Goblins!

For over a year now I’ve been playing the excellent One Page Rules Grimdark Future rules and continue to do so, especially now that the 3^rd edition of those rules have been released.  But lately we’ve expanded our games into a bit of fantasy skirmishing using One Page Rules Age of Fantasy Skirmish rules.

So, I’ve been digging around in on the eastern face of the Lead Mountain, plucking out a few small collections of as yet unused miniatures and getting them painted ready for use on the tabletop.  We’re on a bit of a hiatus at the moment, what with summer holidays and a few other disruptions, and I’ll be away next week so it looks like it’ll be early October before I can get these chaps into battle.

I happened to have a few bashed up old goblins, and a very old metal troll knocking about.  They had bits missing and were generally in disrepair, so I scavenged some spare parts of my bitz box and threw together a small force.

I think these are Games Workshop “night goblins” so traditionally should be clad in black robes, but I wanted to go a bit brighter than that.  I therefore diverged in my colour scheme and decided on yellow checks and brown leather robes. 

The troll is, I think, and old stone troll and probably should have been grey/blue (?) But for me, trolls are green so a nice bright yellow/green scheme it was.

The chequerboard pattern took a few hours, but overall these were quick to paint and create a viable OPR goblin force I think.  Two units of three spears, and two units of three hand weapons units, supported by a leader with two hand weapons, a wizard, and another hero with a standard (in this case a horse skull.  And of course, the troll!  It’ll run at 300pts, but I’ll probably need another troll and perhaps a couple of cave monsters (I have a bag of cheap plastic spiders somewhere) will probably do it.  If not I can sub in some ogres…

Anyway, these were fun to paint and turned out OK I think.

He's the boss because he's got two hooky hooks

He's the wizard because he's all blurred.
Its probably the mushrooms.

He's sort of a bos because he's got
a skull on a stick. Which is nice.

He's the boss because, well, look at him!
I mean are you going to argue?