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Post by Cambrius on Jul 17, 2017 16:17:51 GMT
I saw a conversion recently that was a wooden shack atop AT-ST legs. Since the original Baba Yaga legends have her house on chicken legs, I think having them on a "chicken walker" is appropriate.
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Post by khadorific on Jul 20, 2017 13:29:30 GMT
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Post by khadorific on Jul 20, 2017 13:40:04 GMT
I wanted it to look like a cross between a scrapjack and a hermit's hut. Fun to use actual wood sticks.
It was also important for me to get something with a Khador logo showing. The Conquest wrist shields kind of make a protected balcony area, and have the Khador logos.
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Post by Rowdy Dragon on Jul 20, 2017 13:51:50 GMT
I wanted it to look like a cross between a scrapjack and a hermit's hut. Fun to use actual wood sticks. It was also important for me to get something with a Khador logo showing. The Conquest wrist shields kind of make a protected balcony area, and have the Khador logos. Ha. It's cute. Kinda stumpy but it will work. |
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Post by khadorific on Jul 20, 2017 14:03:46 GMT
It's still almost as tall as a Conquest. The real OW2 model, in my mind, is too big and unwieldy. Too busy. I can actually put this in my case and go use it, and don't have to be afraid of little weird appendages getting bent. It's meant to be more of a Khador model.
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Post by Rowdy Dragon on Jul 20, 2017 14:10:19 GMT
It's still almost as tall as a Conquest. The real OW2 model, in my mind, is too big and unwieldy. Too busy. I can actually put this in my case and go use it, and don't have to be afraid of little weird appendages getting bent. It's meant to be more of a Khador model. Well I just tend to magnetize the heck out of everything. My Conquests are removable at the chest, the arms, the hands, the head, the guns, the overgun. Im sure il be fine with the OW2. My only recomendation would be to add SOME kind of arcane relic to channel power with. |
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Post by khadorific on Jul 20, 2017 14:22:28 GMT
Ahhhhhhhh, very good idea. I think I'm pretty ignorant of the lore, or fluff, behind this game.
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Post by khadorific on Jul 20, 2017 14:26:22 GMT
I was just assuming her staff was kind of a magic wand, like a wizard's staff.
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Post by khadorific on Jul 20, 2017 14:44:24 GMT
You'd think, with that giant gyroscope on the top of the actual OW2 model, that she'd have some crazy-balls nuke spell. A big, iconic spell or feat. I like the current rules quite a bit, but I don't quite understand how they're supposed to match up with that big gyroscope. She's supposedly one of the most powerful things in this game's universe, and hasn't always had that gyroscope, has she? For me, she can cast her current spells with the staff she's caring, since she's already powerful enough.
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Post by Rowdy Dragon on Jul 20, 2017 15:07:21 GMT
You'd think, with that giant gyroscope on the top of the actual OW2 model, that she'd have some crazy-balls nuke spell. A big, iconic spell or feat. I like the current rules quite a bit, but I don't quite understand how they're supposed to match up with that big gyroscope. She's supposedly one of the most powerful things in this game's universe, and hasn't always had that gyroscope, has she? For me, she can cast her current spells with the staff she's caring, since she's already powerful enough. Il explain: The OW is powerful but enigmatic. Not exactly a god, but something primal and powerful. She has done effects in lore WAY more powerful than on tabletop (Teleporting Gargantuans MILES away). Her Shack is a massive power amplification relay. That's exactly what she has in the rules. Arcane Machinery. Amplify her focus, make her spells cheaper, stronger. In a way she uses her machinery to simulate being a Focus 9 caster. Whilst empowering, this machinery isn't the primary role it has. It's to make a portal to the world of the grymkin and pull them out from there (Which is the rules that she has as Old witch 3). But she can't use it when she works for Khador so she redirects that power into empowering her jacks. |
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Post by tapecrawler on Jul 20, 2017 15:53:53 GMT
I've always had issues with Old Witch's focus. She's supposed to be super powerful in the fluff but ends up fairly weak in game terms. Major Prime Haley has an effective 12 focus every turn, Harbinger has 10, and Old Witch has 7! There are numerous casters in every other army (in Warmachine) that have 8 focus and that just makes no sense to me. Old Witch is hardly ever played, especially at a competitive level since she is not up to par with other warcasters. She has pretty good spell lists in both incarnations but is lacking in focus to use her spells more effectively, has suicidal stats, and wants to play close to the front lines so she can jump into melee. I love the models and her fluff, I just wish they could figure out how to accurately reflect this in the game. She shouldn't be a fair fight, she should absolutely demolish Haley2 in any battle. Kind of like Butcher only not as tough and more of a spellslinger. Sorry for the OT rant, but she's one of my favorite models and I feel she's been unfairly treated . . .
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Post by khadorific on Jul 20, 2017 15:54:42 GMT
Hey, thanks! That's all stuff I didn't know.
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Post by khadorific on Jul 20, 2017 15:56:17 GMT
I agree, tapecrawler.
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Post by khadorific on Jul 20, 2017 16:17:02 GMT
Well, if the big arcane machinery gyroscope's PRIMARY role is related to this Grymkin BS, I'm glad I didn't include it in my model. I always wanted an OW2 that was simply a more powerful Old Witch *OF KHADOR*. If this current iteration is supposed to play like a focus 9-10 caster, then great, that's where she should've been in the first place. No need for the big gyroscope.
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Post by Rowdy Dragon on Jul 20, 2017 17:05:32 GMT
Well, if the big arcane machinery gyroscope's PRIMARY role is related to this Grymkin BS, I'm glad I didn't include it in my model. I always wanted an OW2 that was simply a more powerful Old Witch *OF KHADOR*. If this current iteration is supposed to play like a focus 9-10 caster, then great, that's where she should've been in the first place. No need for the big gyroscope. But thats her arcane machinery. It's like taking her staff away. The Gyroscope is based apon the rotation of the moons around the planet which is very much related to magic. Similar to the Battle engine of the Circle. |
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