Grom has need of another landing beach for the second wave of ships. He has sent his trusty lieutenant, the Black Gobbo, to take Tor Elithern. This is a watch tower built on a promontory that overlooks the coast that Grom has his eyes set upon.
The elves are aware of Grom's armies and are on high alert.
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| The guard of Tor Elithern prepare the bolt thrower. |
The Black Gobbo is a treacherous and sneaky goblin with a penchant for cunning tactics... at least as far as he is concerned.
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| The chariots race across the field! |
The Black Gobbo orders a frontal assault of the tower! He sends all of his forces at once to overwhelm the defenders. If Grom wanted fewer goblins dead, he would have sent fewer goblins on the mission.
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| The elves are steady and precise. |
The Chariots careen forward trying to weave and dodge the repeating bolt thrower. The Wolfriders find themselves caught between them as stray bolts strike the lead riders.
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| The spearmen take up position at the top of the stairs. |
The riders approach the tower relying on the wait of their numbers. The black gobbo sneaks up the rear in the confusion of the assault.
Bravely, for goblins anyways, the wolves stumble up the stairs only to be met by stoic spears.
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| The black gobbo sneaks among the dead goblins and toppled chariots. |
As the last wolf rider flees in fear, the trolls trudge through the carnage to meet the elves.
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| The Black Gobbo sneaks into a blind spot of the arrow slits. |
The trolls lurch up the stairs to crumple the elven defenders. Archers in the tower down one of the brutes.
Despite their brave defense, the spearmen are tossed aside.
With the last of the defenders crunched or otherwise tossed off the cliff, the last Troll turns to batter the door.
The loud thumping on the door is the perfect distraction for the Black Gobbo's plan.The Black Gobbo sneaks up the tower and hacks the unware elves to pieces. Another cunning plan expertly done by the Black Gobbo.
Grom will have his second beach.
Now for pics of the minis
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| The Black Gobbo, goblin big boss - 33 points |
The black gobbo has been on my list of things to do for over 20 years. I remember when the black gobbo articles started appearing on the games workshop website and seeing the conversion instructions. Night goblins were my first warhammer army, the same army I sold a few years back and have replaced with the army I am making now.
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| You can compare the original conversion guide to my work. I think I'm pretty close. |
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| Two wolf chariots - 170 points |
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| Four Trolls - 260 points |
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| Ten wolf riders - 121 points |
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| Part of my goal to reproduce the box art is to paint up each of the goblin banners too. |
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| This isn't on the front of the 4th ed. box. It's inside the 4th ed rulebook. But, I like the wolf rider standard, so I made a rough approximation for mine. I took a plastic orc hand and sculpted it a middle finger and put it on top. |
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Additional models, a command group and fanatic - 45 points
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| The yellow banner is also from the box art. |
Total: 629 points
This month I was able to catch up to the "March" line on my shelf. Focusing on models with bigger bases made a big difference. Now I just have to slog through infantry for the next two months to finish on time.
Should be easy right?
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