Suggestions for possible future LPL bonus round themes - list updated p14

[Heldrak]

Please pardon the threadomancy, but I was wondering when we might get an announcement of the bonus theme for round one of LPL5.

With my molasses-in-January painting speed, I need a lot of lead time (particularly if I have to make some acquisitions based on the theme).

Just askin'...

[Captain Blood]

Michael, there will definitely be an LPL5 - the question of when is another matter! Finding a 10 week window that I can devote to running the thing is the difficulty. But the likelihood is that is will be April - May time. Will try to firm something up over the next few weeks.
There will definitely be a few weeks notice before any new competition actually kicks off, so plenty of time to plan and paint those bonus point entries! 

Cheers

Richard

[Hammers]

Michael, there will definitely be an LPL5 - the question of when is another matter! Finding a 10 week window that I can devote to running the thing is the difficulty. But the likelihood is that is will be April - May time. Will try to firm something up over the next few weeks.
There will definitely be a few weeks notice before any new competition actually kicks off, so plenty of time to plan and paint those bonus point entries! 

Cheers

Richard

I would suggest putting together a small team of referees for the next LPL. BS2 is easy enough to run for one person but all that uploading of images, tabulation of votes etc. over ten weeks must be chore which could be divided.

[Heldrak]

Michael, there will definitely be an LPL5 - the question of when is another matter! Finding a 10 week window that I can devote to running the thing is the difficulty. But the likelihood is that is will be April - May time. Will try to firm something up over the next few weeks.
There will definitely be a few weeks notice before any new competition actually kicks off, so plenty of time to plan and paint those bonus point entries! 

Cheers

Richard

Eek! I supposed to be getting married then (!) I'd better get moving and sock away a few teams or I may have to give LPL5 a miss.

Thanks, Cap. In one's monomaniacal self-centeredness, one tends to forget about the workload for the organizer(s)...!

[phreedh]

Meh, some more threadomancy but here are some further ideas for bonus rounds:
Small people - Dwarfs, gnomes, pygmies, homicidal circus midgets, grymn, leprechauns, halflings or ratlings.
Nations of the world - Paint something fictional or real from your country of residence. Cricket team, armed forces, cops, historicals or a Blood Bowl team in your national football team's uniform.
Dark arts - Necromancy, witch craft, occultism, human sacrifice - fairly broad category.
Mythical beasts - Dragons, manticores, hydras or jabberwockies. Large, non-humanoid monstrocities from any religion, faith or myth.
Stuff of Legends - Liked the suggestion for painting OOP lead. Bonus points if produced prior to the 90s. Even more bonus points if produced prior to the 80s.

[Rob_bresnen]

I like navy, I like Movies, I like Civil war, I like Post-apocolyps.

These are all nice an general. I don't want to fork out for minis I am not going to use again.
(I still have VSF Stuff from last year in my cabernet- I havn't worked out what they are for).

[Paddy649]

Thinking about possible Future LPL bonus rounds - how about:

The East - a Chinese, Japanese or Russian themed bonus round.
Religion - entries must have a strong religious component.  Warrior monks, Teutonic Knights, Islamic rebels, Cultists, Nuns etc.
Woods and Forests - entries must have a connection to woodland or forests.  Wood Elves, Forest Rangers etc.
Maritime - Basically anything from Ships and Landing Craft to Riverine Warfare and Marines.
Vehicles - Remove the emphasis on figures and have gangs made up of just vehicles - from sailing ships to starships to Tanks.
15mm - I'd love to see how the painters who do so well painting beautiful 28mm figures cope with the smaller scale of 15mm.  Making it a bonus round may get people out of their comfort zones!
Ancients - Must be histoorical and before 1,000AD.

Just my thoughts.

Paddy

[Lt. Hazel]

Entries made from any range of Lead Adventure Miniatures? How about that?

[valleyboy]

Entries made from any range of Lead Adventure Miniatures? How about that?

Seems reasonable, i'm going to buy some anyway after seeing a few of them in the LPL

[Heldrak]

Rather than have a bonus round for Lead Adventure Miniatures, I was thinking that it might be fun to have a house rule whereby a team of Lead Adventure Miniatures could be substituted for any other bonus round team(s) without penalty.

That way, entrants are not obliged to purchase any Lead Adventure Miniatures, but those who wish to would still be able to enter them for bonus round points, and they would act as a "get-out-of-jail-free" card for those who don't have/wish to acquire figures for a particular bonus round.

[Hammers]

No slight on LAM, but I like the idea of bonus rounds being broader than that.

[Pil]

I think manufacturer based bonus rounds would be pretty dull, regardless of the manufacturer

[Centaur_Seducer]

Right then, since there was a sanctioned threadomancy (which I must admit gives a this threadomancy a very unsatisfying feeling), I've compiled a list of all previous suggestions. Some suggestions were rather similiar (or have been done already), so my interpretation have thrown it in with another one. If you see that I've missed a suggestion (which in fact would mean that you've double-checked every suggestion and compared it to this list) post it here.

Here's the list, in alphabetic order:

18th Century
Amazons
Ancients
Armour and Artillery
Artillery crew
Ceremonial uniforms of the world
Civil War
Creatures
Dark arts
Espionage
Fauna and Flora
Flying Things
Future War
Genre Dysfunction
Gothic Horrors
Guerrilla/Irregular Warfare
Hat
HQ group
I painted this while drunk
Lace Wars / Men in Wigs period
Lead Adventure Miniatures
Literature
Little gems` bonus round, made up of 15mm or smaller scale models
Ludicrously overbuilt
Medieval Asia
Mercenary band - any period.
Monsters
Moustache
Musicians/band - any period
Mythical beasts
Non-humans round
Not... (basically a round to enter any of those Not-[insert name] minis)
Novel
Nudes
Post World War II an up to Lebanon 1982
Protecting the standard/colours - any period
Religion
Repaint prepaint
Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Secret Agents
Small people Nations of the world - Paint something fictional or real from your country of residence
Starships and Sailing-boats
Superheroes and Supervillains
Tales From Shakespeare
The East
Thiefs or cops and robbers
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Vampires and/or vampire hunters
Vehicles
Warriors of the faith - any period
Wars of Unification
Whimsy
Whoopsie round - Accidents, car/airplane crashes, sinking ships
Women and Children
Woods and Forests

What has been done already:

Africa
Back of Beyond
Civilians and bystanders
Conan the Barbarian
Conquistadors
Cthulhu
Germans
Halloween
Mad Science
Maritime/Naval
Old Metal
Saddle up!
Scenes from famous movies
The Lost World
The Worlds of J.R.R.Tolkien
Victorian Sci-Fi
World War II
Zombies

[Captain Blood]

Nice one Skander 
I was going to do that very same thing, and you have saved me the trouble - and excellent bit of threadomancy 

[Centaur_Seducer]

Nice one Skander 
I was going to do that very same thing, and you have saved me the trouble - and excellent bit of threadomancy 

No problem, I needed to pretend doing something serious with excel-sheets and stuff for a while...