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Hi Tim,

PM inbound to you!

Wyrmalla is doing concept art with us and fiction too. He's not really hired, per say, no of us really are, since we don't actually make any money off of this (and not expecting to for a while ).

He asked me to help out after the first post I made in this thread. If you look at his first post he's edited it to include me as a concept artist and background writer, but thanks for the complement. ^^

Wyrmalla wrote:
As for the Dorok they're all about mass produced crudeness (like an Ak-47). I'd say that robots were available in the military for most developed countries by the time of the war, but they were difficult to maintain in most cases (sept for superior Japanese, Australian and Swiss builds). Thus the Dorok probably do have access to them, but they'd rather just chuck a load of humans at a target until it falls than robots. Its my thinking that neither the Lazarians or Dorok have much respect for machines. In cases it was just robots fighting one another in the more deadly conflicts, like on the radioactive plains western Europe were men were driven to fight underground, thus the men are distainful of them (if they weren't used then the war would have been over due to the attrition). Yeah....as far of the machines go I'm thinking background and aestethic wise their inspired by the novels; Germline, Eden: Its an Endless World! and The Penultimate Truth (for the post war group they created).


Can you name all the reference's I used? ^^'

I meant them as some kind of steampunk vehicles, especially the last one.
I can see why you made a mistake looking at them due to lack of cock pit, but I could not find anyone that had one.

Lazaryian Empire -> The Lazaryian Assembly

Culists -> Harbingers

Dorok -> Calypson

Taleesh Guardians -> Omega Protocol

kshaw2000 wrote:

I meant them as some kind of steampunk vehicles, especially the last one.
I can see why you made a mistake looking at them due to lack of cock pit, but I could not find anyone that had one.

You mean like this? I picture the APCs like so, but I guess that walkers may have been used before the war. My interpretation of the background is that walkers may have been used for cityfighting, or in limited numbers on an open battlefield (where they were minced quickly), but I think vehicles are outside of the game's production goals right now. If we could fit one in I'd want it to look something like this (people reading this thread for a while will note that I totally dig that series' art style and story), though as been said vehicles would be for the 4x4 board, and be deadly. =P

Oh and I would geekgasism if we could make this as one of the faction's APC.

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Once you guys get your hands on a couple of finished/painted models, you guys should think of putting World in Ruins up on Kickstarter.

_Tim?

Updated Lazarian concept, thoughts?

I would really like to get in on some of this action, especially if the cultists keep this look.

Factions should be a little more relevent to "End of the Earth" stuff.


Basic guys might be "Leps", or "Rad Leps" From an old story I read back in the glory days of Post apocalyptic fiction "The Outrider".

Scrap leps, Mogs, or Ponzos, might be a good play on Scavanging mutants running around in the zones. Mogs, from H.G Wells, Morlocks, call them Mogs, as Polywogs/ Morlock combo.
(Either that, or "Pretty Polly's" for a dark humor added twist.) Picked Ponzos, based on a play on Gonzo, and Pollywog.

I see these guys as mutants that run around in the dark, same as they always do. Half man/ zombie/ animalistic.

I don't dig the "Space Nazi's". Period. Think that you could try using a little more effort in combining some a little ultramodern colony/ war stuff. Maybe using some 20th century weapons, based on how the work is supposed to be "Postapocalypse" How about using some marauder units, with russian/ NATO/ modern army equipment?

Make the armies feudal in nature, ALA Harsh Realm. Leave the High technology stuff to either a little known working government type, or use Secret societies in there as a snack.

"The Thule Society, after being underground for many years emerges as an unknown entity on the world with thier super soldier clones...Blah blah blah..."
Then you can go on ahead and just throw in some of those cool sercret third riech tech, and evolve it to New and improved modern weaponry, such as with "G.I.Joe's/ Action Man's main bad guys like Cobra, or KLAW." Give them a Fist in the obligatory red and black, and make them ultramodern facists. If your going "Space nazi", at least go space nazi, not just dance around the idea.

"The Illuminati, after the world went down emerged with small pockets of operators, competing with the other factions for the race to secure undamaged technological advances from the four corners of the earth, roumr has it that they are in league with aliens- reticulans, greys, and Atlantians. Alien Human Hybrids are amongst the Illuminati, and there is rumor of sites, such as a space station base, and the location of Atlantis being used as an emerging country in its own right."

You can go use other secret societies, over the top factions, and just give them a little oomph.

Such as GDW did when they wargamed out Twilight:2000 to the next level, and came up with 2300.

"The Texas Republic" "Unified Southern Confederation" "Northern Alliance" "Eurocorp Conglomerat" "District of Coligua" " New Hades" " Swampland" North African Alliance"

Some names to throw around, and then you can add in a snack or two for each factional trait.


Wow. this is kinda fun....

Wyrmalla, the drawing is great, we are going to modify the sculpts at bit to match it.

Meanwhile the Cultist weapon arms have arrived, we are already casting them, will get a painted version up ASAP!

Thank you for all the replies, will have to look through all of them!

A real quick sketch of another idea for the Dorok. This time cruder, with slight hints to the WWI era Brits (Springfield rifle, though this one has elements of the L1291A in it, but in a more basic state). Probably'll go unused, but I'm just wondering if its a step in the right direction. These guys are the run of the mill grunts. There's tons of them (in their country men either work in the factories or are soldiers), and are pretty much the stereotype of expendable red army conscripts to their enemies. However their leaders aren't actually that inept. The troop's almost suicidal tactics clearly being able to produce results where better equipted, if not as well motivated troops would have failed. So yeah, run of the mill concripts with feth in the way of tech forming the bulk of the army, with hyper advanced special ops units acting as spear head units.At least that's my interpretation. ^^

Very nice! I especially like the design of the chest armor, it is reminiscent of Soviet body armor from WWII.

Yeah, just me being totally unoriginal. I wanted to go for something cheap looking, but cheap as in "made in china", not medieval body armour. The conscirpt name's cliche', but it discribes my interpretation of these lads well enough. ^^

azazel the cat wrote:The Lazarian Empire = The Lazarian Dominion

Culists = Brotherhood of the New Flesh

The Country of Dorok = Hegemony of Dorok

The Taleesh Guardians = Revenants of Taleesh

I don't know if things are too far along, but I dig these names. I also like the concept sketches, this is moving in a good direction so far!

Mercs faction: Heavy, Leader and Trooper.



And just the leader (as the other two are a little subpar). ^^