Okay, here's a shot part of my arachnid hive's fluff.
There is a gas giant drifting lonely through the void of space somewhere near the arachnid quarantain zone. No one can say where it comes from, probably it got lost, when his star died and turned into a white dwarf.
This shiny blue gas planet has an incredible gravity pull - in it's atmosphere it is even raining diamonds. Not a single living being could exist here.
But there are several moons that travel around the gas giant and follow him on his uncertain journey. On these moons, there is life.
Most parts of such a moon's surface are vast ice deserts. But in some places there is high volcanic activity. The gravity of the gas giant strechtes the moons insides and almost tears them apart. They are highly unstable and show great tectonic activity.
Bugs are present primarily under the surface of the ice deserts and reach a high population density within the volcanic 'oases'.
There were launched some major operations to remove the Arachnids from the moons, but it proved almost impossible to hunt them down in the unpredictable maliciously terrain.
More troopers were killed by glacier columns, got burried during earthquakes or were melted away by bursting lava streams than eaten by bugs, so the operations were judged to expensive in lifes and equipment.
Today only occasionally some poor MI platoon is chosen to land in the icy hell and have look what's going on down there.
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Painting:
I will surely do at least one more Squad Lava Warriors, Lava Ripplers and an Icy Tanker (and sooner or later one plasma of both kinds).
But I'm unsure what to with the bulk of my forces (Guard Bugs, Burrower, Mantis etc.).
Both color shemes look nice to me...
Lava:
Ice:
There is a gas giant drifting lonely through the void of space somewhere near the arachnid quarantain zone. No one can say where it comes from, probably it got lost, when his star died and turned into a white dwarf.
This shiny blue gas planet has an incredible gravity pull - in it's atmosphere it is even raining diamonds. Not a single living being could exist here.
But there are several moons that travel around the gas giant and follow him on his uncertain journey. On these moons, there is life.
Most parts of such a moon's surface are vast ice deserts. But in some places there is high volcanic activity. The gravity of the gas giant strechtes the moons insides and almost tears them apart. They are highly unstable and show great tectonic activity.
Bugs are present primarily under the surface of the ice deserts and reach a high population density within the volcanic 'oases'.
There were launched some major operations to remove the Arachnids from the moons, but it proved almost impossible to hunt them down in the unpredictable maliciously terrain.
More troopers were killed by glacier columns, got burried during earthquakes or were melted away by bursting lava streams than eaten by bugs, so the operations were judged to expensive in lifes and equipment.
Today only occasionally some poor MI platoon is chosen to land in the icy hell and have look what's going on down there.
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Painting:
I will surely do at least one more Squad Lava Warriors, Lava Ripplers and an Icy Tanker (and sooner or later one plasma of both kinds).
But I'm unsure what to with the bulk of my forces (Guard Bugs, Burrower, Mantis etc.).
Both color shemes look nice to me...
Lava:
Ice:
How did you do those anyway?
) do both!!!
thats my idea.. (not the iceicles, but the color)
