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Wednesday 1 April 2020

Dolgan Raiders: A Lesser of Evils

So, like a lot of you, I imagine, I find myself with plenty of time on my hands! So much that there's certainly no excuse not to fire the old blog up again. As well as a certain little virus, this post also owes an awful lot to a couple of fellow Oldhammerers for very different reasons...




Firstly, huge thanks to Ketil Trout - those of you on the facebook groups and Oldhammer forum will have come across him - if not check out his awesome Greenskins!  Ketil very kindly sent me eight of these lovely Lesser Goblins from the old C14 preslotta range. I'm always blown away by the generosity of fellow hobbyists and hopefully I've done them justice - thanks again mate!

Here they are pictured with a few Lesser Goblins I owned already and had based two to a base.
My second thanks go to Richard of Where the Sea Pours Out fame - go check out his recent post about his mutant Fimir, based on an image from the First Compendium! Richard and I are planning on playing the Dolgan Raiders scenario (from the second Citadel Journal) - hopefully at this year's BOYL, if it goes ahead. If not we'll certainly do it at a later date if Covid19 restrictions are still in place.

Mucking about with lighting - quite liked the moonlit effect here!
The Dolgan Raiders scenario lists the presence of ten Lesser Goblins amongst Bagnol's Hobgoblin caravan and I felt I just had to find a bunch of these little blighters to fit the bill.


The existence of a Lesser Goblin is not often a happy one and this scenario is no exception...


"Lesser Goblins always get a raw deal. Ever since Leaving the East, they have been treated badly..."


"Several have been eaten or tortured and the remainder have been forced to do the most demeaning of jobs, such as bathing the ogres' many running sores..."


The ogres in question are the lobotomised brutes used as draught animals to pull the Hobgoblins' wagons - perhaps not the most pleasant or cooperative patients to deal with! They are the only element I don't have so far but I have a few ideas up my sleeve and they will feature in a future blog post.


It certainly doesn't pay for a Lesser Goblin to get involved in or even be near to the power struggle between Bagnol, the Hobgoblin caravan boss and Gutrot, leader of the Goblin Wolf Riders as they argue over the predicament they find themselves in - lost, running out of supplies, laden down with loot and surrounded by hostile Steppe horsemen.


"Lis'n you sweaty oik," bawled Bagnol, squaring up and grabbing a passing lesser goblin by the ear, "I've done this more times than you've snorted yak dung."


"Well whaddya gonna do? We've got two barrels of water left, no ogre feed and we haven't seen any game in weeks."


"Er - 'scuse me, " murmured the little goblin as Bagnol began to swing him by the ear, "Grimwald - he sez he sees this human on a horse this morning an' I thought as maybe someone should go and fetch him here for supper," 

"Whaaat!" cried Gutrot, "We're for it now - them murderin' horse boys'll have us for sure."


"Arr stop yer moanin'," replied Bagnol, "Ere - kill this, it'll make you feel better." And so saying Bagnol swung the lesser goblin with a mighty crack on to Gutrot's exposed head.

Let's see if they fare any better on the gaming table!


I'm really looking forward to playing this scenario out as the narrative is great and includes all the things that make for a great game for the Goblinoid player - unpromising odds, dissension in the ranks and unruly and lobotomised ogres - more on them later!

20 comments:

  1. Envy you guys! The good side of this blighted coronavirus is that it helped us see how important and nice it is to go out and get together. Once it's over, I have to gather the Italian crowd here and play some good old scenario as well.

    Great job on the Goblins btw, and the pictures are spot on.

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    1. You're right about - definitely re-evaluating life thanks to lockdown. There's going to be some great gaming to be had once it's over too!

      Glad the pics came out alright - they're so small it's tricky to photograph them and that close up you really do get them, warts and all!

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    2. Liking the "moonlit" shot. Less exposed during the daytime its late in the day, at dusk, just when the horses are settled when the swine show their hand, coming from all directions.

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    3. Yep - just about that time when things start to go bump in the night!

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    4. Which reminds me - I did a little solo battle report when I was getting to grips with Warhammer 2nd ed that which involved a night raid by ogres. The night time photography was done by editing rather than bad lighting though! https://teasgettingcold.blogspot.com/2010/11/keeping-wolf-from-door.html

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  2. Cracking painting on nice figures which have a very Russ Nicholson vibe. Great to see the blog in action again.

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    1. Cheers Mr S. and great to hear from you - hope you and yours are all safe and well. Funny you should mention Russ Nicholson as Paul Selway on one of the Oldhammer facebook groups just pointed out the similarity between the minis and this Russ Nicholson illustration from Warlock of Firetop Mountain - [img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7P_Vd8cNFayAtDDvzFR0lV_U_aDoNjerDTyjIAV7jzOMG-DmGvpRUOOxRRlOOBuCHEjO9wwGDhiBopWmwwk=w1000-no-tmp.jpg[/img] There's a lovekly chieftain mini who matches the chap in the cloak as well which I'd never seen before.

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    2. Oops - pic didn't work. If you highlight the url and right click it, it'll give you the option to go there and that'll bring the pic up.

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    3. Thqannks. I'm assembling some more figures based on Mr. Nicholson's work. I did a little post a while back which Paul might be interested in.
      http://broadswordsandbeasts.blogspot.com/2013/08/russ-nicholson-and-fiend-folio.html

      since then I've found quite a few more.

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    4. Nice - I'll pass it om. Looks like since then I've acquired the skeleton you featured and I think by happy coincidence he might have ended up with the Soulless Ones unit I fielded in the Battle of Trolltooth Pass game we played last year.

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    5. Thanks gents, enjoyed that info and delve into Solegends to view the First Citadel Comp catalogue and old C12, 13 & 14 goblins. Best.

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    6. Glad to be of service - although Springisfield did all the heavy lifting there!

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    1. Cheers Mouse - how you been? Keeping well I hope!

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  4. Happy they found a good home, lovely painting too. Look forward to a battle report of the scenario whenever it is able to take place.
    Ketil Trout

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    1. They certainly did and huge thanks again to you! I'll be sure to get that write up done promptly as the scenario promises such a fun narrative game! Let's hope we get it played before the year is out...

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    1. Thanks Michael - hope all is well with you at Awdry Towers! Looking forward to catching up on yours and everyone else's blogs - should help kill a few days of Lockdown!

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  6. Great job on these tiny things, and thanks to Ketil Trout for his contribution to the cause of the scenario! I'm really looking forward to this now, whenever it happens (I'm sure we'll find an opportunity this year at any rate). And great to get into the backstory... I feel like the Dolgan Warriors now have a humanitarian (?) duty to free these oppressed and abused lesser goblins. (Terek's mastiffs may have rather different plans though)

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    1. Cheers - yeah what a generous chap! I'll be writing a bit more about the back story with my next Dolgan posts - great little story. I've realised I actually have the mini for Black Eye that was originally sold for the scenario as well as a good number of the old Hobgoblin sculpts so that'll be up next probably...

      Love the humanitarian/goblinitarian slant you're taking - we'll see if they end up a dog's dinner or not ;)

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