 John the OFM  | 01 Jan 2013 8:36 a.m. PST |
I have 5 of them.
They look like ostriches with horrible flesh rendering beaks.
Well, not exactly ostriches, the neck is pretty short…
And the body shape is wrong.
But they are pretty tall compared with 28mm humans! But anyway, are they more appropriate competing with saber toothed tigers or velociraptors? Mine are painted a lovely canary yellow. |
Chocolate  | 01 Jan 2013 8:45 a.m. PST |
They could compete with this creature
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| Meiczyslaw | 01 Jan 2013 8:51 a.m. PST |
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| DalyDR | 01 Jan 2013 9:07 a.m. PST |
The cats are more appropriate competitors. Velociraptors had been gone at least a few millions of years before those birds showed up.
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| Moonbeast | 01 Jan 2013 9:09 a.m. PST |
They'd be more appropriate competing with your tigers.
Edit: DalyDR got there first. |
| Rich Bliss | 01 Jan 2013 11:15 a.m. PST |
They did compete with the cats. And the cats won. |
| Tango India Mike | 01 Jan 2013 11:15 a.m. PST |
Actually aren't those the ones archaeologists decided were herbivores, recently. |
| WarrenB | 01 Jan 2013 12:20 p.m. PST |
They look like ostriches with horrible flesh rendering beaks.
Well, not exactly ostriches, the neck is pretty short…
And the body shape is wrong.
But they are pretty tall compared with 28mm humans! Elephants look like horses with pulled noses. Except their necks are shorter. And they're the wrong shape. So they don't look like horses. But they sure look tall beside humans! Actually aren't those the ones archaeologists No. link
link …decided were herbivores, recently. No. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastornis
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| zippyfusenet | 01 Jan 2013 4:14 p.m. PST |
Didn't giant flightless birds last in New Zealand until humans reached the islands and hunted them out? Weren't some of those birds predators? I think you could make a case for putting isolated populations of 'terror birds' into games set in paleo America or Australia, or anywhere humans haven't yet penetrated. Maybe isolate the terror birds in Lost Valley with Turok and Andar, or on islands off the coast. Make them a historical basis for the legendary knife-wing bird of Pueblo warriors. Niven and Pournelle used knife-wing birds to good effect in their Burning City novels. |
| Tango India Mike | 04 Jan 2013 2:52 a.m. PST |
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