“Sire, those are the natural gases emitted by my test subjects at this stage of my experimentation” the good Doctor came the startled reply. The Emperor was never known to make any visit to the laboratories and so the surprised good doctor quickly added “those odors just may have a debilitating effect on the enemy”.
In fact, the good doctor and his staff were at near completion with a cross-breeding experiment of what the old grimoires called Snotlings, into a new breed of warriors, code named Beastlings; an easily trained and hardier breed than their ancestors and the doctor’s team concurred, Beastlings would be more powerful. The doctor added further, these could be produced at very little cost and in mass numbers, which pleased the Emperor. In fact experimentations were under way to create a similar, but superior leader caste for these herds, the Doctor added.
My Beastlings were indeed GW Snotlings painted to look similar to Beasts and under our rules would be based as Irregular charging infantry armed only with hand to hand weapons. Indeed cheap points wise, these would be too dim witted to be influenced by magic, so no Beast Shaman would bother supporting such a unit, but a larger beast using the back end of a mace or axe would be just as effective.
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This is such an awesome project. I love the blending of classic fantasy literature characters into a historcial setting.
If you are not familiar with the Monster Blood Tattoo series of junior fiction, they do somethign very similar in presenting a tricorn world with a sort of odd, alchemical science backing it. I have been tempted to work somethign similar into miniature.
-Eli
I love them all -well, maybe not the Beastlings that much, but they are not supposed to be lovely, anyway!
'Little Cymorils'... a nice touch!
The Melnibonean really made the most of the lightness of the rockets -better than Congreve!
The Monster Blood Tattoo is, from what I read about it, juvenile 'Sci-Fi in tricorns': a kind of 18th C. pre-"Victorian SF / Steampunk" (a form of 'Lacepunk', then...), but with very advanced biology / biochemistry rather than physics & mechanics.
Cheers,
Jean-Louis
@ Eli,
This has been a challenging project, visualizing Elves in the 18th century while balancing magic, gunpowder and "advance" technology. I am currently reading Glen Cook's the Black Company, excellent ideas for expanding battlefield magic.
@ Jean-Louis,
I will have a look for the Monster Blood Tattoo in Antwerp. There are plenty of gamers there who would know of the series.
Cheers,
Robert
"The Black Company"! I really love the Books of the North -specially the first two- tolerate the Books of the South -well, the series as long as the story is told from viewpoint of Croaker or Lady... Later, as elsewhere with Glen Cook, the series turns to what is, for me, mystic logorrhea... 200% personal, of course.
All in all the best 'military' fantasy series I know -not that I know many, truth to tell.
I always made clear that the 'Black Company' in the storyline of Monte-Cristo and its 'flaming skull' badge came from Cook's series.
Happy reading!
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