Custom Warcards

[Nameless One]

Here are some custom warcards I managed to recover from my old collection. None of them are my work. If someone recognized the warcards as his work and wants them removed from this post, please tell me and I will remove them as soon as possible.

The first one is from a website that had several warcards for a couple of quite logical units. I remember there were Anuirean Crossbowmen, but the Knights of Avanalae are the only one I managed to find because the LPA player in my game created such a unit.

http://www.geocities.com/elfnecromancer/Anuire/knightsavanalae.jpg

The next one is for Tuornen Home Guards. Obviously a black-and-white version of Elite Anuirean Infantry with details altered by hand. It could use some colors ;) I found it on a player website for Tuornen, and it was the only one there.

http://www.geocities.com/elfnecromancer/Anuire/homeguard.jpg

The rest one are from a webpage called Manni's Warcards. I managed to find the address in Birthright mailing list archive, but the site is down. I remember it had a lot of warcards that just wouldn't fit in my vision of Birthright, like Fire Elementals, so I have only the part of Manni's works that I used in my game:

http://www.geocities.com/elfnecromancer/Anuire/dartillerists.jpg

[Nameless One]

http://www.geocities.com/elfnecromancer/Anuire/gobartillerists.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/elfnecromancer/Anuire/oelites.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/elfnecromancer/Anuire/oartillerists.jpg

[Nameless One]

http://www.geocities.com/elfnecromancer/Anuire/pirates.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/elfnecromancer/Anuire/spiders.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/elfnecromancer/Anuire/warwagon.jpg

That's all folks. I'll post the rest if I ever find my old backup cd.

[Nameless One]

Hmm, they look cool on this dark gray background.

[ShadowMoon]

Thanks for posting those cards...

You are fast one, heh...

^^;

[kgauck]

http://home.mchsi.com/~gauck/Rjurik_Irregulars.png

The Watch and Rjuvik irregulars didn't look terribly Rjurik, so I changed some things.

[kgauck]

http://home.mchsi.com/~gauck/R_Scout.png

I did the same with the scouts.

[kgauck]

http://www.birthright.net/brwiki/index.php/User:KGauck/Skirmish_rules

I generally play small. PC's are jarls, not kings. PC's struggle to advance a single domain, not to re-establish the empire, or impact a whole region. And so, I also generally do the same in battle, focusing on smaller combats, or parts of a combat. As such I have always enjoyed using the skirmish rules, and then house ruling them. The release of Heroes of Battle gave me another opportunity to do this, based on material there.

The link above includes the skirmish counters and some comments on their use in my game. The images are from the warcards, though as the two previous posts indicate, I fiddled with some of them.

[ShadowMoon]

Created this Warcard today, using my own Birthright-inspired artwork.

This Warcard was mainly inspired by Erik's Forest Legion (Birthright: The Book of Priestcraft) after Thelandrin pointed to me that original artwork of this Warcard seems more in theme with Erik then of Sidhe.

This Unit consist of a single sentient Earth Elemental, that is summoned via powerful Druidic Realm Spell. Keeper of the Grove is strong, huge, resilient, and fearless entity, that can hurl boulders over the battlefield.

Keeper of the Grove - Front

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/WarcardKeeperFront.png


Keeper of the Grove - Back

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/WarcardKeeperBack.png

Note: This Warcard is designed for AD&D 2nd Edition Birthright...

EDIT:
Optional rule for the Keeper of the Grove in order to tone it down a bit and to depict it's integrity/mass loss when it hurls boulders (it's body parts); Whenever Keeper of the Grove use it's Missile Attack, they suffer one automatic Hit. In this case it would be better to rise its Missile Attack rating a bit; like Missile: 6 / Missile: 4 (1 Hit) / Missile: 2 (2 Hits).
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[ShadowMoon]

Slightly off-topic, but related to Warcards...

I always considered that movement of Artillerists should be slower than of regular Infantry, so I used movement for Artillerists seen on Erik's Forest Legion warcard; Move: 1 per 2 rounds.

And I always thought that rules should let someone charge at Pikemen Warcard, so I changed "Pikemen cannot be charged." into "Pikemen get double Attack if charged."

Other notable changes:

Undead Legion: Defense: 3

Sidhe warcards: Have scouting abilities...

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^^;

[ShadowMoon]

The next one is for Tuornen Home Guards. Obviously a black-and-white version of Elite Anuirean Infantry with details altered by hand. It could use some colors ;) I found it on a player website for Tuornen, and it was the only one there.

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/5729/homeguardcopyzl8.jpg





I made a quick colorization of it, and changed and/or added some details, including background. Original sample was low quality, so it didn't turned out well, but since I wasted like an hour or so, here it is...

Maybe someone will find it useful...


Tuornen Home Guard - Front

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/TuornenFront.png


Tuornen Home Guard - Back

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/TuornenBack.png


PS: I didn't changed it's statistics in any way (although I think that it shouldn't be as strong), but used Shield marker rather than Crossed Swords one, since I used already prepared Warcard primer...

EDIT: I used kgauck's Tuornen coat of arms, hope he won't mind...

Oo;

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[ShadowMoon]

Since I have created Keeper of the Grove warcard, and it is used via Realm Spell, I decided to create the Realm Spell as well.

Keeper of the Grove
5th-level Caster

Sphere: Earth (Elemental)
Regency: 5RP / Unit
Gold: 1GB / Unit
Req'd Holding: 1
Duration: 1 Domain Turn

Only Druids of Erik may cast this rare Spell. By calling upon Erik, the Druids call forth the powers of the earth, awakening the Keeper of the Grove.
Only one Unit can be summoned per Holding level, and those Units cannot leave the Province where they were summoned.
One Keeper of the Grove Unit consist of a single huge sentient earth elemental (10HD).
Keeper of the Grove also fortifies the target Holding for the duration of the Spell.


Keeper of the Grove - Front

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/WarcardKeeperFront.png


Keeper of the Grove - Back

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/WarcardKeeperBack.png


Note: This Warcard and the Realm Spell are designed for AD&D 2nd Edition Birthright...


Option:

Optional rule for the Keeper of the Grove in order to tone it down a bit and to depict it's integrity/mass loss when it hurls boulders (it's body parts); Whenever Keeper of the Grove use it's Missile Attack, they suffer one automatic Hit. In this case it would be better to rise its Missile Attack rating a bit; like Missile: 6 / Missile: 4 (1 Hit) / Missile: 2 (2 Hits).

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[Thelandrin]

Wow. Cool card ShadowMoon! :)

[ShadowMoon]

Well, since I couldn't find my old Spider Raiders warcard, I decided to draw a new one...

Work in progress...

Scanned drawing and retraced...

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/Spider_Raiders_BW_01.png


Basic colour scheme...

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/Spider_Raiders_Color_01.png


Shading and Brushing...

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/Spider_Raiders_Shading_01.png

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EDIT:
Regarding its statistics; well I had in mind a special goblin cavalry unit for Spiderfell (similar as special knight units in Anuire, like Knights of Haelyn), so it would have higher stats than Wolf Raiders...

Movement: 2
Defense: 3
Morale: P O

Melee: 4
Charge: 5
Missile: 2

1 Hit
Melee: 3
Charge: 4
Missile: 1

2 Hits
Melee: 2
Charge: 3
Missile: 0

May move freely through any terrain.

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[ShadowMoon]

Spiderfell Patrol...

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/SpiderfellPatrol01.png

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[ShadowMoon]

Spider Raiders - Front

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/SpiderRaidersFront.png


Spider Raiders - Back

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z216/Uhr78/SpiderRaidersBack.png


Note: This Warcard is designed for AD&D 2nd Edition Birthright...


Option:

Optional rule for the Spider Raiders to make things more interesting a bit in tactics, add; Spider Raiders can use Web in place of it's Missile Attack.

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[Beruin]

Wow Wow Wow!
Give us more, Shadowmoon...

[Thelandrin]

That's stunning, ShadowMoon, and so much better than even the fully coloured spider on the white background, which I thought was pretty good :)

[ShadowMoon]

If anyone gonna use em in their campaigns, I would appreciate some feedback very much. Although, stats seem balanced to me, considering both Keeper of the Grove and Spider Raiders are special units; still nothing can beat results taken directly from community members play-testing.

PS: Thanks for comments, I am glad You like em...

[Aldrin]

Its fun to see homemade cards and etc. Keep posting em. and i will post mine as well soon