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I have introduced the idea of an irish based regiment apart from tanith or drookia. What are your ideas?

Welcome to Dakka, cherry.

I think Brits are cooler.

praetorians- already tapped see?
Cherry?

You're new. You are a cherry. You have yet to be in combat, therefor you are a cherry. That's the definition in my eyes anyways.

Well, you could either go with the whole "drunken Irish" theme, or go with a more celtic style theme. Perhaps cross some IG sprues with some of the WHFB models for a kind of viking-y celtic look.

Vikings were from Norway...

Eneishi wrote:Vikings were from Norway...

Yes, I am aware of this fact, however, I believe that the clets and vikings shared a relatively similar dress sense.

new to this site not the hobbey. Dress sense- norse were bearskins and axes with chainmail- celts wore kilts and warpaint. But i get the point.

richierua wrote:new to this site not the hobbey. Dress sense- norse were bearskins and axes with chainmail- celts wore kilts and warpaint. But i get the point.

Generally barbaric and wild was what I was thinking... lots of natural fabrics and skins, tattoos, long braided hair, etc.

Hear that? He says the Irish are barbaric.

What a true Brit. Thinking they're better then everyone.

They did rule the world once. haha

well the brits were the same up till norman times so he can say nothing. Ha!

Welcome to Dakka!

@Silver - Racist!

@Richie - Shouldn't it be 'Imperial Garda'?

You could go with a flying column theme, use the catachan characters to give the army the guerrilla fighters theme. I think it'd look really cool, just go watch Micheal Collins for some ideas, they could be guard recruited from a world once chaos held that they liberated through resistance and some imperial help

Mookie.

What ho!

mookie- my idea was very similar- orks instead. look up bormanian on army profiles here on dakka and its there

Are you wanting Irish from the uprising or old Irish.
I was under the impression that the celts were scottish, I know the Irish were like that but I am sure they had a different name.
Also welcome to Dakka New Fish.

Edit: Sorry I was wrong about the celtic thing.

Welcome to Dakka, mate!

Irish Guardsmen, eh? I like it. (Though the kilts on scottish guardsmen might be slightly cooler.) For your Irish medics you could have a guy carrying a gallon of ale instead. They're so off thier top they Feel No Pain! And your commissar would be carrying beer, when guinesse art with them, they shall not flee!

BTW, cool Avatar.

Eneishi wrote:Welcome to Dakka, cherry.

I think Brits are cooler.

What a nice way to introduce someone to the forums.

Anyway, welcome to the forums, richierua.

Welcome to Dakka Dakka

Eneishi wrote:Hear that? He says the Irish are barbaric.

What a true Brit. Thinking they're better then everyone.

They did rule the world once. haha

Oi troll, your flaming a new person to the the forum because???? lay off. there is a rule #1 find it read it.

On topic: Welcome to the forum richierua, which type of basic gaurds (mini wise) will you be using?

the idea was that cadians accidentally emerged outside the planet and landed to get supplies and found the world under attack. After cleaning up, the natives adopted the cadian dress.Which is an excuse for my gak convertion skills and the expense of green stuff.

green stuff is exzpensive, milliput is not

I think the idea is good, but are you gonna go with barbarian's or irish?

and don't dis the brits, we have gordon brown.

DC

If you really wanted to make some cool looking squads you should get your hands on some of the Gaunts Ghosts models, I've always thought of them as quite an Irish regiment, dark hair, pale skin, like fist fights and brew there own potcheen. The models are fantastic too, you even get a piper. Maybe use them as Vets as it'd be expensive to make a whole army with them.

Mookie.

Welcome on board

I think Brits are cooler.

Pfft! Germans are the accumulated evil when it comes to armies! *insert over-the-top accent please* Ve have evrything:
- ze beer (noone could ever deny that)
- ze voices!
- ze imagination, we could beat anyone Hussa!

Okay, enough with that and: have fun around here!

Should have read the first post before writing the last, forgot you said "apart from Tanith", but heh i think they're class models nonetheless.

Mookie

thats the thing- expense. Im not in it to portray us as whiskey swilling fools as i know ill be murdered the next time i go into the local gw. Anyways i already gamed with it for years so there's no sence in redoing too much. plus i think it would be too hard to lay hands on milliput in large amounts here in ireland.

mmmmmm.... get heads from the SWs sprues, there ought to be a tone around even the old ones will do.

Try maybe? hats? http://www.62infantry.com/images/photos/New_NCOs_2006_2.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20923094@N04/3299408335/

and : maybe some tartan bandoliers.


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if your not playing ina GW store forget about the GW heads, get some from other companies as SM heads are a bit large.
pig iron is ok.

Albatross wrote:@Richie - Shouldn't it be 'Imperial Garda'?

Welcome to Dakka! As you can see, it's a riot.

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