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Post by Darkson on Feb 18, 2009 2:44:01 GMT -5
Things have been written art has been finished creatures will be summoned. So it is written so it shall be done.
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Post by Scorpio on Feb 18, 2009 9:05:17 GMT -5
black beasts, gremlins, bigfoots(feet?)/skunkapes, yeti, nessie even? I wouldn't go too overboard on cryptids, personally. You have to think from the perspective of the [insert country here] War Department. Bigfoot would be fun, but how would you get one in the first place, let alone make them combat-ready and ship them to the front? Fair enough. I still think gremlins have a place, simply because the legends are rooted in the same era.
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Post by cybogoblin on Feb 18, 2009 10:11:07 GMT -5
Fair enough. I still think gremlins have a place, simply because the legends are rooted in the same era. D'oh, completely forgot about those little pests. They would be cool, but I'm not sure if they would be better as a unit, or as a spell which caused an enemy's weapon to jam, or vehicle to break down, in a manner similar to the respective Special Orders. Of course, DD have probably already thought of all this, so all we're doing is speculating on what we'll see in the book - though that is still a lot of fun
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Post by Herrgeist on Feb 18, 2009 10:50:37 GMT -5
I got bigfoot and nessie horrorclix that are itching to be used somehow
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Post by Herrgeist on Feb 18, 2009 15:53:54 GMT -5
I also have to say that the Conjure Man is probably my absolute favorite design in the occult book. He just screams character! So do we get to see this guy soon??? In figure form...
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Post by DthenB on Feb 19, 2009 14:20:01 GMT -5
bigfoot and yeti and skunkape stories exist all over the world. i think there could be about as many bigfeet around as highly trained nazi witches or bastard children of rasputin. close-combat oriented, camouflage master giant hairy monster men sound pretty ballin' to me. i'm just saying, if we got nazis going all over the glode searching high and low with nothing taboo, i think they'd run into a creature or two that was meant to stay hidden. sorry, i'm just a big cryptid fan.
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Post by Darkson on Feb 19, 2009 15:45:07 GMT -5
I love Bigfoot!!! If I was single I would be in the Ozarks searching for the big guy. I would be so broke. OK now that that is out of the way I have been pushing to do a Bigfoot for sometime. With the email I received from the writing team I can say that the odds are very good that we will be seeing these big guys at some point. I will keep pushing for you guys. The Hoodoo miniature will show up on the release schedule at some point this year.
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Post by skorzeny on Feb 19, 2009 20:39:23 GMT -5
Sasquatch/Yeti are the only cryptids that I don't have any skepticism towards. When I saw Officer Chillicut's analysis of the dermal ridges on multiple, and very old, footprint casts, it removed the last doubts in my mind. Other monsters, like the infamous el Chupacabras, I am more in the skeptic camp. Unless of course they are demon sightings...
With that said, know that cryptozoology is something that certainly has its place in the weird war setting of AE-WWII and when appropriate, you may just see some of these creatures stalk their way into the background of the setting.
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Post by cheif on Feb 20, 2009 8:37:28 GMT -5
Whilst we are on the subject of Wartime Cryptids there are numerous Beasties supposedly lurking in Darkest Africa which powers such as Colonial Britain would have been foolish not to take advantage of. Just imagine an Apatosaurus dolled up in steel-plate with a Vickers machine gun crew on it's back, or Kasai Rex storming through troops with only a single Mahout with a stick to keep it in line ;D
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Post by Scorpio on Feb 20, 2009 11:42:36 GMT -5
Agreed, but my curiousity would be which have reliable military applications. Sure, Sonderbuero 13 would welcome the introduction of fresh 'materials,' but anything far off in some hidden land wouldn't be the easiest resource to consistently exploit.
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Post by skorzeny on Feb 23, 2009 22:08:30 GMT -5
British forces with dinosaurs? Now that might just be pushing things too far ;D
Now Nessie as a sort of kelpie or other pseudo-mystical creature might work as a MoAA creature. Then again, a water monster would be fairly limited in its deployment and usefulness on most table-tops.
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Post by evilgringo on Aug 5, 2009 18:00:00 GMT -5
I'm Russian, so... we have Zmei Gorinich) It's like a dragon, but with 3 heads))) hhh We have Baba Iaga...something like an old witch with one leg-all-bone, and she's living in a wood, in her hen-leg house) she's half-evil-half-kind))) hhhhhh
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Post by evilgringo on Aug 5, 2009 18:12:06 GMT -5
Leshiy - a kind of forest spirit, an old man of giant height, with long BEARD)) may be all-hairy)) With lapty on his feet, co that left one is on the right foot, and right one is on the left)) He shouts with laughter, frightens people, misleds them in the forest. There is his wife Leshachikha with him))Oh! Of coarse, he's the host of the forest
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Post by skorzeny on Aug 8, 2009 12:52:45 GMT -5
The Gorinich was an especially nasty critter as I recall. Weren't each of its heads said to be that of a wolf? Would have been great if something like the Gorinich could have been worked into the movie 'Wolfhound'.
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Post by CmdrKiley on Aug 17, 2009 16:42:42 GMT -5
Gremlins are an excellent idea!
This reminds me of an old detective movie from HBO (Cast a Spell Darkly, if I recall right), that took place in the late 40's where magic became commonplace. The main character, named H. Philip Lovecraft, is a private investigator and the only PI that refuses to use magic. In one scene he's questioning a mechanic working on an old car. The mechanic is griping about in WWI the soldiers brought back The Clap. He then sticks one of those big fumagator things under the hood and then gives it a big stroke and says in WWII the soldiers brought back.....Gremlins. Under the cloud of a bunch of little gremlins jump out of the car and the mechanic goes about stepping on them. It had some other really funny stuff in it like the mafia using zombies for cheap labor.
Perhaps a stand with a small swarm of the little buggers. They could be advanced deployed, or perhaps kept in a bag by a handler and released or thrown like a hand grenade. Might even be a good unit that all factions can use.
Imagine your unit is locked in mortal combat with a Strumaffe and your buddy throws a bag into the fray and out come a pile of gremlins. The little guys jump all over the ape, messing up his augmented limbs and throwing him into a fit trying to remove them.
They can cause complex technological items like (Tesla, Aberration, and Psi) units to automatically malfunction when nearby and simplier tech items like rifles not to work under a 50/50 die roll.
In order to get models to activate, it would require helpers (non-advanced tech) to assist in removing the gremlins each by getting in base contact with the affected model and making a test for each AP spent.
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