#Warband

[thepinkywarband]

Cormidus charging Dominion forces at Drizzlewood. Commission for Cormy

#gw2 fan submission #guildwars2 #charr #sj art #drizzlewood coast #redsand strand #warband #anthro #furry art #artists on tumblr

[skaald-of-the-hearth-fires]

Y'all I've always thought it was hilarious what Anet did to warbands.

So. you have Rytlock, who in Edge of Destiny said he had "about a dozen" brothers and sisters each. so including himself, that's 25 in a warband. The wiki says a warband is 6-25 members, so Rytlock was on the high end, and average would probably be 12-18 members.

and then every warband in the game proceeds to have BARELY 6.

you have 5 options to choose from for a sparring partner. Rox's old warband had 6 members (or maybe 7). We've still never met more than one of Rytlock's 'bandmates. Almorra gets one 'bandmate mentioned by name.

most charr in the entire game, including top-ranking tribunes and imperators, are not with their warbands, do not talk about their warbands, do not go places with their warbands. Tribune Bhuer Goreblade shows up with a small handful of 'bandmates in the charr level 10 story.

You do not see groups of 12-18 charr warbands roaming around Ascalon with fascinating life stories and 'bandmate dynamics and mourning the latest one(s) who died, with mementos, with stories about how 'my sparring partner saved my life' and 'this member of the warband whom I know least of all my bandmates would die for me and they proved it last week' and 'Im unhappy with bandmate X but I would kill for them' or 'bandmates Y and Z obviously love each other. wanna join the betting pool?' and the legionnaire who confides in you about their tough decisions of who they're picking to be their second/replacement. All within the same warband.

Not even one warband like this. Much less the multiple that charr culture deserves.

Even in IBS, the, at least half-way, charr-centric story, our main focus warband is Ryland's Steel warband. Who has, predictably, 6 members. And like 10 fresh-faced, unnamed recruits who have 0 history or dynamic with the Main Cast. even the 6 named members, who have vibes and character and a bit of a dynamic, are stupid shallow. (and tbf they didn't have time to explore it much, but really?)

We do not see Bangar's 'bandmates. We do not see Rytlock's 'bandmates. We do not hear anything about Almorra's old 'bandmates. We do not see Ember Doomforge's 'bandmates. We do not see Smodur's 'bandmates. We do not see Malice's 'bandmates. We do not see Efram's 'bandmates.

We see a lot of 'cubs this' (with Rytlock and with Efram), I heard a lot of speculation about 'cubs that' in fandom spaces, we see a lot of 'ohoho relationship/mating drama' (from Rytlock/Crecia and also Almorra/Bangar). We do NOT see ANYTHING about warbands, supposedly the building-blocks of charr society.

Even the charr player's old warband is mostly disbanded/defected to Dominion.

I have yet to see any real warband dynamics in canon.

Even in the books! Rytlock's 24 'bandmates are fair game because they're offscreen. And Anet has consistently refused to show any of them. Even Rytlock's dynamic with Crecia is pretty much just "we're old exes" and never "we grew up together. we fought together. our bonds are deeper than those of biology, than the fact we have a cub. I stabbed you once and you knew I didn't mean it because we are 'bandmates." Sure, Crecia mentions once "ohoho we used to see the ice elementals here as cubs."

But in the books! Sea of Sorrows for instance! iirc the majority of Sykax's warband is unnamed! Ember Doomforge, again, no mentions of warband! Rytlock nor Malice nor Almorra talk about inter-warband relations!

we never see any warbands larger than 6 members.

And this is all because, OBVIOUSLY, who wants to come up with 12-18 whole characters when it's just the one who's relevant to the story? Coming up with 6 is hard enough it only happens in special occasions. which doesn't include the legit actual player character.

(the player character, whose warband is decimated to TWO flaming members (including yourself!!) in the tutorial, and! yay! fun lorebuilding! you get to rebuild the warband. this adds a flaming total of TWO members. now you're at flaming four. FLAMING FANTASTIC. the player-flaming-character gets FOUR 'bandmates. this is atrocious!! and tbf if you compile all the options across all the branches you might end up in the (low end, probably) of 12-18. which is fair!)

but like. I do sympathize. I really do. characters are hard. names especially! which would be the bare minimum yknow. have an 18-member warband with zero dialogue but! they do have names! that wander around Ascalon. not even an event chain just average-sized warband representation PLEASE.

like. I did it myself. I invented a warband and I BARELY got them to 6 members. I had name, gender, profession for each of them. they were minor characters so they didn't even get the development that Ryland's Steel got. names, professions and the vibes from that. I felt so bad for only giving them 6 bc I was reinforcing the stereotype!!

but, so, uhhhh

I have been handed an OC. from a friend. who has given me full creative license to write abt them in my story.

I gave him 23 'bandmates. They all have names and genders. They're split up into who is whose sparring partner and who bunks with whom. That is all.

I also get VibesTM from each member's name. I'm slowly building relationship maps. (mostly just. from character A's PoV, ranking who they are closest with. Then doing it from Character B's PoV. it's WILDLY fascinating.) I have three charr 'bandmates who have their own little niche, they three are besties, they're each other's sparring partners and bunkmates and everybody (main relevant characters at least) knows them as 'those three'. and I know their names. none of the characters I'm writing about know them very well (relative to the rest of the warband ofc. ofc each one would DIE for them and probably knows their struggles and combat strengths and weak points and so on. but I haven't invented any of those yet) and that's all. I don't have a single bit of info about them except that and the vibes of each name. but hey!!!! WARBAND DYNAMICS MY BELOVED!?!!

#charr #warband #ascalon #gw2 charr #gw2 #rytlock brimstone #bangar ruinbringer #almorra soulkeeper #malice swordshadow #bhuer goreblade #ryland steelcatcher #steel warband #rox #crecia stoneglow #efram #I don't remember that guy's last name and I'm about to head to bed sorry

[steelwingskar]

Likht, Zeel and Kaisha (OCs sketch)

World Eater, khorny Sister of Battle and Night Lords being friends and holding together in a small 40k warband

#40k #warhammer 40000 #warhammer 40k #warband #world eaters #sisters of battle #night lords

[kgustin87]

The Thricefold Discord from the new Underworlds box. These are such pretty models!!!

#warhammer #miniature #armor #warhammer age of sigmar #chaos #purple #slaanesh #warband #underworlds #thricefold discord #demons #daemon #ice #snow #deathgorge #spear #magic #sword

[thecrowinggriffon]

Prepping a little grimdark warcry/mordheim band

#chaos #warcry #mordheim #warband #grimdark #warhammer fantasy #warhammer #age of sigmar #aos #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dnd #the 9th age #the ninth age #tabletop #wargaming

[warbandcomic]

Reblogging my fave Warband page so far. Read it at warbandcomic.com

#warband #fantasy #webcomic #dungeons and dragons #comedy #adventure

[sloolid]

WIP: A mysterious, possibly extraterrestrial, warband for Frostgrave.

2x Spellcasters, at the back.

4x Apothecaries

4x Thieves, without heads currently.

I'm planning on playing them as non-violently as possible - hence the weird lineup.

Lore Below:

The Necromancer's Account.

(A dusty book, bound in hide, in a collapsed basement.)

I believe I have found a new species in the ruins of Felstad - appearing human-like at first, one notices the vast variation in height. Some of them are barely teenaged in stature, while others must be nearly six cubits tall.

They seem to have three phenotypes, which I have named:

The Leaders: A pair of two, consisting of a Senior and a Junior. They lead the other phenotypes, and are notably taller. I've seen them make use of abilities analogous to common magic spells.

The Healers: So called because they converge upon wounded allies and cause a process that seems to heal them. I've yet to make sense of this process. This phenotype is the most humanoid, never showing abnormalities in height.

The Crawlers: A dimunitive phenotype, they have many abnormalities - the nature of which are detailed below. Their purpose seems to be as scouts? I rarely see them from my vantages, as they're both fast and small, thus preventing a good understanding of their role in the group.

Observations through a 'glass reveal further abnormalities: Limbs, those recognizably human, oft bend the wrong ways, or possess too many joints. And those are just the limbs similar to our own! A number, including every one of the smaller phenotype, posess grasping tentacles in place of hands. This adaptation gifts them great dexterity, that's wasted on them - I'll elaborate shortly.

These creatures have many unnatural physical elements, but my monitoring of them reveals they lack the noble desire to dispach foes. They display an aversion to violence that even the Grey Elves would be shocked at, risking both injury and dishonour to avoid harming other sentients.

They will fight if cornered, and do so with a kind of perfunctory precision and brutality not unlike a Dwarf's construct. Once the specimen believes itself able to escape from the foe, it does so posthaste - even if the opponent is vulnerable in extremis or damaged to the brink of their mortality.

I intend to capture one for experimentation, which I will document here.

(The book is blank after this point.)

#sculpting #scale models #handmade #miniatures #tabletopminiatures #tabletop games #fantasy #frostgrave #stargrave #Lore #Warhammer #Aliens #40k #necromancer #Felstad #Wizard #Warband #Tabletop gaming #Tabletop

[flo-85]

These are the first models where I painted the metal parts without metal paints. I hope the result can be accepted. ^^

#aos #ape #fantasy #goblins #miniatures #ogor #parrot #pirates #tabletop #warband #warhammer #photography #warhammer fantasy #warhammer age of sigmar #games workshop #blackpowders buccaneers #horrow deep #warhammer underworlds #flo 85

[solarianradiance]

Ah, so this is the fabled "Touhou Game" that I never bothered to look up after all of these years, because I always thought Touhou was just a franchise about softcore lesbian porn.

Now I see what all hullabaloo is about!

#Touhou #Mount & Blade #Warband

[reachingforthehorizon]

What I like about mount and blade is how it inadvertently displays the ills of capitalism, from the perspective of a capitalist, worker, and a vulnerable lower class person.

It is incredibly easy to disregard most of your fighters(workers) even as they funnel large amounts of wealth towards you with their labour. You'll do layoffs just to improve your bottom line, hire cheaper labour (fighters), underpay them, and then dispose and replace them when they've outlived their usefulness. Why invest in a fighter's skills when you can hire two dozen unskilled fighters to beat down your problems with raw, cheap manpower?

When you yourself are working for someone richer than you, you fall into this trap of false achievement, bending over to please someone who is gaining more from you than you are from them.

When you fail and hit rock bottom, you're left to wander aimlessly, completely vulnerable to a world that is not only indifferent, but predatory to your existence.

#mount and blade #warband #mount and blade warband #video games #anti capitalism

[cquarto91]

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#usa #qq #googledrive #bannerlord #warband #taleworlds #china #baidu #prophesyofpendor

[thepinkywarband]

Charrtober Day 10: Loyal The Hallow warband, tiny but mighty!

#charr #gw2 #charrtober #sj art #warband #van helhallow #eve allhallow #samhain hallowsoul #with their powers combined they are #very spooky #we're a third of the way through the challenge woooo

[roughtimeminicomics]

Some recent Warhammer 40k Art. 1. My 40k-Sona. Yeah I'm tired of Tzeentch's bullshit XD 2. A scene from my Alternate Heresy, the Cipher Heresy >:3 3 and 4. Members of my custom Warband the Oil Weavers!

#warband #warhammer 40 #warhammer 40k #warhammer 4000 #40k #space marine #alternate timeline #alternate heresy #horus heresy #warhammer 40k warband #40k warband #custom warband #custom chapter #warhammer 40k oc #oc #40koc #warhammer oc

[grommtheorc]

I'm painting these guys in an attempted cartoon style. They're not in my 40k army, but for my Modulorka warband! They are Hunter types, and I'ma be going for a vivid color scheme. Haven't decided scheme yet, though!

#warhammer 40k #modulorka #ork #orks #savage orks #wild #twitch #warband #miniature painting #miniatures #miniature

[kgustin87]

Finished my Deathgorge box. Say hello to Cyreni's Razor.

#warhammer #miniature #warhammer age of sigmar #blue #elf #idoneth deepkin #Underworlds #deathgorge #warband

[margieargie]

[Since it might be hard to read:  “Delivered couched lance damage!”]

phrases that fill you with joy

#mount and blade #warband #finding a cheap lance right off means soloing a group of 24 looters without breaking a sweat #(i mean part of it is the lady-in-waiting background starting you with a nice horse)