Okay, the weather’s still a bit grim (in Nottingham, anyway) but we’re already preparing to kick off our Summer of Kings of War! With a massive range of releases for Kings of War over June, July and August, it’s never been a better time to get involved with the fastest, easiest-to-learn Fantasy Battle Game there [...]
Tre Manor’s 2nd Red Box Games Miniatures Kickstarter was cancelled. Despite reaching nearly three times the (teaser)-goal, it fell well short of Tre Manor’s first Kickstarter last year. It also, apparently, failed to raise the funding for s…
Ok, so it’s been a long while since I’ve been anywhere near here, I could explain all that, but that’s boring. I haven’t had a game in a good long while, I ended up taking a trip to Minneapolis to visit my Brother to get some much needed gaming in, here’s the first battle report [...]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Release Date: Jan 2013 $ 40.00 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Board Game From master game designer Reiner Knizia comes The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Board Game, an exciting game of adventure in which you join Bilbo Baggins™ and his 13 dwarven companions on their journey through the Lone-Lands and [...]
The Goblin Handler and Maw-beast is one of our favorite all time Mantic figures and we couldn’t resist making a whole unit of them. These guys are nasty with ten Crushing Strength (2) attacks at a Melee of 3+ – with Speed 6 and nimble! The Mawbeast Pack is now available to pre-order and will [...]
Welcome to part 2 of 5 where we move from the Humans to the Orxs.Containing 4 Guards and 6 Jacks the Orx team is one that plays heavily on the differential between the stronger Orxs and the fragile Goblins. GuardsThe four Guards are identical, and ther…
The Goblins are getting reinforcements with the addition of the Mawbeast Pack and the War-Trombone to the range! These kits got swamped slightly by the Christmas DreadBall Craziness and deserve a night in the spotlight so we’re releasing them in January! First up is the War-Trombone – a nasty bit of kit that is essentially [...]
“Slash them! Beat them! Bite them! Gnash them! Take them away to dark holes full of snakes, and never let them see the light again!” J.R.R.Tolkien, The HobbitI finished some more of the “Escape from Goblin Town”-goblins. I really enjoyed painting each …
Clap! Snap! the black crack!Grip, grab! Pinch, nab!And down down to Goblin-townYou go, my lad!New year, new project? Yeah, kind of… I was pretty sure I wouldn’t withstand the new Hobbit merchandise for too long although I did not like the new Goblin …
Goblins are a force to be reckoned with in the world of Kings of War – just ask Guy Haley… Goblins can be found in every corner of Mantica. They are a persistent nuisance, and sometimes a genuine threat, to all other creatures. Goblins are even more numerous than their Orcish cousins. For the most [...]
The club championship at Rogue Trader was a tournament played over the course of a day, with three games set at 2000 points. I brought an Orc-led Goblin army outlined in a previous post and was eager to put it to the test against some of Stockholm’s fi…
Just before Christmas I partook in a club tournament at my new gaming center in Stockholm, in order to determine the Club Champion of 2012. Having been part of their scene for about a month leading up to it I felt a bit strange competing against people…
Ah the Goblins, the Evil side of The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey boxed game. Before I get into full swing, it's worth noting that the instruction book was created from digital renders, and so on a few pieces (notably the scribe) does not show th…
As promised here is the second part of the Goblin commission I recently completed; 20 Archers, a Spear Chucka and the completed Army Standard Bearer. I found that after painting the banner the central design needed bringing out a little …
Click here to read Part 1 first.This is the second part in my series on an Orc army that I recently painted. Last time I focused on the centre point regiment in the army, the Orc Boyz. This time around we’ll take a look at everyone’s favourite sne…
I have had a diorama in my head for quite sometime now, and I’ve been tossing around ideas for different figure manufacturers to meet my vision for the diorama. My plan is to have a small band of elves on a wooded trail that are ambushed by goblins….
Hey folks hope you had a good week, Got an early update for you today a speed painting tutorial for two goblins, one done is the bright almost cartoon-y version that I prefer and then the other done in a very quick style that only needs touch ups. I so…
After playing a game of Warmaster at the Specialist Gamesday we had a couple weeks ago, I figured I’d pick up a couple of armies. I was able to get my hands on Tomb Kings, Orcs, and most recently, Empire. In an effort to actually get an army to the tab…
Sunday, August 12 saw a Specialist Games Day at The Whiz in Westborough, Mass. There were games of Epic, Blood Bowl, Warmaster, Space Hulk, and Trafalgar (published by the now defunct Warhammer Historicals.) I played one game of Epic, which went horrib…
The Spitter frame has arrived and oh boy do we have a tonne of Goblins in our warehouse right now. Here’s a quick recap of what we’ve got coming: Spitters – Available in Spitters Regiment and Spitters Horde flavours Sharpsticks Regiment Goblin Rabble And that’s not all – grab an army deal through the webstore [...]
It’s been a while since we’ve shown any greens off so let’s kickstart the afternoon (see what we did there?) with some Goblin sculpts! Mawbeast Pack and Handler Goblin War-Trombone Bob popped in yesterday to show these off and we couldn’t resist asking John-luc to do a quick photograph job on them for the blog [...]
So there’s been some debate about our new plastic Goblin Bowmen – are they hard plastic on a sprue, or our they our premium Resin Plastic material. Well folks, hopefully this picture will uncover the mystery: They’re hard plastic on a sprue! I think they’re great models and very useful in the game – I [...]
Another tantalising teaser!
New plastic Goblin Archers – called Spitters in the new edition, that will feature in the new two-player battle set released in July.
Right, back to video-making for a new top secret project…
Folks over Beasts of war revealed some page of the upcoming new release of the King of War manual, one page showed what I believe it’s the first picture of the goblin archers.It seems that on May the 9th there will be some sort of announcement related …
After many requests from Orcy to stop tormenting him, we thought we’d best show off his cousins before he started throwing Dice around.
No, not him… we’re talking ahout Goblins!
We’ll have more on the Twilight Kin tomorrow!