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Post by squirmydad on Oct 30, 2014 8:48:36 GMT -9
The upcoming Hoard schedule that I currently have is as follows; November- Christmas Wars December- Things to Come January- NPC's & Bystandees February- Historical Battles March- Supervillains! April- Land of Enchantment May - Clockpunk and Dieseldammerung! June - Swashbucklers and Musketeers July - People of the sand (Arabian, Persian, Egyptian, Djinns, Ifrits, giant scorpions, etc.) August - Birthday Cake Battles: In the future giant mechanized birthday cakes battle across a war-torn landscape...not really. Maybe something to do with animals like "Alien Petting Zoo."
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Post by cowboyleland on Oct 30, 2014 10:15:49 GMT -9
Are the Hoards the place to lobby for under represented genres? If so; I think the world needs more swashbucklers i.e. little (or no) armour, rapiers, pistols and probably fancy hats and capes.
Also; clockpunk: technology that is powered by weights, pendulums and coiled springs. Maybe even heat and expanding gasses but without extensive use of pistons. This stuff would be at home any time from the classical world (Archimedes or the Antikythera mechanism) through the middle ages and up to 1775 or 1800
Yes, swashbucklers could be armed with clockpunk devices!
Just my thoughts
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Post by Cardstock Dane on Oct 30, 2014 11:59:46 GMT -9
I'd like to see more dieselpunk as well as historical - any tri-point-hat era, migration age, but also stuff like Mayans, Incas, 1001 Night-styled Arabs, Wild West... in fact, there are lots of genres to explore. This hobby seems to me to be dominated by fantasy/medieval and scifi, so there is plenty of room for other stuff.
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 30, 2014 13:27:01 GMT -9
I'd like to see more dieselpunk as well as historical - any tri-point-hat era, migration age, but also stuff like Mayans, Incas, 1001 Night-styled Arabs, Wild West... in fact, there are lots of genres to explore. This hobby seems to me to be dominated by fantasy/medieval and scifi, so there is plenty of room for other stuff. Since Land of Enchantment is New Mexico, I was thinking that would cover Wild West, Pueblo and Navaho nations, etc. Something tells me Squirmydad had something else in mind, though
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Post by WackyAnne on Oct 30, 2014 14:46:27 GMT -9
I'd love South American, Arabian/Persian, and Egyptian minis... I think we've almost convinced fatdragontom to include pyramids and other massive monuments in the next Kickstarter
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Post by enpeze on Oct 31, 2014 9:23:18 GMT -9
yes. arabian, persian theme would be great.
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Post by wyvern on Nov 1, 2014 6:00:21 GMT -9
Maybe think of having specific historical periods in separate Hoards, rather than the single broadly-based "Historical Battles" one? While I may be thinking too much as a gamer/user of minis, rather than a designer, this could help alleviate the perennial problem that too often, only one side in a historical conflict ends up available in mini form, whereas gamers really need all forces to be available.
And I keep occasionally mentioning the possibility of someone creating ranges of undersea figures & creatures in swimming poses, albeit to little effect (so far)...
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Post by luzitanos on Nov 1, 2014 9:26:37 GMT -9
What teme is "Christmas Wars" and "things to come" ? NPC for? Bystandees? sorry but i dont have any clue
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Post by Vermin King on Nov 1, 2014 11:51:00 GMT -9
What teme is "Christmas Wars" and "things to come" ? NPC for? Bystandees? sorry but i dont have any clue Sorry, but we sometimes forget that not everyone is used to our traditions. Christmas Wars involves Christmas-y things. Snowmen, Santas, Toy Soldiers, Gingerbread Cookies Things to Come is Futuristic NPC stands for Non-Player Character Bystandees is a bit of word-play ... Standees of Bystanders, the guys who aren't an active part of the story, but help to give the setting character, like the Souvlaki vendor, the tanner, the little old lady that sits under the clock. Hope that helps
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Post by luzitanos on Nov 1, 2014 16:18:27 GMT -9
yes it help a lot thanks
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Post by WackyAnne on Nov 2, 2014 11:21:05 GMT -9
Seeing Sirrob01's great winter trees makes me wonder if it's worth modding the spooky tree from the One Monk Halloween set into a snow-covered one. I haven't yet tackled it, as it looks to be a doozy by hand, but it's certainly on my mind, as we are in the midst of an early, messy, winter storm. Well, spring was a month late this year, why shouldn't winter be a month early? After all, Global Warming is a misnomer - Climate Change does all kinds of crazy stuff.
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Post by squirmydad on Nov 11, 2014 21:09:16 GMT -9
I like to make titles that are ambiguous and potentially inspiring. "Land of Enchantment" could be lots of things. "Things to Come" is an H.G. Wells story that I highly recommend. I believe the film version is available for free download at the Internet Archive. In my case I'm making a figure based on a sketch in Punch magazine from 1886 of what riot cops would look like in the future. Your welcome to create your own version of the future. luzitanos - I put Historical battles into the February slot as you had requested it elsewhere earlier. If you want it to focus on a specific conflict or time period then I put it to you to pick. May - Clockpunk and Dieseldammerung! June - Swashbucklers and Musketeers July - People of the sand (Arabian, Persian, Egyptian, Djinns, Ifrits, giant scorpions, etc.) August - Birthday Cake Battles: In the future giant mechanized birthday cakes battle across a war-torn landscape...not really. Maybe something to do with animals like "Alien Petting Zoo." The themes are just meant to be inspirational guides for figures, tiles, models, rulesets and what have you. If you have a good idea, and can finish it before that month ends, I'll add it to the Hoard.
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Post by cowboyleland on Nov 12, 2014 5:39:42 GMT -9
WOOT for May and June! Also upvote for Birthday Cake Battles: I see a tripod walker with pink icing and candles . . .
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Post by squirmydad on Nov 15, 2014 17:21:29 GMT -9
You may have noticed that I've created all of the Forum Hoard threads from her to next July, 2015. This is part of an anti-procrastination approach I'm attempting. Feel free to comment or upload works into any Hoard thread until it's closing date, I intend to get all of my entries in before the new year.
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Post by gilius on Nov 16, 2014 1:52:37 GMT -9
You may have noticed that I've created all of the Forum Hoard threads from her to next July, 2015. This is part of an anti-procrastination approach I'm attempting. Feel free to comment or upload works into any Hoard thread until it's closing date, I intend to get all of my entries in before the new year. This is very cool. If I get an idea about a paper mini I can check if it matches any of the hoards and place it there. Also, there are months when there just isn't enough free time for me to try to create something.
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Post by squirmydad on Nov 16, 2014 8:45:26 GMT -9
You may have noticed that I've created all of the Forum Hoard threads from her to next July, 2015. This is part of an anti-procrastination approach I'm attempting. Feel free to comment or upload works into any Hoard thread until it's closing date, I intend to get all of my entries in before the new year. This is very cool. If I get an idea about a paper mini I can check if it matches any of the hoards and place it there. Also, there are months when there just isn't enough free time for me to try to create something. Exactly.
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Post by gothique on Nov 17, 2014 2:14:35 GMT -9
What is Clockpunk?
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Post by cowboyleland on Nov 17, 2014 6:10:54 GMT -9
Clockpunk is like steampunk without the steam. That is to say: mechanisms that run on coiled springs, counterweights and pendulums but not so much on burning coal and pistons. Leonardo Da Vinci was the greatest clockpunker of them all, but Hero of Alexandria is also a good inspiration and the Antikythera mechanism shows just how complicated an ancient machine can get even BEFORE you get into the realm of science fiction. It is a very minor genre but it fits in well with the "high medieval" background of a lot of fantasy worlds and would also be compatible with a renaissance campaign or even ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.
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Post by gothique on Nov 18, 2014 2:36:42 GMT -9
Clockpunk is like steampunk without the steam. That is to say: mechanisms that run on coiled springs, counterweights and pendulums but not so much on burning coal and pistons. Leonardo Da Vinci was the greatest clockpunker of them all, but Hero of Alexandria is also a good inspiration and the Antikythera mechanism shows just how complicated an ancient machine can get even BEFORE you get into the realm of science fiction. It is a very minor genre but it fits in well with the "high medieval" background of a lot of fantasy worlds and would also be compatible with a renaissance campaign or even ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Era specific "punks" get ever more complex. Cyberpunk = Post Modern, Steampunk = Victorian, Lacepunk = Baroque and Clockpunk = Renaissance. The list goes on?!
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Post by gilius on Nov 18, 2014 3:56:57 GMT -9
Clockpunk is like steampunk without the steam. That is to say: mechanisms that run on coiled springs, counterweights and pendulums but not so much on burning coal and pistons. Leonardo Da Vinci was the greatest clockpunker of them all, but Hero of Alexandria is also a good inspiration and the Antikythera mechanism shows just how complicated an ancient machine can get even BEFORE you get into the realm of science fiction. It is a very minor genre but it fits in well with the "high medieval" background of a lot of fantasy worlds and would also be compatible with a renaissance campaign or even ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Era specific "punks" get ever more complex. Cyberpunk = Post Modern, Steampunk = Victorian, Lacepunk = Baroque and Clockpunk = Renaissance. The list goes on?! Would the Flintstones classify as Dinopunk?
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Post by mahotsukai on Nov 18, 2014 4:02:23 GMT -9
Wouldn't that be Barney?
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Post by cowboyleland on Nov 18, 2014 4:33:43 GMT -9
"Lacepunk" is a new one to me. The difference with clockpunk is a hair too fine for me to split, except, for me, the wheel lock is a great clockpunk device and my googling of lacepunk turned up lots of flint locks.
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Post by squirmydad on Aug 2, 2015 10:47:08 GMT -9
The final Hordes lineup of 2015; August (#132) - Supervillains and Birthday Cake Battles September (#133) - Halloween Horde of Horror October (#134) - Odds Bodkins? All those projects you started and didn't finish? This is where they go. November (#135) - Christmas Horde December (#136) - The End
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