The Lead Painters' League - Season Three

[Mancha]

Quick question/suggestion, I know you have probably had enough of them to last a lifetime since agreeing to run the LPL3 compitition! I was wondering if since the last round has a possibility of haveing 10+ figures and a "large" beast in it we might allow two pictures for the last round? a group shot and then some closer small highlights shots? Just a thought, don't hang me....

You can, of course, embed highlight shots within your group shot, as I believe Hammers did in his Round 2 Chinese marketplace picture.

[Vonkluge]

Yes Mancha I've done that too, I was just thinking it might be nice to have a little extra room for our last round considering it will be a crowed "frame" if people do paint all the figures possible and I'd like to see more of these great paintjobs!  I did not to mean to suggest the types of shots only an additional 800x800 pixel shot for whatever.

[Hammers]

Quick question/suggestion, I know you have probably had enough of them to last a lifetime since agreeing to run the LPL3 compitition! I was wondering if since the last round has a possibility of haveing 10+ figures and a "large" beast in it we might allow two pictures for the last round? a group shot and then some closer small highlights shots? Just a thought, don't hang me....

You can, of course, embed highlight shots within your group shot, as I believe Hammers did in his Round 2 Chinese marketplace picture.

Sorry, can't take credit for that one. Think it was Grimm.

[Mancha]

Yes Mancha I've done that too, I was just thinking it might be nice to have a little extra room for our last round considering it will be a crowed "frame" if people do paint all the figures possible and I'd like to see more of these great paintjobs!  I did not to mean to suggest the types of shots only an additional 800x800 pixel shot for whatever.

That would probably be giving an additional advantage to new entries, as old entries continuing through into Round 10 would presumably still be under the requirement of a single shot.  Of course you're not interested in my opinion, so we'll see what The Cap'n has to say... 

[Mancha]

I need a little bit of a rules clarification myself.  In any round other than Round 5, does a mounted figure count as one or two of the five-man team?  Obviously animals have been counting as one of the team, so presumably a figure on a mount would count as two, right?

[Orctrader]

I need a little bit of a rules clarification myself.  In any round other than Round 5, does a mounted figure count as one or two of the five-man team?  Obviously animals have been counting as one of the team, so presumably a figure on a mount would count as two, right?

I think that's wrong.  If it were right then why isn't round five just three mounted figures?  And I'm sure if I had entered in Round one just one "foot" commander and the two mounted officers it would not have been "Game Legal."  (Of course, I could be wrong.)

[Plynkes]

It's pretty clear as laid out. 'Five or more mounted figures' it says. Two-and-a-half chaps on two-and-a-half horses is not five mounted figures.

[Mancha]

It's pretty clear as laid out. 'Five or more mounted figures' it says. Two-and-a-half chaps on two-and-a-half horses is not five mounted figures.

Round 5 is perfectly clear--it requires five mounted figures--I understand that this means five riders and five horses.

However, I am not asking about Round 5; I am asking about other rounds.  Would two mounted riders and a single 'foot' count as a team, or must there be five individually-based team members?  I guess I'm asking; what constitutes a team member?  I'll remind you; it's not an obvious answer.  In Season 2, a vehicle counted as a team member. 

I hope this is the case, because I would love to enter a team composed of only two mounted officers and a single foot (although I won't try to do so in Round 5).  This is probably the only way I'll be painting a horse for this competition.   

[Plynkes]

Oh, I'm sorry. I misunderstood you. I Should read more carefully. I don't know the answer, but I don't like the idea of a horse and rider counting as two team members personally. Seems rules lawyerish to me, looking for loopholes. But that's just me.

[Bugsda]

Now's not the time to ask about Siamese twins I suppose

[Svennn]

Now's not the time to ask about Siamese twins I suppose

or pregnant women?

[Mancha]

...but I don't like the idea of a horse and rider counting as two team members personally.

I don't either, but I want to know the rule.

[Captain Blood]

A figure on foot is one team member. An animal on its own is one team member. A mounted figure (man and rider together) is one team member. A centaur or similar man/beast hybrid is one team member. A vehicle is one team member.

Round 10 will be one 800x800 pic same as the other rounds. As long as you get a group shot into your entry, you can use the rest of that space to include as many cutaways and close-ups as you want. I totally understand the reason for the suggestion, but really think it would be better to stick to the rules we've agreed for the competition for the duration.

But what I am doing is logging all such constructive suggestions, and they can be taken into consideration ahead of the next season. 

[garyapsledene]

The picture looks just great

[Orctrader]

Round three on Monday?