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A peaceful tiger taur village in the forest.
Browsing around I had spotted a certain colored sketch, Tiger Taur Dude, depicting a slightly plump tiger with a human torso and head, who had tiger ears. Of course as my luck goes, by the time I complete the image, the author hits the big red button on his gallery... Drat. I wished to refer to him as inspiration source. Without that, it never would have gotten in my mind to do this painting.
Anyway, while I am not that much into taurs, I find the idea fun enough, and they don't defy the laws of physics either. Such a six-limbed creature could exist, if someone wanted to go really far trying to get it as plausible as possible, the anatomy and motion of giraffes could provide a good base idea.
The little golden dragon or fire lizard is a bit tricky, it is not the conventional western dragon anatomy, rather this one, the wings muscles anchoring to a reptilian pelvis. They go well along with the taurs as another six-limbed creature.
Regarding the fat distribution, I prefer them this way, to have the quadrupedal body taking all the pudge, it makes sense as it does better for their balance. He doesn't have second stomach, I imagine the torso rather being more like a neck, although with lungs and heart to provide oxygen-rich blood to the brain of these intelligent beings.
It is interesting to try to imagine how they feel about their body. The circulation being somewhat detached, I can imagine them being somewhat detached themselves from their quadrupedal half as they may even be in a different state of activity. Like the body sleeping, maybe after a meal, while them still active, reading, thinking, or talking with each other laying on their sides. Or whatever on your fantasy.
The foliage could definitely improve, just how to get lots of it done in a finite time without going cheap and duplicating things. Otherwise I like the end result, I think I managed to get rather okay three dimensional impression with this. Focus at it with one eye closed, at least for me it works, and was even a bit disorienting during painting.
Browsing around I had spotted a certain colored sketch, Tiger Taur Dude, depicting a slightly plump tiger with a human torso and head, who had tiger ears. Of course as my luck goes, by the time I complete the image, the author hits the big red button on his gallery... Drat. I wished to refer to him as inspiration source. Without that, it never would have gotten in my mind to do this painting.
Anyway, while I am not that much into taurs, I find the idea fun enough, and they don't defy the laws of physics either. Such a six-limbed creature could exist, if someone wanted to go really far trying to get it as plausible as possible, the anatomy and motion of giraffes could provide a good base idea.
The little golden dragon or fire lizard is a bit tricky, it is not the conventional western dragon anatomy, rather this one, the wings muscles anchoring to a reptilian pelvis. They go well along with the taurs as another six-limbed creature.
Regarding the fat distribution, I prefer them this way, to have the quadrupedal body taking all the pudge, it makes sense as it does better for their balance. He doesn't have second stomach, I imagine the torso rather being more like a neck, although with lungs and heart to provide oxygen-rich blood to the brain of these intelligent beings.
It is interesting to try to imagine how they feel about their body. The circulation being somewhat detached, I can imagine them being somewhat detached themselves from their quadrupedal half as they may even be in a different state of activity. Like the body sleeping, maybe after a meal, while them still active, reading, thinking, or talking with each other laying on their sides. Or whatever on your fantasy.
The foliage could definitely improve, just how to get lots of it done in a finite time without going cheap and duplicating things. Otherwise I like the end result, I think I managed to get rather okay three dimensional impression with this. Focus at it with one eye closed, at least for me it works, and was even a bit disorienting during painting.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Taur (Other)
Size 1024 x 1280px
File Size 466.1 kB
Saw you did some roleplaying, so guess no problem with a bit of rambling then!
Well, he is just a tiger-taur, I didn't put much thought in him or their world. But let's assume he has a tiger's body at a normal, healthy tiger's size, with the humanoid torso being about similar to that of average humans. His height to the top of his head is about 220-230 centimetres then.
This is large, but not too large, so upscaling appropriate items for their use works all right (with giants, this doesn't work due to that structural properties don't scale up at cubic rate to cope with the mass).
Centaurs in Greek mythology are a blend of horse and man for a good reason, the observation how immensely powerful that combination would be, if rider indeed came to share mind with his steed, to act in one fluid motion. A bit later, Hungarians in particular (eh, let's have a bit of my nationality's history thrown in) were renowned and feared for their agility on the horse, easily capable to fire powerful recurve bows even backwards, punching through heavy knight armour.
The mythological centaur naturally would have this capability, and if the creature existed (it doesn't defy any law of physic, only the biology evolved on our planet), it would of course exploit these capabilities once becoming sufficiently adept crafting the weapons and utilities.
In a world with human and taurs, the taurs would easily be superior, even if human invented advanced crafting, until about mid nineteenth century technology, the taur would have the upper hand, human only capable to keep par with them relying on horses. Human would only gain superiority by building vehicles and planes (which would be a whole lot more difficult for taurs due to their size).
Let's look a bit at this particular taur, with the tiger body. The horse body would be a more obvious choice, at least from human perspective, imagining our own history and wars, taking place on battlefields suited for horses. Also the long-term endurance of horses is not to be underestimated in utility (transportation, messaging). The tiger in comparison is not exactly suited for these tasks.
The tiger however would excel in dense vegetation, difficult terrain which horses wouldn't tackle. I could imagine such an environment where they inhabited mountain ranges and jungles, impossible to be dislodged by medieval technology, while in more open areas human horseback military would be able to keep them at bay. Still, they would be capable to raid, not being as fast as as a mounted force, but more versatile in their choices of terrain. If they can move the battlefield into an area in their favour, forests, ravines, potentially even swamps, it is a massacre.
The chances of horseback military (or horse bodied centaurs) depends on whether they can keep them at distance. In archery, they would equal, however in close combat, the tiger with his claws would of course shred the horse to pieces, with armoured knights, they most likely would start with the legs (likely the armour would be different trying to address this problem, more bulky, anticipating that the tiger taur can attack at any height).
All this put together, it feels the most plausible to make them prefer guerilla style warfare, avoiding open battlefields. Less organized as they themselves have less chances to communicate, convey elaborate commands in such an environment, more relying on a general good awareness of their environment and the whereabouts of their buddies while doing their small group skirmishes.
Weapons would include a powerful recurve bow, in these environments sniping and ambushes are very effective, with the bow, they can kill before even having to risk showing themselves. Convenient hit and run, lure into a trap (like Hungarians did). For short range anything goes in the hands, they would likely prefer ambush, if not succeeding it, rather fleeing onto such terrain a horse can not follow them, for another attempt.
In an open area fight at close range, horseman versus tiger taur with similar armour and weapons, the tiger taur would win. Against a centaur (horse body), still. They have to be outnumbered in such conditions (better keep them at distance using archery). However the horse is more enduring, so if the tiger taur has to flee with nowhere to go, he is dead, unable to keep up with the chase.
Well, hope no problem writing this all up! :)
Well, he is just a tiger-taur, I didn't put much thought in him or their world. But let's assume he has a tiger's body at a normal, healthy tiger's size, with the humanoid torso being about similar to that of average humans. His height to the top of his head is about 220-230 centimetres then.
This is large, but not too large, so upscaling appropriate items for their use works all right (with giants, this doesn't work due to that structural properties don't scale up at cubic rate to cope with the mass).
Centaurs in Greek mythology are a blend of horse and man for a good reason, the observation how immensely powerful that combination would be, if rider indeed came to share mind with his steed, to act in one fluid motion. A bit later, Hungarians in particular (eh, let's have a bit of my nationality's history thrown in) were renowned and feared for their agility on the horse, easily capable to fire powerful recurve bows even backwards, punching through heavy knight armour.
The mythological centaur naturally would have this capability, and if the creature existed (it doesn't defy any law of physic, only the biology evolved on our planet), it would of course exploit these capabilities once becoming sufficiently adept crafting the weapons and utilities.
In a world with human and taurs, the taurs would easily be superior, even if human invented advanced crafting, until about mid nineteenth century technology, the taur would have the upper hand, human only capable to keep par with them relying on horses. Human would only gain superiority by building vehicles and planes (which would be a whole lot more difficult for taurs due to their size).
Let's look a bit at this particular taur, with the tiger body. The horse body would be a more obvious choice, at least from human perspective, imagining our own history and wars, taking place on battlefields suited for horses. Also the long-term endurance of horses is not to be underestimated in utility (transportation, messaging). The tiger in comparison is not exactly suited for these tasks.
The tiger however would excel in dense vegetation, difficult terrain which horses wouldn't tackle. I could imagine such an environment where they inhabited mountain ranges and jungles, impossible to be dislodged by medieval technology, while in more open areas human horseback military would be able to keep them at bay. Still, they would be capable to raid, not being as fast as as a mounted force, but more versatile in their choices of terrain. If they can move the battlefield into an area in their favour, forests, ravines, potentially even swamps, it is a massacre.
The chances of horseback military (or horse bodied centaurs) depends on whether they can keep them at distance. In archery, they would equal, however in close combat, the tiger with his claws would of course shred the horse to pieces, with armoured knights, they most likely would start with the legs (likely the armour would be different trying to address this problem, more bulky, anticipating that the tiger taur can attack at any height).
All this put together, it feels the most plausible to make them prefer guerilla style warfare, avoiding open battlefields. Less organized as they themselves have less chances to communicate, convey elaborate commands in such an environment, more relying on a general good awareness of their environment and the whereabouts of their buddies while doing their small group skirmishes.
Weapons would include a powerful recurve bow, in these environments sniping and ambushes are very effective, with the bow, they can kill before even having to risk showing themselves. Convenient hit and run, lure into a trap (like Hungarians did). For short range anything goes in the hands, they would likely prefer ambush, if not succeeding it, rather fleeing onto such terrain a horse can not follow them, for another attempt.
In an open area fight at close range, horseman versus tiger taur with similar armour and weapons, the tiger taur would win. Against a centaur (horse body), still. They have to be outnumbered in such conditions (better keep them at distance using archery). However the horse is more enduring, so if the tiger taur has to flee with nowhere to go, he is dead, unable to keep up with the chase.
Well, hope no problem writing this all up! :)
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