHOVEL PILES OF HORSE SH*T FOR ETERNITY. "
And Techno will fall to his knees begging for forgiveness, and Duck Men will be made in all the forms commanded by the Dark Lord.
You forgot the "...and there will be much wailing and lamenting unto the tenth generation" bit.
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 20 October 2015, 11:22:45 PM
If we all request Duck men repeatedly on the request list it will get to the top.
Then the Dark Lord will say "Let there be Duck men" He will raise his right arm point at Techno and say " what I have commanded YOU WILL MAKE"
And Techno knowing that The Dark Lord is right in all things will Turn to his bench, his Dremel and his putty and maketh that which the Dark Lord hath commanded.
If Techno transgresses and refuses the rightful commands of the Dark Lord, The Dark Lord will go to the one who has The One Ring of Power ( All hail M'lady). In her righteous wrath she will turn to Techno and her fearsome voice will boom out saying " YOU REFUSE TO DO THE BIDDING OF THE DARK LORD, HOW DARE YOU BE SO INSOLENT. DO HIS BIDDING OR I WILL CAUSE A CURSE TO FALL UPON YOU AND YOU WILL SHOVEL PILES OF HORSE SH*T FOR ETERNITY. "
And Techno will fall to his knees begging for forgiveness, and Duck Men will be made in all the forms commanded by the Dark Lord.
I wonder whether a certain forum member (no names, no duck bill...but a lot of chewed coats) also had a hand in that prose. :-\
Cheers - Mr Suspicious. ;)
Not at all ... but I'm so proud! :'( :'( :'(
If we all put pressure on for Duck men, do you think Techno will quack? - FSN
Sigh ! X_X
Cheers - Phil
I'd buy Ducks. I'd buy the heck outta ducks. THUNDER DUCKS HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
You'd be quackers not to.
I refer the honourable member to my previous reply. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Ducks Ducks Ducks Ducks Ducks Ducks wonderful DUCKS. and yet MORE Ducks
IanS
Got t'idea yert Lewis.......or is I just yoking.
:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Leave me alone ! (Sob !)
Cheers - Phil
NO
IanS :D
Ian, play nice or you'll drive him to quackery!
(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/6/67602/2353985-marvel_zombies_5023.jpg)
(http://www.crackingace.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/daffy-duck-robin-hood.jpg)
Personality figures! :D
techno!
http://www.swamp.com.au/images/army_ducks_page.jpg
https://ohmars.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/bucky_ohare_dead_eye_duck_acc.jpg
It is Fantasy after all.
Regards
Sean :D :D
I'm after Thunder Ducks, tbh.
http://kingofdragonpass.wikia.com/wiki/Ducks (http://kingofdragonpass.wikia.com/wiki/Ducks)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=orlanth+thunder+duck&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1440&bih=799&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMI6oqvr9fVyAIVx7oaCh3yfAgr (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=orlanth+thunder+duck&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1440&bih=799&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMI6oqvr9fVyAIVx7oaCh3yfAgr)
(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/kingofdragonpass/images/c/c0/DuckWarriors.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130316014657)
Quote from: Techno on 21 October 2015, 07:29:09 AM
I wonder whether a certain forum member (no names, no duck bill...but a lot of chewed coats) also had a hand in that prose. :-\
Cheers - Mr Suspicious. ;)
That was all my own work.
To think I would need a pill popping Nobby to put together my posts !!!!! :o :o
I am so miffed by this suggestion I have put a request into the Requests section
Quote from: toxicpixie on 21 October 2015, 10:49:23 AM
I'd buy Ducks. I'd buy the heck outta ducks. THUNDER DUCKS HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
You'd be quackers not to.
Could we have an ACW dressed duck sitting on a thunderbox?
Sorry....ACW is one of my colleague's territory.....You'll have to ask him. :P
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 22 October 2015, 04:34:50 PM
To think I would need a pill popping Nobby to put together my posts !!!!! :o :o
You obviously speak to him too often......He's influencing you, Mark. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
BREAKING NEWS... BREAKING NEWS....
Leaked footage from Pendraken HQ shows Techno starting to get ready to sculpt the dragon.
http://youtu.be/FHuXSZv6Tqs
I call that 'method sculpting'.
(You had to show me with all those zits, didn't you, Will ?
Cheers - Phil
I want to see the one where he did the duckmen!!!!!
You complete and utter Oik, Nobby ! ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
THought we'd agreed it was OINK these days.
WHERE ARE THE DUWKS You may recognise the feline derived tatcis here about those A***tcs
IanS ;)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 03 November 2015, 07:46:08 AM
WHERE ARE THE DUWKS
Hazard County, the last time I saw.
Cheers - Roscoe
P Coltrane. ;)