Warhammer Dwarfs, discussion/hype thread

[Sombre]

I think dwarf armour, weaponry, beards and helmets allow for reasonable differentiation. Gromil could be coloured fairly brightly for instance.

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by Sombre

I think dwarf armour, weaponry, beards and helmets allow for reasonable differentiation. Gromil could be coloured fairly brightly for instance.

Well, I probably could differentiate them, but there are other problems. After tweaking around with sprites for a while, I've come to the conclusion that there is no way that I can mime the dimensions in the WH models and make them look good. Miniatures can have detail on detail (like the beard jewelry) but a small sprite can't. There is a point where a shield for example can only have a color as there just isn't room for any symbols. So I'd just have shape of the weapon, color of the beard and the color of the shield to differentiate them. It's doable but it would make the nation look horrible.

So yeah. The sprites will clearly be dwarfs when compared to dom3 humans in and out of the battlefield, but they won't look like WH dwarfs. I just don't have the skill for that. IMHO, it's not that big of a deal, it's just cosmetic thing. These guys will play a lot like the tabletop version and have pretty much the same lore.

[Calchet]

If you don't mind, I think I could pull off a pretty good tabletop dwarf or seven you could work from - I'm thinking something like the attached mockup sprite, though larger. (That one was mostly to see how small I could get it and still have it look dwarfish.)

(That said, it's as previously mentioned still your mod, and you're free to interpret dwarfs as you please - I might make an alternate set of graphics for my own personal use if I ever get around to it, though.)