Oldhammer Legacy Project IV: 2017 Suggestions

symphonicpoet

Moderator
Any thoughts for 2017 yet? If we continue the theme I suppose this would be a science fiction year.

Just to start the ball rolling, here's a few of my thoughts:

1. How about a Rainbow Warrirors band to combat all the nasty out there lately. It's a little specific, but . . . we all love to paint marines every now and then, right?
2. Maybe we could do a Veterans of Galactic Wars group: a bunch of soldiers who have mustered out and now spend their time protecting the less fortunate. Or drinking beer. Or both simultaneously, if they can find a way to do it.
3. Alternately, we could do a biker/road gang, either for good or ill. (I'm feeling the good today, obviously. There's certainly plenty of inspiration out there for quite an assortment of demons right now, but . . . maybe still too soon for me.)

Oddly, all of the above could even be combined to some extent, if you really want to get whacky. Okay, Rainbow Warriors and heavy chrome are perhaps mutually exclusive, but there's plenty of room in the middle. And maybe even ways to force a Rainbow Warrior and a chromed up road soldier to work together. On bikes. Over beer.

To move the list to the top of the thread I'm editing my original post. The original is the quote above. Here's the list of suggestions as it stands as of 00:00 GMT 1/14:

Themes:

1. Road warrior themed street gang - Kinda symphonicpoet kinda ramshackle_curtis
2. Inquisitorial retinue - Fimm McCool
3. Bloodbowl team - weazil
4. Space Fleet/BFG - weazil
5. Necromunda gang - weazil
6. Veterans of Galactic Wars Chapter - symphonicpoet
7. The Away Team the classic interplanetary landing crew - Zhu Bajie
8. Khaotic Kosmic Kultists - Zhu Bajie
9. Astrozombies - Zhu Bajie
10. Xenomorph Safari - Zhu Bajie
11. Rainbow Warriors and beyond - Zhu Bajie

Spot color

1. Rainbow
 
I think doing space marines is going to look odd because of all the differnt styles of painting.

But rainbow theme is great, bold visually and easy for everyone to do in a similar way.

I think Rainbow -road-warrior gang drinking alcoholic beverages sounds brilliant!

"we drink, we drink, we drink again!"
 

inchmurrin

Member
I like the sound of Finn's idea and the rainbow theme - and by the way I may have painted too many marines to really be enthused by them.
 

weazil

Moderator
How 'off the wall' did we wan to go? Because we could do something like a Bloodbowl team, or a BFG/Spacefleet fleet, or even something like a Necromunda gang?


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symphonicpoet

Moderator
I'm trying to recall how this worked last time. Maybe we set a deadline on suggestions, and then set up a week or so as a voting period? Something akin to post suggestions by Jan. 31 and voting would be through the middle of February?

So here's what I'm seeing so far. I think we can probably say there's a consensus to dump the Rainbow Warrior Marine idea, and I'll limit my own suggestions to one. (Unless someone else feels like putting another back.)

1. Road warrior themed street gang
2. Inquisitorial retinue
3. Bloodbowl team
4. Space Fleet/BFG
5. Necromunda gang. (Similar to 1, but probably fewer bikes.)
6. Veterans of Galactic Wars Chapter. (Marines optional. Humans optional. GW cannon optional. But grizzled, and well armed.)

The rainbow thing could be a spot color idea. (It has my vote. As Curtis said, it's bold and not too hard to do. And it will provide a very distinct unifying theme.) But other suggestions would be fine, if someone has one. That could be a second vote. Also, if an admin wanted to move a post similar to this to the top of the thread and sticky it that might make things easier.
 

Cassarus

Member
I think I like the Inquisitorial retinue idea best so far, with our without rainbow theme. I could go for both, but bright shiny colors are always fun! :grin:
 

Zhu Bajie

Member
1. The Away Team the classic interplanetary landing crew - oldhammer stylee! Medics, Science Officers, Security guys, Alien Advisors. To Boldly Go Where no Rogue Trader has gone before!
2. Khaotic Kosmic Kultists evil insane space cultists from beyond the known galaxy!
3. Astrozombies from zombie Space Marines to skeletal Space Elves, the dead walk amongst the stars!
4. Xenomorph Safari. Multifarious alien life-forms and those that hunt them...

I really liked the idea of the Rainbow Warriors under a theme of LBGT solidarity (although I think Rainbow Warrior was originally a reference to Greenpeace's ship) but extending the idea beyond the Space Marines to Rainbow Warriors Homeworld or recruiting worlds as well, so would include Rainbow Gangs, Rainbow Scouts, Rainbow Xeno Allies, etc. So...

5. Rainbow Warriors and beyond. Stand proud with your LBGT allies in the infinite void, Rainbow Warrior marines, recruits, homeworld gangs and xeno allies.
 

Fimm McCool

Member
daddyorchips":1sa29dw8 said:
A rainbow-themed Necromunda gang sounds amazing.

Zhu Bajie":1sa29dw8 said:
1. The Away Team the classic interplanetary landing crew - oldhammer stylee! Medics, Science Officers, Security guys, Alien Advisors. To Boldly Go Where no Rogue Trader has gone before!
2. Khaotic Kosmic Kultists evil insane space cultists from beyond the known galaxy!
3. Astrozombies from zombie Space Marines to skeletal Space Elves, the dead walk amongst the stars!
4. Xenomorph Safari. Multifarious alien life-forms and those that hunt them...

I really liked the idea of the Rainbow Warriors under a theme of LBGT solidarity (although I think Rainbow Warrior was originally a reference to Greenpeace's ship) but extending the idea beyond the Space Marines to Rainbow Warriors Homeworld or recruiting worlds as well, so would include Rainbow Gangs, Rainbow Scouts, Rainbow Xeno Allies, etc. So...

5. Rainbow Warriors and beyond. Stand proud with your LBGT allies in the infinite void, Rainbow Warrior marines, recruits, homeworld gangs and xeno allies.

All great ideas. :) I'd happily contribute to any of these
 

inchmurrin

Member
I'd join in with Zhu's proposals or the necromunda gang. Whatever we do let's keep a Rainbow element in the challenge.
 

Matt in PA

Member
Some fantastic ideas in here. My favorites so far would be the necromunda gang, inquisitorial retinue or the xenomorph safari.
 

symphonicpoet

Moderator
Not taking votes yet, but updating suggestions . . . (I think this is what I've seen so far.)

Themes:

1. Road warrior themed street gang - Kinda symphonicpoet kinda ramshackle_curtis
2. Inquisitorial retinue - Fimm McCool
3. Bloodbowl team - weazil
4. Space Fleet/BFG - weazil
5. Necromunda gang - weazil[/i
6. Veterans of Galactic Wars Chapter - symphonicpoet
7. The Away Team the classic interplanetary landing crew - Zhu Bajie
8. Khaotic Kosmic Kultists - Zhu Bajie
9. Astrozombies - Zhu Bajie
10. Xenomorph Safari - Zhu Bajie
11. Rainbow Warriors and beyond - Zhu Bajie

Spot color

1. Rainbow
 
I like the rainbow idea, if it can be coordinated to make sure every color is represented.

Not as fond of the actual Rainbow Warriors chapter, Space Fleet or Bloodbowl themes. But the others all sound good to me.
 

Golgfag1

Moderator
I enjoyed the last challenge so much, I'll certainly be considering taking part in this one. However, I do have some concerns over the themes proposed so far, which I'll state now:

Themes:

1. Road warrior themed street gang - Kinda symphonicpoet kinda ramshackle_curtis - No problem
2. Inquisitorial retinue - Fimm McCool - No problem
3. Bloodbowl team - weazil - If, we don't get the numbers, whoever receives the miniatures, doesn't get a team
4. Space Fleet/BFG - weazil - A little bit too specialist, maybe?
5. Necromunda gang - weazil[/i - pretty much number one all over again
6. Veterans of Galactic Wars Chapter - symphonicpoet - pretty much number two all over again
7. The Away Team the classic interplanetary landing crew - Zhu Bajie - What race?
8. Khaotic Kosmic Kultists - Zhu Bajie - Pretty much the same as above, but this time we have a faction
9. Astrozombies - Zhu Bajie - Ditto above
10. Xenomorph Safari - Zhu Bajie - very interested in this one - but it's a lot of work for those who take part - so keep it simple to get the participation
11. Rainbow Warriors and beyond - Zhu Bajie - pick a game, otherwise you end up with a mis-mash of stuff?

Spot color

1. Rainbow - No problem]

So, as not to appear negative - I'd propose we run with a Sci-fi theme, as way of a change and leave off chaos - so a group of knackered space veterans with the occasional youth with big ideals thrown in, with maybe a pet or two (pretty much the Rogue one retinue or guardians of the galaxy team) - are my offering for consideration.

Paul / Golgfag1
 

symphonicpoet

Moderator
I can see where some themes would garner less enthusiasm than others, and where numbers would be required for some things, but so long as there's a vote, I'd guess that there will be enough enthusiasm for the winner. I suppose too many similar themes could poach votes off one another and split certain factions to the benefit of others, producing a misleading plurality, but the battlefields here are things of rulers and dice, so hopefully that wouldn't be the end of any actual world. Of course . . . maybe this whole thread is structured wrong and needs fixing. I sincerely hope the moderators feel free to change whatever needs changing to make this work better, or be more standard, or what have you. I've arguably jumped in a little boldly. Just . . . excited to get started. :"> Valid points, all, but I'm hoping they'll all fall away in the polling when the Rainbow Road Warriors Chapter of the Veterans of Galactic Wars prevail. ;)

Wait . . . does this mean each of us will probably incorporate his or her idea in whatever wins anyway? That'd never happen!
 

symphonicpoet

Moderator
. . . idea that maybe solves some of Paul / Golgfag1's objections: Should we limit nominations to one per customer? That would at least force us to be more self selective, I suppose, and it might cut out some of the frivolity or redundancy.
 
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