[Preview] Counterstrike at Quel'Thalas

truthfuly i h8 the look of that footman with the spear y dont sum of u guys try the LOTR warhammer approach to it. look at the pics and u could make this and just use tufys strange colour scheme to make the colour different. these look like really cool spear man

Actually I'm using my own knowledge of medieval warfare to make the concept of spearman, adjusting it to look elven. They spearmen (and later pikemen, though to lesser extent) had shields to protect themselves from enemy assaults, while holding the spear parallel to their other hand's forearm (some even had the spear tied to their hand, but that proved to be a disadvantage when fighting on disoriented battlefields).

The elven spearman would thus follow such practice, but would have two major differences: 1. Their armour should be made of (imaginary) mithril, further strengthening their defense and 2. they should (beside looking elven) carry some sord of mark of the Council (being the council guard), perhaps an eagle of something on their shield, or perhaps a special color band on their armour (I'll figure that one out).

bustedgamer, you can obviously see that both Warhammer and Lotr Elves are not of much use to me, since they have an entirely different practice in warfare (the only powerful elven kingdom besides Mirkwood in Lotr (that I can think of) that had large spearman force was Gondolin and its Phalanx of Guard). But who knows, perhaps a little idea borrowing would do.

i no that but it would be cool dont u think. y not try the urak hai design then
the pike man r totally medieval. look for ur self

p.s i would still like to c if sum1 could make a LOTR ES (elven spearman)

you love toys, bustedgamer? Very interesting :ggani:

Base spearmen off pikemen? Obsurd! Spears were 7-10 foot long (2-3 metres). Pikes are 16 foot (5 metres) long. They were used completely differently. You cant exactly strike someone with a Pike... you have to hope they run into it :)

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First time see your modelling skill. Not bad at all.

yeah but wats really sad is that i a 15 yr old that teaches little kids aged 9+ how to play with these toys.
pays not bad either
$10 US per student per week
pretty good considering i have 11 students!
hehe

Ok, enough kidding, here's the "Spellbreaker" possibility with new skin (about 1/2 done, but you get the point).

And something I was playing with: an elf on a giant eagle (inspired by Tolkien's Thorondor)

sweet thats nwat i alking about

I love the Hawk Rider :D

i got another idea for the spellbreaker: make his hair color brown (are there any brown haired elves...? oh yes, the sorc!) this would make him not so like the "normal spellbreaker, exept that he has a long spear in his hand.

Well, as much as I remember, High Elves were supposed to be dark haired (all the Noldor except the Finarfin's family were darkhaired), so I might change the hair color. I've just started on the animations, so expect progress report soon. And the Web page will be updated in the following weekend.

also, tufy, make his (spearman's) mask not so large. This would give some individual to him

Well, here's the dark haired version - the last one today. Now for the animations...