Long ranged Goblins

My dwarves versus goblins project is going ahead very well, without many new models at all* ^_^

However, I realised very soon that the goblins lacked any units whose animations would really allow anti-air attacks.

What I really need is one goblin on foot with some sort of wacky gun that looks as though is on the point of exploding in his face (Nothing too space age; needs to be able to target air units).


I also had an interesting idea for the shreder. I was wondering if i could make it another anti-air unit as the dwarves have two. At the moment I use it as a combat unit and not as a harvester so the funnel on one of it's arms would seem slightly usless. I thought mabye it could be made into some sort of rocket laucher with some effort.

If you have any spare time please have a go.
I will be sure to remember anybody who helps out.


*the following models are being used at the moment:

Goblin:
infantry: Tinker (no glow by wilbo), sapper (replacable), clockwork goblin.
vehicles: shreder, robo-goblin (alternate animation; no glow by wlbo).
aircraft: GoblinGlider (model by Xaran Alamas; icon by exN) Zeppelin.

Dwarven:
infantry: (mabye mountain king, no glow) , rifleman, mortar team.
vehicles: Steam Tank (ROK), Siege Engine (TFT).
aircraft: Flying Machine (TFT), Gyrocopter (ROK).

i can only add a suseggestion, i believe that the golem dragon model has a ranged attack animation, but if your only using blizzard models ignore this. also the goblin blaster and blitzer might be of some use.

I'm not just using blizzard models (ex: Goblin Glider), so if you have any models that might be good then please tell me, but give me a link.

The goblin Blaster is actually just the shreder model with an explosion for a projectile art (to uses its saw and then there is an explosion) this looks alright... but only for land units.

I don't know of any goblin blitzer. Please enlighten me.

Check ye ol' download section.

The Blaster is a Goblin tank
The Blitzer is a Goblin Shocking type thing

Both are by the current king of Goblin models, Cookie

yeah and that golem dragon thing has a goblin on top which is sadly not animated but its useable i think. although i don't know if it shoots in the air as its based on an arachnatid or something like that

Its based on a turtle. My Goblin Scorpimech was based on the Arachnathid.

didn't knom that, are they both in the dl section?

sorry about the confusion but the "goblin blaster" also a unit in the WE by default. It's a shreder with a frag drill (orcs - campaign)

I found the blitzer (telsa-tank sort of thing) but I havn't found the blaster yet. If it's a goblin on foot then it's just what I need!

I havn't given up on that shreder idea mind. If I do use the blitzer though, the goblins will have 3 vehicles and they already have more units than the dwarves (see top message).

there's always the three separated goblen sapper models in the dl section you could use...

the problem with those goblins is that they still don't have a long ranged attack. so I still have the same problem, good idea though. The blitzer will take some tweaking to get ready for the map. I need to edit things like projectile origin and backswing point. I also need an icon.

I realised somthing obvious recently. so obvious I feel stupid: the tinker may have had his glow removed but he doesn't decay! If anyone can make a basic "corpse goes down" animation for the tinker (and robo-goblin) that would be really helpful.


BTW The dwarves are short on units though they do have plenty of long range. I might use the mountain king (no glow) if I can't find anything else, if somebody could give me the /mdx for me to edit that would be good as I have computer problems and I am unable to install winMPQ.

I might also use Cookies general if it has an attack.

for the Tinker, you could have a trigger that removes its corpse and puts another one there to make it look like it's the tinker's corpse

interesting idea but what do you sugest?