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Monday, May 4, 2009

The Sept Name

My continued efforts to find a good, anecdotal name for my Tau Sept have ground to a halt - for whatever reason, I can't seem to think of anything that really just clicks.

True to the Blog-'o-cube, I'm on hunt for suggestions. If anyone who reads this cares to, throw out a comment with a possible Tau Sept Name that is highly reminiscient of that oh-so-infamous comic book villain, the Green Goblin. Don't know what goes into a Tau Sept name? well, here are some examples:

- T'au - the sept name for the Tau Homeworld. Cattle paradise.
- Tau'n - the first off-world Tau colony. Hold on to your cud, campers...
- D'yanoi - means 'twin moons' ("World of Two Moons"? Copyright infringement...)
- Bork'an - center of learning and academia. I compare it to Sweden (also, add a 'j'...)
- Dal'yth - trade world. (... I got nothing...)
- Vior'la - famous for it's noriously aggressive fire caste. Essentially, a world of Jocks.
- Au'taal - ever heard of Risa? This is it, but regarded as more 'lazy' than 'relaxed'.
etc.

There are some examples straight out of the Tau book. I keep trying to think of something clever that incorporates the basic feel of a Tau Sept world, yet clearly illustrates a connection to the Green Goblin, Hobgoblin, or the Osborns (Norman and Harry, not Sharon and Ozzy).

I'll throw together all the suggestions (As well as my own ideas) into a poll after a week or so, and we'll see how it looks.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Color Scheme/what to call them?

Space Marine players shouldn't have all the fun, after all - having your own themed, colored, and named Contingent (i.e. 'Chapter', 'Craftworld', or in this case, 'Sept') of a 40k army adds quite a bit to an army -- cohesion, respect, and moral support for those ever-fickle dice, if nothing else.

On par with everyone's favorite funny force, "The Emperor's Pointy Sticks", I'm firmly of the opinion that it should be a funny, anectodal name for the Sept my Tau hail from, preferably one based on the color scheme I've (finally) decided on:

-'Chaos Black' basecoat
-'Sanguine Base' (Privateer Press)
-'Dark Angel's Green'
-'Dwarf Bronze'
-'Blood Red'
-'Chaos Black' wash

The Sanguine Base is a fantastic color/paint to work with, looks great as the standard fire warrior armor color, and matches quite nicely with the Dark Angels Green clothing color. The Dwarf Bronze adds a nice contrast to the centerpiece of the fire warrior chest armor and elbow/knee pads and as a nice metalic element on the pulse rifle 'screw' and Devilfish-chassis sensor slots. Finishing up with Blood Red and more Dwarf Bronze on various sensor bits (pulse rifle scopes, backpack bits, helmet eye-sensor-thingies, etc.) gives it a menacing look, and a good quick wattered down Chaos Black wash really highlights things while giving the whole model a VERY nice hardened/gritty fighter look.

After I finished painting the first fire warrior and showed it around the Games Store like the shameless bragger I am, the first comment made was that it looked astonishingly similar (yet visually darker) to a certain infamous Marvel Comic Book Villian.

Yea, I can work with that.

My original idea was to have the Tau of Sept Gob'in, but on reflection that just sounds stupid. There's gotta be some sort of amusing, anecdotal, pop-culture referencing name I can use as my Tau Sept name, and I'm committed to finding it, or give up trying.

Any suggestions :)