Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Sure, understood. My thought was to run a classic Tony Bath-style meta game, just like Phil did, with the players all having roles in the various groups in the area - this would be based around the Fortress Chalukolumel micro-campaign that Phil had worked up for us but never got the chance to run. I have all of my notes from that, as well as the expanded map, so running it would be a snap and I think a lot of fun.

Here's a view of the map:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O6iPfbjw1y...0/DSC00033.JPG

Sounds great. I'm assuming you'd be doing your old standard of "orders on one index card." Amazing how that clarifies the mind and forces one to get to the point...

(Also, what's the "Legion of Farty Persons?")

I thought I would share some pics.

I finished sculpting my Nshe. I'm pretty happy with the results, although the picture is not the best. The Nshe is more translucent in person, but to be honest I don't mind if the critter has a little opacity. Now to get on with the Shunned Ones and the Ssu.
In the second picture I've included a recently finished miniature as a size comparison. This one is an old Ral Partha Chaos Warrior. I decided to make him a Warrior-Priest of Vihar, although I'm sure he would be fine as a Priest of Nyesset as well.

Nshe2.jpg

Nshe1.jpg

Shemek.

Here's a detailed shot of the Warrior-Priest. Not a good pic. The shading and colour modulation is not really visible. Still need to base him, as he tends to fall over quite easily. I'll probably put him on a 20mm base. He's huge for a 25mm miniature, probably close to 7 scale feet. Although he doesn't "look" Pechani the armour has a Tekumel feel to it IMO. Maybe I'll use him as a Nluss?


ViharPriest.jpg

Shemek.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Sounds great. I'm assuming you'd be doing your old standard of "orders on one index card." Amazing how that clarifies the mind and forces one to get to the point...

(Also, what's the "Legion of Farty Persons?")

Yep. Keep it simple, keep it flowing.

I dunno; ask Bill Hoyt. That's his box of old Tekumel miniatures - I assume that it's the "Legion of Foreign Persons".

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

Here's a detailed shot of the Warrior-Priest. Not a good pic. The shading and colour modulation is not really visible. Still need to base him, as he tends to fall over quite easily. I'll probably put him on a 20mm base. He's huge for a 25mm miniature, probably close to 7 scale feet. Although he doesn't "look" Pechani the armour has a Tekumel feel to it IMO. Maybe I'll use him as a Nluss?


ViharPriest.jpg

Shemek.

I like them both. The Bob Charette 'Chaos Warrior' figures do have that feel to them; I have a full legion of the pikemen, and additional units of the bowman, crossbowmen, and axemen. Very nice figures, and I'm delighted to se that they are back in production at the reborn Ral Partha!

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

I like them both. The Bob Charette 'Chaos Warrior' figures do have that feel to them; I have a full legion of the pikemen, and additional units of the bowman, crossbowmen, and axemen. Very nice figures, and I'm delighted to se that they are back in production at the reborn Ral Partha!

Thank you. I didn't see them the last time I was looking at the "new" Ral Partha releases. I'll have to revisit the site.

Shemek.

Iron Wind Metals has done two kickstarters to bring back old figures in new moulds. The first one has delivered but the second hasn't. Look on the online store under Chaos Wars not Fantasy Armies. For me it's a really mixed bag. I love the old figures and the old style but I let my collection go when I was getting into Warhammer and moving my collection up to 28mm. On the other hand, outside of Reaper who are way too large, stylized and, exaggerated for my tastes the rpg figure options have always been a bit limited.

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

"Why a duck?" *

Shemek.


*1 xp for the reference.

Hooray for Captain Spauding, the African Explorer!

(Both Ross Maker and Dave Wesely were there, today, and we discussed cannibalism in "Search for the Nile".)

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

I found this online. A good image for a Ssu?

Attachment 164


Shemek.

Yeah, not bad. There's more on www.tekumel.com, too, I think.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Sounds great. I'm assuming you'd be doing your old standard of "orders on one index card." Amazing how that clarifies the mind and forces one to get to the point...

(Also, what's the "Legion of Farty Persons?")

Yep. Just like in Ye Olden Dayes.

It's Bill Hoyt's box of miniatures; I'm assuming that it's supposed to be "Legion of Foreign Persons", but with Bill you never know.

EDIT: Whoops, sorry; I'd already replied to you.

It's been a very long and very tough day. Got up to the news from Orlando; all of our friends there have checked and are safe. Still waiting to hear about the friends of friends; some of them have not checked in. Went to Pete's visitation, and wound up talking to his family and friends for some three hours about him and his influence on gaming - and on me.

Pete was actually the first 'gamer' that I met here in the Twin Cites, at the Little Tin Soldier Shoppe back in the summer of '75, and he introduced me to people like Dave Arneson, Ross Maker, Dave Wesely, Fred Funk, and bunch of other people who were part of the local gaming crowd back then. I learned a lot about how to run games from Pete, and I can say that I still do it that way: fast, fun, and furious, with a lot of laughs along the way.

More tomorrow - I need to reply to Asen, for example, but I'm off to bed. Going to be a longish day tomorrow, too.