Watch out John, that may just turn up as the next wargame I run (if I find enough 'boons, I got all the Ducks already).
Jane:
>The last stand of the Household of Death? (Macaulay
>Culkin as Harsaltar the Terrible, just because I want
>to see Macaulay Culkin horribly killed)
Seconded fully! There's a number of other overrated actors that could be put there - starting with Liv Taylor.
>But, I don't care how good they'd look in CGI, I don't
>care how many gadgets could be put in there, THERE
>WERE NO MOSTALI. Not on either side. Nor any Aldryami,
>no matter how cool walking plants are, or how many
>spare Ents are in the proprs department. Any more than
>there was an elven army at Helm's Deep. Yes, they
>looked good. This is not an excuse.
Ah, c'mon Jane, we could have a brief shot of the Cannon Cult blasting away at the walls (to no effect) maybe the enchantments on the Cannon could fail ... spectacularly. That's why they aren't mentioned - they were ineffective and died early. But think of the special effects! Little bodies (and parts of bodies - better get the guy that did Saving Private Ryan on the horn) and a huge barrel somersaulting through the air... A rain of Mostali parts demoralizing the Aldryami, who promptly go into shock and take root.
And we've *got* to get a charge by the Thunderlizards and Earthshakers into the movie somehow - triceratops with howdahs, T Rexes and Allosaurs stalking the lunar commander, velociraptors cutting through the Thunder Delta Slingers like err, small hungry dinosaurs through a light infantry unit (the scene from Mummy Returns when the pygmy mummies attack...)
Earth Elementals breaking through the ground like the bugs in Starship Troopers...
:-)
Roderick
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