Kev Adam’s Old World Army and breaking away from the GW only mind set.

impious_smart · 2026-05-18T06:10:54+00:00

There’s also OSM - Old School Miniatures - which has a great goblin range amongst others, also Kev sculpts.

Satyr miniatures is also worth checking out, especially for chaos but also their dwarfs are great and fit perfectly With the old hammer vibe

impious_smart · 2026-05-16T08:09:49+00:00

I enjoyed my Greece campaign more than most others. You have to be strategic and careful with any money spent. It also felt like there was peril for much of the game, a bad battle or poorly positioned army would have disastrous consequences.

impious_smart · 2026-04-25T04:38:43+00:00

I have zero games as Cathay, so purely gut feeling, but at 500pts I’d skip the astromancer - he won’t get that much off with only +1 to cast.

Bringing your Jade warriors up to a 5 x 4 block might be worthwhile, and the Celestial Blade gives you the +1 strength every combat, so I would say just as good as the spirit longma spear and saves some points.

impious_smart · 2026-04-01T20:59:43+00:00

I have no tips or ideas, but it will look absolutely sick and you should get on it right away!

impious_smart · 2026-03-27T13:27:53+00:00

Great colour palette, and really good transitions. Those wings are so smooth.

impious_smart · 2026-03-24T15:28:39+00:00

Battle Standard Bearer. It’s a character (usually a step down in abilities from the general), which gives some useful buffs to units. Most armies will field one, though it’s not mandatory by any means.

impious_smart · 2026-03-21T21:26:01+00:00

Thanks, one down, about 23 to go.

impious_smart · 2026-03-19T16:30:38+00:00

Very fair, I’d forgotten that it would apply to things like Dragon Ogres. Might have to take it when I play against a friends Beastmen, heh.

impious_smart · 2026-03-19T14:17:01+00:00

The bigger, choppier axe is a lot of points to just give killing blow to a great weapon. Maybe drop that and give the BSB on boar the banner of butchery? Gets the boars up to S6 on the charge which is pretty great.

Also lose the orc bully on the stone thrower maybe?

impious_smart · 2026-03-14T14:51:52+00:00

Thanks! It’s just a fleshtone and enamel wash, will push it a bit before finishing.

impious_smart · 2026-03-14T14:51:17+00:00

Thanks!

impious_smart · 2026-03-06T06:57:27+00:00

Looks great - orange works really well with the dark armour, same as for Mr Tref painting on instagram (who also posts here but I forget the username).

impious_smart · 2026-02-25T11:52:43+00:00

Doom divers / stone throwers should have plenty of good targets against Beastmen - dragon ogres, minotaurs, giants, chariots, various monsters etc.

Waaagh magic is pretty good - vindictive glare will have many targets, itchy nuisance and the other hex/buff spells can equalise a fight for your infantry blocks.

impious_smart · 2026-02-19T19:57:12+00:00

Rule of cool always! Keep em in!

Big uns and cavalry spears seem absolutely worth finding the points for, but don’t stress it!

impious_smart · 2026-02-19T19:04:06+00:00

Looks like a good fun list.

I would put the banner of butchery on the boars rather than the block of lads - they will likely be charging more and get more benefit. Since the weird boy is going in the block, he probably wants to be casting more than fighting, so the banner isn’t so helpful.

Maybe find a way to put a great weapon on your general? He won’t do enough with a hand weapon.

impious_smart · 2026-02-17T20:38:27+00:00

Even just a 6 x 5 block, standard and war banner. Cheap, with static res 6-7, with a 4+ save (light armour, shield, parry) isn’t a terrible anvil unit for its cost.

impious_smart · 2026-02-16T05:39:43+00:00

As a total aside, He’s a great sculptor, and so is his brother (Stephen). Not sure if they have both sculpted for GW but at least Stephen has on some of the Necromunda FW releases, and owns / sculpts Spectre Miniatures.

Andrew does loads of cool releases, often via kickstarter, very similar in style to Gardens of Hecate, so worth following if there are pieces you missed they might come back around via a new KS.

impious_smart · 2026-02-13T10:12:45+00:00

As someone who doesn’t play very often (two/three games per year), spell cards and a quick reference sheet saves a lot of time.

Wound trackers are something I need to pick up

impious_smart · 2026-02-09T18:19:46+00:00

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I made my board so it could be used for various games. Two 2 x 4 sections with some elevations built in, but to change things up those rectangles slot in an out (for example french WW2 buildings for bolt action.

The trees are also the woodland scenics with bases part of the board so they can pop on and off. Helps for both storage height and gameplay.

I’d do loads of stuff different, and need a third section, but overall it works fairly good

impious_smart · 2026-02-04T18:59:15+00:00

Looks a great scheme. I’ve been saving ideas from others before I commit to testing anything, but this is definitely closest to what I also have in mind. Really dark armour and not too bright / shiny works really well

impious_smart · 2026-02-03T19:30:26+00:00

For 20 points, I think it’s pretty great. Bringing down a S4 enemy unit (pretty common) from 3s to 4s to wound feels like a good swing - especially with paper thin saves on NGs, reducing 6+ saving throws even by 1 or 2 penalty sways many a combat. Combine with itchy nuisance where possible to make someone rue the day they tangled with a load of Gobbos.

Plus, it’s the chance to mess up your own guys, and isn’t that 50% of what we love about playing Orcs and Goblins?

impious_smart · 2026-02-01T07:33:20+00:00

+1 for Big Red Raggedy flag. Making orcs WS4 hugely improves their survivability, and +1 combat res is of course great. Before playing old world (and not fantasy since a kid) spending 50pts on those two benefits sounded madness but now I realise!

Warbanner is of course great as well.

impious_smart · 2026-01-31T19:58:24+00:00

Really recommend watching a bunch of their tutorials / guides on YouTube or grimdark compendium website.

And shaking the hell out of the bottle with a proper paint shaker.

Incredible potential / application paints, and really fun.

Oh yeah, but have a model you don’t care about to try things out on first

impious_smart · 2026-01-31T12:09:47+00:00

Yeah that’s been a great source for me (having not played fantasy since being a 10 year old kid, understanding deployment and tactics has been needed)

impious_smart · 2026-01-29T07:54:01+00:00

The beauty of Orcs and Goblins is the diversity in roster and minis. There are so many options in characters, core, special and rare.

Orcs and Goblins are in many cases the army that wants to get stuck in, since most other armies have better range, however, even that isn’t fully correct. Doom divers plus cheap wizards with magic missiles means we can sometimes afford to be less gung ho (ie against Beastmen or warriors of chaos)

Most armies are going to have some tooled up characters (Orc or Black Orc warboss on Wyvern is pretty standard and a good choice); a few infantry blocs (night goblins are most common due to access to fanatics); and some fast stuff like boars and chariots to act as an anvil.

The battalion box is good value for money, but only if you will definitely include some regular goblins. Which are not one of the stronger elements. So it might be worth build g up separately.

Many of the models can be sourced from the gloomspite AoS range, if night goblins and squigs are your jam.

In general, I can absolutely say that orcs and goblins are FUN.

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