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Weaklip Craphoarder - Gnoblar Warhoarder!

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Very simply these are rules I made for an interesting addition to my unit of 30 gnoblars.
He is converted (extensivly). The model uses 4 gnoblars stooping over carrying a palanquin (Irongut skull standard) with Weaklip standing threateningly on top. The model was just for fun and fits perfectly in the 6 wide frontage o the incredibly arduous to paint unit! (pics to follow)

Feel free to comment or criticize, but as with all of my 'special characters' i will create the fluff, and convert the models but essentially he's totally legal as two seperate gnoblars. (ie he doesn't exist for challenging purposes etc.)
Enjoy!

Weaklip Craphoarder – Gnoblar Warhoarder

Weaklip began as all other Gnoblars in the Ogre Kingdoms, violently. He despised his family as do most Gnoblars and schemed and fought against his siblings hourly. His antics are fondly remembered fondly amongst the Ogres Belchfist Beastkiller’s tribe as he once attempted to fight a baby rhinoxen that was being kept for food by the tribe. He was attempting to set it loose upon his brothers, failed miserably, and ended up with a very pleased on looking crowd of ogres and a serious concussion that gave him a major superiority complex. At the age of 4 he was proud to announce a growth spurt of 2 centimetres, of which he took great pride, as it put him an inch closer to all the other inferior Gnoblars. From this point he declared himself ‘Greater Groinbiter’ and bossed everyone around. Fortunately for him, Gnoblars are fearful creatures and most obeyed his every command, just because he sounded like he knew what he was doing. Those that didn’t obey him, were swiftly shifted to tooth duty with the tribe’s Butcher.
Weaklip began to consider himself strong and superior, like his Ogre masters, though in truth he was no stronger nor superior to any other Gnoblar. He held an arm wrestling contest to establish the four strongest Gnoblars in his unit of ‘Fighters’, to discover lackeys to carry his newly created palanquin around for him. This he uses every minute of every day, created of broken shields, old skulls and standards and held up with sticks by the Gnoblars; he believes it gives him power over his inferiors and status even to talk to an Ogre’s gut. Weaklip can generally be seen leading one of his many units of ‘fighters’ into battle alongside the armies of the Ogre Kingdoms - usually bickering or causing arguments within the unit and causing great mirth when he flees from the least frightening of opponents, even amongst other Gnoblars, who also find it just as hilarious.

Weaklip must be used as presented hear and may not be given any additional wargear or equipment. Weaklip is not a specific special character and requires no permission to use, for his rules are a combination of the stats of a standard Gnoblar Fighter and a Gnoblar Groinbiter from the front rank of the unit. A suitable model should be converted for him on his palanquin, taking up at least 2 bases. The 2 Gnoblars in the front rank holding up the palanquin get no attacks as they are represented by Weaklip’s additional presence in the unit.

                                                 M  WS B  S  T  W  I  A  Ld
Weaklip Craphoarder           4  2  3  2  3  2  3  3  5

Weaklip is armed with an impressive array of rubbish armaments that wouldn’t harm a fly that he can just about effectively use as a hand weapon. Weaklip cannot be challenged in combat nor can he issue a challenge.

Bicker: Just like every other Gnoblar Weaklip is subject to a good argument at the most inappropriate times
Largely Insignificant: All the Gnoblars laugh at Weaklip when he runs away just as they do everyone else. In their opinion nobody except their Ogre Master’s deserve any respect.
Raised: Due to being held above the unit, and with stores of ammo around him at all times on his podium of rubbish, Weaklip gets two multiple shots when using Sharp Stuff as if he were two seperate gnoblars. This also applies to the Stand & Shoot charge reaction.
Belchfist Beastkiller Mountaineater the Everhungry

Warriors of Chaos (Tzeentch mostly)
http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=25064.0

Daemons
http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=9274.0
Ghark Ironskin and tribe
http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=8002.0
I like it! And I can't wait to see some pics of this model. I might even steal this idea.


BigD
- 5 fighters and 1 trapper; the beginning of a vast gnoblar army. A gnoblar revolutions is at hand!
Woooohoo! pics as promised!
enjoy! Comment as you wish!

apologies for bad lighting on some! What're ya gonna do...









Belchfist Beastkiller Mountaineater the Everhungry

Warriors of Chaos (Tzeentch mostly)
http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=25064.0

Daemons
http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=9274.0
Ghark Ironskin and tribe
http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=8002.0
I love the idea!!!! The fluff is cool ;) The rules are awesome, and seem rather acutely balanced :D Erm, one question... Could you give me a few tips on how you made your model?

Regards,

Josh :)
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Quote from: Shadowlord on Mar 11, 2013, 01:57:18 PM
After all, painting 100 night goblins is something you do in the morning just before you are off to work.

And I think you missed a 0 when you wrote 11 armies. The correct nr should be 110 armies I would think, based on your painting speed.
Nice. I like the idea and the conversion. The little maw-icon on the skulls are a great little touch!

BigD
- 5 fighters and 1 trapper; the beginning of a vast gnoblar army. A gnoblar revolutions is at hand!
Thanks for your comments! Again more apologies for the bad pics!

The conversion is not difficult, it is just a little time consuming!

1. I started by picking 4 gnoblars that had arms that could both be positioned to hold sticks (normally the ones with the sling and rock)
2. I greenstuffed sticks to their arms and sculpted hands around them also.
2.5. stuck a bag and a club (bulls sprue) to the bag of the two gnoblar attendants at the back of the base...in case weaklip were to lose his first weapon in the heat of his tough battle!
3. Next I used an irongut standard, and glued to pieces of sprue in a cross on the bottom of the model.
4. I positioned the arms of the gnoblars whilst on the base, so that the sticks held up the 'palanquin' (irongut standard) without touching the cross of sprue. (the only hard bit)
5. I added the banner to the back of the palanquin, greenstuffing quite a bit.
6. add general 'crap' (gotta be crap for a craphoarder!) around the sides.
7. Pick an adequately rubbish looking gnoblar and convert him a ridiculous weapon (simply added the mase bits to the end of the club)


thanks! comments always appreciated!
tip: don't stick the palanquin to the gnoblars, and definitely don't stick your weaklip craphoarder to the palanquin for much, much easier painting!
Belchfist Beastkiller Mountaineater the Everhungry

Warriors of Chaos (Tzeentch mostly)
http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=25064.0

Daemons
http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=9274.0
Ghark Ironskin and tribe
http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=8002.0
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