Goblin Spider Rider Army & Night Goblin army both 2400pts

[theroyalfalcon]

So with the new Orcs and Goblins Book, I figured I would try and rebuild my old spider rider army. Here is the list I am thinking about, please let me know what glaring issues you see.

Goblin Great Shaman
Level 4 Wizard, Talisman of Preservation, Channeling Staff, Ironcurse Icon
Arachnarok Spider
Catchweb Spidershrine
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Goblin Big Boss
Light Armour, Gigantic Spider, Sword of Anti-Heroes, Dragonbane Helm, Potion of Speed, Luckstone

Goblin Big Boss
Great Weapon, Light Armour, Shield, Gigantic Spider, Battle Standard Bearer, Spider Banner

Goblin Big Boss
Light Armour, Shield, Gigantic Spider, Crown of Command, Gold Sigil Sword

Snagla Grobspit
24%

Forrest Goblin Spider Riders x34
Musician, Standard Bearer

Deff Creepers
Forrest Goblin Spider Riders x14
Short Bows, Musician, Standard Bearer
28%

Arachnarok Spider

Arachnarok Spider
24%

Basic idea being that the 3 Big Bosses go the in the big Spider Rider unit and depending on the need, thanks to fast cav rule, can either be 10 wide or not due to free reform. They all would have poison thanks to the banner, where the spiders would be poison 5+. Crown of command to keep them around, and the 3rd Boss is to take on challenges. Snagla and the Deff Creepers come in later and hopefully kill small things. The Arachnaroks are well what made me want to rebuild the list.

Anyways, suggestions welcome.

[KrysDagger]

How many guys in the Spider Rider Units ?

I was lookign at somethign similar myself (hard to resist with the new big spider being so pretty). I have 50 Spider riders to play with so I have a lot of options open to me. I was wondering what sized units you were thinking. I know I am thinking 20 is a good size for the main blocks (big enough to take a few hits, with a couple options on how to form up.

I was also wondering about one giant block of 40 (it looks so crazy on the table I actually did a tray for them just because ....)

Anyway, I love the idea ... no idea how effective it would be but you tooled out the bosses well ...

Let us know how it plays

Krys

[theroyalfalcon]

fixed, the number of riders are now there, downside of trying to copy over a spreadsheet, while trying to avoid point costs and spacing issues.

[Tokkan]

I've been tempted to do something a bit similar, only with spiders and black orcs. Mainly because I have an arachnorok spider and two units of spider riders, and a LOT of borks.


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[theroyalfalcon]

while working on this list i ended up also making a night goblin list as I just seem to have a lot of goblins all sorts from the 7th ed box. Now I am trying to figure out if I should give the night goblin list 8-9 hoppers or 3 spear chukkas? they are very close in points to each other for reference.

here is the general overview of the 2400 night goblins:

snarsnik + lvl 4 + bsb + couple other bosses in 10x10 spear horde
lvl 2 in 10x4 bow unit
2 manglers
1 rock lobba

but just not sure if the last 100 points should be 3 chukkas or hoppers or I guess another rock lobba but more tempted by the first 2 options.

Input as always in appreciated for this and the other list before I get to actually working on these later this month with university wrapping up.

[Spanky_100]

The hoppers seem to fit with the list more than the spear chukkas.

[theroyalfalcon]

The hoppers seem to fit with the list more than the spear chukkas.

thanks, that was what I was thinking and here is what I am currently working towards:

Skarsnik, Warlord of the Eight Peaks

Night Goblin Great Shaman: Level 4 Wizard, Book of Ashur, The Terrifying Mask of EEE!

Night Goblin Big Boss: Hand Weapon, Light Armour, Shield, Battle Standard Bearer, The Bad Moon Banner

Night Goblin Big Boss: Light Armour, Shield, Sword of Anti-Heroes, Dragonbane Helm, Potion of Speed

Night Goblin Big Boss: Great Weapon, Light Armour, Helm of Discord, The Other Trickster's Shard

Night Goblin Big Boss: Great Weapon, Obsidian Lodestone, Ironcurse Icon

Night Goblin Shaman: Level 2 Wizard, Dispel Scroll

Night Goblin Big Boss: Light Armour, Shield, Great Cave Squig, Basha's Axe of Stunty Smashin'

Night Goblin Regiment 10x10 90 models
Spear & Shield, Netters, Fanatics x3, Musician, Standard Bearer

Night Goblin Regiment 10x4 40 models
Bows, Fanatics x3, Musician

Night Goblin Regiment 10x4 40 models
Bows, Fanatics x3, Musician

Night Goblin Squig Herd 6x5
Night Goblin Herder x8
Cave Squig x22

Night Goblin Squig Hoppers x9

Mangler Squigs x2

where Skarsnik, lv4, BSB and 3 Bosses on foot in 10x10 unit; lv2 in 1 of the bow units, Boss on squig with Hoppers (although I am not sure about the magic weapon I gave him)

more thoughts always appreciated.

[Spanky_100]

Think you OD'd on the magic items...maybe drop some and take more gobbos....steadfast for the win.

[theroyalfalcon]

Think you OD'd on the magic items...maybe drop some and take more gobbos....steadfast for the win.

You may be right about the OD on magic items, and magic in general. As far as being steadfast, the banner give the unit Stubborn and I am hoping that a 10x10 unit will be survivable enough to stay steadfast for a while even without the banner. So I was thinking, that I move the characters around and drop down to 2 lv 2s and add a hndwpn/shld unit with 3 more fanatics that can either take a tower in the given mission or can be used a random throwaway unit or even as a sight blocker in front of the main horde. So here is the next iteration:

Skarsnik, Warlord of the Eight Peaks

Night Goblin Warboss
Spear, Shield, Cave Squig, Armour of Gork

Night Goblin Warboss
Light Armour, Sword of Anti-Heroes, Enchanted Shield, Dragonbane Gem, Potion of Speed

Night Goblin Big Boss
Hand Weapon, Light Armour, Shield, Battle Standard Bearer, The Bad Moon Banner

Night Goblin Big Boss
Great Weapon, The Terrifying Mask of EEE!

Night Goblin Big Boss
Great Weapon, Obsidian Lodestone, Ironcurse Icon

Night Goblin Shaman (Level 2)

Night Goblin Shaman (Level 2)

Night Goblin Regiment 10x10 94 models
Spear & Shield, Netters, Fanatics x3, Musician, Standard Bearer

Night Goblin Regiment 10x4 39 models
Bows, Fanatics x3, Musician

Night Goblin Regiment 10x4 39 models
Bows, Fanatics x3, Musician

Night Goblin Regiment 20 models
hand weapon & shield, Fanatics x3

Night Goblin Squig Herd 6x5
Night Goblin Herder x8
Cave Squig x22

Night Goblin Squig Hoppers x9

Mangler Squigs x2

characters go as follows:
Snarsnik, Warboss of Anti Heroes, BSB, Big Boss of EEE!, and Big Boss with Obsidian Ironcurse all go in spear horde
each lvl2 gets a bow unit
Warboss on Squig goes with the hoppers


does this sound any better?

[Spanky_100]

Looks good to me! Looking forward to beat.