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Before I discuss about this unit, I have taken note of how popular Forest Troll tech-trees have become on the Hive Workshop, and then compared to my Splinterbark Forest Trolls, so I decided to draw this portrait.
This is an equivalent of the Woodland Elf Prelate (as seen in the last page). This RTS-themed worker unit, while typical for mining gold and chopping lumber by hand, can actually be used as temporary fodder until warriors could take their place. They can also be used to thin other worker units to stem an opponent's efforts. So having a handful of these guys would protect your base before true warriors are trained for service.
The nice thing about the Drudge that as a temporary ambusher of peasants or peons, when they kill a worker who is carrying gold or lumber, the killing unit will now have the load to carry back home--win win. Things won't stack past the max of 10, however, so the unit who already has the load will stay his weapon and allow another unit to take the load. And the process repeats. Drudges already carrying a full load will work to weaken an enemy worker but not kill him, leaving the empty-handed to go in for the loot.
I decided that for this concept art, the Drudge would have the crest of Brontotherium and the incisor tusks of the Platybelodon, as well as shorter ears and mane. I personally thought that because trolls in general gaming are considered primitive that I should incorporate prehistoric mammalian features on a troll like this. A retractable fang is something I find fascinating, but I also remembered that many mammal species would have diamond-shaped pupils, so I gave him one for this portrait to make him look fiercer. Honestly, the idea behind the development of the Drudge lays in what animals were popular: as a gamer myself, I find that cool or terrifying things seems to have higher status than apparels associated with simple, boring creatures--something more fit for the workers' class. The overall artwork, though, has shown how cool the Drudge is in his own way, akin to the orc peon.
I personally see giant tusks on skinny troll faces as something that isn't possible, so I decided that a wider and deeper skull of a male Splinterbark Troll would suffice, as it has bone surface area to support giant tusks, especially given how much root space such teeth would need in order to not break off.
If one, for example, were to take a look at, say, a skull of a typical rodent and dissect where the front teeth grow from, you'll see that the roots extend back in a curvature direction.

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodent#C…

Description
Before I discuss about this unit, I have taken note of how popular Forest Troll tech-trees have become on the Hive Workshop, and then compared to my Splinterbark Forest Trolls, so I decided to draw this portrait.
This is an equivalent of the Woodland Elf Prelate (as seen in the last page). This RTS-themed worker unit, while typical for mining gold and chopping lumber by hand, can actually be used as temporary fodder until warriors could take their place. They can also be used to thin other worker units to stem an opponent's efforts. So having a handful of these guys would protect your base before true warriors are trained for service.
The nice thing about the Drudge that as a temporary ambusher of peasants or peons, when they kill a worker who is carrying gold or lumber, the killing unit will now have the load to carry back home--win win. Things won't stack past the max of 10, however, so the unit who already has the load will stay his weapon and allow another unit to take the load. And the process repeats. Drudges already carrying a full load will work to weaken an enemy worker but not kill him, leaving the empty-handed to go in for the loot.
I decided that for this concept art, the Drudge would have the crest of Brontotherium and the incisor tusks of the Platybelodon, as well as shorter ears and mane. I personally thought that because trolls in general gaming are considered primitive that I should incorporate prehistoric mammalian features on a troll like this. A retractable fang is something I find fascinating, but I also remembered that many mammal species would have diamond-shaped pupils, so I gave him one for this portrait to make him look fiercer. Honestly, the idea behind the development of the Drudge lays in what animals were popular: as a gamer myself, I find that cool or terrifying things seems to have higher status than apparels associated with simple, boring creatures--something more fit for the workers' class. The overall artwork, though, has shown how cool the Drudge is in his own way, akin to the orc peon.
I personally see giant tusks on skinny troll faces as something that isn't possible, so I decided that a wider and deeper skull of a male Splinterbark Troll would suffice, as it has bone surface area to support giant tusks, especially given how much root space such teeth would need in order to not break off.
If one, for example, were to take a look at, say, a skull of a typical rodent and dissect where the front teeth grow from, you'll see that the roots extend back in a curvature direction.

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodent#C…