Chapter 10 - Concept Art Preview

Purri Pai would be another name. 🤣 Just kidding.

Crossbows will come in later. For now we have scouts :) So scout with modular option, including 2 swords. Can do :)

I'd also like to join others in this comment section in suggesting that a crossbow variant (or options if the customizer materializes) be added to the collection. An additional suggestion would be to include dual sword armed warriors, perhaps with light leather armour on? A more feral look would be perfect for those!

Kuru Kai or Huruk kai

Orcs carrying Hobbits?

Roachboy

Maybe chonky orcs

The important piece of info about the long-living races in the setting is really not much of shown development. Improvement - of course. But if they manage to perfect e.g. chainmail, like dwarves and their magic metal (😉), they are not pressured much to develop new options. However, if you return back to the elves from chapter 4 and 5, they have normal plate armor, as do some of the dwarves in chapter 8. Humans on the other hand, they make up for their inferior accumulated craftsmanship with their need for change and development. And I think that can be similar with the more advanced among the orc species. The concepts of course show only the big ones, the less advanced ones will be shown in a while :)

Still waiting for my smily faced orc o_o every clan needs an "interrigator" :D

Milo_Jones

I agree with you. Those are serious business orcs.

Eu

yes baby! the statues of the kings! i watchted the film yesterday... <3 I am very hyped!

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Ahahah, no worries :D We'll have early medieval for the humans soon. That's my favorite period, so you can be sure they'll get a lot of love ;)

I grant you the two in the middle have a fair bit of plate, but the majority have a mail coat with augmentation of plate/leather/linen (hard to tell in B/W) and that was what I had in my mind. So XIII to XIV century in historical terms. I do like the leather straps hanging in the groin area (pteruges?), gives them a different look. Anyway I've probably beaten this to death now ... ;-)

If you look at that art you linked to, it's very much influenced by later armor designs, not early medieval ;)

Granted, those are designated as armoured and therefore higher up the food chain. My main point was the hybrid and random nature of the armour which appeals to me rather than concept art above which suggests to me that the Orcs are more advanced than the Elfs and Dwarfs when it comes to plate armour.

Fair enough, you clearly have a vision for what you want. I guess my interpretation of a certain set of books was more late dark ages/early medieval than high medieval. Then again the Hobbits did have clocks ... ;-)

Those seem to be "rich" orcs! I'll call them the elite of the orcs! They rule over the "poor" ones, the very same that use scraps for armor...

Eu

Ah, see, the concept you sent in is gorgeous, but follows the less logical art direction in my opinion. They have armor that needs time and skill to produce. My aim here was to make something "industrial", with easy to make bends. On the other hand, the historical rough base of XV-XVI century is something I'm trying to keep in there a little.

Arrgghhh! Pressed enter too soon! Good luck with your exams and despite my comment above, keep up the good work!

Sorry to sound like a damp squib, but I'm disappointed with the straight plate armored vibe, as it's very similar to another well known movie based Orc aesthetic. I would much preferred something lower tech with more mail like the original John Blanche sketches seen here: https://64.media.tumblr.com/d0d037931568a6fa1e1425ca2f86d9cb/tumblr_mh5z2wChJX1qhslato2_1280.jpg

The name "Great Goblin" came up a couple times in the Hobbit. Black Orcs, Bugbears, Hobgoblin, Golg, all options.

Kenneth Day

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