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Dwarven Airship Themed Campaign

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Over the past few months I have been working on a hero, I have made the models myself for it (with some help from callahan). It is a dwarven gyrocopter hero that is able to land and the pilot can get out, leaving his gyrocopter stationary and get back in and fly it again. I'm quite proud of his the Three spells that i have made (all in gui, I also have yet to find an idea for a forth spell). While making this hero has been satisfying, it seems as though I should do something more with him, so i've desided to start work on a campaign based around this hero. the campaign will include airhip battles and the like. the only problem is I can't really think of much of a plot. Also I am not very good at terraining so... I was sondering if anyone would like to help me devise a plot and I would also like to hire a terrainer. Any help would be apreciated.
 
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Plot:

A small village of dwarves is attacked, sieged and destroyed by a gigantic orcish force. Most of the few remaining survivors pack themselves into hired Goblin' Zeppelins. Little do they know the Goblins have already been hired by the orcs. All the surviving dwarves that are on the Zeppelins are killed by a suicide run into a mountain. Their hero, slayer of dragons, etc. Is infuriated, luckily he had just created an airship in which to hunt dragons, but now has a new use for them. He's going to hunt the captain of the orcish army, Captain Greengutz. Who has an entire army of orcish and goblin airships to destroy you, as well as the newly assembled orcish superweapon, the Hordes' Hand. A giant war Zeppelin that is said to be invincible... you will be able to find the truth of that.
 
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that sounds like a good plot actually... it could use some tweaking but it sounds cool. Instead of the Hero being a dragon slayer he could be an explorer and he has just created the airship/gyrocopter to go exploring with and when he comes back from exploring all his family is dead. so he wants to go and kill the orcs/goblins that did it
 
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you could make a sort of flying base, like the sky barge but dwarven(if you saw sky captain you'll know what i'm talking about)
 
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How bout the guy is a reconissaince pilot for the Alliance after the fall of Archimonde. While out on a mission, he sees a flash of red light and his engines begin to fail. He lands on an island and must find and construct another rotory blade to replace his broken one. After doing so he attempts to return to his base and airfield only to find it abandoned and an orc scouting party investigating the area and stealing supplies. The dwarf lands without being seen and investigates once the scouting party has departed. Among the supplies he finds a map with a chain of islands he has never seen before with the largest one being circled by whomever owned the map.

The dwarf picks up two more fuel tanks for future use and heads towards the archipelago. On his way he is chased by a squad of wyvern riders but they turn away before getting close to the island. As if there was something forboding about the place. Upon landing he spots the remnants of a fleet up ships crashed against the rocks and shores of the island. He recognizes the crest upon the barrels as that of his division and begins to question what is occurring. He makes camp and retires for the night but is awakes hours later to find himself surrounded by a dark green mist. Upon looking at his surroundings he finds the landscape has drastically changed. THe trees and shrubbery have become blighted and decayed. Numerous nightmarish creatures stalk the island and the dwarf fights for his survival.

He stumbles upon a ruined village Full of corpses and lost spirits. He locks himself in a house for shelter but passes out from extreme shock only to wake up and find the island has changed once more!

The island reverted back to its original self and the building he locked himself into was actually an abandoned home inside a thriving town! The residents are extremely welcoming but he gets the strangest impression they are hiding something. Only one person openly speaks of the islands plight, a shrunken old man living in a decrepid cottage. The other residents dismiss his words as those of a cenile old man. However the dwarf cannot ignore the truth in the mans voice.

The man tells the dwarf to pursue the two pieces of a shattered keystone. This keystone was required the lift the plague from the islands. These pieces ere placed on two of the chain's islands, one living in light and the other lurking in darkness. Reuniting the keystones allows the owners access to both worlds at will and is required for access to the beast the lives between both worlds, the beast that is playing the a deadly game that may merge the world of nightmare with the world of light.


Switching between both worlds multipletimes would be required to access certain areas blocked off in one world but open in another. You could link two maps together for this. Unlike a lot of campaigns you can make one master map and several smaller maps branching off from it. The gyrocopter and the dwarf are the only things that stay constant in both worlds and he can use it the nightmare world and the normal plane.

Its a long plot i know but maybe itll help out :)
 
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WOW thanks for all your input guys! I have an idea (sorry demonsofdante but i'll go with syth-master's plot, more what i was thinkin of) there should be a level where you secretly get into the Hordes hand and you can walk around through all the catwalks inside the airship! Chaos overlord you can use demons plot (Its Awsome! but not quite what i was looking for sorry). I still need a good terrainer to join my team, if anyone else would like to join for any reason just ask me here. also sythe-master I think it should be like some adventure and then some insane airbattle.

Kjrverx said:
you could make a sort of flying base, like the sky barge but dwarven(if you saw sky captain you'll know what i'm talking about)
Already in the works! here are some pics. still WIP


I also might be in need of an artist to make icons because my icons are crap.
 

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Have you seen Sky captain? The barge he was talking baout was a HUGE flying airfield thing that had all sorts of planes and crud landed on it and they could take off and it had guns on it and all that good stuff. It wasn't a little barge like the Undead Air Barge, it was a behemoth.
 
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Have you seen Sky captain? The barge he was talking baout was a HUGE flying airfield thing that had all sorts of planes and crud landed on it and they could take off and it had guns on it and all that good stuff. It wasn't a little barge like the Undead Air Barge, it was a behemoth.

yeah. a flying aircraft carrier but bigger. if the fourth spell you need is his ultimate, it could be sumoning this thing.
 
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make it like a really big airship, so big that it has its own compliment of dwarvish gyrocoptors on board, and like cannons and stuff, thatd be so cool, and it cud be escorted by a small amount of smaller airships.
 
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I'm Back!

THIS PROJECT IS BEING RESURECTED


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ok, sorry for the wait Do0s, the map i need just needs to be a Huge Orc Airship and a Huge Dwarf Airship side by side, so you can see inside of them and walk around, the dwarf one needs to have gyrocopters without animations and without drives on them as doodads in like docking bays, it also needs very large cannons sticking out the sides. The orc one needs to seem very slapped together with lots of ramshackle stuff, and istead of the gyrocopters it needs cages with wyverns in them.


SPELL IDEA NEEDED


I need one more spell for my hero,
Ok here is what i have so far:

Hero: Gred Strongiron
Race: Dwarf
Primary Atribute: Agility

Strength:13+2
Agility:18+3
Intelligence:+2

Abilities - Normal

Land: Gred Lands his ship and gets out. Leaving his gyrocopter imobile.

Abilities - Hero

Sky Rockets:
Level 1 - Bombards an area with rockets, dealing up to 35 damage to nearby enemy land units and stunning them for 1 second.
Level 2 - Bombards an area with rockets, dealing up to 65 damage to nearby enemy land units and stunning them for 1.5 second.
Level 3 - Bombards an area with rockets, dealing up to 100 damage to nearby enemy land units and stunning them for 2 second.

Engine Surge:
Level 1 - Gred puts all power to the engines!
Increases speed by 10 for 15 seconds.
Level 2 - Gred puts all power to the engines!
Increases speed by 20 for 25 seconds.
Level 3 - Gred puts all power to the engines!
Increases speed by 30 for 35 seconds.

Ultimate
KamiKaze:
Level 1 - Gred sacrifieces himself for the greater good of
Dwarfkind. but before he crashes he jumps out,
landing some distance away. Deals
450 damage in a large radius, Gred is now on foot
 
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Model's needed

hmmmmm we will see if it lags and then if it does we can tweak it ok?

Here are some models that need to be done


Dwarven Airship:
Huge blimp but the roof is needs to be mostly see through (aditive?), it needs to be basically empty in the hull and it needs docking bay doors (on the side) that open and close. inside of the docking bay needs to be flat so that units can stand there and gyrocopters can be landed there, it shouuld be able to hold atleast 10 landed gyrocopters, also, on the sides there needs to be 2 huge cannons (one on either side of the docking bay doors) it needs to have dwarven symbols and stuff like that, (feel free to add as many little details as you like) it needs big propellers on the top aswell. go to town with the details.

Orc Airship:
pretty similar to the dwarf one eccept make it very orcy so add random ramshakle stuff and random boards hammered on and the propellers on top should just be random boards hammered togethter, make it look like it shouldn't be flying, but it is.

Please pm me or post here if you are willing to do this
 
I've made some kind of airship terrain with walkable doodads i've made.I also used a doodad to make the sky.If you want i can give you those doodads.
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And since it an airship based campaign why not make the terrain a former continent scattered into several island by the war btween dwarves and orcs.So the only way to travel trough the world is airship.
 
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But why Orcs, they are so primitive with technology (well, most of them)… I want to see goblins! And there are so many options when it is goblins: rockets, zeppelins, giant robots, bombs, airplanes… you can even combine all of them into one unit! (I saw this one Warcraft fan art contest, by Gaetan Montaudouin)
 

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Airship now uses ingame textures!

since i couldn't find anyone to skin this i decided to use ingame textures, it is not FULLY animated, except for the propellers, I need someone who can make me an animated texture. I tried to make them spin by animating but it didn't work out so well, so, i've decided i need an animated texture. I also need someone who can do particle effects for the canons.

anywho, here it is
 

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seriously, screw the propellers. they look bad. I know you've already got a bunch of models, but consider making a circular one with a huge ducted fan on the bottom. It'd be really simple- a big circle, a thick ring going down from it, with a huge propeller there.

(ducted fan is like a propeller in a ring, ring doesn't move)
 
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ok im back from vacation (sorry for not telling anyone i was going) and yes I am done both the airships and i have finished modelling and texturing the goblin hero, whos name is Nazrook Geargrind, I need him to have the paladin animations but i'm not sure how i'll do that.
 

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We don't have the airship yet so therefore can't make the terrain right now >.<. Also I'm thinking about making a cloud model and add it as a unit-critter that has the wonder ability. And the terrain texture of a sky - matching blizzard sky (bluish) too, we really need that :D.
 
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