Alterac Army

Awesome army composition, kinda like that it's become a standard here in the hive that making alterac models one have to use golden armor for them, even when they were the poorest of all kingdoms and almost lack any good armor X'D

stein123 said:

Awesome army composition, kinda like that it's become a standard here in the hive that making alterac models one have to use golden armor for them, even when they were the poorest of all kingdoms and almost lack any good armor X'D

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i guess their armor is not really made of gold but more like painted to look one.. or it can be made from different materials.

and also.. Alterac as a kingdom is only poor in comparison to other kingdoms who are larger and are situated in more favorable locations but not totally poor. Its location alone controls a strategic crossroad in the middle of trade routes. Too bad Blizzard did not really expanded their lore after some decades. Alterac and Stromgarde as well were not given proper distinct culture and theme unlike that of Kultiras and Gilneas, they're like vanilla Human factions.

It doesn't necessarily need to be gold, perhaps they use more copper in their metal since they're poorer?

Stromgarde has a little bit of culture in the sense it's meant to be the most militaristic out of all the Human Kingdoms and value their position as the remains of the old Arathorian Empire who never left.

Footman16 said:

It doesn't necessarily need to be gold, perhaps they use more copper in their metal since they're poorer?

Stromgarde has a little bit of culture in the sense it's meant to be the most militaristic out of all the Human Kingdoms and value their position as the remains of the old Arathorian Empire who never left.

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with regards to stromgarde.. them being militaristic is what sources always emphasized about them but what im actually wanted to point out is aside from this there is not much else I can find to make stromgrade packs more unique as compared to gilneas and kultiras.. i am saying this because i mostly look for wow models to serve as my basis for my packs. i always hoped that blizzard should have at least tried to make more unique assets for stromgarde.. like making the roman empire as a basis for the art style for it.. or maybe other specific medieval kingdoms like england for example.. im not sure if i have explained it clearly but basically that's what i mean. they kept on expanding the lore from pandaria to legion then BFA and Shadowlands but im not really sure if blizzard even tried to expand and enrich the lore of the kingdoms that i have metioned (Alterac and Stromgarde). Stromgarde is now restored but seems more like a client state of Stormwind even reusing the usual alliance assets. I dont really play that much WoW but I do have some low level accounts there that I am using to roam around in some of the regions but I am really invested in the lore of the game. to summarize my point I want justice for Stromgarde.. lol i hope it made sense.

Ah yeah I see what you mean, yeah visually there isn't much to them other than the red fist motif or the white eagle. It was a problem I came up against when making my textures for them, is that if you use red it's too easy to make them appear like Scarlet Crusade units rather than Stromgarde. CloudWolf's Galen Trollbane's Colour scheme I think helped a lot with that where he used more pinkish and brownish red's for Stromgarde compared to the Scarlet Crusade's... scarlet red.