Quote from: Shemek hiTankolel;932396Chirine,

What miniatures would you recommend as suitable proxies for Shunned Ones? Also in PoS the Shunned Ones have some type of hound. Any information on what this thing is called and if it has any specific attacks or ability? Thank you.

Shemek.

I use the Shunned Ones from David Allen Designs - contact Howard Fielding from the Tekumel Project, as he may stock these. I am personally very fond of the compressed-air spigot mortar, as it's just the thing to discourage those pesky player-characters. Otherwise, West Wind made some kind of 'sand djinn' that look the part; I have some of them, as well. My original Shunned Ones were Minifigs SF aliens, now very (and I do mean very!) long out of production.

Hrugga asked about this beast as well; no data, aside from the quick mention in PoS. I use various animals for this critter.

Quote from: chirine ba kal;932401I use the Shunned Ones from David Allen Designs - contact Howard Fielding from the Tekumel Project, as he may stock these. I am personally very fond of the compressed-air spigot mortar, as it's just the thing to discourage those pesky player-characters. Otherwise, West Wind made some kind of 'sand djinn' that look the part; I have some of them, as well. My original Shunned Ones were Minifigs SF aliens, now very (and I do mean very!) long out of production.

Hrugga asked about this beast as well; no data, aside from the quick mention in PoS. I use various animals for this critter.

Thank you sir. Some good leads there I'll follow up on. I forgot that Hrugga asked this a while back. For the meantime I'll keep using my cardboard minis until I can get a 3D one.

Shemek.

Quote from: Shemek hiTankolel;932406Thank you sir. Some good leads there I'll follow up on. I forgot that Hrugga asked this a while back. For the meantime I'll keep using my cardboard minis until I can get a 3D one.

Shemek.

Happy to help! I don't know what the status is on any of this stuff, so ask Howard. David is an old friend from the 1980s, who loves Tekumel miniatures as much as I do and is in the happy position - like Howard himself, bless him - of being able to do something about it. We trade ideas a lot, and it's great fun to see what he comes up with.

Agreed about the cardboard minis, too; I used some cardstock Swamp folk for years, and also a huge set of wonderful Hlyss - Talisanta's artwork printed out on clear acetate in color, and based up to attack our ship. Very effective to create a massive - and scary! - horde, I thought.

I forget - did she also do Shunned Ones in her wonderful set?

I'm waiting for the Missus' kaika to be done, so I dug out the Sakbe road set I did for the Battle of Anch'ke; I'm making a storage / travel crate for it, and trimming it down to my standard 120" table length - it's 140", in three sections, at the moment.

Or, maybe I'll leave it alone, and just do the crate. Castle Tilketl has one; first thing I did for that model...

Yum! Yum! Roast kaika with all the trimmings, just like Granny ba Kal used to make in the village!

"May you heartily stuff yourself until you are about to be sick," he said, giving the traditional well wish before a feast.

Quote from: chirine ba kal;932393Welcome to my life! And people wonder why I'm pretty much a recluse...

Sigh.  Sigh, sigh, sigh.

Considering Phil left a trail of documentation in his letters to various wargame magazines...

... and for that matter the fact that Dave T., Moose, and Olav are all still around and remember playing D&D with Phil with me reffing, and the creation of the green bound ditto sets...

Oy gevalt, as my dear Yiddish granny used to say.

"compressed air spigot mortar" -- All things considered I'm just as glad Phil never turned serious attention to modernistic/SF weaponry.  The stuff he DID come up with was bad enough.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;932441"May you heartily stuff yourself until you are about to be sick," he said, giving the traditional well wish before a feast.

Gosh, Master Frito!

"We boggies are a hairy folk, we love to eat until we choke, sing gobble gobble gobble..."

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;932442Sigh.  Sigh, sigh, sigh.

Considering Phil left a trail of documentation in his letters to various wargame magazines...

... and for that matter the fact that Dave T., Moose, and Olav are all still around and remember playing D&D with Phil with me reffing, and the creation of the green bound ditto sets...

Oy gevalt, as my dear Yiddish granny used to say.

Yep. I'll bet you're just as gobsmacked as I was. Tell a big enough lie long enough and loud enough, and it becomes truth. Especially on Facebook.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;932443"compressed air spigot mortar" -- All things considered I'm just as glad Phil never turned serious attention to modernistic/SF weaponry.  The stuff he DID come up with was bad enough.

The little cart has six bombs on spigots, and four wheels. The back two are for positioning the thing at the right angle, and you spin the front two to compress the air. The neat thing is that as the Shunned Ones roll the cart around, it charges the air cylinder. All right out of the Alexandrian Library and - guess what!!! - Muslim manuscripts from the medieval period. The bombs, just so you know, are pottery and filled with incendiary materials.

Oh, huzza.

You ought to see the little model of the Shunned One air car fitted up as a 'bomber' with these things. :eek:

Yeah, and people wonder why we kept Stone's Arms and Armor to hand as well as Payne-Galway. It was so very hard to fox him; he was an expert on obscure ancient and medieval weapons, and could whip this stuff out at the drop of a helmet.

Quote from: chirine ba kal;932450The little cart has six bombs on spigots, and four wheels. The back two are for positioning the thing at the right angle, and you spin the front two to compress the air. The neat thing is that as the Shunned Ones roll the cart around, it charges the air cylinder. All right out of the Alexandrian Library and - guess what!!! - Muslim manuscripts from the medieval period. The bombs, just so you know, are pottery and filled with incendiary materials.

Oh, huzza.

You ought to see the little model of the Shunned One air car fitted up as a 'bomber' with these things. :eek:

Yeah, and people wonder why we kept Stone's Arms and Armor to hand as well as Payne-Galway. It was so very hard to fox him; he was an expert on obscure ancient and medieval weapons, and could whip this stuff out at the drop of a helmet.

I'm reminded of the Belgian "Jet Shot" six or nine round spigot grenade launcher.

Also, it's probably good Tom T. never got his mitts on a hundred or so of these... "sorry, the gunners heard the "FIRE" order while the traverse crew was still spinning them around to recharge the air..."

Would I do that:

Quote from: chirine ba kal;932448Gosh, Master Frito!

"We boggies are a hairy folk, we love to eat until we choke, sing gobble gobble gobble..."

Bits of garbage, that is, that they were not saving "for later."

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;932452Bits of garbage, that is, that they were not saving "for later."

Bored of the rings, but never tired of turkey

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;932451I'm reminded of the Belgian "Jet Shot" six or nine round spigot grenade launcher.

Also, it's probably good Tom T. never got his mitts on a hundred or so of these... "sorry, the gunners heard the "FIRE" order while the traverse crew was still spinning them around to recharge the air..."

Would I do that:

I still think it was pretty funny that after I did up a couple of Chinese war rocket tubes for laughs - I had a half-dozen figures that I'd gotten for a buck - and used them once in a battle he went out and paid huge piles of real money to do a massive battery of the things as yet another of his 'wonder weapons'. I liked the notion, taken from a colonial-era site, of using those 'party-popper' things to simulate the rockets' path and anybody hit by the confetti was a casualty. I keep a pack of a dozen party poppers around, just in case...

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;932451I'm reminded of the Belgian "Jet Shot" six or nine round spigot grenade launcher.

Also, it's probably good Tom T. never got his mitts on a hundred or so of these... "sorry, the gunners heard the "FIRE" order while the traverse crew was still spinning them around to recharge the air..."

Would I do that:

I still think it was pretty funny that after I did up a couple of Chinese war rocket tubes for laughs - I had a half-dozen figures that I'd gotten for a buck - and used them once in a battle he went out and paid huge piles of real money to do a massive battery of the things as yet another of his 'wonder weapons'. I liked the notion, taken from a colonial-era site, of using those 'party-popper' things to simulate the rockets' path and anybody hit by the confetti was a casualty. I keep a pack of a dozen party poppers around, just in case...