Reich-X: The Darkest Hitler, vampires, UFOs, Holocaust spirits and mutants! - Page 4

elShoggotho · 08-25-2007, 11:07 PM

Oh there has to be a special team of resistance fighters using Außenweltler technology-powered rocket belts. Rocket Ranger stuff. I'd certainly like to see some guy with a raygun and a rocket backpack fight some Raumwaffe Panzerkreuzer in the lower stratosphere. It just fits.

3D renderings of some ideas on the Raumwaffe (even the giant swastika space station looming over Earth like a Todesstern (German for death star)) is in the works - I'll start right now.

Flyndaran · 08-26-2007, 03:22 AM

A giant rotating swastika space station gives me images of cute pinwheels held aloft by little girls running in the wind.
I'm probably alone in that... But not now.... Mwuh hah haa.... Now on to chibi nazi nightmares.

YourEyesOnly · 08-26-2007, 05:26 AM

Hm, you should definitely write more about those pockets of resistance that still remain in Reich X. Something about Nazi weapons would be pretty needo too. Me and Shoggotho could probably write a little primer with german words used in the game with translations and pronounciation, I guess.
Oh, yesterday some problem occured to us, while skyping, about the term Zaubersoldaten. You know ... a Zauber is mostly good and beautiful magic in german. For example there is a term, zauberhaft, which is equivalent to extremely beautiful, enchanting, etc. A nicely dressed bride would be zauberhaft, for exampel, while verzaubern would mean to enchant someone, in the magical or in the social way. Problem is, that the main association is surely the social one.
So maybe it would be more fitting to call them Hexenkrieger (Witch Warriors) oder something like that ... on the other hand it's an american supplement and thus german perception of the words isn't too important. ;)

NeverCool · 08-26-2007, 06:09 AM

Hehe, Aussenweltler anti-grav belts in the hands of their American and Russian allies left on Earth.... the fate of Stalin..... And somehow the thought popped into my mind that Zaubersoldaten keep their name (hey, Hitler did have good PR people), but the Hexenkrieger.... That sounds just about nasty enough to be a cadre of elite ZS assassins working solo missions in the unintegrated zones....

The Chibi Nazis just freak me out :-S

YourEyesOnly · 08-26-2007, 06:41 AM

Sounds fine to me ...

Eheheh - wait! How about two agencies rivaling each other? Maybe they belong to different organisations of the Reich and have overlapping fields of interest. Maybe the ZS are the bigger unit, having more influence and are wider known, while HK are rather elite but mistrusted and stuff because they ... er ... have dark secrets!

Exxar · 08-26-2007, 07:59 AM

An agency with dark secrets working for a nation with dark methods in a dark setting... Man, that would have to be reeeeeeealy twisted :)

LoneWolf23k · 08-26-2007, 08:41 AM

Maybe the Zaubersoldaten are the "public" face of the Reich's military forces, consisting of handsome genetically-augmented Aryan supersoldiers in bright colors and fighting to protect the people of the Reich from hostile forces and maintaining the peace...

Meanwhile, the Hexenkrieger do the actual dirty work, unleashing gene-mutated killing machines and unspeakable sorceries on the Reich's enemies, using whatever means necessary for their goals...

Think of it as the contrast between Nazi Germany's bright, orderly Aryan public image, and the ugly truth of Nazi oppression and the Holocaust.

YourEyesOnly · 08-26-2007, 08:51 AM

That concept sounds nice ... but now I constantly have the Image of Seifer Almasy from FF VIII in my head when thinking of Hexenkrieger. He was Hexenritter ... -.- dude, not cool.

btw.: http://www.wfg-gk.de/sverschwoerbild110.jpg

That's what certain german newspapers are able to do. Scary, huh?

elShoggotho · 08-26-2007, 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YourEyesOnly

Sounds fine to me ...

Eheheh - wait! How about two agencies rivaling each other? Maybe they belong to different organisations of the Reich and have overlapping fields of interest. Maybe the ZS are the bigger unit, having more influence and are wider known, while HK are rather elite but mistrusted and stuff because they ... er ... have dark secrets!

That's even more over the top than the whole setting in itself. The Zaubersoldaten themselves have internal rivalries between the service branches (the more gritty Wehrmacht ZS vs. the mystical SS Zaubersoldaten vs. the Gestapo ones...) only to look down on the Eisenkrieger.

EDIT: I played with some 3D freeware and came up with this and this, some 3D impressions of Raumwaffe machines.

elShoggotho · 08-27-2007, 11:52 AM

OK, so does anyone need 3e stats for the Raumwaffe stuff? I've got too much time. I'm also bored enough to do it.

08-25-2007, 11:07 PM	#31
elShoggotho Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Berlin, Germany	Re: Reich-X: The Darkest Hitler, vampires, UFOs, Holocaust spirits and mutants! Oh there has to be a special team of resistance fighters using Außenweltler technology-powered rocket belts. Rocket Ranger stuff. I'd certainly like to see some guy with a raygun and a rocket backpack fight some Raumwaffe Panzerkreuzer in the lower stratosphere. It just fits. 3D renderings of some ideas on the Raumwaffe (even the giant swastika space station looming over Earth like a Todesstern (German for death star)) is in the works - I'll start right now. __________________ +++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++

08-26-2007, 03:22 AM	#32
Flyndaran Untagged Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon	Re: Reich-X: The Darkest Hitler, vampires, UFOs, Holocaust spirits and mutants! A giant rotating swastika space station gives me images of cute pinwheels held aloft by little girls running in the wind. I'm probably alone in that... But not now.... Mwuh hah haa.... Now on to chibi nazi nightmares.

08-26-2007, 05:26 AM	#33
YourEyesOnly Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Hamburg, Germany	Re: Reich-X: The Darkest Hitler, vampires, UFOs, Holocaust spirits and mutants! Hm, you should definitely write more about those pockets of resistance that still remain in Reich X. Something about Nazi weapons would be pretty needo too. Me and Shoggotho could probably write a little primer with german words used in the game with translations and pronounciation, I guess. Oh, yesterday some problem occured to us, while skyping, about the term Zaubersoldaten. You know ... a Zauber is mostly good and beautiful magic in german. For example there is a term, zauberhaft, which is equivalent to extremely beautiful, enchanting, etc. A nicely dressed bride would be zauberhaft, for exampel, while verzaubern would mean to enchant someone, in the magical or in the social way. Problem is, that the main association is surely the social one. So maybe it would be more fitting to call them Hexenkrieger (Witch Warriors) oder something like that ... on the other hand it's an american supplement and thus german perception of the words isn't too important. ;) Last edited by YourEyesOnly; 08-26-2007 at 05:33 AM.

08-26-2007, 06:09 AM	#34
NeverCool Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In a 10 by 10 stone room...	Re: Reich-X: The Darkest Hitler, vampires, UFOs, Holocaust spirits and mutants! Hehe, Aussenweltler anti-grav belts in the hands of their American and Russian allies left on Earth.... the fate of Stalin..... And somehow the thought popped into my mind that Zaubersoldaten keep their name (hey, Hitler did have good PR people), but the Hexenkrieger.... That sounds just about nasty enough to be a cadre of elite ZS assassins working solo missions in the unintegrated zones.... The Chibi Nazis just freak me out :-S __________________ NewGameMaster magazine is out! 116 pages of evil weapons, morphing robots, dragon-slapping and HENCHMEN! - Click here! - The thread!

08-26-2007, 06:41 AM	#35
YourEyesOnly Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Hamburg, Germany	Re: Reich-X: The Darkest Hitler, vampires, UFOs, Holocaust spirits and mutants! Sounds fine to me ... Eheheh - wait! How about two agencies rivaling each other? Maybe they belong to different organisations of the Reich and have overlapping fields of interest. Maybe the ZS are the bigger unit, having more influence and are wider known, while HK are rather elite but mistrusted and stuff because they ... er ... have dark secrets! Last edited by YourEyesOnly; 08-26-2007 at 06:48 AM.

08-26-2007, 07:59 AM	#36
Exxar MIB Join Date: Oct 2005	Re: Reich-X: The Darkest Hitler, vampires, UFOs, Holocaust spirits and mutants! An agency with dark secrets working for a nation with dark methods in a dark setting... Man, that would have to be reeeeeeealy twisted :)

08-26-2007, 08:41 AM	#37
LoneWolf23k Join Date: Sep 2004	Re: Reich-X: The Darkest Hitler, vampires, UFOs, Holocaust spirits and mutants! Maybe the Zaubersoldaten are the "public" face of the Reich's military forces, consisting of handsome genetically-augmented Aryan supersoldiers in bright colors and fighting to protect the people of the Reich from hostile forces and maintaining the peace... Meanwhile, the Hexenkrieger do the actual dirty work, unleashing gene-mutated killing machines and unspeakable sorceries on the Reich's enemies, using whatever means necessary for their goals... Think of it as the contrast between Nazi Germany's bright, orderly Aryan public image, and the ugly truth of Nazi oppression and the Holocaust.

08-26-2007, 08:51 AM	#38
YourEyesOnly Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Hamburg, Germany	Re: Reich-X: The Darkest Hitler, vampires, UFOs, Holocaust spirits and mutants! That concept sounds nice ... but now I constantly have the Image of Seifer Almasy from FF VIII in my head when thinking of Hexenkrieger. He was Hexenritter ... -.- dude, not cool. btw.: http://www.wfg-gk.de/sverschwoerbild110.jpg That's what certain german newspapers are able to do. Scary, huh?

08-27-2007, 11:52 AM	#40
elShoggotho Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Berlin, Germany	Re: Reich-X: The Darkest Hitler, vampires, UFOs, Holocaust spirits and mutants! OK, so does anyone need 3e stats for the Raumwaffe stuff? I've got too much time. I'm also bored enough to do it. __________________ +++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++

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