Arjen's Wrap-up : Plaagrotter Foo Foo the Snoo's warband

Yes, apparently I changed the name of the leader of the warband halfway, sue me. It started as Plaagrotter (rough translated from Dutch as Plague-Rotter), a beastman shaman, and his collection of misfits. When I got down to painting the broo shaman miniature to represent Plaagrotter I though e/she resembled the Dr. Suess illustration of Foo Foo the Snoo. I couldn't change the old and I couldn't leave the new name so: "Plaagrotter Foo Foo the Snoo" it is.

The only one that was willing to take the picture in the house was my 4 yr old daughter; Jocelyn. I think the picture is great, so there.

Until know I was mostly collecting Oldhammer, yes I have a sizable Orc army, but I bought most of that painted and the rest was collected when I had no time for hobbying, after the birth of my lovely angels. Sessions of D&D at our house were exchanged by a few hours here or there to slab some paint on old figures.

After moving to the USA, I was able to bring most of my lead, selling the bulkiest stuff (including, to my regret, the citadel castle).

The challenge was a great chance to finally grap my old lead and choose an army to paint, I just got an awesome lot of lead with pre-slotta Broo so if I ever was going to paint them, this was the time.

Here is the army.

I had plans for April, maybe finishing a unit of mounted marauders or Thugs (knights are too expensive). But in the end I opted to start on my other project; painting my old Elan Merch, Grenadier and pre-slotta Citadel minis for my oD&D sessions.

I did take the time to write names of, at least the firs row, of all the warband members.


The force is:

• Plaagrotter Foo-Foo the Snoo and the murder Broo: 13 beastmen + beastman shaman lvl 5 = 130+110= 240 points
• The Metalheads: 14 thugs+shield = 126 points
• Rudiger's Bastards: 14 thugs with bow = 140 points
• TeringLeijer's Brothers and Sisters: 14 beastmen (+standard) +beastman hero lvl 5 = 140+60=200 points
• Plaagrotter's Marauders: 6 Chaos marauders=234 points
• Phlem: 1 chaos warrior = 74 points
• The old Man: 1 troll = 64 points

Total : 1084pts

I must say, every unit had it's own challenges. Some were because of my problems priming them, some with dealing with a multitude of monopose or same type of sculpts and sometimes even, realizing that I'm painting old and awesome sculpts that I was afraid of doing injustice to with my paint slob. I'm not a neat painter, not any more, I paint with an eye towards what I still need to do; every second I spend to paint means second X #figures I want to paint for the same army. Looking at a mountain of lead this is quite intimidating.

I took the challenge per unit, 200 points, and that made it "graspable", I could take between a dozen and a score of minis and develop a color-scheme while painting them. And I am very pleased with the result.

I have already used them in a game of Dragon Rampant (Osprey, Mersey) and they looked awesome (and I won).