I have a mumak in need of a commander

If someone could point me to an STL for the mumak war leader guy that would be great, I have some basic warriors in mind.

in that image it’s just my easterlings

edit; before someone comes at me saying ‘gw won’t support the game if everyone just 3d prints everything’, Im a broke college student I wouldn’t buy a mumak for the price they’re selling it even if 3d printing wasn’t an option so they’re not losing out on anything

u/Fishy_Fish_12359 — 2 months ago

How strong would an ocean current have to be to make sailing/rowing against it impossible?

There’s a chasm in my world that the oceans continuously pour into, which separates the two continents. (The water then boils and rises back up as huge perpetual storm clouds). When ships cross the serpents teeth from east to west I want them to have to go to Feroxus or be swept south, and not have going north around the end of the continent be an option. How strong would the currents flowing into the Jade sea have to be to make it impossible (ignoring other factors like dangerous rocks, whirlpools or sea monsters).

Edit: for reference, the world is flat and the Rift was carved all the way through the plane by a mad god’s axe, I’m not asking for ‘realism’ I’m asking for ‘believability’ if you catch my drift.

u/Fishy_Fish_12359 — 2 months ago

Advice on a 450 points Muster of Isengard list, I’ve never used this army before

I’ve got access to every unit in Muster so I’m just wondering which ones to use. I want to have enough numbers to protect Saruman but still have the elite killing machine that is berserkers+pikes

u/Fishy_Fish_12359 — 3 months ago

Are these lists balanced for 250pt introductory games?

Trying to introduce some of my friends to the game, I’ve come up with these lists based on what I have. For easterlings I have every model in their range, for Lurtzs scouts I have everything and for assault on helms deep I have everything except crossbows. Gondor I’m using proxies and so I don’t have any warriors with bows but I might use the garrison Of ithilien with faramir and some warriors some rangers instead? But my friend did say he loves the idea of the Shieldwall with ingold holding it together.

u/Fishy_Fish_12359 — 3 months ago

Is this a ribbon cable issue or is the screen itself screwed?

My laptop looks like the first image which is for obvious reasons not good. I brought it into a repair shop and they took the screen off but then quoted me €700 for a new one so I said no thanks and took it back, so now it looks like the second image. I’ve reattached the ribbon cable to the screen in picture 3 and as you can see the problem persists but HDMI is still working so the issue is not with the motherboard but the screen.

the reason I think the screen isn’t totally screwed and that it’s a connection issue is that when the screen first went wonky it wasn’t immediate. at first it was only bad if the screen was at the wrong angle, and it progressively got harder and harder to find an angle where the screen worked, which feels to me like a loose cable getting looser.

u/Fishy_Fish_12359 — 3 months ago
▲ 4.0k r/lotr

I have realised Tolkien’s Caradhras (aka zirakzigil aka REDHORN) was probably partially inspired by the Matterhorn irl

u/Fishy_Fish_12359 — 3 months ago

I put all my homemade terrain together into one big mountain!

I stacked up all my hills and got three layers totalling 9” in height. Everything scratch built from insukation foam, MDF, plaster and popsicle sticks except the columns of the Greek temple. Going to play a 4-way game of king of the hill on it!

u/Fishy_Fish_12359 — 3 months ago

Help designing a free-for-all King of the Hill multiplayer scenario!

If I put all my terrain together I get a 3-tiered mountain, each layer around 3” high and taking up a whole 6’x4’ table. I think this would be epic to play a 3/4 player game on, but I need a lot of help trying to make it balanced.

- each person will know what they’re getting into so thete won’t be any all-cavalry armies that just physically couldn’t win. I’m also considering banning flying models for fairness sake.

- for army size I’m unsure, we can each put together at least 500 points and I definitely don’t want to go any higher. Is 500 too high for 4 people on a table this size?

- for deployment I think maelstrom could be the right way to go? It could result in some warbands getting stuck way too far from any good way up so I’m thinking that in a case where an opponent chooses your spot, instead each opponent chooses a spot, the spots must be at least 2’ apart and then you pick one of those to deploy from.

- for scoring, I think when the game ends each model on the top layer will be worth three points (multiplied by dominant) and each model on the second layer will be worth 1 point, having your general on the top will be 5 extra points and a banner on top 10 extra points. something along those lines.

- for ending the game, I’m not sure if roll 1-2 on break or end on quarter is better. Also, should it be when 1 person reaches that stage or when all but 1 person reach that stage?

thanks in advance for any suggestions folks

edit: another idea is to give the tree at the top a certain defense and wounds etc. and when it’s destroyed the game ends at the end of the turn and the person who destroyed it gets extra points

u/Fishy_Fish_12359 — 3 months ago

I feel like removing the fantasy races from my fantasy world

In my world I have two groups of races - those of flesh (humans, dwarves, elves, Kor) and those of scale (the lizardfolk in the second image). The people of scale were created naturally along with all the creatures of the world, but the people of flesh were created by the gods to embody the four cardinal directions of the world, which are based on a coiled snake - headwise (clockwise) are the dwarves, blunt and direct, tailwise are the Kor, Lithe, graceful and enigmatic, inwards are the elves, reflective and long lived, focused on the past, and outwards are the humans, explorers and innovators.

the thing is, I took a break from worldbuilding for a while, and now I feel like all my ideas for the cultures of the different regions inhabited by the people of flesh would just work better if they were human cultures, I find it too hard to break free of the stereotypes assigned to dwarves and elves, without changing them so much they just aren’t dwarves and elves anymore and may as well just be a different group of humans.

Edit: I still want to keep the lizardfolk, it’s the elves/dwarves that I dont vibe with as much anymore.

u/Fishy_Fish_12359 — 4 months ago

My first tournament!

I’ve been painting and watching batreps for ages but this was my first event and first time playing more than 200-300 points introductory games. There Special rule for bringing a hero of fortitude and a full Warband from another list so I had host of the dragon emperor with some Lurtz’s scouts. First game vs reclamation of osgiliath (+elves), fog of war, my phalanx was unstoppable and I crushed him. Second game was storm the camp against another reclamation list, the armies split around a big rock and boromir destroyed the side that didn’t have the emperor so it was a narrow defeat. Third game was against rise of necromancer (+assault on Lorien) it was the capture the flag scenario, teleporting wraith stole my thing while Sauron and bats trapped my emperor and killed him in two turns. Ended up losing pretty badly.

day two, game 4, sites of power against army of white hand (+usurpers), 8 Crebain made it impossible for me to win. Game 5 Lords of Battle vs usurpers (+black gate with ring wrath on fell beast and troll) my emperor got transfixed early so I couldn’t get him into the fight at first but he was close enough to buff everyone so I won. Game 6 vs shadows of angmar was breakthrough, my emperor got paralysed and mobbed by gulavar and a bat swarm but he managed to pass all three fate and stay alive, then after a clutch friendly-fire-tremor from Brorgir a single warrior won the next fight against gulavar in defense of his emperor, he recovered and crushed G. My scouts kept the flanks safe from werewolves and i won 11-1.

I won favourite Opponent and had a great first event, with a 3:3 win ratio I’m very happy, and I’ve learned a lot. If any of my opponents see this, thank you very much, it was a great experience

u/Fishy_Fish_12359 — 5 months ago

Am I crazy or is shooting your own troops a good tactic?

Say I’m playing Lurtz’s scouts and my opponent has some terrifying model like a troll chieftain or ellesar or gwaihir. I charge it with some disposable Uruk hai, then in the shoot phase, since I’m evil, I shoot at the big scary monster with everything I’ve got. hopefully I’ll wound the enemy, but even more hopefully I kill my own warrior, as then in the combat phase the enemy powerhouse wont be in combat, so it can’t make use of my little warrior to barge, hurl or heroic combat.

Does this work? It’s certainly thematic for evil armies to shoot their own troops and be happy when they die

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u/Fishy_Fish_12359 — 5 months ago