LOL,
That you even watched babe the pig makes me shudder.
Oh vile heart that lurks in the breast of those that watch talking
pigs and quotes thus...MOO!
As for rams. What do they sound like? I am trying to remember what
they even look like. Do they have the curly horns? I thought they
might be sheep at first. I don't know, see one horned bovine like
mammal, see them all.
I guess the issue is, which part of the animal kingdom is rams? That's
right, I am looking for ramparts, grin.
Talking about pigs, maybe a wild boar would be interesting? I don't
know, that still seems to open for amusement instead of serious dwarfness.
I think I might just do the bears. I got sounds for bears and boars...
I know what you are talking about. Those bullettes or whatever they are
called, if I remember my dungeons and dragons monster manual, were
some kind of large "land shark" or land whale that ate everything it
could find. The thing is, people will be scratching their heads about
what the heck a bullet is, lol. I mean I could say the dwarvs will
just use a remorhaz and then when that gets tired, find a local behir
rental agency...but that might not have the same effect as saying,
rode a panther and then hopped on a komodo dragon, grin.
Did you hear about the goat that went to college? He always waited to
the last minute, so that he was always "ramming" for a test.
Yeah, that last one sucked. Just wipe that last one from your mind and
pretend it never happened.
al
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Hey Allan,
You can't just break out rams commercials and not toss in a pun. gasps
in horror.
Rams, built dwarf tough!
Okay, now I want rams! grumble stamp, grumble stamp!
Sorry, old white beard the brawling barkeep took over the keyboard for
a second.
Bears would sound kind of cool, I just wonder how many step ladders it
would take to get a dwarf mounted. grin Just think of the ram
possibilities.
charging rams, leaping rams,
deadly head butting rams, battering rams, breading rams, baking rams.
rack of ram. okay, this won't work so well. Still, that would be
pretty in line with the mountain animal thing.
I suppose they could ride bulletts.. however that's spelled.
Though I don't know if those things are trainable since they're some
sort of shelled lizard thing if I remember right..
As for goats.. Everyone hates the goats. poor goats, they're the joke
of the horned and hooved family of the animal kingdom. Well, next to
the constant mooing because cows are cool. grins In closing, one last
ram joke I forgot..
Baaaah Ram Yew!
See Babe the Pig for reference. grins
On 10/8/13, Allan Thompson <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi James and Michael,
Yeah, it is hard trying to break the dwarf paradigm.
The whole griffon idea came from the game I used to play on the amiga
called warlords. I loosely based this on that game.
Bears are tough to picture as mounts. The only reason it even came to
mind is that I had seen a cover of, I think it was a magazine called
white dwarf.
It had a dwarf riding a berserking bear and I always thought that
this was cool.
Moles? I don't see it. War goats or rams (built dodge tough) might
be interesting though. Still, how do I make it not seem laughable
when the dwarf war goat cavalry makes that bleating sound? It would
just seem amuseing I think. Although, if I remember right, don't
goats factor in somewhere in the norse myths? I think thor had a goat
driven cart, and didn't he eat them every night and they popped back
to life the next day to take him wherever? Come to think of it, that
is pretty
twisted, lol.
I think I will keep the griffons.
I am going to think about goats versus bears and see what sounds best.
Thanks guys,
That helps me narrow it down a bit.
al
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since they are creatures who love mining, maybe diar moles. hah!
can't imagine those would be much bigger than a golden retriever at best.
grins
Griffons were neat, and could work if nothing else is inspiring.
Perhaps mountain goats? Not really sure how big those are, but
they're surely like their non-mountain kin in being stubborn as
dwarves. grins If all else fails, maybe they don't really need a cav
unit, just a few different types of infantry?
Dwarves and cavalry seem to be a rarity in fantasy for some reason,
though as far as movement differences go, this would put another
disadvantage on the dwarven faction. This would probably make them
next to impossible to play effectively without a perk or two like the
forced march skill.
Moles seems a bit odd, but it could work, but the goats might be very
workable.
I really wanted to put in something about no use crying over spilled
milk, but lots of use in swearing over spilled ale here, but I can't
think of how to work it in, so I'll just hang it out to flap
dangerously in the mountain air and hope it still gets a beard pulled
or a grumbling chuckle from a hopeful dwarven cavalry general.
On 10/8/13, James English <james13english@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
War ponies are for halflings.
I'd say keep the dwarf cavalry the same, it'd be interesting to see
dwarves ridinb bears, it wouldn't work.
On 10/8/13, Allan Thompson <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey guys,
I was wondering what might be the best critters for a dwarf.
In the first warlords map pack the dwarves rode on griffons raised
on the mountain slops.
I am not sure that this really works for dwarves, being people of
stone and rock.
So I am trying to think of what else might a dwarf ride. Horses are
out of the question, and war ponies is just laughable.
So I was thinking bears. Cave bears I guess. They would be slower,
like move three spaces, but considering the entire dwarf infantry,
that is fast.
I am wondering if anyone could think of anything else that might
work for a dwarf?
Also, I was thinking about the siege tower and if that should
replace the ballista, be an added unit to fill a cavalry slot, or
what to do with
it.
The biggest thing is that there is a stone elemental caster for
dwarves that I think suits them.
So any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. I am running
out of ideas.
al
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