Carnosaur/Stegadon?

[Myriad]

the original illustration of a grox in rogue trader was closest to an anklyosaur with some small horns.  Not so obvious a predator as the carnosaur, which is more the sort of thing exodites might ride, and fine as a generic dinosaur. 

The stegadon in the photo is the old metal, and is substantially smaller (less bulky, especially) than the current plastic kit.  It seems a better match for a herd animal though.

[MarcoSkoll]

...a herd of grox or some other reptilian nasty to fight...

Fight? Don't be silly. They're not enemies, they're "Dangerous Mobile Terrain".

[Kaled]

I remember building a few of those Tamiya dinosaurs when I was a kid - they were pretty decent models as I recall (but it was a loooong time ago).

[Aurelius 12]

... six velociraptors for ten pound? hmmm...

Mwahahahahaha Yoink.

Ahem. Not that I'm adding this to the ever increasing list of modelling projects, although it would work rather nicely with some of the other things I have in mind. So many ideas, so little time/money/time.

[Adlan]

Different breeds of trod could look wildly different from each other.

In my 40k scout army I had a carnosaur ridden by a scout, with a twinlinked heavy bolted lashed to it's flank, as a dr
dreadnought.

What about using it as an =][= scape Croatalid (thats the warp travellin crocodile isn't it?).

[Heroka Vendile]

Different breeds of trod grox could look wildly different from each other.

Fixed.
That'd be predictive/auto-spellchecker at work then.

What about using it as an =][= scape Croatalid (thats the warp travellin crocodile isn't it?).

Yup.

[Stormgrad]

well then marco you best start writing rules for what happens if someone starts trying to cause the herd to stampede in a certain direction

[precinctomega]

You could use a variation of my "Frogger" scenario tool (from the "Twist in the Tail" article for DM) to represent fighting in a grox stampede.  Just widen the path of the "road" and get rid of the central reservation.

R.

[Stormgrad]

yeah i forgot about that, not a bad idea. How many Grox would constitute a herd, now im assuming if the grox do get made you will only do a few of them and recycle them, im guessing in a stampede the whole herd would go so the question is what is the smallest viable herd size for cattle

[precinctomega]

Well, in the Frogger scenario component, you don't need any actual grox.  However, to make it interesting you could roll a d100 at the start of each turn: that's the number of grox passing in that turn and hence acts as the basic chance of being hit by one - it serves to replicate the ebbs and flows of a herd and, with a nice wide corridor, it could tempt someone to try to charge across when there are only 5 or 6, only to not make it all the way and find 84 bearing down on him in the next turn.

Sorry to derail the thread with game mechanics!

For model purposes, you could throw a dozen or so minis into the corridor, just to make it clear where they are.  I suppose you could also put terrain in the path of the stampede, representing islands of safety (if you hide on the right side of them!) where the target number is halved to represent the reduced chance of being hit.

Also, there'd not really be any likelihood of a multiple pile-up such as described in Frogger.

R.

[Stormgrad]

i will need to re read that article when i get home (not wasting precious internet time reading stuff i can read when i don't have internets)