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Post by kaiphranos on Jun 30, 2021 20:04:52 GMT
Anyone else read this series? I finished up the last book the other week, and got to thinking about what some of the armies might look like in HotT - eventually wrote it up for my blog.
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eg407
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Post by eg407 on Jul 1, 2021 7:52:16 GMT
Hi kaiphranos,
Actually had the same thoughts a few years ago. I was looking to do something in 28mm, but then I got distracted by other shiny projects. I like you army classifications. For the project I was thinking of, I was looking to use the earlier books as inspiration. Before more of the steam-punky vibe sets in. Might get back to it one day, especially now there are a larger number of plastic kits out there that make kit-bashing so much easier!
As for the look of the armies, especially the Wasps, rather than Romans I was actually inspired reading about the Macedonian conquest of Greece under Philip. I thought of the Light Airborne being more akin to the Companions, elite troops with a hard punch. The Ants (Spartan) and Beetles (Athens/Syracuse) being Greek(ish). With the Spiderlands having a Persian look. Mantids have an almost Gallic/Tracian/Germanic feel to them. As independent fighters with a flare for swordsmanship. As for the Commonwheel, it always struck me as more medieval than the other relms. Sadly we don't get many battle descriptions from the 12yr war. I think I need to read the books again to remember what look I had thought to go with for them.
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Post by kaiphranos on Jul 1, 2021 10:45:48 GMT
Yeah, there is definitely a bit of a Classical vibe, isn't there? I hadn't thought about the Wasps as Macedonian, but the Spiders as Persian or maybe Carthaginian seems fitting. The Commonweal does seem more medieval and more Asian than the rest of the world - I feel like samurai or medieval Chinese might be a good starting point for them.
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