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CONTENT GUIDELINES

Taking part in the Foreriders Hobby Blog is open to everyone interested in starting a Warband project for Mantic Games upcoming Vanguard skirmish game set in the Kings of War world of Mantica.

That said, to make the content on the blog as interesting and diverse as possible, there are a couple of guidelines to for submission to get your content on display and points on the leaderboard! Don't worry - it's nothing taxing...

APPROPRIATE CONTENT NOTE:

Aside from the main Content Guidelines regarding submission requirements, please keep your content clean and appropriate - any unnecessary profanity in project content or updates may be excluded at the hobby blogs discretion!

VANGUARD WARBAND PROJECTS

NEW MUSTER

This is the submission that starts off your hobby project. This content should have some text content needing a minimum of 1000 characters and atleast 1 image of the models you are going aiming to use in your Warband.

This type of content might typically be a discussion of how or why you've selected your Warband from a rules or points cost perspective, expected functionality on the skirmish battlefield or just talking about why you like the models you've picked and what paint schemes or conversion ideas you have in mind.

This content will be highlighted on the blog under the "NEW MUSTER" category.

PROGRESS UPDATE

This is where follow-up updates and progress reports are submitted as you track your Warband's progress from idea to hobby realization!

Requirements for this section are text content with a minimum of 1000 characters and atleast 1 image showing off your work. In addition to these minimum requirements, there are further sections provided so additional images and content blocks can be detailed that the blog post will then follow in structure.

This content will be highlighted on the blog under the "PROGRESS" category.

VANGUARD WARBAND LORE

WARBAND BACKGROUND

This is an optional submission that is aimed for hobbyists to tell the origin sotry or background tale of their Warband to help set the scene for their hobby project.

Requirements for this section are text content with a minimum of 1000 characters. Images are not required for this type of submission, with a default Faction Symbol being used in these sorts of posts when published on the blog.

This content will be highlighted on the blog under the "BACKGROUND" category.

ONGOING WARBAND STORIES

Another optional submission that allows hobbyists to craft some of the tales and adventures that their Warband has been through in the past or experienced in a recent tabletop battle.

Requirements for this section are text content with a minimum of 1000 characters. Images are not required for this type of submission, with a default Faction Symbol being used in this sorts of posts when published on the blog.

This content will be highlighted on the blog under the "STORY" category.

VANGUARD SKIRMISH TERRAIN

This is where any new or follow-up updates and progress reports are submitted for Skirmish Terrain Projects you develop for use in your games of Vanguard.

Requirements for this section are text content with a minimum of 1000 characters and atleast 1 image showing off your work. In addition to these minimum requirements, there are further sections provided so additional images and content blocks can be detailed that the blog post will then follow in structure.

This content will be highlighted on the blog under the "TERRAIN" category.

IMAGE & PHOTO QUALITY

Take as good a photo of your work as you can - it's your hobby you want to show off afterall. There are no quality requirements related to New Muster and Warband Progress Updates submissions, just show-off your work as best you can.

However, when completing your Warband project and submitting it for display in the Showcase Gallery, you are going to want to make your photo as clean and crisp as possible with a uniform background. It's a showcase afterall and you want to make the work your proud to have completed stand out when on display.

This means there may be some Showcase photo quality standards applied try and keep the Gallery a shining beacon of the hobby. This is more in regards lighting, backgrounds and picture quality and not about the standards of individual paintjobs or hobby work.

I'll post some links up in regards best lighting and backgrounds etc in this section in the future to offer guidence already out there in the wider hobby circle.

CONTENT QUALITY CONTROL

As a community-based hobby blog iIt's up to the author of each individual update and story to proof-read and quality check their own submissions. We all want content on the blog to to be interesting, demonstrate our love of the hobby, encourage other Foreriders to keep involved aswell as inspire newcomers to get started in the game and hobby as a whole, so the better content you can produce the better it is for everyone who visits and reads the blog.

So review your work where you can, to make it as inviting for others to want to check out and read!