Still on the Rise

Alright, so I just finished assembling and painting a Giant for my Goblins and the new Engine of the Gods for the Ottoman Empire. No pics, I just realized the battery on my camera died. Basically here's what the Osama bin Goblin Army consists of (no points calculated, just the gist):

Lord
Skarsnik and Gobbla

Hero
Big Boss
Shaman
Shaman

Core
A LOT of night goblins, units of 24, with a character filling the 25th spot. One unit of 49, with the Big Boss in it. One unit of 20 archers.
One unit of Forest Goblin Spider Riders.

Special
A bunch of Spear Chukkas, I'm thinking 4.

Rare
2 giants.

And so far, I have 9 fanatics. I think that may be enough, but I need to play test it. As always I am accepting challenges. And as always, I probably won't get any.

My First Tournament?

Well, as I've stated, there's a tournament in less than a month. I'm going with or without an army. I wanna see what the competitive environment is like.

The tournament is 2250, so far my armies are:
Ogres (up to and including 3750 points)
Lizards (up to and including 2000 points)
and Goblins (about 750 points lol)

I promised myself I'd take time on the lizards and never do a rush job, so I think they're going to sit this one out.

Goblins... even on my best days, I don't think I can get 1500 worth of goblins painted in less than a month.

Ogres are ready, but aren't very competitive. I'm bidding on more Ironguts right now, so they COULD become more competitive. Reduce my Bulls to a minimal unit (they're required) and just mix bull models in ironguts units, and call em ironguts. That's my plan. Also, I'm buying a box of Leadbelchers for ONE leadbelcher, so I'll just convert the rest into even MORE ironguts. Thankfully all ogres use the same exact body, and all boxes come with more than enough arms and heads. :)

I think I'm gonna do that, paint up some more ogres for the tourney and take my time on Lizards, as planned, and work on goblins as well... after the tournament.

Here's the list I think I'm bringing:

Lord
Tyrant
Wyrdstone Necklace, Tenderizer, Heavy Armor, Luck Gnoblar

Hero
Butcher
Siegebreaker, Skullmantle

Butcher
Bangstick, Power Stone

Butcher
Dispel Scroll x 2

Core
Bulls x 3

Ironguts x 4
Bellower

Ironguts x 4
Bellower

Ironguts x 4
Bellower

Ironguts x 4
Bellower

Gnoblar Trappers x 8

Gnoblar Fighters x 24

Special
Leadbelchers x 3
Bellower

Leadbelchers x 3
Bellower

Scraplauncher

Rare
Gorger

Gorger


Total Points = 2494



*UPDATE*
I just noticed that i made a 2500 army for a 2250 tournament. D'oh!
What I decided to do to fix that is cut IG units down to 3, since one down causes panic anyway... Probably drop the Bellowers. Cut the LB down to 3 units of 2 with no Bellowers, and perhaps drop the Scrap Launcher.

Goblins reproduce like bacteria!

I got another unit set up and ready to be painted. Also got 2 spear chukkas. I made a custom stand for the chukkas because I don't like the idea of holding them by their extremities and letting them fall apart. I'll have pics when they're painted cuz right now pics just look like black rectangles. They're based, and that's it. For now... here's my lvl 2 Shaman.

The Goblins Come to Life!

Alright, so I went and picked up my goblins (at least the beginning of them).  Looks like this is gonna be a pain in the ass, cuz I want units of 24, and the packs come with 20.  So I'm doing conversions and whatnot to make them as efficient as possible.  

I've been writing fluff for them, and basically here it is:

The name of my goblin army is....  

Osama bin Goblin and the Unholy Jihad

Osama bin Goblin is going to be a Lord that I'm going to either make from a template or out of a Goblin warboss.  

It's going to consist of three full command units of 24 night goblins.  One will contain the general, the others will each contain a shaman.

I'm going to have 2 units of 20 Archers (with 1 fanatic each).

Also I will have a couple units of 20 "throw away goblins" each containing 3 fanatics.

I might paint up some spider rider cavalry... still pondering.

In addition to that, I'm going to have 2 Spear Chukkas

Finally, once I reach the higher points (2250 is usually my highest point army)... I would like to incorporate a doom diver.

Obviously this army isn't the winningest Orcs and Goblins build, but as I said, it is for fun.  It will adhere to the theme of Unholy Jihad with all of the fanatics running amok, killing enemies, themselves, and their friends.

So, there ya go.  I'll start adding pics later.  But this is what is complete so far:

• Goblin Boss
  
• 1 Shaman
  
• 20 archers
  
• 3 fanatics
  
• about 30 Night Goblins (the unit with the boss will have spears, and his whole unit is complete)
  

Til next time, feel free to comment on my army build.

Later!

Quick Update!

Alright, so I've decided to put the Ottoman Empire on a hiatus until the new Lizardmen book comes out.  I don't want to play an outdated army... especially since one of my most important magic items (Jaguar Charm) is being taken away, and one of my favorite units (Salamander Hunting Pack) is being changed up, and so many things are being added.  I don't wanna put any more time and money into it until I know I can play a tourney legal army, seeing as how this is my competitive army.

So until February 9th, 2009... I will be finishing up my goblin army.  I'm gonna go pick up some supplies, maybe later today or tomorrow.  

Basically what I'm going for is outnumbering and annoying my opponent.  I'm going to intentionally have too many fanatics on the board, creating a sort of randomness that no opponent could have accounted for.  It could kill them, it could kill me.  Like I said before:  It's for fun.  I'm going to have a lot of shooting, a little bit of Little WAAGH! and a bunch of goblins escorting fanatics.

I leave you with a picture of what I have for the Goblin army so far.  It's basically what came with Skull Pass plus I bought fanatics.