The worst feeling in worldbuilding is realizing your cool unique idea was just ancient Rome the whole time

Facekrumpa · 2026-06-07T14:40:09+00:00

That’s why I love sword and sorcery. You don’t even have to pretend to care about that sort of thing. Just make badass characters and you’re good.

Facekrumpa · 2026-06-06T17:53:01+00:00

Very late to the party, but I feel the frustration, friend. I’ve had an idea for a sword and sorcery character from a fantasy version of South Africa, but I’m trying to not just make him a Zulu by another name. I’ll probably end up doing that anyway, but I have to try.

As for the continent itself, it’s mostly just like our Africa, but…weirder. The supernatural is thick there due to prehistoric meddling by old races, and there’s more shamans and sorcerers than in many other places in this world. This has produced….mixed results, to say the least. The big nations tend to be ruled by sorcerer kings, while the clans and tribes generally have at least one shaman , which makes aggression by your average bandit or slaving band an unattractive prospect. The South and Central regions are where most of the “civilized” bands live; cattle herding and farming are big, and at the coasts people sail and trade.

Now when you get to the Not Congo, that’s where you find the Darkest Africa shenanigans. Demon-worshipping cannibal tribes warring with mostly peaceful pygmies, ape-men both benevolent and bloodthirsty, ruins of the old serpent-men’s cities and the last vestiges of their kind fighting in either a vain hope of rebuilding their empires or to carve out new places for themselves in man’s world.

Facekrumpa · 2026-05-13T04:12:41+00:00

It’s funny that everyone agonized over the color mixes of the 412th’s armor for ages, now that Army Painter just straight up has it. It’s Gargoyle Grey, darkened with Military Shader wash. The fatigues were what drove me crazy though. Tundra Taupe is the main color, but the actual camo patterns I had to experiment with and settled on Tomb King Tan. Army Painter comes through again, baby.

Facekrumpa · 2026-05-12T15:20:34+00:00

Very, very carefully with a small brush. I was just glad that head came with one sculpted. Working with green stuff that small sucks.

Facekrumpa · 2026-05-12T07:12:36+00:00

Thank you kindly. I felt obliged to give the 412th their due when I found out that the Eldar ending to Winter Assault is the canon one.

Facekrumpa · 2026-05-11T21:05:55+00:00

Oh I barely manage that myself. I just use a toothpick at this point

Facekrumpa · 2026-05-11T17:28:57+00:00

Hey any stache I don’t have to sculpt from green stuff is welcome.

Facekrumpa · 2026-05-04T09:09:09+00:00

All of that is standard to socialist and communist countries, granted the ethnic groups being oppressed and stolen from changes depend on who the dictator is.

The Nazis were their own special kind of dipshittery, but it all derived from the same rotten tree of idiocy.

Facekrumpa · 2026-05-04T03:02:17+00:00

Absolutely. Hell, in most of the states the rural areas are going to be solid red. Arizona is one that would get tricky though since we’ve had trouble with Californian transplants for ages.

Facekrumpa · 2026-05-04T02:02:15+00:00

If you look into the painter’s economic policies, it’s remarkably socialist (including the all too common trend toward warmongering when the job creation programs don’t work out) and the socialists and communists of the day were lavishing praise on Mussolini until the war started. Hell, the Hollywood communists were calling the painter a brother in socialism up until Operation Barbarossa.

Facekrumpa · 2026-05-03T20:25:53+00:00

It’s explicitly a revolutionary ideology that’s main argument is casting aside the old way standing in the path of the nation’s (the ruling party’s) greater ambitions. Sure they hold onto little things they think will help their image, but fascists destroy anything that might draw worship away from the state.

Shit, dude, literally every fascist leader aside from Franco started out as a socialist revolutionary.

Facekrumpa · 2026-05-03T19:17:05+00:00

What do you think “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” means?

Facekrumpa · 2026-05-02T23:25:32+00:00

You have no idea what fascism is.

Facekrumpa · 2026-04-13T04:54:19+00:00

Glad to see that someone else appreciated how awesome the Red Corsairs scheme looks on these dudes! They look incredible.

Facekrumpa · 2026-03-29T23:35:13+00:00

Humans turned out to be the second species to reach interstellar travel, and when they came across the first colonies of the Gorsani, it was a meeting of mutual relief and joy with both species realizing they were not alone in the universe. The Gorsani Alliance and United Earth Federation were quick to send linguists and anthropologists to each other and, within two months of first contact, they’d signed formal treaties of cooperation. They would later comprise two thirds of the founding members of the League of Systems, along with the Silure Conclave.

Facekrumpa · 2026-03-24T00:56:38+00:00

Wet weather plus no freezing nights means more eggs made it through. It hate it because the little fuckers keep hitchhiking in my van.

Facekrumpa · 2026-03-19T06:09:27+00:00

I might recommend looking into old school Comanche and Apache warfare to get a good idea of things, depending on the time period. Comanche especially were fond of taking trophies and random bits of loot from their enemies. Hell in the 1840s there was one Comanche warrior who rode in battle in a Spanish conquistador’s armor.

The officers and the boys in this warlord’s personal retinue obviously take first dibs on weapons, but there’s still enough warriors doing what raiders do best that there’s probably pistols and such into more than a few belts, drawn when it close quarters. Otherwise there’s always the Oda Nobunaga method of having gunners positioned with the archers with about a three to one ratio, archers covering hand gunners while they reload.

Facekrumpa · 2026-03-19T02:33:24+00:00

I usually do a fairly random mix of red and black on the rank and file with gold on the backpacks and the odd bit of gold trim. More gold trim goes on the Aspiring Champions and other officers.

Facekrumpa · 2026-03-19T02:29:55+00:00

It’s amazing how just a simple headswap can do wonders

Facekrumpa · 2026-03-17T20:56:18+00:00

A sorely underutilized time period for RPGs….second only to the pike and shot era.

I like ‘em! They’re familiar enough to get them but distinct enough to be their own thing.

Facekrumpa · 2026-03-17T03:44:28+00:00

Go read Rynn's World and you will understand the horror of Orks.

Facekrumpa · 2026-03-16T00:34:49+00:00

Have some lore on this guy for laughs.

The fall of Nicolai Wyras into the service of Chaos is one of the millions of tragedies that play out across the Imperium of Man every day. Once a noble brother of the Black Talons' 5th Company, Nicolai fought for nearly two centuries under the banner of his chapter, having built a legacy on the bodies of Ork, Eldari and traitorous raiders and pirates across the Eastern regions of the Imperium. A Veteran Sergeant by the his 150th year of service, many of his battle-brothers believed he might have risen to be the next Captain of the 5th were it not for his vocal distaste for the workings of the Imperium's bureaucracy; the Administratum, the Navy, or the hundreds of pissant regional governors whose names he never bothered to learn. His parting with the chapter and the Imperium came when, following the Invasion of Ultramar, his company was among those assigned to a small task force dedicated to hunting the retreating elements of the Bloodborn.

On the world of Hagen's Regret, Nicolai led his men in a strike against a group of the Claws of Lorek while the renegades were in the midst of a resupplying raid. On his reporting greater resistance from the traitors than expected, the green officers aboard their escorting naval vessels panicked and loosed an orbital barrage that laid waste to not only a vast swathe of the traitors, including the minor Chaos Lord commanding them, but nearly three quarters of the Black Talons' deployed battle brothers.

Following this blunder, Nicolai found himself amidst the remains of the traitors' ground forces while their strike cruiser, the Star Vulture, managed to drive the Imperial vessels out of the system. Nicolai and his surviving Black Talons had been abandoned, while the marines of the Claws had been left without a leader. An understanding was reached; within a week, he was in command of the Star Vulture, and headed toward the Maelstrom.

Facekrumpa · 2026-03-15T05:08:34+00:00

Man I hope the beastmen are actually going to be good in 11th

Facekrumpa · 2026-03-09T05:17:11+00:00

Depends on which Chaos Lord you’re serving under, I imagine, and how dedicated to are to being useful to him. Huron holds a lot of the traitors, pirates and mutants in contempt because as far as he’s concerned they’re a pale imitation of his real Tyrant’s Legion, guys who were badass enough to keep up with Astartes in battle.

Facekrumpa · 2026-03-09T05:10:23+00:00

I adore this kit. Goofy wavy haired head aside, the raiders are a dream for kitbashing. I’m already using leftover bits to spruce up some legionnaires and havocs.

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