Yakcomp Brainstorming Thread

[Pierric]

What's under the underhive ?

It is said that hives tend to slowly and gradually sink within the planet's crust under their own titanic weight, and some long forgotten open air designs now rotting in the depths of the Palatine could confirm this theory...

Hive primus foundations can be divided into five main areas, each one atop another, and forming concentric circles centered on the heat sink drawing its energy from the very core of the dying planet. Following the cone-like shape of any hive city, those circles are more ancient and with increasing diameters as you go deeper into the bottoms of the Palatine. The fifth circle, the deepest and the widest, merges with the planet's crust and has no precisely known or defined limits.

Deep down the hive foundations, way deeper than the sump network of dark lakes and rivers of toxic wastes begins the fifth circle, the Cursed Roots, some long forgotten areas where lurk some terrible things that only the maddest of gangers would dare to encounter. This a place of unknown plagues and were Horus heretics descendants, offworlders or even genuine depths demons are rumored to be found...

 

[Ben_S]

Year of the plague.

There's no getting away from what's dominated 2020 IRL. Make something plague/virus themed. It could be Nurgle (for Necro or Mordheim), Skaven, a doctor who treats the sick, a 'bring out your dead' cart, etc.

 

[Punktaku]

Took this idea from @ntw3001 ’s cool pic.

“Scrap Knights”: build a character or squad of warriors based on leftover bits and pieces.

 

[MusingWarboss]

“Display Case Madness”

Make a display case for your favourite gang to sit in, rather than the dark resting place they usually reside.*

Make it themed to the gang too. Like it’s their HQ. Bonus points if it can actually be used as scenery in a game!

Can be traditional glass/Perspex topped type, Oldhammer style picture frame diorama style or something whacky and new!!

*if they already have one make another, different one.

 

[Biggle_Bear]

*if they already have one make another, different one.

Or, you know, make a new force THEN make a display case for them.

 

[Punktaku]

This idea is thanks to @almic85 .

“The Last Stand”: a pair (or more) of gangers gets ready to make their last stand against an overwhelming enemy.

 

[Punktaku]

“Bring that song to life!” Create a model (or scene) based on a song. Maybe it’s a monster (One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooly, or Nightcrawler -Judas Priest). Maybe it’s a character (The Wizard -Black Sabbath, The Man on the Silver Mountain -Rainbow). Perhaps a scene would be in order (Band on the Run -Wings, Smoke on the Water -Deep Purple). Heck, even vehicles are possible (Yellow Submarine -The Beatles, Bomber -Motörhead).

 

[Hawkins44]

Giddyup! - Build a vehicle, a mount, or any kind of get-there thingamabob that can be used to move around.

You are under arrest! - Anything that involves the Enforcers, or any kind of law-enforcement agent.

Your inner Tech-priest - A person operating (or trying to, no matter how successfully) an arcane piece of technology.

Me smash, Me kill! - Make a person, or a beast, with a very apparent disbalance between the volume of brain matter, and muscle tissue.

Hey, that's me! - Make something that reflects some part of your real you. Looks, personality, job, interests, or something you'd be likely be/do in the Underhive, if you were there.

 

[Punktaku]

Tony Thunderhawk’s Pro Hoverboard Festive Event inspired: build a hoverboard and rider for Underhive X-games. Or maybe expanded to Olympians or other x-games. Would Blood Bowl teams be allowed? Maybe some form of conversion or kitbash would be required

 

[Scavvierising]

Don't forget thundercube fighters or any kind of pit fighter. Or even any kind of racing etc. All sports fans to be catered to.

 

[Aulenback]

Would Blood Bowl teams be allowed?

https://www.specialist-arms.com/fanatic/66us.pdf

 

[MancInventor]

“Counts As“ - create a new noble house or outlander gang that counts as an existing one.

Duncan Rhodes special - any model wearing two thin coats.

Firestarter - let’s see your Wyrd Pyromaniacs.

Something pirate themed.

 

[Punktaku]

“Tis the Season” make a model(s) themed to the holiday (or days) of your choice.

Edit: was already done as Yak Comp 11.

new idea: use a “local” holiday/festival/celebration and include a brief description of what it is.

 

[Ben_S]

I don't think it really matters, especially given the intervening time, but that was basically comp #11.

 

[Punktaku]

Wasn’t that one mostly Christmas? This one (if chosen) could be specifically non-Christmas. With Yaks all over the world, there could be some really interesting entries.

 

[Ben_S]

The blurb in the first post says:
"Yak 11: Holiday Spirit (December 2015)
Create a Holiday themed Special Character. The holiday in question does NOT need to be Christmas related."

 

[Punktaku]

I’ll amend my post

 

[Hawkins44]

"It came from the vents!" - Make and paint a scary, terrifying, or eldritch monster or an item. Something that could come from the SCP Foundation, Lovecraft's novels, or any other horror story.

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

This one (if chosen) could be specifically non-Christmas. With Yaks all over the world, there could be some really interesting entries.

That'd be a challenge alright, the only really unique festival from my region I can think of is Perchten, and that's...well, it's just a chaos cult warband, isn't it?

Edit: Woops, late to the party as usual.

 

[Hawkins44]

"Preserved to the Ages" - Build a statue or a monument of something or somebody important, or famous.

"Cogs, engines, and plumes of smoke" - Build something fully (or at least mostly) mechanical.