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Theme:
> Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth meets Made in Abyss and 19th century American Gold Rushes
> Skirmish campaign-based ruleset

Rules:
> Notes must include references to a game loop
> Transparent background
> Wojaks are expected, but other MS Paint creations are welcome

LAST TIME ON...
>>88453902
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these threads are awful
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>>88499813
Welcome aboard!
>PROOOOOOOOOT
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Repostin' for this
>>88477586
Possibly above Titanium Miner?
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/tg/ - Traditional Games
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I love this particular compass being assembled. Good stuff, lads.
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So what’s the relationship between Perseus ll and the Titanium king? Both atlanteans, of some capacity, but vastly different monarchs. A dual monarchy? Different nations? Is atlantis a confederacy :0 wonder if the two have ever met!
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>>88500929
As far as we know, Atlanteans and the Atlan both have the same roots in history. Both consider themselves the "Real" Atlantis.
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>>88500929
Titanium King is an Atlan, not an Atlantean. Not that Atlans consider the two to be different things.
Atlanteans do. Atlanteans very much do.
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>>88499775
It’s sorta pathetic to try to ape leviathan of all things.
At least that came about pretty organically. This is just forced shit.
Try having an idea of your own for once
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>>88501098
I can't imagine someone not understanding the difference between an 1860s style Great Game setting and an 1890s style Scientific Romance setting what the fuck is wrong with you.
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>>88499775
>Seeker of Truth
>2 above Scholar Prophet

>As Above, So Below
>"Am I an Outlander? We are all Outlanders to someone."
>Rules incredibly complicated but somehow perfectly balanced and impossible to cheese
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>>88501599
Sorry
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>>88499775
Waaayyy too much fucking text in every box
The person who made this doesn’t understand what they’re doing at all. It’s like a monkey painting a picture - they copy some of the actions but without any understanding of why those actions are done
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>>88502195
>It’s like a monkey painting a picture
exactly
kino
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>>88502195
>stop having fun guys
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So, do you think it is a societal split or a political split? are they different groups in a juxtaposed society or different nations with severely conflicting ideals.

also. Which do you think is older, Atlantis or Mu? I personally think Atlantis, I'm not sure on Lemuria, the general image of their society is obviously very spiritual, possibly tribal, but to what level and how much other factions regard them is up for debate.
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>>88502300
I feel like civilisation that Lemuria patterns itself on was the OG deep cave society. Current Lemuria are LARPers who don't even begin to understand the eldritch powers their prophecies are contacting.

The old "atlantis" that split into Atlantis and Atlan was a surface society that sank. Probably very old, but current Atlantis and Atlan might not be similar to it at all.

New Mu is probably the youngest of the underground civilisations. Old Mu? No idea.
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>>88502195
I actually agree. It does need to be edited a bit.
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>>88499775
>skywhale got extinction'd so hard it isn't even on the chart
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>>88502415
I would agree with a caveat, its better starting with a more packed chart. We can make a more refined chart down the line that covers the bases, but you want to keep the unpolished one with all the ideas prior.
Treat it like it is, a WiP.
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>>88502300
>>88502361
My personal headcanon:
>"Old" Ones come first, don't do much, a layer appears above them
>Old Lemuria is founded and eventually collapses, survivors degenerate into hole people
>New layer appears, it's Old Mu, they have their golden age and eventually collapse, significant Mu population escapes when a new layer forms above them
>This one is the cave people. Some of the cave people go lower, degenerate into the Morlocks. New layer forms, Mu refugees proceed upward.
>New layer is Atlantis. Atlantis has its golden age, but finds itself in conflict with the Mu refugees. Eventually, Atlantis sinks and a new layer forms above it. Atlantis splits, half becoming the Atlans while the other half remain Atlantians. Atlantians and Mu refugees flee to the new layer.
>At some point during this period, a population discovers the ruins of Old Lemuria and they begin larping in accordance with the prophecy.
>Atlantis and Mu refugees discover the newest layer, this is us.
>Mu refugees decide to found their own kingdom, partially on the surface, partially in the depths.
>Atlanteans prefer the idea of tricking surface people into helping them retake Old Atlantis, wind up working with surfacers.
>At some point Napoleon and Malcolm descend into the earth, discover different secrets of the underworld and lead different factions of changed humans.
>Sky people are probably the next layer that will form, will eventually become the surfacers when America/Europe/Etc all sink into the Earth.
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>>88499793
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>>88503055
>tribals retconned because they are no longer PC
>whales went extinct
>plesiosaurus never seen again
>gorgs got squatted
4th ed confirmed for taking all the kino and skub out of the game
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>>88503225
I'm not sure I like the idea of new layers constantly forming above, I much prefer it when the earth has always been hollow and it's been a constant process of discovering (and rediscovering) layers beneath. It gives a sense of there's always something deeper and darker below. Though I guess that since rocketry technology won't be developed for another several decades you can always say there's another layer above, or several. And another thing, how do you imagine the layers above are formed?
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>>88503505
>How do you imagine the layers above are formed?
I think it's a weird sort of metaphysical phenomenon; As a culture gets "heavier" it begins to sink, and the next layer is formed over time from their ideas about the world.
Also, I think that this is a sort of retroactive process; the sinking of Atlantis caused Atlantis to have always been sunk. Old Lemuria probably got hit pretty hard with this, resulting in their physical degeneration. Mu refugees and the Lemuria Larpers possibly caused later layers to become aware of the process, corrupting it in some way and making them able to remember that there even was a time before the destruction of these societies.
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>>88503450
>Tribals retconnned
>The Negroid-Celtic features of the disgusting race are the second most shocking element of the blanched degenerate kind, surpassed only by their malice for civilized peoples. They do not create, they only steal. They do no communicate, they only deceive. They do not sow, they only make war. If only Oliver Cromwell were alive today, then he might repay his debts to the British Crown by ridding Agartha of these sub-human menaces masquerading as men.
>"My only regret is they didn't let me categorize them as animals."
>-Richard "That Nun had it coming" Butler

All they did was add a bunch of new tribes and tone down the deranged anti-Irishism for the Cullagahs. Don't put that on the level of whales and battlefield hazard Plesis.
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>>88503505
>I much prefer it when the earth has always been hollow and it's been a constant process of discovering (and rediscovering) layers beneath. It gives a sense of there's always something deeper and darker below.

The way I was looking at it is
>Old cultures dig/sink deeper as new ones arrive to get away from the threats / keep hidden from the annoyance.
>New cultures dig deeper to discover what the old cultures represented.
A never ending cycle of reaching for the bottom, only to find that below every layer you unearth is another darker mysetry.
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I liked The Rats better than Napoleon for the bottom right honestly.
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>>88503505
>And another thing, how do you imagine the layers above are formed?
A few fringe astronomers are reporting "disappearing stars" and "strange shadow planets" blocking known objects from view. This is of course, nonsense.
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>>88503450
no gorgs, no SOVL. simple as
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>>88503225
perhaps the Atlans survived the sinking of Atlantis and stayed in the old ruins, because ''they were protected by the sacred Atlan Walls'', or so their history says. Now they regard the Atlantean ''refugees'' state as an enemy in a civil war, to be absorbed and reforge a unified Atlantis.
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>>88504045
>"THEY CROSSED THE SACRED ATLAN WALL!"
>It was never about them entering Atlan territory
>It was about them leaving
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>Human host
>Full of larvae
>Where did this unit come from?
>I don't remember buying it
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>>88504212
>Where did this unit come from?
>I don't remember buying it
oh no
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>>88499775
The Pale Dweller (Next to the scholar-prophet)
>Supposed to be a dead god of ancient Lemuria
>Isn't dead
>Isn't actually a god either
>Not even sure why they worship him
>Spends most of his time working with the Outlanders because he likes how they dress
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>>88502361
Lemuria would be considered the oldest due to being the descendants of the post-bronze age collapse Indo-Aryans that drove the Dravidians into southern Hindustan and interbred with the Kashmiri and Jammu people, then settling into the Lemurian continent to form a farmer society. The "modern" Lemurians aren't the same though, as they began interbreeding and adopting the culture of the Cro-magnons of the lost land, their pagan beliefs being subverted into the new prophecy cult.
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Somewhere near the top I guess
>Clockwork Thinker
>Dredged from the ocean
>Only hits on prime numbers
>Only moves by the sum of two squares
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The leviathan compass thread anons getting butthurt over this is actually pretty embarrassing and sad.
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>>88504442
I'm from the Leviathan compass and I'm having fun. Stop inventing drama.
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>>88504323
Wrong. Indo-Aryans are descendants of Lemuria, not the other way around.
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I hope people remember what "Lemuria" is supposed to be. It's a hypothetical continent between Madagascar and India to explain the presence of Lemurs in both regions but not anywhere in between. While there is certainly a history of Lemuria in /x/ schizobabble from Theosophy and the Shaver Mysteries, it at its core needs to be Southern India and completely separate from Indo-Aryans (which were North India).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumari_Kandam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamils
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>>88504904
For the purposes of this thread, it's probably important that people read up on Blavatsky and her brand of wacky as well as the actual origin of the Lemuria theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophical_Society

And Agartha for good measure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agartha
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>>88504904
>>88504954
I prefer anons assemble their own image of Lemuria through schizo energy alone.
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>>88504442
This is 80% the people from those threads anon
Don’t be retarded on purpose please
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>>88504958
True, true, I agree with your statement.
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>>88504904
>he wants poos in his lost lands

Silence, dravidian swarthoid.
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>>88504995
Wrong. I want people to aspire to greater depths of schizoposting.
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>>88505003
>greater depths of schizoposting.
ask and ye shall receive
one moment please
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Below Cloudelleafint

>Hyperborean Memory Engine
Fuelled by the lingering psychic agony of a dead civilisation
Leaves smog trails where it travels, blocking line of sight
Gains a charge for each living unit that dies nearby
Powerful long ranged attack can only be used by spending charges
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>>88504954
Blavatsky is an idiot, though. I'd be perfectly fine with including her theories so long as it isn't called "Lemuria", because "Lemuria" actually has a meaning outside of her schizoposting. She just attached her theories to the name because it was a "lost continent" and thus must surely be like Atlantis, when in reality it's a pre-continental drift scientific theory.
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>>88505068
Can also be extreme inquisitive, to the left of Atlantic Promethean maybe.
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where do the skywayman and the cloudellafint fit in? not saying they should be removed but they're just kinda pinned together at the top layer
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>>88505126
the cloudellefant exists solely to ensure the sky whales don't. and you DON'T want the sky whales to exist again anon. you DON'T want to think of what happened in the sky whale empire at its height of power
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>>88505069
>Blavatsky is an idiot, though.
You say that like that's a bad thing in this context. People like Blavatsky had an undeniable influence on the exact type of pulp fiction we're pulling from to make this thing, so understanding how that influence came to be is useful when coming up with ideas. We don't have to have Lemuria be everything Blavatsky claimed it was, and it's better not to do that, but knowing what Blavatsky said and why she said it can be useful.
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>>88505126
>where do the skywayman and the cloudellafint fit in?
We do not know what the 1e devs were thinking.
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>>88505143
I'm just saying that in order for "Lemuria" to be "Lemuria" it needs to be the place where lemurs got from Madagascar to India, which places it in the southern Indian ocean. If it doesn't do that, it's not Lemuria. It's something else.
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>>88505179
>I'm just saying that in order for "Lemuria" to be "Lemuria" it needs to be the place where lemurs got from Madagascar to India,
anon
Lemurs got from Madagascar to India through the underground.
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>>88505179
>he doesn't know
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>>88505186
>>88505193
You know how humans turn into weird degenerated monsters when exposed to the underworld? Lemurs are that but for monkeys.
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>>88505126
Lore used to be looser. It took a while for the devs to figure out what they wanted the setting to be.
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>>88505186
>>88505193
>>88505197
Lemur
Below Treasure Hunter
>Horrible little monkeys that are everywhere beneath the surface
>Easiest source of meat underground
>Possibly just extremely fucked up monkeys
>Common trash unit in Lemurian armies
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>>88505253
Okay, we don't need to go that far.
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>>88505137
>muh horrors of the skywhale empire

can we stop this shit? one fucking novel gets released by some d-tier writer and because he didn't read his lore now we have to deal with "i miss my kino wino whale whore houses!!!!" every thread.

it was canon before that the sky-nobles controlled most of the SWs and even had vacation-homes attached to a few; it was lightly hinted that a few of these were "love-dens" but there were never entire fleets dedicated to them, and especially not to the extent of the large-scale sex trafficking it made it out to be.

it's shit like this that got them removed from the game in the first place, especially after that guy that brought his homemade model to LMSG got kicked out for filling the attached airship with his anime figurines. template attacks were a perfectly fine idea until the mere concept of them got attached to rape-whale-airships
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>>88505247
1e was pure nonsense that doesn't have anything in common with the current setting except some units and location names. It's best to ignore it entirely.

>>88505253
kek. Should add that they might degenerated original lemurians.
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>>88505294
>1e was pure nonsense that doesn't have anything in common with the current setting except some units and location names. It's best to ignore it entirely.

>We have to fix the inconsistencies of 1e, what can we do for 2e?
>Get rid of those corny Shroom Farmers?
>Great idea!
>How about we deal with the fucking Skywaymen that everyone hates?
>No those guys can stay.
2e was a mistake.
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>>88505317
still dont get why cloudellifants are in the game other than memes and brand recognition. no one even fucking uses them, but they still manage to creep their way onto every generic rulesbook cover
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>>88505283
i dont care it was an army that had few but large models perfect for a retard like me so i can paint less and masturbate to sky whale rape porn more
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>>88505332
I heard at a tournament once that it's because Dave Lane had a stuffed elephant doll when he was a kid that he would go on magical adventures with.
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>>88505354
honestly? kino. i'm glad he still gets to go on magical adventures with his elephant and i'm glad his elephant is killing the shit out of the stupid fucking rape whales
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>>88505332
way to out yourself as a little zoom zoom secondary. EVERYONE knows the cloudellefants are the heart and soul of this game. they will always be relevant always be meta and always be viable. i bet you only got into this game through Mu empire memes
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>>88505351
>secondary AND bait
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>>88505367
>heart and SOVL
>most proxied model in the game
telling
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>>88505382
it never had an official model ever since the lawsuit, everyone knows the company bought the rights from those guys that technically were not legally entitled to give it to them
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threadly reminder
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>>88505424
>PROOOOOOOOOOT
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Is there a reality where a pure gunboat/olm is meta. and if so, how?
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>>88504322
Lemurian Kamehameha
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>>88505389
I don't think that this is an appropriate setting for Unseen
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5TH EDITION LEAKED

JAPAN IS IN
HYPERBOREA IS IN
SHROOM FARMERS UNSQUATTED, NOW MYCELIUM CONFEDERACY AND HYPHA SOVIET FACTIONS
RUSSIA HAS BEEN REPLACED BY THE 'Tsarists' FOR POLITICAL REASONS
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>>88505708
>JAPAN IS IN
>HYPERBOREA IS IN
AHHHHHHH NOW I HAVE TO GET TWO NEW ARMIES FUCK

TELL ME THEY DIDN'T NERF THE PROOOOOOT!
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>>88505143
helena would be a great schizo poster on 4chan if she were alive today
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>>88505708
>"tsarists"
this is highlanders all over again
speaking of which, is uncorrupted malcolm still a never ever?
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>>88505631
>he doesnt know about the reseen cloudefant coming out next year
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>>88505708
>Lore updates
>Japan is getting invaded by Mu through Mount Usu in Hokkaido and Americans are helping them counterattack, probably because the invasion threatens Alaska
>Colonialist Shroom Farmers are engaged in a civil war, now German and Atlantic backed Mycelium Confederacy vs the commie Hypha Soviet that's backed by the Malcomites and Lemurians (each for their own reasons)
>several documents imply Napoleon is playing both sides against each other
>Tsarists are just Russians, nothing's actually changed
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>>88505793
Anon, Malcolm is lost to the depths for good, just be glad he's not as badly gone as Napoleon. The only way we're getting his uncorrupted version is if a prequel edition comes out, which is possible since people really like that immediate post-discovery era. Probably going to be a hero focused one though, or just a regular rpg.
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>>88505883
>he's not as badly gone as Napoleon
Why didn't they listen bro, he tried to warn them. He told them what would happen, and they didn't listen.
After Saint-Helene sunk, it was too late.
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>>88505816
>reseen
can't believe they actually licensed the dumbo model from disney in the first place the absolute madmen
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>>88505907
Napoleon didn't warn anyone. It was Bouchard that tried to warn people.
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>>88505883
They’ve been teasing that Malcolm’s doing something important down there and might not be fully corrupted since 2e.
I know no one actually read the Shardbringer novels aside from diehard Lemuria fans, but it’s pretty heavily implied that he’s got something to do with the Ring of Agartha prophecy.
>>88505864
>Japan vs Mu smackdown
That’s going to be a fucking slog in the tournaments. Just you watch, Mu is going to eke out a victory just to get stomped by America in the novels.
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>>88505883
>just be glad he's not as badly gone as Napoleon.
fucking abovers and their historic revisionism
Napoleon is the ONLY sane person in this entire fucking setting.
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>>88505940
Far more likely that America is going to go to war with the UK, seeing that the Brits and Mu are now allies.
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>>88505935
>He dosn't know the true reason Napoleon tried to unite Europe for
The anglo ruined everything once again.
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Petition to change Napoleon from "Emperor of France" to "God of France" because we already have the Mu emperor and empress on the bottom right.
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>>88505964
>implying angloids do anything other than sit around with their thumbs up their asses waiting for the heiress to fix everything
>>88505907
>>88505982
these anons know what’s up
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I just really miss the 1E rulebook art. Anyone else miss when the lost land was perceived as hell?
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>>88505988
That's a good point. But maybe something more sinister than "God". Demiurge of France?
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Maybe one possible way to tie in sky people is to steal from Johnatan Swift's "Gulliver"?
I know the book is set in 18th century and this is 19th, but it's got enough of a weird/schizo style to fit in.
Just advance their tech 100 years and make so that the whole earth has the specific minerals that can support flying Laputa castle (or maybe even castles) instead of only a small island nation near japan.
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>>88506079
>But maybe something more sinister than "God". Demiurge of France?
Lord of France?
Titan of France?
Despot of France?
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>>88506079
>>88506164
Shadow of France?
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>>88506164
Demiurge sounds cool and also megalomaniacal so why not
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>>88506063
dang that's some SOVLful art right there, thank you anon
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>>88506190
I like Shadow of France, and I was the one who suggested Demiurge. That one doesn't roll off the tongue, "Shadow of France" does.
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Next to the Failed Monk
Thunder Mole
>Created during 2E in the early 2000s to try and tap into the cute monster/pokemon market from some reason\
>Raises troop morale
>If placed next to other Thunder Moles it forms a wall that shocks passing troops, multplying the damage with each mole
>Fucking bullshit when this cheeses your strongest troops.
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>>88506631
>>Created during 2E in the early 2000s to try and tap into the cute monster/pokemon market from some reason\
GOD FUCK NO
WE ARE NOT INCLUDING THE FUCKING 2e CREATURES DAMNIT.
2e WAS A MISTAKE
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>>88506635
Look man, It's part of the games history. Let's at least put the most popular one one the chart. Besides it's still in the game technically. Although it's just in the lore and used by that Nikola Tesla guy as his little mascot guy.
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>>88506741
we almost fucking finished the damn chart without these abominations making their way in
damnit man
why would you do this
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Bumping for compass completion.
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>>88505253
>'ape escape' is a cheap meme list that new players gravitate towards
>its surprisingly effective
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What would Charles Darwin be doing in this setting? What kind of changes to On the Origin of Species would have to made due to the existence of underground kingdoms of humans and semi-humans? I like to imagine that he's got the most schizo sounding theories for humanity's origins in the depths of the earths continually evolving as they move to upper layers, but laughed at by the public.
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bumping, in accordance with the prophecy
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>>88501005
I feel like we could have the Atlantean's be descended from the early generations of settlers, and the Altan's be descended from later arrivals. Get a bit of the old nationalism going.
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>>88509765
>The oldest parts of Atlantean society picked up and left when it sank
>The youngest parts were left behind to fend for themselves
No wonder the Atlans declared their own king and got all weird about titanium
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>>88507587
I like this guy. I gave him a hat.
The American Officer, below the Treasure Hunter.
>Thought being an officer meant he would get a cushy desk job somewhere.
>When being sent to treat with foreign powers, he's being made to lead expeditions into the deep.
>Mainstay in colonial armies purely for his coverup mechanics.
>Why be corrupted by things man was never meant to know if you can just pretend they don't exist?
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>>88505126
Could be that some of the larger caves beneath are big enough that traversing it with balloons and shit is easier than walking, and that could be where the phants come from.
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>>88510595
That spot is already filled by the Lemur actually.
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The Drummer of Ouo
>Top-Tier Lemurian Unit
>Fantastic Morale Buffs but completely immobile
>Apparently not a Lemurian, but just hangs around them like a mindful uncle
>Could tell people of Lemuria's history, explicitly doesn't to blue-ball scholars
>DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM
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>>88508359
Darwin Died in 1882 so he probably only got minimal speculation. His disciples and those who really got into his stuff however will probably begin eating one another after the fact.
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>>88511679
That's exactly how it works going back to the original Verne work. Freakishly huge tunnels are a mainstay of things, with gusts of wind so vast that climbing up or down is suicidal and subterranean oceans.
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OP you around?
If you're not up for finishing it just say what fonts you used and I can complete the rest.
Would help a ton if you posted the image without text too on top of what we already had, just for editing purposes.
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>OP is ded
so sad
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Alright yeah I'm just going to pick up where OP left off when he died from his migraine.

Anyone know what font is used for the original?
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>>88514857
I think it's something in the Verdana family, but none of my Verdanas appear to be exactly right.
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>>88514903
Close enough.
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>>88514909
Might be worth giving the Monster and the Heiress another pass while you're at it. Monster's name is listed as the Hired Hand and the Heiress has a typo.
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>>88514939
REQUEST FOR OP TO POST IMAGE WITHOUT THE TEXT ON IT.
I have time today, I can go through and fix everything up for sure.
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>>88514955
There's this, if you just need the backgrounds. Otherwise, best bet is to trawl the old thread for the individual jaks.
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>>88514984
It will save me tons of time to not have to edit in all the images. If the OP has it with the text as a seperate layer and can just post with the images in that'd be huge help for fixing things up.
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>>88515007
Given OP seems to be MIA, I wouldn't count on getting that out of them. Godspeed.
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>>88515035
Alright then. I'll get to work either way, maybe OP will pop in before its done.
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Tbh I hope they touch on Olm Men again, they feel a little like a footnote ever since their debut in The Sunken Sun. Don’t get me wrong, that sequence between Colonel Shikamura’s company and the Olm Men skintakers was sick exposition and Tio was a really fun supporting character of the race but there’s so much potential with them, I think.

For one Tio’s arrangenent with the Japanese that was kind of like being a foreign legion helper type deal could open up some more opportunities for Outlanders to use native forces (I love mixed armies fight me), the idea the Olm Men’s ability to navigate caves and disappear seamlessly making them a resource for outlander expeditions is really cool.

Feels so tantalizing that the author casually drops their ancestral lands being the First Layer, which is wild.

Do you think the reason Olm Tribes are mostly Second and Third layer river nomads now is because of Outlander outposts and drillibg disrupting their homelands? From the way Colonel Shikamura talks about them it sounds like Skirmishes and ambushes staged by Olm chieftains are not a new thing.
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>>88515588
>sky whales got their own slot
completely fucking unacceptable, prööööööööötbrös, how will we ever recover
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>>88515660
>newfags never got to experience the Sky Whale menace
they will never know the meaning of SOVL
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>>88515588
>skywhales are back
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>>88515706
Not having to deal with Sky Whales is what all true pröööööötbros strive for.
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Some spots had multiple 'entries' and I'm sure I missed a few so let's just say
>If I missed yours, post again in the new slot it goes in and I'll add it.
>Or reply to a link to the original post and say where you want it instead of what was taken.

and always remember,
>PROOOOOOOOOOOT
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>>88516179
>>88510595
Reposting for this guy. The damned lemurs won't have that slot!
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>>88516179

>>88488749
Beneath Arab Merc

>>88488543
Beneath Condottieri

>>88486768
Between Vernes & Monk
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>>88516228
>Beneath Condottieri
that image not transpareny enabled and also too small to fill a square
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>>88516256
The question went out and the Condottieri also wasn't transparent.
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>>88516279
Yes but also the image provided is too small to fill a square so it doesn't work either way.
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>>88516179
Outlander Irregular
left of Hoken, nelow phalanxman
>Low range, low armor, lots of bodies and guns
>Followed the Sky-Captain for a share of the profits, probably won't live long enough to get it
>Devs admit they only got a save because the model has a helmet on
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>>88516210
lemurbro should get the slot if skywhale got in, it's only fair
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>>88516228
>>88516256
>>88516256
>>88516279
>>88516288
How's this?
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>>88516179
I had Tartaradon under Condottieri, but I'm unlikely to draw for it.
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I know I'm missing more but there are few tiles left.
May also replace tiles if a radical idea comes up that's better / a post I missed got that spot first and wasn't an obvious joke.

>>88516210
>The damned lemurs won't have that slot!
Well I'm compiling this now so you're GOD DAMN RIGHT THEY will.

>>88516526
Works for me lol. But I suspect the original poster had other ideas.

>>88516542
I remember that. I'll try to fit it in if there are slots.

>>88512050
no mention of location
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Also hope nobody minds me editorialising their posts so it fuckin' fits into these tiny boxes you overly verbose mongoloids.
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>>88516619
Don't worry, that's tradition at this point.
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not gonna lie
>glitched out eldritch nightmare fuel industrial zombies
Hyperborea lookin' pretty kino tho
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Should we start thinking about naming this fucked up wargame? I feel like Scramble for Agartha works as a subtitle.
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Missed Franklinite Expedition last thread, that means we only have two slots left.
Technically one since the Plesiosaur/Tartaradon has one taken in theory already.
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But the Franklinite Expedition has no unit stats so will be replaced if someone else posts / links to a cooler idea probably,
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>>88516596
>>88504322
>>88516596
Pale dweller doesn't have a slot, though it doesn't have any cool stats either. Maybe have it be a mystery box character whose designer died? Could fit in below lemurian officer.
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>>88517180
I did add the pale dweller and have no idea where it went.
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Sky Whale model when? Hordetrannies and firing line lists can both seethe and eat flying whale shit.
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>>88517210
secondary detected, everyone knows sky whales not having a model is half the point. if you REALLY want to run one with a model, just get a third party one
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>gorgs moved to list of "legacy" units and no longer tournament legal
>models all moved to "last chance to buy" sales
surely in 5th edition they will come back right?
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>>88517251
I'm just 3D printing a nicer plastic. Secondary makes are way too expensive for what they are since mat qualities have been declining across the board the past couple editions and I'm not gonna shell out for metal just yet.
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>>88517303
don't tell nobody but
gorgs are in
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Neither of the posters gave me an image that could actually be used so I just did it myself (you lazy shits)
Tartaradon won because I liked it more.
Sorry plesiosaur guy, that's just how the nut cracked this time.

Its done unless anyone wants to suggest changes / sees errors to fix.
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>>88517537
feels like having two additional slots for "meme above" and "meme inquisitive' are possible also, if anyone has ideas.
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Think aura-stacking on Heiress Explorer faggotry will still be cancer in low point games in the new edition? I'm tired of this shit bros.
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>>88517577
>Think aura-stacking on Heiress Explorer faggotry will still be cancer in low point games in the new edition?
The balance team hasn't changed for the next edition, mate.

You will face Thunder Mole / Heiress armies AND YOU WILL LIKE IT.
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>>88517603
Goddamn it. The worst shit is that they're even viable in high point games by padding their lists with suicide bomber sky captains. Yeah they're flimsy, but when they kill 3-4x their points worth in their explosion and basically no real army fields enough AA to stop several of them from closing without massively opportunity costing them to lose to every ground list ever, sky cappies basically ensure that any gunline or swarm focused list has to live in large buildings or just autolose. 4th edition meta sucks. Even if the balance team is still retarded, hopefully the new armies change up this dynamic in some way, ideally adding more generic low cost AA that can also be used against lightly/unarmored ground targets.
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>>88515588
Bit of a misspelling on some of tjem, but that's okay. Weird that the WW1-era jaks got put in though.
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Also, setting needs a name, as mentioned.
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>>88517543
Hyperborean Hyperwarrior, fully Above
>"BEHOLD THE COMING OF THE NEXT AGE!"
>Hyperboreans have existed purely as gimmick units that show up in other factions' armies since 1e
>Hyperwarrior is the only proof that they're finally getting a book in 5e
>Test-painted model literally fell out of a writer's suitcase at a convention
>>88517657
I propose Underwar: Scramble for Agartha
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>>88517702
>Hyperborean Hyperwarrior, fully Above
Fuck yeah. Will add.

>Underwar
boxers or briefs?
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>>88517657
As above, as below
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>>88517718
>As above, as below
I dig it, also helps squeeze an extra suggestion in theory since
>>88501599
didn't make it in.
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>>88504212
dare i say it, but maybe this guy should be considered for meme inquisitive
>>88517712
>boxers or briefs?
I think giving it a shitty, easily memed name is actually the best way to do it. Helps sell the idea that this is a thing with a fanbase that takes the piss out of their own game.
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>>88510595
You dumb lazy fag, that's a jak of Julio Garavito. The anon posted it because someone talked about needing a scientist leader.
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>>88517770
Not anymore. See, I gave him a hat.
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>>88517657
Scramble for the Center of the Earth
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>>88517770
>>88517773
he did in fact give him a hat
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>>88496581
Sad that this wasn't picked, ah well.
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>>88517848
yeahhh fuck I knew I must have missed some.
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>>88517848
Got lost in the transition to the new guy compiling the images. Maybe we can add Polish people in the next compass thread.
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>>88517702
>>88517718
>Underwar: Above & Below
As the main game setting with
>Underwar: Scramble for Agartha
Being the cashgrab prequel with the setting and character origins?
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>>88517537
I suggest deleting "Didn't even try to hide that one" for Julius Verne, his box got too much text.
>t.Julius anon
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>>88517900
Come to think of it, the last collaborative compass thread I saw wound up being titled MEATWARS. Does anyone have a better idea than Underwar?
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>>88517941
>Does anyone have a better idea than Underwar?
basically every idea is better than Underwar, even the one that got quads.
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>>88517543
Meme inquisitive should obviously be The Spanish Inquisition
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>>88517777
quads of truth
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>>88517983
>niggers playing this army are so obnoxious there's a codified section in the rulebook about slowing down tournament play procedure with excessive pop culture references.
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>>88517961
>>88517986
You know what? I agree. I vote Scramble for the Center of the Earth.
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>>88517777
>this fucking lame ass name got the quads
SO SHALL IT BE GOTTEN
SO SHALL IT BE DONE
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>>88518014
I'M SENT HERE BY THE SNEEDING ONE!
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>>88518014
Name is lame, but admit it, it actually does sound like something that was shat out by a shitty corporate board room meeting.
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Will post once we settle on the meme extreme inquisitive tile.
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>>88518038
>>88518014
Need to be a undertitle or something, like I don't know, "Descent : Scramble for the Center of the Earth" or hell "Agartha : Scramble for the Center of the Earth"
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>>88518060
How about

>AGARTHA DESCENT:
>Scramble for the Center of the Earth
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>>88518043
If we take too long to decide, it will stop being a meme. Hyperwarrior is already dangerously close to being just more lore.
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>>88518151
Can't draw because I'm at work, but something like
>The Questioner
>Appear in every armybook
>Question every lore point
>Has no impact on the game
>Aaaaah I'm questioning !
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>>88518151
The Papacy (can't find a good period-accurate wojak or be assed to draw one, might do one later)
>Merc only army
>Not sure if the underdwellers are demons or pagans
>Do we send missionaries to save them?
>Are they able to speak latin?
>Don't know what to do
>The bible never mentioned this
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Expedition Agartha: Scramble for the Center of the Earth.
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>>88517983
I never expected them to show up.
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It was a good suggestion.
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>>88517537
Would you be willing to swap thunder mole with a unit in a lower position? Doesn’t really make sense for a mole to be so high up
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>>88518541
I would be. Suggestions?
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>>88518541
It’s a thunder mole, not a regular mole. Regular moles burrow in the ground, thunder moles burrow in lightning.
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>>88518545
Maybe the Prophet-General? It would put him closer to the other Lemurians.
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>>88518564
OP added the prophet general so I can't swap that one around.

I guess it is what it is. The mole digs inside lightning. You figure it out.
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>>88518585
original OP here, I can do that, give me a few minutes
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>>88518617
And here I thought that headache took your head clean off, glad to see you.
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>>88518617
Welcome back mate. Hope the migraine wasn't too bad.
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>>88518617
HE'S RETURNED AS A HYPERBOREAN
DO NOT TRUST HIS LIES!
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>>88518617
Done
Also thanks a lot for keeping the thread alive anons
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>>88518736
when we needed him most
he returned
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This thread is saved on sup/tg/, right?
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>>88518828
The original is, we can probably leave a link to that thread here after this one's archived so it's sequential.
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>>88518828
The previous one is, this one not yet.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2023/88453902/
I'd wait at least until we hit the bump limit before archiving this one
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We'll probably use either this thread to refine things or a new one to actually get serious hit that depends on vested interest. Shit, we could probably turn this into a general if we begin making sheets for rules and basic storyboard bullet points for the factions.
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>>88518872
This setting is so gigaschizo I'd be up for developing it further.
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>>88518901
If I were to continue, I'd start by exploring factional rivalries and expanding each faction with their own chart.
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>>88519041
>expanding each faction with their own chart.
Which faction we starting with?
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>>88519041
Here's the sheet in any case, we should probably jot down basic premises or something generally agreed upon about each faction or what rules systems we're taking things from/hybridizing. Personally I saw a mix between Infinity and 40k but with an ammunition system.
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>>88519051
I'd do it two at a time. So maybe something like "Anglo-French Coalition vs Atlantians". And you'd have schizo axis like "Royalist vs Parliamentarian" and "Titanium vs Orichalcum", with Orichalcum being a metal associated with Atlantis.
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docs.google.com/document/d/1bRrxdD1BMLmcMDFeszwqg2Rcjrt8DDo7tjAxoOB6KQ8/edit
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I'll start on Basic Premises

Atlan
>Titanium
>War
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>>88519070
>Google
shame there are no alternatives amirite?
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>>88519051
I say we start with the most simple faction, maybe colonials or independent mercs
Here's a doc I made for the previous thread, could be useful to catalogue stuff we write down
> docs.google.com/document/d/1bRrxdD1BMLmcMDFeszwqg2Rcjrt8DDo7tjAxoOB6KQ8/edit
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>>88519083
Colonialists is a good start. That's probably the "good guys good at everything" faction.
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>>88519083
I'd definitely be more interested if it wasn't through a globohomo site, but I'll toss some edits in.
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>>88519083
>>88519096
I feel like the Colonials kind of fill themselves out.
And the fact that they're based off of real-world nations kind of means the Colonial factions complete themselves, at least in the general sense. Starting with them will be pretty easy yeah.
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>>88519051
I should we should agree on rough directions for each faction first, like what defined them, mechanicly and in lore.
For exemple Lemuria are pseudo Indo-European (or their ancestor ? Cousin ? whatever) LARPing as Old Lemuria after they stumbled on their prophecy things (with Degenerated Lemurian being maybe "survivor" of Old Lemuria).

Giving real identity to Colonials seem important too. To me English sound like the "vanilla" colonials option, with average units, focus on range and importance of officiers. French sound more like a gimmick faction with weird units and characters (for colonials).
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>>88519135
>Giving real identity to Colonials seem important too. To me English sound like the "vanilla" colonials option, with average units, focus on range and importance of officiers. French sound more like a gimmick faction with weird units and characters (for colonials).
Let's settle on what factions there even are then first.

>English
>American
>Japanese

Judging from the chart, I wouldn't consider the French to be "colonial powers" exactly.
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>>88519135
English may be "a handful of specialized models", while French are more like IG "human wave attack, with lots of artillery".

One thing I'd like to see is more traditional cavalry units. I noticed early on there is talk of units "deleting cavalry", but very little in the way of actual cavalry is on the present chart. Maybe neither the English or French specialize in cavalry, but they should have some.
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>>88519167
A good point. This would still be in the era of cavalry too.
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>>88519182
Plus you'd probably see several factions not fully motorized in their logistics. So having horses/mules to carry loads would be the norm, with fancy mining machines and tractors being for the rich.
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>>88519160
Yeah, maybe French are less colonials and more "Scientific" expedition style, their units are rather firmly Inquisitive after all.

>>88519167
Eh sound kind of the opposite, the two frog characters are gimicky while their two units sound more elite but limited kinda of style.

American are apparently mobile glass canon who need to use cover
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>>88519051
If we are starting with colonials chart i propose we use co-existence vs imperialism and military vs civilian as axes
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>>88519160
There are also japanese and turks
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>>88519217
>Eh sound kind of the opposite
I'm just going off their irl military doctrines. British favored 'thin red line', French favored levee en masse. French did have the larger population.
However, we can make up all sorts of shit that affects circumstances. Underground may have led to a British population boom, French could have fallen into the underground, who knows.
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>>88519219
Needs to be weirder.
Assimilation vs Imperialism
Expunge (military, getting rid of weird monsters and anomolies in the depths) vs Cultivate (civilian, specifically shroom farmers, but also STALKER analogues that want to use the anomalies for profit)
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>>88519234
What if french litteraly fallen down? Lets say paris fell into sinkhole and now french capital is under-paris, that is also one of Gates of agartha
eiffel Tower could have been constructed as lift from underground
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>>88519264
>eiffel Tower could have been constructed as lift from underground
Brilliant. Space elevator Eiffel Tower.
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>>88519264
>>88519275
>eiffel Tower could have been constructed as lift from underground
>Brilliant. Space elevator Eiffel Tower.
Yeah that's getting a "Kino" stamp from me.
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I know that this thread has evolved into developing this setting, but I just want to gauge if you guys would be interested in doing another compass with a new theme?
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>>88519261
Maybe exploration instead of assimilation? To me assimilation is part of Imperialism
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>>88519290
>but I just want to gauge if you guys would be interested in doing another compass with a new theme?
Yes and it seems like we're already planning another one about only the colonial powers of the setting.
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bare in mind that one our resources is a required reading to get a sense of what the lore or character building should be like.
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>>88519096
>>88519109
I imagine the colonials are the Space Marine equivalent of the setting, the most popular, the most updated, and the most sub factions. The default "good guys" who are good at everything and get wanked a little to hard by the writers (that being us).
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>>88519291
>Exploration vs Imperialism axis
I like it
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>>88519298
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18857
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Also OP just have to mention apparently you kicked off some wild shit.
Thanks for the starting thread mate. Glad I could help take over compiling the rest while your head exploded.
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>>88519301
I kind of view the Colonialists like the IG, and the Anglo-French Coalition like the Space Marines. One relies on pluck and courage, the other relies on technology and training.
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>>88519261
Subjugation vs Diplomacy.
Exploitative vs Scientific
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>>88519360
I think Exploration and Diplomacy fit together.

I like having one axis being
>Exploration vs Imperialism
and maybe the other axis being totally absurd or unusual.
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Where should Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu go in the Layers? I think having their own empires stretch across several layers might be a good idea, but everyone needs to have their capital somewhere.
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>>88519282
Sound fucking great.
>Paris is called "The City of Lights" because it litteraly shine in the underground
>>88519234
Oh yeah, got it, I was just trying to extrapolate for the compass.
Looking at the chart itself, it seem like among the above civilisation, English are in the middle, French are Inquisitive and American Greedy. We could try to use that.

Like the "armies" are different in nature and goals. French are wondering where the fuck did their capital land and launching exploration/scientific expedition with escorts.
The British (at the time at the top of their empire) are using the vast ressources of their colonial empire above and trying to actually colonize the place like madman.
The American are searching for ressources to exploits and fuel their young nation.
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>>88519294
>>88519298
Alright. I got one based around another classic novel, this one being closer to the Turn of the Century. I'll wait before posting though. Excited to see where this one goes.
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>>88519393
>I think having their own empires stretch across several layers might be a good idea
For sure.
Easy to go by the chart too.
Atlantis / Atlan close to the top.
Lemuria seems to be the deepest faction that Colonials contact.
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I'm going to be honest with you. The Atlan/Atlantis division was a bad idea and just took up space on the compass that could've went to Mu, the Colonials, or Atlantis. Especially the Colonials because they're meant to be the "middle ground" guys.
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>>88519498
Atlantean propagandists at work.
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>>88519498
I kinda agree, it would have been better suited to Atlantis's own chart.
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>>88519096
colonials are definitely more of a specialised army, given the t-shirt saves on everyone except tanks, and overreliance on ranged damage/artillery

I'd assume Atlanteans would be the newbie friendly army, since you have good armour and survivability across the board, and units are more reliant on innate stats than buffs (lemurians) or synergy (Mu)
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>>88519167
Americans should definitely count as cavalry specialists, you have Teddy's Rough Riders which are one of the best units in the game, but also the most expensive.
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>>88519689
Americans as mounted infantry is fine, but they aren't the faction that has a heavy cavalry that charges in like a heavy-hitter knight.
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>>88519689
Cavalry in a cavernous setting that also has jungles, perilous cliff faces, marshes and large lakes that requires boats suggests to me that Cavalry would be redundant. Even in the Verne novel they had to travel on foot by necessity because of the terrain. Good luck getting horses through green hell, much like vietnam you'll be on foot leading said animal by their reins anyways.
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>>88519732
I think once you're in the prehistoric area, things get a lot more open.
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>>88519712
From the compass, Americans sound like they are mobile and hit hard at good range, but are made of toilet paper and got bad save, needing cover to survive returning fire.
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>>88519744
That seems counter to the general American doctrine of Marching Fire.
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>>88519732
>>88519742
We are talking about caverns that feature sky whales and plesiosaur. I think there will be enough space for horses.
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>>88519742
Mu get a pass for being pseudo-sassanid mongols who most likely reside in the equivalent of steppes, but other then that I wouldn't expect anything other then pack mules here.
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>>88519754
It seem the game faction have very different strategy to their IRL version. Also I don't think American where using marching fire in like 1870~
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>>88519754
That was american army, not cavalry, after the battle of San Juan Hill it got proven to be a shit doctrine.
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>>88519290
>>88519399
That also sounds fun, but best leave it until these threads are done. Don't want to compete or overwhelm people.

>>88519498
2e was a complete mess already and they had to introduce the split on top of it. Best to headcanon it, or wait for 5e since I hear they're merging the two back together.
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well that document filled up fast
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I'm gonna call it a night. But thanks to whoever helped with the document.
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>>88520188
No problem friend. Sleep well.
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>>88520188
Been fun. It's been great seeing this come along!
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>>88520188
>>88520183
>Didn't notice the document and got ton of stuff to catch up to
Nice
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>>88520474
Yeah anons went wild apparently.
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the schizo energy is flowing
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>>88519362
OK, if you want something more absurd then how about
Rational vs Irrational? This way either insane People, or actual unnaturaly changed colonials like Napoleon could fit
Exploration vs Imperialism is great so i would keep it
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>>88520710
>Rational vs Irrational
That's pretty great honestly.
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Wrote a setting opening. Please feel free to edit or otherwise add to it.

It is an age of revolution, exploration, and empire. The world has been thrown into disarray by the discovery of deep caverns beneath the Earth, vast underground layers wherein dwell ancient cities and civilisations, long lost to the waters of time.

Men, beasts, and machines now move underground, as the colonial empires of above seek to explore and exploit the newfound territories that lie beneath their feet.

But there are Things that live in the hollow layers of the earth, old dominions, monsters, and worse.

There are the advanced and prosperous city-states of New Mu; the lost kingdom of Atlantis and the Atlan Republic, long whispered of in myth and dreams; the prophecy worshipping priests of Lemuria who eat in the shade of ancient twilight; and below all that is known, amid the ice covered sunken isle of St. Helena; Napoleon broods in silence.

Great cities rise and armies march to challenge the old, as the world above moves to the worlds below. But the darkness is deep, and none know all that dwell beneath.
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>>88520732
>Please feel free to edit or otherwise add to it.
I think I will!
But for real passive voice should be avoided though.
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>>88520732
Oh yes. fantastic.

Wasn't there a TTRPG spinoff or something?
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What would communists think about agartha? Just another place that capitalism will ruin, or ideal place to build socialism?
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>>88520790
>Just another place that capitalism will ruin, or ideal place to build socialism?
Doesn't matter what they think. Communist leaders will take it for their own.
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>>88520773
Are you talking about Journey to the Core? Yeah there was one, it was quite good
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>>88520732
Wonder how exactly Napoleon got corrupted. His "shadow of france" title imply he himself is only the shadow of himself.
Maybe the battle of the pyramids actually took place near the pyramids in this world. Maybe the Pyramids are linked to depth (or something in the depth) and Napoleon uncovered something under the great pyramid.
A truth that gnawed at him until his final defeat broke him.

Or maybe he snapped after one to many bad joke at his size, who know.
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>>88520822
Maybe it was actualy caused by the British? They used what he found in egypt on secret and sunk st. Helene just to be sure he wont escape
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>>88520816
Yeah the author for the "Ineffable Deep" novels contributed, probably why he as been so slow to deliver the sequels. Come on man, I want to know how Charles will react when he finally reach St.Helena.
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>>88520843
Reminder that the british decided to add a lead coffin to Napoleon tomb when they gave his body back.
Just to be fucking sure.
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2nd REP is bullshit. Not only do airships get bombs but they drop elite units who get buffed as they die, and the last dude is soloing fucking Mu beasts.

French were already nonsense lore wise, but they get airships and Agartha beasts and Sardaukar? Gtfo
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>>88520959
Just be thankful Napoleon is banned, man.
We'll get to more French bannings eventually.
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>>88520790
Oh God, Marx should just be getting started around now. I think he'll be pointing to all the abuses going on underground of how much capitalism has corrupted us, and then there'll be worker protests, the hired hands will strike, etc. etc. And then you'll have all the anarchists throwing bombs at anyone important.
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>>88520985
Have no idea how Napoleon buffing the REP across the table made it through play testing.

Just goes to show this company has always been here to sell models and the game is a distant fourth concern.
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Cheers to all the document contributors.
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>>88521192
Proposition for Deep Emperor Napoleon Colors. To differentiate between him and normal France he should replace blue with purple on his flag.
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>>88521250
APPROVED.
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>>88521250
Yes but with colorfull pants. Wouldn't be pre-WW1 france if they didn't have brightly colored (and really nice) uniforms.
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BUMP LIMIT APPROACHING
NEW THREAD?!
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Brainstorming mechanics, specifically the multi-layer one.
I don't remember any wargames that do multiple game fields, except for Osprey's "A Billion Suns". Gonna look it up this evening.

Methinks it would be best if each scenario had a starting layer and a set amount of accessible layers (or a set range you roll for) that need to be prepared, to lower the number of terrain pieces and tables you'd need. Maybe some layers could be set up as a traditional wargame table and some like Spacehulk/Necromunda.

So for example players pick Scenario A. They decide (or roll) on a starting layer and then roll for additional layers. They get the starting layer of 4 and for additional layers they get 1 above and 2 below. And then the rules for Deep Drunk complicate traversal between layers.

>>88521450
Let's do it when we hit it, just don't forget to put the doc in the OP
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>>88521499
>just don't forget to put the doc in the OP
Probably better to put it in the first reply so its not opened by every random passerby.
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>>88521515
yeah, that would be best
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>>88521576
First thing to decide is the dead centre, I'd say.
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>>88521593
>The Hiker
>Stumbled here by accident
>Is actually a moving set-piece, not a unit
>Complex randomized movement rules make him impopular as he waste every player time
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>>88521660
Reasonable.
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wtf is going on here, and why do I feel drawn to it?
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>>88521686
>wtf is going on here
>>88518736

>and why do I feel drawn to it?
Something magic is happening right now that none of us will ever be able to explain
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>>88521576
This would be colonisers only, right? So France, Britain, America, the Ottomans, Japan, and maybe some others then.
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>>88521715
Yes exactly, only colonial powers and "Surface" (Level 2) dwellers.
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>>88521715
Yeah, i think it will allow US to explore both them and mercenaries (when their time comes) more in depth than if we were to combine the two
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>>88521686
Also
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>>88521576
Add the one that started it all
Definitely dead center, I'd say second row from the bottom. The extremes should be reserved for leader units or elites imo
> The Hired Hand
> Hired workers of Colonial powers
> Your main way to get to other layers
> Cheap and ready to fight, but don't stand a chance against a real combat unit
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>>88521660
>>88521840
On it for the next thread's OP.
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>>88521854
Should colonials units that appeared in the first compass be on this one too ? On one hand, well it would make sense since they helped define their faction identity, on the other it would already take space.
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>>88521888
I think they should, there's 81 spaces to fill - a plenty big number of units we need to create, even if we reuse the already existing ones
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>>88521888
>Should colonials units that appeared in the first compass be on this one too ?
If someone suggests it in the next thread, they'll be included I guess. Otherwise, its a fresh start to see where things go.
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>>88521888
I count 19 colonial/human unit types on the chart, excluding leaders. I think it's fine adding them, but it's up to anons. We should also add unit lists to the doc for each faction, would give us a better idea of who needs fleshing out.
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>>88521715
For some reason I imagine Germany isn't into this rush, but for some fucking reason Austria-Hungary is going schizophrenic over it.



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