Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

I for one would greatly appreciate this, as I use mini's in my games. Since I am rebuilding/creating my collection I know that it would be of tremendous help to get the correct colours from one of the guys who first painted Tekumel miniatures. A suitable miniature list would also be of benefit, and truly appreciated!

Shemek

Right, then! I'll get to work!

In general, there's Howard Fielding and The Tekumel Project for the specifically Tekumel figures. Ral Partha is re-releasing all of the classic figures that we used, so you can get those and really have what we had. I also suggest the Crocodile Games and Dark Fable lines, as they have all the 'palace people', 'townspeople', and 'adventurers' one might need for games.

Lots more to come!

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Hence my comment about "out in the boonies". A small temple of Sarku somewhere in a city with few followers, some bandits actually dare to rob the place and get away, the local priests need some Mrur for guards, worshippers are in short supply, who will ever know...

..."Chirine, we've been ordered to take three cohorts and investigate a rumor. I cannot give details of course, and it is only a rumor, but I would esteem it a favor if you'd ask my batman to pack my worm-proof kilt."

Precisely. People out in the boonies get up to the most annoying things, and we had to get out there and put some boots on the ground on a regular basis. But then, that is what we adventurers do, isn't it?

Originally Posted by AsenRG

Didn't they reach something like 27 feet under Alexander? I'm not sure about the exact number, and it was a historical novel that mentioned it, using meters (8m) at that. But I seem to remember longer than 22 feet.
Either way, you were following a good historical example. My exclamation was because most people that make models seem to assume pikes are about as long as a spear, and it's always nice to see people that didn't do that.

They sure look the part, and I can't help but think that I'd treat them with utmost caution, if I ever was to touch them.

The sarissa. I think it got to about 24 feet. One of the reasons why I watched Stone's "Alexander", actually; nothing like some phalanx warfare to spend a Saturday afternoon with. Most of the movie was not all that great, but Angelina Jolie as Olympias stole the show. You can understand why they killed Olympias the moment they found out that Alexander was dead; she was a definite menace to navigation, all the way around...

First of the First may be my favorite Tekumel unit; they have, as I've mentioned, never failed a morale check and tend to grimly grind their way over anything that gets in their way. I've never run a game where they faced the Tsolyani legion, Serqu, Swords of the Empire, or the Tsolyani First Legion of Ever-Present Glory. Both are excessively tough units, and Serqu has also had a tremendous record on the table top.

I simply do not want to be there for that game...

Had a player who made the mistake of leaning over too close to my pikemen (Serqu, actually) and stood back up with her chest full of infantry. Had a hysterical ten minutes pulling them all out...

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Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Yes - you would see Tsolyani undead with some blue on them - it's a national thing.

I kind of thought so. Even though they may be Sarku troops it would make sense that they had Tsolyani kit if they originated from that land.
BTW, what colour scheme would troopers from the Battalions of the Seal of the Worm, or the Phalanx of Lord Durritlamish of the Rotted Face have? Would their armour be a combo of browns and blues, or primarily blue?

They get them from the 'in-house' sources; they generally don't even think of 'outsourcing the supply', as the consequences would be pretty dire if they got caught.

Makes sense. Although I tend to agree what Gronan said regarding a temple in the boonies. "Don't ask, don't tell"?


White and gold, with trims for individual units and temples. Individual units had individual uniforms - Phil did some drawings for me - but were usually in the white and gold scheme. For example, Nyelmu's Pale Legion is in white and steel, with purple trim - I did some for Phil.

That would look great on a table top!! 30 or 40 of these guys would provide an amazing visual. Out of curiosity what minis did you use for them? Do you have any pics that you could post?


Same here - a lot of mine just needed a drop of paint thinner to get them to come back to life. Kinda scary to see bottles marked with 25 cents on them!

Tell me about it. I recently found some old Polly S paints that are still good, and they've got to be 20 years old at least.

Yep, Sarku troops are primarily browns, blacks, some white and purple, and lots and lots of copper. Blue trims for Tsolyani.

Agreed; that's what PCs are for...

I used a batch of loose figures that I had left-over from Ral Partha blister-packs; Mu'uglavyani, mostly, with some of the odd 'Sons of Set' humans that Phil had been sent by a guy in Scotland. I can shoot some photos for you. I'm not sure what I'd use today; I'll have to think about this for a bit.

Same here. I like to put a drop of denatured alcohol in my remaining Polly S bottles every now and then; it seems to help, along with the water.

How DOES one politely ask "May I remove my soldiers from your boobies, mademoiselle?"

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

The sarissa. I think it got to about 24 feet.

All I find online was about something like 25 feet. Guess I might have rounded them up.

One of the reasons why I watched Stone's "Alexander", actually; nothing like some phalanx warfare to spend a Saturday afternoon with. Most of the movie was not all that great, but Angelina Jolie as Olympias stole the show. You can understand why they killed Olympias the moment they found out that Alexander was dead; she was a definite menace to navigation, all the way around...

I'm still considering whether to watch it. Hollywood tends not to make decent historical movies, in my estimations.

First of the First may be my favorite Tekumel unit; they have, as I've mentioned, never failed a morale check and tend to grimly grind their way over anything that gets in their way. I've never run a game where they faced the Tsolyani legion, Serqu, Swords of the Empire, or the Tsolyani First Legion of Ever-Present Glory. Both are excessively tough units, and Serqu has also had a tremendous record on the table top.

I simply do not want to be there for that game...

Interesting. Why not?
Personally, I'd want a video!

Had a player who made the mistake of leaning over too close to my pikemen (Serqu, actually) and stood back up with her chest full of infantry. Had a hysterical ten minutes pulling them all out...

Well, that's why I said "utmost caution". I get enough chances to break my fingers during a typical week, I don't need to stab them on top of that!

For Polly S, do NOT use Isopropyl alcohol, but denatured ethanol. Sadly, isopropyl makes Polly S curdle, as my Federation Starships discovered to my sorrow.

And I'm going to go on a "Damn kids" rant now. Back in the early 80s we were mad for the FASA Star Trek starship combat game, and Chirine and I had a heap of the miniatures. We enlisted an artist friend to take the old AMT decal sheets and do up artwork for suitable decals in a scale for the minis, but never actually produced the decals because 3 color decals with registration precise enough (black, red, yellow) was prohibitively expensive.

Nowadays we could just scan it, shrink it, and use inkjet-compatible decal paper and Bob's yer uncle.

And I'll bet none of you little snots have ever had to paste up hunks of typeset using rubber cement, either. ("Somebody get the acetone, the Glorious General has webbed himself to the desk again.")(There's a reason I usually cast the figures instead of doing the pasteup.)

And git offa my lawn.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

How DOES one politely ask "May I remove my soldiers from your boobies, mademoiselle?"

Well, first I laughed until I cried, and then told her to look down - she was unaware that she had four cohorts on board. After she picked her jaw up off the floor, I said "Let a man in here!" and simply got on with plucking the troopers out of her cleavage. No wounds, on either side; her sweater protected her quite well.

She was much more careful, after that...