20. Oathmark goblin army

Lets take a look at the goblins of my son. I think, the easiest way to do this, to follow the structure of the elven army introduction, so lets begin with the official Oathmark range of Northstar:

• Goblin infantry: 30 goblins, with the option of build soldiers, archers, spearman (speargoblin), and as usual, these options are valid for all the miniatures. Yes, 30 bodies with light armor, 30 spears, 30 bows, 30 hand weapons, 30 shields. And a lot of different head options. And parts for champions and standard bearers. You can do what ever you want with their boxes, and I think that is great! The design is pretty "realistic" (or "tolkienesque"). In my opinion, goblins are the best sculpted and detailed miniatures from their Oathmark range! The point value of the box varies from 300 (soldiers or archers) to 330 (spearman).
  
  
  
  
• Goblin wolf riders: 15 goblin riders with an option to build wolf riders (light armor, hand weapon and shield) or wolf rider scouts (light armor and bow), and of course, their 15 wolves (which can be used as a rider-less wolf unit). The finishing of the riders is as good, as the infantry, but the wolves are a bit blunt, detail-less (where is the fur?), and the 3 poses are bit to few... The quality here is also worse then in the other boxes: there are big gaps between the two halves after assembling them. But the overall look of the wolf riders is still very good. The point value range is 180 (plain wolves) - 300 (wolf riders) - 360 (wolf rider scouts).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A blister pack of goblin champions. I think, they look really cool, especially the one whit the whip. It cries for a giant pack of goblin slaves!
  
  
  
  
• A blister pack of the usual king-wizard-musician trio. The best blister pack for Oathmark! The ugly, fat king, pointing towards the enemy. The round backed shaman with the wolf fell. The drummer, who can be easily converted into another shaman (or apprentice).
  
• Six different blister packs of mounted goblins: a king, a musician (will there be rules for them someday?), a wizard and three different champions. In my opinion they are a bit flat designed, nothing extra in comparison to the plastic box. And the wolves have almost the same poses, like there... Only two of them catched my attention: the wizard, which has a nice, shamanic look, and the champion with the giant spear (or halberd).
  
  
  
  
  
  

Enough about the product photos, lets see what we have! My older son choose them, and because he learned really well, he got both plastic boxes. We were at the very beginning of Oathmark, we wanted to build every possible troops (but if he needs for example 20 soldiers, we put the soldiers in the front row, and other, remaining troops in the back). The painting is also not ready (actually no project is ready...), but all the goblins will have a generally dirty look, with a lot of grey and brown tones, green skin (what else?) and an accent color for the various troop types:

• 10 spearman, with red:
  
  
  
• 10 archers:
  
  
  
• 10 soldiers:
  
  
  
• 10 wolf riders with mixed weapons:
  
  
  
• 5 wolf rider scouts in blue:
  

Every unit has, of course a standard bearers, and there are some champions too. My son recently got some character figures also. The amazing blister pack, with the goblin king. We converted the drummer with skulls, bones and some fell into a shamanic drummer/apprentice (also usable for Frostgrave). And the wizard got a saber, because he looked a bit defenseless, next to the insanely drumming colleague:

Next stop are the big boys! At first, the war machine. Ready to play, boxed war machines are pretty expensive, and I really wanted to handcraft various catapults for the game in various styles. So I took some wood profiles, string, glue and tools, and made it (I will write about the detailed process later). Goblins dont have a heavy catapult (just orcs), but because its size, we will still use it as that:

By the monsters, we reach every time to Reaper Miniatures, because their monster are usually really cheap, and good looking. I think that the plastic Frost Wyrm will do perfectly as a Knucker. Of course, not with an icey paint job, but like a giant snake:

My son also got an Ogre, but as this is in the human army list, I will take here our Ice Troll (which I bought for Frostgrave). Its a very rare miniature in our collection, because its painted (I know, I have to varnish it again, and more to our monsters in a separate post):

So the whole goblin army (without characters):

• 10 spearman (110)
• 10 archers (100)
• 10 soldiers (100)
• 10 wolf riders (200)
• 5 wolf rider scouts (120)
• 1 heavy catapult (120)
• 1 troll (65)
• 1 kuncker (500)

Overall point value: 1315 (a lot less then the elves)

Next time, dwarf time!