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Old September 29th, 2009, 12:25 AM
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Default Re: Warhammer Dwarfs, discussion/hype thread

Thanks for the feedback everyone! Helps me improve.


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Originally Posted by Amonchakad View Post
They look really good! I hope that the Oathstone's runes light up in the attack sprite
They will now! :P

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Just a couple things:
-the troll slayer's left axe perfectly covers his left arm+shoulder, it actually took a while to understand he was dual-wielding, at the start I thought that he had a metal shoulderpad or something like that.
Looking at it again, I can see why there would be confusion. I'll just fix the pose to make his right axe like the one in the Giant Slayer sprite. That ought to do it.


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-the deer antlers on the ranger champion look a bit unappropriate, especially if you're trying to go for the Warhammer Dwarves and not the "grumpy comical" ones. But that's subjective
Yeah, I know, a lot of it is cause I have to arm them with crossbows instead of throwing axes (scroll below for why), so I decided to go for a "hunter" aspect for them as a thematic justification for the crossbow which is the reason ofr the antlers. I'll describe them as a bit oddball dwarfs, being more in the woods than in their clan dwellings. So the antlers are a trophy, not anything else.

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1)why the ranger champiom has a crosbow and not axes?
Because leaders with throwing weapons suck balls. They will get close to the enemy, throw their weapons and then likely wade into melee, get killed, routing your army. Since I actually want the player to use these guys for stealthed task forces (usually with just one commander!), they need a ranged weapon with a big range. This is one case where thematic correctness has to give out in the face of gameplay.

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2)what kind of commander will be the prospector?
See the first post, or this:

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I was also about to suggest an "Howl" style national spell to call miners from the edges of the battlefield(mimicking their WHFB counterparts), but I see that the Miner's commander already does that as #onebattlespell.
But I basically added it because basic miners are stealthy and have mapmove 3 (representing tunnel knowledge), so they need a stealthy mapmove 3 commander to take advantage of these facts.

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3)pic 17/18's right arm/leg have a protection or you forgot to colour them?
Neither, it just seems that I forgot to give their legs a proper lookover after making the legs thicker. I can see that they're pretty akward now. Thanks for noticing, I'll fix it for the next preview picture.

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I agree with Amonchakad's axe/shoulder pad confusion.
Hmm. What are your feelings about the Dragon Slayer (17), which uses a similiar pose? The blue warpaint might give enough contrast in this case, but as a creator, I have a skewed persceptive for these things.
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