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July and August Poll - The Empire of Sun
🕑 Added 2021-06-04 19:13:53 +0000 UTCYear 531 of the first millenium
City of Lunnenburg,
Greetings Sun Emperor,
Disturbing news from the eastern border cities have come to the notice of this Council. The drums of war begin to resonate outside our borders and the rumors of a phantom menace spread like wildfire throughout the Empire of Sun.
Strange lights have begun to shine in the dark night and a strong earthquake shook the earth three moons ago. Our scouts claim to have seen Prince Rurik and his entourage venture into the Forbidden Mountains, who knows for what purpose. And meanwhile, our army languishes trapped in its own past glories.
It is the duty of this Council to recommend to the Sun Emperor the possible actions to be taken to reinforce our power.
Wittemberg is waiting for the gold shipment to rebuild the Imperial Gunpowder School. Upgrading our harquebuses is essential to keep enemies away from our borders and cause a large number of casualties in battle before enter the combat. In addition, new technology has arrived from Caladria, allowing us to create firearms that can be operated with one hand, even while riding a horse.
The Old Fencing Academy of Soltau has seen better times. Now it looks more like an ancient ruin than the place where the Empire of Sun’s best swordsmen are trained. The tale says that each promotion of swordsmen is accompanied into battle by their master, who oversees the battle from the top of his pretentious chariot, being honored with the victory of his students or disgraced by their defeat.
The Wawel Castle is the glory of Nelks. The sons and daughters of Volhynia's elite are sent to the castle where their spirit and character are forged under the strict laws of war. The winged cavalry and the Daughters of Volhynia are the most feared combat units in the entire Empire of Sun. However, the castle's master blacksmith has disappeared, and only he knows the secret to forging the unique armor of these soldiers. We need to find it.
Finally, these Esperians… For a long time they have lived quietly under the sun with no other concern than a good meal and a good bed to rest. The time has come for them to wake up. Rebuilding the Calista’s Alcazar will be key to rearming the once fearsome Esperian Tercios, and calling up their militias.
Many other actions need to be taken, but this can be a good start.
May the glory of the Sun Emperor be with us,
Great Council of the Empire of Sun.
Comments
Highlands_Miniatures
You have just made a big spoiler of one of the future armies we have in mind! haha
Highlands_Miniatures
Thnak you very much Morten! :)
Highlands_Miniatures
The Sun Emperor needs Imperial Stables, right? :)
Ryan McMichael
Blazing Suns heavy cavalry as a future idea! Thank you
Daniel Peterson
Rebuild the Alcazar! The biggest defect in the original GW Empire, was concentrating entirely on the German and Eastern European theme, and ignoring the equally important Spanish contribution, which for a fantasy oriented European Renaissance is probably even more important given their discovery and exploration of whole new continents filled with unknown creatures and people. Spanish style sailors and Conquistadors pronto! A great spin-off to this might be doing some Aztec-Mayan-Inca type human culture (instead of everybody else's obligatory Lizardmen), though they could still have Shamans and Priest who can control dangerous Jungle creatures, etc. Making the Mesoamericans human instead of lizards will also entice more historical minded wargamers to join the Patreon, and even if Lizards are still the most popular Aztec-like foe, you can have native human foes of the Lizards, to ally themselves with the Imperial Conquistadors, just as Cortes needed to conquer the Aztecs.
Morten Trydal
Wow. That is the coolest way of making a choice yet. Love it!
Highlands_Miniatures
We use Autodesk Maya for the first blocking phase and then zbrush to make the final sculpt! :)
Highlands_Miniatures
Thank you so much Michael! <3
Highlands_Miniatures
Thank you so much Erik!! <3
Highlands_Miniatures
Thank you so much Siebe, we're trying to do our best to create a inmersive background for the patreon! <3
Highlands_Miniatures
No worries Anton! This is just a little teaser of the lore of these cities and units, and the non-selected options will appear again in the future in other polls until they got selected! :)
Michael Jung
Oh and an off-topic question but whats your workflow? Do you use ZBrush or some other program for modeling and exporting ? :)
Michael Jung
Storytelling poll is really awesome :D I need some gunpowder lines, come on guys :P
It is worth describing in history why all goals cannot be completed at the same time.
Erik Johnson
The storytelling poll is awesome!
Guys.. This is amazing, I love it that you incorporated your poll into some awesome storytelling and worldbuilding!
Furio
Black powder! Canons!
Highlands_Miniatures
The Esperians are great sailors, who knows what they could find in the distant waters...
Mike Grant
Undead pirates please.
