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That snake model is epic. Hmmm snake themed lizardmen army?

Still no kraken or deep ones or leviathan of the deep :(

Maelstrom Games wrote:

AgeOfEgos:
'Gators? We're not doing any 'gators. If you mean crocodilians, well, Megálávra, Krokodar Slaughterer will be unveiled next month.

Hope that helps guys!

Cheers

Rob

Ahh, that's right---Crocs...looking forward to the release, thanks!

I am disappointed by the complete lack of warrior-maiden in this Monday's update.

Silent25,
Check out the website for news on why Æthelglyth hasn't made it today...

...and also for Kraan's superb paintjob...



...and for some very naughty sneak peeks of next month's BaneBeasts!





Guesses as to what they are most gratefully received.

Cheers

Rob

Oooh, wyvern and dragon ogre. Does want.

I'm thinking a Wyvern for either the Seaxons or Byzantine depending on who controls Ceredigion. And then a "Shaggoth" for the Fomorians.

Maelstrom Games wrote:Silent25,
Check out the website for news on why Æthelglyth hasn't made it today...

...and also for Kraan's superb paintjob...

...

Rob

Could you (or someone else) point to the right place? I took a look and 'fraid I don't see what you're referring to.

banelegions.maelstromgames.co.uk.

Cheers

Rob

Maelstrom Games wrote:Silent25,
Check out the website for news on why Æthelglyth hasn't made it today...

Boooo!!!

Maelstrom Games wrote:
...and for some very naughty sneak peeks of next month's BaneBeasts!



Guesses as to what they are most gratefully received.

Cheers

Rob

Somewhat excited, but see the model appears to be walking on the back of its hands. That ruined the Sea Devil for me. Does that even occur with animals in nature?

Maelstrom Games wrote:banelegions.maelstromgames.co.uk.

Cheers

Rob

Thanks much! I was looking at the main Maelstrom games site .

Tease! These look different to the concept basilisk or crocodile concepts. Kraan looks amazing though!

I'd say Gwyfern is very much a wyvern of the Brythons faction. Also, I seem to remember the possibility of a dragon mentioned in some of the previews.

Shaaroc looks like one of the Khthones, however I can clearly see Baalor's eye. So some kind of knucklewalking sea nasty. Maybe even a lords mount? Hmm, confused and excited!

silent25 wrote:Somewhat excited, but see the model appears to be walking on the back of its hands. That ruined the Sea Devil for me. Does that even occur with animals in nature?

From the mighty Wikipedia:

Knuckle-walking tends to evolve when the fingers of the forelimb are specialized for tasks other than locomotion on the ground. In the gorilla the fingers are used for the manipulation of food, and in chimpanzees for the manipulation of food and for climbing. In anteaters and pangolins the fingers have large claws for opening the mounds of social insects. Platypus fingers have webbing that extend past the fingers to aid in swimming, thus knuckle-walking is used to prevent stumbling.

Since the fomorians have been described as sea creatures my assumption would be that both the knuckle-walks are just that. I would also check out videos of walrus and seals walking on dry land, they don't technically knuckle-walk but do have that seemingly awkward "backwards hand" walk.

I think silent 25 was bothered because - instead of knuckle walking - these creatures appear to walk on the backs of their "hands."

It looks like their wrists would break.

It reminds me of cloverfield >.>

Animals that originated on land and then moved to an aquatic existence often walk on their wrists like that. Think seals and walruses and stuff. And since the sea devil is based on a prehistoric aquatic reptile that has a similar bone structure to a seal or a walrus, it makes sense that it would walk on it's hands. So in that sense, I think it looks cool. The thing that bothers me I suppose is that having dealt with seals and so on a fair bit, I can imagine how easy it would be for something of a more terrestrial nature to sidestep the beasties clumsy assaults and then stab it.

Da Boss wrote:Animals that originated on land and then moved to an aquatic existence often walk on their wrists like that. Think seals and walruses and stuff. And since the sea devil is based on a prehistoric aquatic reptile that has a similar bone structure to a seal or a walrus, it makes sense that it would walk on it's hands. So in that sense, I think it looks cool. The thing that bothers me I suppose is that having dealt with seals and so on a fair bit, I can imagine how easy it would be for something of a more terrestrial nature to sidestep the beasties clumsy assaults and then stab it.

My problem and complaint isn't that it's walking on it's hands, it's walking on the back of it's hands. The weight of the body is being supported by the back of the wrist.

You can see from the sea devil, the palms are facing upward, not downward. It is like trying to do a push-up on the back of your wrists, not the base of your palm.


Seals rest on the "palms" of their flippers. All the picture show them in a forward pointing direction.

Plus I assault you with cute and therefore automatically win my argument!

Looking closer at the preview image, realize now the model is resting on it's knuckles, not the back of it's palm. So my potential complaint about the figure is withdrawn.

Haha.... here's some snippets.

Zedmeister,
Shaaroc... Khthones... not. He's Baalor's toy. Gwyfern, you are correct - he's Welsh.

Da Boss,
Yes, you are correct: individuals could easily sidestep Keirioc-cró. But entire shieldwalls? Well... no.

Silent25,
Shaaroc's other three limbs do not walk on their wrists... his left forelimb is merely resting his knuckle ;o)

As for Keirioc-cró walking on his wrists, well - he wasn't designed for war. He was designed for the sea. Do the Fomorians care? No!


I'm really glad you guys have commented on Typhaggahw and Shaaroc, it shows you're interested! Which is brilliant. Sometimes it's easy for us - we are fascinated by our own creations - and it's great that you guys get fascinated (perhaps that's too much - maybe, interested?) in them too.

Regardless, there'll be some more teasers later on in the week.

Cheers

Rob

silent25, whilst your analogy to seals is interesting, as a professor of fantastical marine biology, I can assure you that due to the fused and reinforced carpel bones and the sliding plate of carpels locking with the incredibly dense weight bearing ulna of the forelimb on the sea devil, it's limb is entirely suited to being folded back like that, in fact, if it tried to weight bear on that limb pointed forward, the carpel plate would snap and it would be crippled. That's a scientific fact.

Does that help at all?

MeanGreenStompa wrote:silent25, whilst your analogy to seals is interesting, as a professor of fantastical marine biology, I can assure you that due to the fused and reinforced carpel bones and the sliding plate of carpels locking with the incredibly dense weight bearing ulna of the forelimb on the sea devil, it's limb is entirely suited to being folded back like that, in fact, if it tried to weight bear on that limb pointed forward, the carpel plate would snap and it would be crippled. That's a scientific fact.

Does that help at all?

Did you miss the part where I posted pictures of cute animal?

You're arguing against poor baby and a furry log! Such cruelty to animal!

MeanGreenStompa wrote:silent25, whilst your analogy to seals is interesting, as a professor of fantastical marine biology, I can assure you that due to the fused and reinforced carpel bones and the sliding plate of carpels locking with the incredibly dense weight bearing ulna of the forelimb on the sea devil, it's limb is entirely suited to being folded back like that, in fact, if it tried to weight bear on that limb pointed forward, the carpel plate would snap and it would be crippled. That's a scientific fact.

Does that help at all?

Why do I have the unbearable impulse to cry out "You just got home-schooled!"

Though considering we are talking about mythical/fantasy creature can't we just leave it at "It evolved like that due to it's own localised factors in its home universe" and be done with it? Its when they release the second seadevil that is contradictory to the first that we can rail about shenanigans.

Vain wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:silent25, whilst your analogy to seals is interesting, as a professor of fantastical marine biology, I can assure you that due to the fused and reinforced carpel bones and the sliding plate of carpels locking with the incredibly dense weight bearing ulna of the forelimb on the sea devil, it's limb is entirely suited to being folded back like that, in fact, if it tried to weight bear on that limb pointed forward, the carpel plate would snap and it would be crippled. That's a scientific fact.

Does that help at all?

Why do I have the unbearable impulse to cry out "You just got home-schooled!"

Though considering we are talking about mythical/fantasy creature can't we just leave it at "It evolved like that due to it's own localised factors in its home universe" and be done with it? Its when they release the second seadevil that is contradictory to the first that we can rail about shenanigans.

I will obviously have to send my trained killer assassins after you to quite this debate.

You shall be nibbled to death.

New painted images of Lugung and Gjöll spotted:

banelegions wrote:

I don't even have a clue about how I'm going to use it in any game, but Vilthiss will have to be mine anyway!

PhantomViper,
Why, you'll be able to use Vilthiss in our wargame, when it comes out... ;o)

Cheers

Rob

Both painted models looks amazing!!!

Really like the guy with the scythe hand. Interesting model.

Maelstrom Games wrote:PhantomViper,
Why, you'll be able to use Vilthiss in our wargame, when it comes out... ;o)

Cheers

Rob

Any thoughts on when we might start getting an idea of what the rules and gameplay will be like?

Baragash,
I'm afraid it won't be for a while - you're looking at the back end of this year before we reveal details on rules and gameplay.

Keep watching this space.. ;o)

Cheers

Rob

Hi guys

All right, here's Æthelglyth for you all. We were waiting for the painted version but the postal services have failed us ;o)



...and here's a couple more sneak peeks of the BaneBeasts for April: