Hiimboredagain Raiders (Mini Faction)

Post by **Rev. Sylvanus** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:09 pm

What I have for you today is the result of mindless tinkering with leftover pieces from the Prison Carriage Rescue, Blacksmith Attack, and Scarab Attack sets. I recently pulled a Gladiator from the collector series and thought he went thematically well with my random Islander-torso barbarians, and below you see the results

Do I have any fluff for these guys yet? Nah. But I was interested in creating some chariot-type units. In the first test, the horses appeared way too close to the actual chariot cart, so I tried adding the Scarab Beetle to the harness, and, viola!

Simple Chariot.

Each chariot has a complement of two barbarians. One Bestiarius to drive the sucker, chuck javelins, and otherwise control the Beast (treated as subjugated from the 2005 rules).

On the back of each chariot is a barbarian warrior using a hand weapon and a shield. He gets a free ride into battle, effectively tripling his movement capacity on a single turn. The other chariot carries the "gladiator."

And this mini faction's hero is none other than Conrad the Barber, cliche Austrian Barbarian.

This mini faction is currently featuring in my Forum Battle: River Smithy Rumble, so go ahead and check them out in action!

~ Rev.

Post by **Theblackdog** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:16 pm

Scarab beetles are so much win.

You need to expand these guys... Medivo could use another player on the scene.

Post by **Zahru II** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:57 am

I like the choice of using bugs as steeds, rather unique.

Post by **Pwnerade** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:17 am

Beetle chariots. That has got to be a fist.

Post by **BFenix** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:37 am

This reminds me of that idea I had of bringing the Booster Draft game type from MTG to Brikwars.

Players buy several different sets, mostly the small and cheap ones, they are handed over randomly amongst the players. Then each player has to come up with a fighting force with the bricks he has. I think this idea is really awesome and offers great space for army/faction creation with the overall amount of randomness/awesomness going on.

Despite that idea, good job with the pieces left, definitely have that barbarish feeling,

Post by **morganm** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:40 am

Two words..... BAAAAAAAD AAAAAAAAAASS!

Post by **Bragallot** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:40 pm

Nice troops. They will die well

Post by **Zahru II** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:49 pm

BFenix wrote:This reminds me of that idea I had of bringing the Booster Draft game type from MTG to Brikwars.

I could see this work with blindpacked minifigs and 1-2 impulse sets per players.

Post by **Elmagnifico** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:53 pm

BFenix wrote:This reminds me of that idea I had of bringing the Booster Draft game type from MTG to Brikwars.

Players buy several different sets, mostly the small and cheap ones, they are handed over randomly amongst the players. Then each player has to come up with a fighting force with the bricks he has. I think this idea is really awesome and offers great space for army/faction creation with the overall amount of randomness/awesomness going on.

Despite that idea, good job with the pieces left, definitely have that barbarish feeling,

Reasonably Clever did a version of this a while back, with Advent Calendars.

Linkarooney

Post by **thade** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:29 pm

...just got the name. Nice faction.

Post by **Rev. Sylvanus** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:54 am

The idea of army drafting if very compelling especially considering the accessibility of minifigs in many of Lego's recent sets. Prison Carriage Rescue, Starwars Battle Packs, several of the cheaper PotC sets (not to endorse peaches), etc, etc, etc. I think it would be hilariously fun, especially with some trading before the battle in case some what to "uniform" their armies a little bit.

The Barbarian name was supposed to be a play on Hyborian...i don't think it quite worked, but whatever. To expand (Theblackdog), I thinking of a squad of Amazon's and a couple dudes with massive axes. But...I'm blanking on what to do for constructions/war machines...

Post by **BFenix** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:13 am

Catapults to throw projectiles like the Big ass Axe dudes. Wyrm/drake riders, disciples of Crom (that sounds like a

band)... iunno, the possibilities are endless.

Post by **Zahru II** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 1:14 pm

The whole name-pun thing just clicked to me right now, and it is genius.

Post by **Bragallot** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 1:17 pm

Give them a flamethrowing grizzly bear.

Post by **enders_shadow** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:20 pm

are you gonna make the amazons taller? With the cut-out grill technique... I think that would look really cool.