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Egyptians are cool, but I'd have them as a different alternate reality unless you want to jumble things up completely. The one that co-existed with Rome was anything but a superpower.

Maybe have some Parthian dragoons? :P
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Now, I really like where this is going. :)

The great cities of Rome and Thebes, staring at each other with malice across the sea as the rest of the world is ground under the feet of their armies...
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Lord Relvenous wrote: Egyptian officer (maybe Pharoah) firing a rifle from a chariot drawn by armored horses. In the middle of battlefield chaos. With a standard bearer, oh and maybe at the forefront of a chariot charge.
It'd be better if they had steampunk tanks drapped with Roman and Egyptian banners..
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Well, it's Weemadando's gig. I'm just throwing out stuff. he can use it or not. But it's fun to draw. :D
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The main threat at this point is the massed Asiatic hordes.
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The musket weilded Egyptians are cool, i am thinking that somehow that that mark anthony managed to split the roman empire during the war between Mark Anthony and Octavianus with Ptolemaic Egpyt controlling the Middle east and most of Africa while Rome rules Europe (and a colonial Empire).

But since we are adding new factions, why not add China to the mix? Invision an army of warriors like those in the Terra Cotta Army clad in Lacquered Armor armed with Muskets, Chinese steampunk Katyushas and Ironclads with cannons addorned with Dragon mouths ready to blast death at those who would challenge the keeper of the Mandate of Heavan?

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Awesome pictures. Awesome. That Egyptian one is particularly good with the commander surveying his mighty army to go forth and check the ambitions of the arrogant Roman dogs. They are nothing but hill-dwelling barbarian shepherds, and it is time that a true civilisation reminded them of it.

Awesome.

PS: Do you think you could include the Aztecs in a later drawing? If the Romans have ironclads they can surely reach the Americas.
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speaker-to-trolls wrote:Awesome pictures. Awesome. That Egyptian one is particularly good with the commander surveying his mighty army to go forth and check the ambitions of the arrogant Roman dogs. They are nothing but hill-dwelling barbarian shepherds, and it is time that a true civilisation reminded them of it.

Awesome.

PS: Do you think you could include the Aztecs in a later drawing? If the Romans have ironclads they can surely reach the Americas.
In the game setting that's yet to happen. The Romans have been busy in Europe and dealing with the constant threat from the East.

The Americas are coming though.
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weemadando wrote:
speaker-to-trolls wrote:Awesome pictures. Awesome. That Egyptian one is particularly good with the commander surveying his mighty army to go forth and check the ambitions of the arrogant Roman dogs. They are nothing but hill-dwelling barbarian shepherds, and it is time that a true civilisation reminded them of it.

Awesome.

PS: Do you think you could include the Aztecs in a later drawing? If the Romans have ironclads they can surely reach the Americas.
In the game setting that's yet to happen. The Romans have been busy in Europe and dealing with the constant threat from the East.

The Americas are coming though.
I was hoping you would say that. :wink:
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I have never drawn a train before... These are just rough sketches.
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Some nice stuff there.

I like the engines. Very nice early engine designs, but with some great (and pointless adornments.

In the first one though, having it diverge to run through the forest makes little sense. Unless there is a more easily bridged point elsewhere....
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Very, very cool. Time for me to get off my butt and draw more...
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A stronger bridge was my thought. Also trains ofetn leave main roads to traverse unpassable terrain such as mountains. That was my thinking.
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The statue at the station is a nice touch - is there an imperial visit going on ?

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Raesene wrote:The statue at the station is a nice touch - is there an imperial visit going on ?
Probably not. Just local equestrians probably. The Romans in this setting still love their decadence.
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a little more polish and detail.

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That is goddamn hot.
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weemadando wrote:That is goddamn hot.
Quite probably, but he's Roman. He can handle it. :D
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This is like Warhammer 40K, the Roman version. :D

Care to draw some siege weapons? Maybe the Romans operating something like the Dora?
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Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:This is like Warhammer 40K, the Roman version. :D

Care to draw some siege weapons? Maybe the Romans operating something like the Dora?
I'm still figuring out the Roman siege mentality. Most likely it would be(depending on mood) "use the cannon to bring down their walls and take the city" or "fill its walls with Greek fire."
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I think what -really- makes the picture of the train station work is the little boy tugging his mommy forward into a run.

That 'slice of life' is what really made the whole drawing 'pop' for me.
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It all comes together well.

I hereby decree given the design of the train that I love, that it is the case that each train and many other items such as that (steam engines and the like) have a shrine to Vulcan on them.
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where are the shrines to mithras then?
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...Do I see Bronze-age Zepplins?
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