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Look what I've found ! Some figures that fit right into the list. I've asked reaper minis if I can use their pictures on my blog.

http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#detail/14501

Search for "sea" in the miniature finder and you should see some excellent sea elves, slithe raiders (a decent match with nautican rank and file) and some sea elves that might fit the bill for magic users.

I've found some more sites too which I'll post once I've checked them out properly.

this guy might make a decent Vulcanis:-

http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#detail/02496

Here's a great contender for The Guardian of Time...

http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#detail/14502

I love this site !

Hey Sigmar

Just checked out the miniatures you have on the Nautican blog they all look really good really interested in seeing the concept art/miniatures for the rare units

don't you think that Goroloth would make a good Kraken? He's tentacly and fishy at the same time...

Yes, I like Goroloth. I might actually change the Kraken profile to fit in with the miniature. At the moment the Kraken (which is really an underwater Dragon and should be called a Leviathan !) doesn't add a lot of variety to the army, it's too similar to a Dragon really.

You've given me food for thought, thanks.

Any ideas what sort of profile Gorloth would have ?

For anyone who's not sure what Goroloth looks like, here he/she/it is...

I actually think...it should be treated like a chariot. I mean think about it, it's a huge underwater creature that can probably get ridicoulous speed, so there is no stretch that it would have an impact hit. It would most likely have multiple attacks thanks to all those tenticles, probably also with those tenticles can't be flanked (Like the Vargulf Beastial Fury I believe it's called,) and rather than a traditional weapon would probably have like either the ability to forcefully spit water, or even cause like a mini-localized tsunami...maybe using the artilery template.

So let me suggest it like this

M=6 WS=6 BS=2 S=6 T=5 W=5* A=5* I=4 Ld=8?

Fear. (Terror?)

Armor Save: The Gogolith recieves a 4+ Armour save due to it's very thick scales.

Beastial Fury: Due to the large numbe of tenticles, and thick scales, the Gorgolith can not be flanked.

Tenticles: The Gorgolith has several tenticles that allows it to make multple attacks. Since the Gorgolith's scales are so tough, the best way to wound the Gorgolith is to attack it's tenticles. Therefore, whenever the Gorgolith loses a wound, it also loses one attack from it's profile to represent the tenticle beeing severed.

Impact Hit: (not sure how to write this...but has one)

Torrent: The Gorgolith can shoot a large localized torrent of water. The range of this attack is 12". In the shooting phase, nominate a target and check for range. If within range, roll the artillery die, and the unit suffers that many strength 5 hits. ON a misfire, the Gorgolith can not move or use this attack next turn due to water filling it's gills. It may still attack any unit it's in base to base contact with.


PS: If this creature has already been crazily thought out....I'm sorry. I just had a spark of ideas.

I like the below ideas Zombie:-

"Beastial Fury: Due to the large numbe of tenticles, and thick scales, the Gorgolith can not be flanked.

Tenticles: The Gorgolith has several tenticles that allows it to make multple attacks. Since the Gorgolith's scales are so tough, the best way to wound the Gorgolith is to attack it's tenticles. Therefore, whenever the Gorgolith loses a wound, it also loses one attack from it's profile to represent the tenticle beeing severed.

Impact Hit: (not sure how to write this...but has one)

Torrent: The Gorgolith can shoot a large localized torrent of water. The range of this attack is 12". In the shooting phase, nominate a target and check for range. If within range, roll the artillery die, and the unit suffers that many strength 5 hits. ON a misfire, the Gorgolith can not move or use this attack next turn due to water filling it's gills. It may still attack any unit it's in base to base contact with. "

Not sure about the Impact Hits but I really like the rest. With regards to impact hits, I've noticed that when I depart from the "conventional" type of rules I get a lot of negative feedback so I'm trying to avoid doing that because the main objective is to create a new army that people will be happy to field and play against.

For now, I'm thinking about it. I've promised to get draft 2.0 up by this weekend and I'm almost there (i have all the rules updated to 2.0 bar the rare units and magic items). I'll give it a couple of days thought and make a note of it on the changes summary that a change is to be expected.

Thanks for your input.

Torrent might be too powerful. Another thing. It reminds me of the Watcher from LOTR. It could swap multiple attacks for 2 grab attacks where it throws it's enemy, and this could only be used of models of unit strength 2 or less. It throws them 3d6 away in a random direction and they take a S5 hit when they land.

I left the Kraken's profile as it is for now (I will change it in the next minor revision 2.1). I didn't want to rush into a decision or hold up the army update to version 2.0 this weekend.

Here's another possible Kraken model...



This on'e from the same place as the Trident Guard models (otherwise known as Komodons at dragonrune.com)

Dragon Rune minis - possible Nautican units ?

Just my opinion, but I like this one better.

me too Guardian.

Because both models are so fitting for the army I might actually change the list to make sure they can both be included. I'm still thinking about it but I'd definitely like to include both rather than inappropriate substitutes.

I could for instance replace the Man o' War (Giant Jellyfish) because I think this model could be a tough one to find. Anyway, I'm building a few armies now for playtesting so I'll see how that goes before I change anything.

Well, you could use the second one as the Kraken, and then use the first one as either a form of mount or even a form of Lord or Hero character?

I'm just new in this forum but I like the concept and have some miniatures that would go perfect with the idea.

They are from privateer press Hordes games, here are the links

privateerpress.com/HORDES/gallery/default.php?level=picture&id=93
(copy into your browser)

privateerpress.com/HORDES/gallery/default.php?level=picture&id=168
(copy into your browser)

The first link works good for warriors and the second one could make a very good leviatan.

Hope you like it.

Thanks renard.

I'm not sure about the Leviathan, I'm beginning to picture it as an under water type of dragon, it's profile fits the bill and it would be easy for people to find suitable miniatures if it was protrayed as a type of dragon. Having said that, this is a custom army so people can really use whatever minis they like providing the base size is correct and for rank & file troops they are suitably armed/armoured.


Thanks for the links though. Keep those ideas coming in.

PS. We post all the links here as text (rather than urls) to try to keep our google ranking up. Last time we posted too many links the forum disappeared off the face of the google search and nobody found our site