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    EMMachine

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    3 minutes ago, Gecktron said:

    How about you just change the "yellow" part of your name?
    Order of the Amber Rose has more or less the same  ring to it. A quick google search told me nothing like this exists at the moment (besides that one celebrity Amber Rose but I dont think anybody would confuse these two). Alternatively: Order of the golden rose? 

    So the rose itself would still be yellow but called in another way?

    On twitter I got those as suggestions:

    Order of Pure Water, Order of the Crystal Lake, Order of the Verdant Cycle

    The first two are sounding more like something for Bretonnia (in the third case I don't know if it is spelled wrong.)

    EMMachine

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    So, that nobody is wondering. I corrected the way the pictures were implemented here. There was an error by drag & drop the picture in, the Picture got clinched horrizonaly if the window was smaller instead of resizing it to the smaller size. I didn't realized it at first because most of the time there wouldn't be a resolution that small (only in case of Smartphones)

    On 6/5/2018 at 1:02 AM, awcamawn said:

    Awesome! The green manes on the stags turned out especially well, nice!

    It's actually a nice thing for a fantasy world, that flora and fauna don't have to use realistic colors. ?

     

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    Melcavuk

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    1 hour ago, Melcavuk said:

     

    Cheers, a few of these things lingered on my mind as I wrote them, hence the need for feedback

    For the Chargers its literally the clone of Stormcast Pallador scrolls at the moment, the boltstorm pistol has merely been renamed to a short bow since I wasnt fond of boltstorm for an Aelf. When I alter the scrolls it'll become more unique arrow types for the bow and a short range stabby spear instead (The palladors do indeed get 3 shooting attacks with different weapons)

    I was trying to find a decent name for the blades for the gladeshards, you're right the skinners knife sounds wrong but bsically looking at a short sword designed to pierce the the toughest hide and cleave the heart from mighty beasts.

    For the To Wound stat on gladeshards I looked at current decent archer battleline (Judicators at this point) in terms of hitting and wounding, then made them a little worse (armour, no fancy bow on sergeant etc). Having played with and against shadow warriors they tend to feel lacklustre in terms of output for "elites" compared to the Judicators as troops.

    Hm, the Problem with the gladeshards is, you compared them with units of the size of Kurnoth Hunters or Blood Stalkers (these are the units Judicators with there 40mm Base could be compared at best). Monstrous Infantry stat normally has 3-5 Models for the cost.

    The right comparisson are Shadow Warriors, Sisters of the Watch, Gladeguard, Namarti Reavers( these are quite similar to Shadow Warriors). To Wound on 3+ you often need something like a Grandsword/Grandhammer/Grandaxe etc. I have seen many profiles for aelfs and most of the time 3+/4+ is the best you get if you don't have a Grandweapon (in that case it's often 3+/3+/-1)

    In case of the Chargers. A short bow with 9" doesn't fit. That the range of a Repeater Handbow of the Black arc Corsairs (and those have 5+/4+ as rolls.)

    There are two points with the Javelins. Stormcast Eternals are some sort of "Supersoldier". They are the only units that can throw a Javelin 18". Every other unit I know has 9" (Sisters of the Thorn, Chaos Marauder Horsemen or  a Icebrow Hunter throws his Throwing Spear for example) or at best 12" in case of the Khinerai Heartrenders. It's looks like your guys are a little on steroids.

    Another thing is the plausibility. A shockbolt pistole is some sort of Repeater crossbow. This thing could be fired with one hand, while Throwing the Javelin with the other one (even it is also not the best design in case of the Palladors). Your "shortbows" that normally should be some sort of bow, like the other units in your army have does need both hands (1 holding the Bow and 1 holding the arrow). Do they really have the time to throw a Javelin in between.

    Melcavuk

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    Quite interesting warscrolls. So I'm not the only one, who considers to harness deers in front of a chariot.

    Didn't checked anything, but I'm a little wondering about some things:

    For some reason, the Skinners Knife of the of the Gladeshards seems a little strong. A knife/dagger that wounds better than a sword. I mean, we have Sisters of the Watch and Shadow Warriors at the high end of Archers but non of them are wounding on 3+.

    In case of the chargers I think there is something wrong with shortbow and javelin (and why do they need both? Shooting 3 shots in the shooting phase with 2 weapons. How about the shortbow for shooting and a spear for close combat?

    EMMachine

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    12 hours ago, Nick907 said:

    Good conversions! I'm working on female Wild Riders too!

    Thanks. Do you have some pictures of them?

    Those conversions were actually quite easy. The Dear and most of the body are actually from the Sisters of the Thorn, the Head is from Sisters of the Watch. The Spears, Shields and left arms holding the shields are from the Windriders (I cut of the arm from the wildriders Body). Lukyly I had some spare Bodyparts from making my Lion Cavalry because the Champions body, holding the weapon in front of him, got me a little in trouble with the hair of the Sisters of the Watch head.

    Actually a nice thing for my project is (after having a look into the new Generals Handbook), that Sisters of the Watch and Wildriders get a little cheaper ?

    EMMachine

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    9 hours ago, awcamawn said:

    Very cool, the Sisters of the Watch heads look great on them, hadn't thought of that...

    I agree the shield suit the models well, too bad there's no rules for them anymore.

    We have to see, if there will be a Warscroll Update some time. Actually don't know why they dropped the shields (even in the oldest compendium there was no option for a shield)

    If you want to see some really cool Reaver conversions (Sisters of the Watch on Deers) you have to see @Melcavuk Post in "The Suneater Tribes"

     

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    EMMachine

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    On 5/30/2018 at 10:29 AM, MrZakalwe said:

    I quite like the godbeast angle here as it's something cool GW created then dropped to go describe more stormcast battles (the god beats book is misnamed, sadly). So your Lore has the Lion Rangers as an almost shamanistic order that primarily reveres Korhil the Ur-Lion and his children. There's a lot of room there for fun schisms and treachery.

    Beats the current Lore of 'Aelves who like Lions and Axes'.

    I would say it's some sort of cult (actually I would see somethink like that for Phoenix Temple, too and lexicanum mentioned the "Ur-Phoenix" as a speculative Godbeast). I don't know what GW is planing, but I think a being with knowledge of the world that was and former leader of such a group, collecting lost souls and creating the first cult that way sounds more plausible than "hey, here was a bubble were some aelfs survived".

    And I left room, that there could be multiple Aelf cultures having such cults, represented by the rainbow mane.

    Do you mean the Novel or the campaign Book. Haven't read the Novel yet, but the campaign book featured Argentine the Silver Wyrm, Behemat the World Titan, Dracothion the Great Drake and Ignax the Solar Drake (okay the drakes were also part of All-Gates)

    20 hours ago, Lavieth said:

    Very cool and intriguing take on Korhil and the origins of the Lion Rangers. As a fan of the faction (and your battletome) I like this addition of creativity. It's sorely needed. 

    Keep up the great stories. They are highly enjoyable. 

    Thanks, where are your Lion Rangers coming from?

    I have to see, what faction will get new stories next. I still have Stormcast Eternal Stories that aren't translated, yet and also a Story that mixed of Frostaelf, Fyreaelf and Shadowaelf characters (also not translated yet).

    I really hope the wording is good enough because english isn't my first language (and most stories are written in german first and than translated).

    EMMachine

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    2 hours ago, Gecktron said:

    Great story! Having Korhil reincarnate as a great lion fits the style of the Mortal Realms. I also like that you incorporated the concept of God beasts, they are way too underused at the moment.

    But I have to admit, the thought of rainbow colored lions made me chuckle a bit.

    Do you plan on writing about the organization of these lion cults?

    I think it would fit better than making Korhil a living aelf (after dying in the endtimes). It's strange that we didn't hear much about the godbeasts after the endtimes, but I think it would make the world more interesting if we have gods and godbeasts.

    Perhaps I should try to draw him (even I'm not a good drawer, and only having 5 times of lions in the story (and use one of them in this project).

    do you mean the organisation of one subgroup or all of them? Normally, for the fanmade battletome I will have to make some organisation description. One problem is, I don't know what GW is planning so this effort could be wasted at the end (even this is a problem in tabletop all the time).

    EMMachine

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    Okay, today was the contest in Wiesbaden and it was a fail in my case.

    Have the pictures in the following link

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/eXIibQiu70GTKSbH3

    At the end. 86 People voted and I finished last place (with about 1 or 2 votes for my warqueen) :(.

    Third place was a Lord Ordinator with a Seraphon Head (Entry 3)

    Second place was another Warqueen (entry 4)

    End winner were actually 2 models. a Knight of Shrouds (Entry 7) and the Cave Shaman (Entry 8)

    The point that frustrated me the most is, that a model that was only basecolored actually got more votes. O.o

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    EMMachine

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    So, I ask yesterday if multiple entries in the contest are possible.

    It's not the case, so after I had chosen the Warqueen (after painting Nurgle Daemons in Part 1), I have to see how she will end in the contest (actually there are 6 entries listed for saturday).

    16 hours ago, Realms_walker85 said:

    Love the deisgn man. I agree. Like the Hammers but my heart went to the celestial vindicators. Like painting good sons of horus :)

    Again, great job :)

    I really didn't thought that Celestial Vindicators had that many followers. (Okay they are the third most used Stormhost in Fluff after Hammers of Sigmar and Hallowed Knights until the realmgate Wars).

    On 27.2.2018 at 10:35 AM, MortarchCapa said:

    Could not agree more! There's such a rich lore of the whole world and sticking to gold can seem....boring? Ive just started a Stormcast army and have done a couple of tester models for mine. Currently Im liking the Knights of the Tempest. 

    IMG_2407.jpg

    Nice bluemetallic look. Actually not sure about the Retributor, if the trim of the armourplates perhaps should be silver/metallic instead of the same blue as the armour itself. It would give him a little more contrast.

    Stevewren

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    I actually started one of my projects as a Thread, and made a Blog with the same name later. The mainpoint was, that I wanted a place to show miniatures, some stories I wrote and perhaps some games I made (even I don't play much because I don't have a group). I simply had the feeling that "Painting and Modeling" wasn't the right place for all of that.

    I actually like the blog function, because it's easier to follow because if you know who made the blog you can open it by looking in his profile , while you need the search function to find a Thread

    And each Entry is seperate so it's possible to comment on an entry that was posted months ago. Try this on a Thread that has new entries already.

    EMMachine

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    5 hours ago, Moonlightwolf said:

    Your photo's aren't loading for me, not sure if its a problem with my pc or your photo host.

    Is it only this entry or all my pictues in my blogs? I use my google account with shared albums for my pictures. Don't know if it helps but here is the link to the album, where the pictures for this project are: https://goo.gl/photos/j6fgm5gLaY8bCJy66

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