Monsters Mash

Well, here's an actual playable monster army. Playable in terms of having the models, not necessarily that it's any good! As a matter of fact, with no archery, it's unlikely to do well in some match-ups. It is, however, guaranteed to be a heck of a lot of fun!

It's 712 points without the balrog, so add another 400 points for those larger games. I'd actually like to get the new goblin that improves the spiders too as well as a few more wild wargs, another warg chieftain (one for the brown ones and one for the grey ones) and maybe a Nazgul, or a Nazgul on horse... or a Nazgul on Fellbeast... oh, and a cave drake!

Apologies for the hideous lighting. You can tell it's awful when two wargs painted identically look such different colours!

Anyway, here's Buhrdur's warband. Three cave trolls, two wild wargs. Technically illegal because for some reason there are no wild wargs in Angmar. The cave trolls look a little shiny because I gave them a couple of layers of protective coating. It's a matt coating, but still is a little reflective. On the plus side it should diminish the number of paint chips (I've already had to do some touching up and they're only relatively new models!)

These guys will be subtle. Move forward. Engage foes. Whack foes with big weapons. The sooner they can be in combat against the enemy the better. Preferably Buhrdur will go for the hero if possible as with some might he stands a chance against them.

Druzhag has the spiders with him for the moment, though they'll get palmed off (maybe) in the future. He's got the brown wargs with him, two bat swarms and five spiders. Druzhag will use his spell on the bats, the one that improves their stats for a single turn but that also damages them. They'll hero-hunt either for tying them up (four wounds takes a couple turns to finish off) or for maybe even doing some damage if they are spelled up. The wargs and spiders with their super movement will be good at nipping off to flanks or to take far off objectives. Also technically illegal at 13 members, will probably just move a warg to the warg chieftain's warband at the start of the game. If I get the spider-enhancing goblin the spiders will join him instead.

The warg chieftain and his force will also be good for flank attacks and objectives. The chieftain himself is overpriced for a hero, but well priced for a maneuverable minion killer. 

And the whole army...

So I've taken what to most people are fairly useless models (underskilled or overpriced) and put them together into a great fun army! Not saying it'll be any good except for fun =) 


The basics are simple. Druzhag hates goblins but loves beasts. Buhrdur loves roaming around looking for trouble. The Wild Warg Chieftain is just a nasty piece of work. Why wouldn't they want to rampage their way somewhere? It's such a small number of models, what could possibly go wrong?