UNIT PREVIEW AND DISCUSSION - Gahurchlai Campaign

**Squeaks** · January 19, 2012, 08:40 AM

Right...'ello all

I started a new unit preview thread for this....this post will be filled slowly with many of the units for the smaller campaign we're working on; the Tale of The Ghaurchlai Wars, or the 'Starfall Genocide' as some scholars know it.

This will include units for the campaign, some of which represent a faction that's no longer 'around' in the main campaign, and will mostly included in the main campaign, but not totally. I'll post new threads for other aspects of the campaign too, to explain properly what it's about.

Anyway, I will show what's done possibly soon. First a teaser of the Khezdruli faction - unfinbished, as the body underneath the exo-armour needs redoing, but you'll get the idea. I won't name it yet, but it's not a fancy unit as such, it just hurts a lot. I call it my armoured Doozer.

I'll come back and delete some of this and make proper entries soon.

**Ciciro** · January 19, 2012, 02:08 PM

Great job on the chest plate.

**Squeaks** · January 19, 2012, 02:46 PM

Well, I finshed em and bunged em ingame...the Kala-Tudreth, or 'Eternal Watch'. I will write a thingy about them laterer...

Tell me if these are too small...I think I've set my upload size wrong...

**Kaiser Leonidas** · January 19, 2012, 03:23 PM

I guess you mean the picture size, if so then it looks fine to me

And the Kala-Tudreth look even better in-game

**Conqistador** · January 19, 2012, 08:04 PM

They are looking like dwarves in their height, the rest is excellent!

**HTVfanatic** · January 19, 2012, 08:47 PM

Hey, looks great! nice job

These are dwarves right?

**BanditKS** · January 22, 2012, 05:16 PM

they look great in game! cant wait to see more.

**Squeaks** · January 23, 2012, 03:37 AM

Ta Bandit...! Am working on them now.

Yep HTV, they're Dwarves

SHould have shown them fighting some 'big folk' really.

BTW Conquistador, your units look really good!

**paradamed** · January 24, 2012, 08:42 AM

They have some nice heavy armour. They are like some dragonborn abrahams tanks.

**Squeaks** · January 25, 2012, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by paradamed

They have some nice heavy armour. They are like some dragonborn abrahams tanks.

Several units will be equipped with similar mail, and the breastplate will feature strongly, but altered - the unit I'm about to show has a similar thingy, but you'll find the Dwarves LOVE colour coding their mail - this is largely because it means they use difference metals, which issue differing challenges to the makers, and they also like to colour code their soldiers simply because their daylight eye-sight is fairly poor, but reacts well to colours, especially those of metals, to which they have a strong affinity.

Also, generally, they see things like fabrics, which feature strongly elsewhere as an un-necessary pain; they don't sew or knit or make fabrics en-masse, as other races, and what they do for those they wear day to day is largely bought from elves. In their stone homes, the rocks are heated and they tend to wear a type of silk woven by Gnomes from underground insectoid creatures the far-wanderers herd.

NOTE: If Gnome is confusing you, it's a machine that is an automaton, programmed as such to do a task, normally fairly simply, although are vastly complex of course. The fabric weaving Gnomes are about 1 foot tall, with extended arms and various tools on wheel-arms thatspin at a rate that allows the cutting and spinning to take place at speed and great accuracy.

**The Holy Pilgrim** · January 25, 2012, 05:30 PM

These guys look incredible!

**Ciciro** · January 26, 2012, 06:37 AM

Great job!

**paradamed** · January 27, 2012, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by Squeaks

Several units will be equipped with similar mail, and the breastplate will feature strongly, but altered - the unit I'm about to show has a similar thingy, but you'll find the Dwarves LOVE colour coding their mail - this is largely because it means they use difference metals, which issue differing challenges to the makers

I liked this idea!

**Squeaks** · January 29, 2012, 05:14 AM

Originally Posted by The Holy Pilgrim

These guys look incredible!

Thanks. Dwarvies SHOULD be pretty cool really. I've spent a long time trying to think of a decent way to do them, and I think that the 'tank' type look is the best. I think the Dwarves in DB are pretty odd, and they're not hugely concerned with any form of expansion for base reasons, but god help the world when they run out of resources, or at least deplete them to an agreed level that was made at the treaty with the elves a LONG time ago....THEN they will stop at nothing to find new homes.

Basically, you attack the Dwarves, then you take on something nasty. If you play them, then they have had leaders that have evolved them beyond the norm before, and will do so again - and that would be you! Refire the Gnome forges, instill conscription and wage war with an army that's truly naughty, and see what happens

Originally Posted by skynet464

Great job!

Thanks, and thanks for always being supportive too.

Originally Posted by paradamed

I liked this idea!

Ta...I try to give each race some form of basis that makes sense, even if it's somewhat offbeat from the normal fanatsy stereotypes.

**Squeaks** · January 29, 2012, 01:45 PM

Right. The third of the dwarf units for the Ghaur campaign; these are heavy duty ones, the bestest there are in melee, but will come with a heavy missile unit variety, which should prove 'interesting' as long as they are donded finely.....they will probably have ley-blades for the melee variety, but are using a Squeak Inc weapon at present.

You can tell from the arms they are majorly assisted by Ley Cells, so they are TRULY nasty.