[MOD] Geheimnisnacht - Warhammer Fantasy

[Ofaloaf]

I am enthusiastic about playing as 'HOOLIGANS'.

 

[Ofaloaf]

The Lizardmen wouldn't be wacky enough to call it a Sunset Invasion. The invaders would need to be the Imperium of Man or something else completely anachronic.

Aztec reptile-warriors lead by magical toad-mages aren't wacky enough for Sunset Invasion?

 

[Ofaloaf]

In the context of the Warhammer Fantasy world, no. A space xenophobic anthropocentric neo-feudal Roman Empire invading it is much more wacky.

They also have lazers, spaceships and a galaxy of troops. Using them would be like having Klingons or the Borg invade earth during the Thirty Years' War for a 'wacky' DLC. It's way too far out-there. Lizardmen exist in the Warhammer Fantasy universe, are clearly influenced by Mesoamerican cultures and are generally the best-suited Aztec expies within the established universe.

 

[Ofaloaf]

I should also add that I excel at being a tireless drudge, and thoroughly enjoy doing title histories and namesets and so forth. Tell me what must be done.

 

[Ofaloaf]

I have to ask; are orcs going to be playable? Also how will they be represented given that they are technically fungi? Will you ignore the weird reproductive system for the sake of gameplay or will you do something else (killing off all female orcs or making 'female orcs' into goblins perhaps).

Make all the 'female' orcs look exactly the same as male orcs, use the male orcish nameset for females, make all orcish succession absolute cognatic (since we'd be pretending the female orcs are still basically male), and disable all "My wife is pregnant!" notification events (but still keeping pregnancy itself for the sake of reproduction)?

 

[Ofaloaf]

B is more consistent with the CK2 style, so I would advocate that, myself.

Hehe, I know, it s confusing, but I did it cause I didn't want my own preferences to be on top which might bias the vote, so I switched them around once I realised that it might have been perceived as biased

Couldn't that itself throw the vote? I was going to cast a vote for A before I saw the question come up, went back and realized that B was the first listed option.

 

[Ofaloaf]

We are talking about Chaos, though. Randomly gaining and losing congenital traits in midst of life seems entirely appropriate for that.

 

[Silfae]

I've been watching the progress on this mod for some time, really looking forward to the first release.

Anyway, I was reading the multiplayer mini-AAR and seeing all those happy-sunshine portraits for dark elves made my heart cringe.
So, I've tried to put together a little offering to Khaine, which I hope might be of help for the modders of this project.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/669pdo67l81di36/druchii_portraits.rar

I've tried as many random combinations as I could, but this is my first complete set, there might be some minor clipping I didn't catch.
All parts are filled except the midage, oldage and beard sets ...because elves.

 

[Silfae]

That's awesome!!! I'll look into adding it when I get home tonight.

Thank you, if there's some problem, feel free to report it and I'll try and fix it.

Also... Any chance you'd be willing to do other portrait work for us? I could bribe you with access to the mod...

That is tempting. The problem is not as much of willingness as it is of free time, sadly.
If there's no time limit, I wouldn't mind working on other portraits when I have the chance to draw, I was already having some ideas for the Tomb Kings while preparing these.
Are there any priorities amongst the factions? I suppose if the druchii are fine, I could do more quickly the other two varieties of elves, since I'd be working on the same features and only really make from scratch the clothes & hats, though I have to say I know near-nothing about the Asrai.

 

[Silfae]

You're welcome.
Message sent.

 

[Silfae]

Thank you again to everyone.

 

[Silfae]

On a side note, those portraits are awesome, but do Druchii have that purplish skin? I always thought Elves looks almost the same no matter what subspecies they belong to.

I've used official artworks as reference for the looks and the clothes' design, it seems to be a constant there. All varieties of elves are portraied pale, but druchii are also drawn bluish.

 

[Silfae]

Would you mind drawing Skavens or even lizardmen? Those are vital for making Lustria a fun place to play.

Skaven are my favourite, I wouldn't mind drawing them, but for what I've read and seen, both them and lizardmen are not among the factions developed by the modders right now.
I think, if I have the time, I'll focus first on the species who already have developed mechanics and flavor.

 

[Silfae]

There's no custom mechanics for those two races atm. But Lustria was re-worked recently and we need to put something reasonable there. But you are right, races that already have custom flavor content created should be prioritized.

There's also an additional problem for portraits of Skaven, Kurgan and others for what concerns the attire, as the difference would be greater depending on which Clan/Chaos God the character belongs to rather than between a King-tier and a Count-tier.

 

[Silfae]

I'd say greenskins would maybe be a good choice after the elves are in order.

Read my mind, I was just writing it in an mp.

A special crown for Malekith could be cool too.

I have something a little different in mind, but I don't want to hype needlessly before I've tried it myself.

Although really the big clothing difference is only for Clan Eshin and Clan Pestilens and the associated warlord clans. Clan Moulder and Clan Skyre could get by with regular skaven stuff.

Well, the Skyre should be more steampunk too, but it's a problem for later on, I'd prefer to focus first on the current priorities.

 

[Silfae]

A special crown for Malekith could be cool too.

Fact is the design already in place for the Emperor-tier druchii is already the one used for Malekith in canon material, the pointy helm cannot really be represented properly with so little space..
How about some phoenix-degree burns instead?

 

[Silfae]

If you've read the Malus Darkblade books, you'd see just how often the dark elves kill each other, not to mention slaves/humans/elves etc in battles abroad and at home. I figured that if that was how often dark elves die in their culture, they would have died out centuries ago unless they had a positive birthrate. The Malus Darkblade books also mention very large families; for example Malus has 2 sisters and 2 brothers.

Also, shoudn't the Dark Elves need to defend from the hordes coming down from north as well? The Asur are relatively more sheltered, whereas Naggaroth is directly below the Chaos Wasteland.