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Bubbaganoosh · October 10th, 2006, 04:59

Fist of all, I've never played WHFBG before except when I showed up for the mega battle on the wrong day. I was reading through my new copy of White Dwarf when I saw the new Forest Goblin Spider Riders, and thought I would try to do an entire army of Forest Goblins. Here's some Ideas I came up with to represent models:

Couts as
Model

Common Goblins or Night Goblins
Spider Riders with legs replaced with other goblins, possibly Gnoblars, some with the equipped spears and shields or Night Goblin short bows to represent the respectave equipment. Goblins with bear traps to reperesent netters and some sort of rabid wolf or forest beast for fanatics.

Spider Riders
ditto

Giant
Captured and tortured treeman. Most likely with an ent or durthu's head because I dont like the treeman head.

Trolls
those mini treemen from the Wood Elves. You know.
Possibly river or chaos trolls converted to look like "forest trolls." Dont know how you would make a troll look foresty tho. Help here

Shamans and Bosses
Converted Spider Riders

Rock Lobba
Treemen or mini treemen throwing rocks. Think Lord of the Rings. More likely mini treemen if i convert "forest trolls."

Thats all I got so far, pretty obvious stuff. If anyone can come up wiht anything to add to this list it would be greatly appreciated. Also, Forest Goblins look rather small. Do you guys think Gnoblar legs with salvaged feet from the rider would work, or would i have to sculpt something?

Also check this picture out: (scroll down to the spider riders) http://www.warseer.com/taxonomy_menu/2/9

Are these the spider riders from the boxed set or the skull pass set? Is this how all the Spider riders will be "sprued," or is this some sort of command sprue? If this is how all the spider riders are going to be sprued, (why would they include 3 regular goblins on a command sprue?) this means that you will probably get 10 of these, (that one spider is the commanders spider,) meaning i could make 10 riders and 40 infantry off one box! But, its probably too good to be true.

Also, any help constructing an effective army list using this limited selection of units would be greatly appreciated, as I am very clueless concerning WHFBG's rules and tactics.

October 10th, 2006, 04:59	#1 (permalink)
Bubbaganoosh Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 95 Rep Power: 36	A new kind of Orcs and Goblins army: Forest goblins only Fist of all, I've never played WHFBG before except when I showed up for the mega battle on the wrong day. I was reading through my new copy of White Dwarf when I saw the new Forest Goblin Spider Riders, and thought I would try to do an entire army of Forest Goblins. Here's some Ideas I came up with to represent models: Couts as Model Common Goblins or Night Goblins Spider Riders with legs replaced with other goblins, possibly Gnoblars, some with the equipped spears and shields or Night Goblin short bows to represent the respectave equipment. Goblins with bear traps to reperesent netters and some sort of rabid wolf or forest beast for fanatics. Spider Riders ditto Giant Captured and tortured treeman. Most likely with an ent or durthu's head because I dont like the treeman head. Trolls those mini treemen from the Wood Elves. You know. Possibly river or chaos trolls converted to look like "forest trolls." Dont know how you would make a troll look foresty tho. Help here Shamans and Bosses Converted Spider Riders Rock Lobba Treemen or mini treemen throwing rocks. Think Lord of the Rings. More likely mini treemen if i convert "forest trolls." Thats all I got so far, pretty obvious stuff. If anyone can come up wiht anything to add to this list it would be greatly appreciated. Also, Forest Goblins look rather small. Do you guys think Gnoblar legs with salvaged feet from the rider would work, or would i have to sculpt something? Also check this picture out: (scroll down to the spider riders) http://www.warseer.com/taxonomy_menu/2/9 Are these the spider riders from the boxed set or the skull pass set? Is this how all the Spider riders will be "sprued," or is this some sort of command sprue? If this is how all the spider riders are going to be sprued, (why would they include 3 regular goblins on a command sprue?) this means that you will probably get 10 of these, (that one spider is the commanders spider,) meaning i could make 10 riders and 40 infantry off one box! But, its probably too good to be true. Also, any help constructing an effective army list using this limited selection of units would be greatly appreciated, as I am very clueless concerning WHFBG's rules and tactics.