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I like the idea of a grot army(for general hilarity), so I need a HQ. I thought about "grotilla, da bigest grot in da world" counting as a warboss, and a mek in his little exo-sentinel/walker thing made from a IG sentinel, a CMB and a buzzsaw with some choppas on it(if you have seen the new movie Avatar you will know what I mean, if not, where have you been?, and you must watch it). he will count as a
big mek in mega armour with cyborg body.


To convert the grotzilla I'm going to get one of the old fantasy trolls and sculpt from there...

I will probably give him a big choppa, evy' armour, squig and a twin linked shoota.

Note i'm only going to make plans now, so no pics.




P,S, I should have made this in the painting and modelling forum.

A grot army,

will provide most of the hilarity for anyone you play against who can laugh as they wipe you off the board.

Hope you are gonna take 9 killer kans with "grotzookas".

You better take mad doc grotsnatch, to make one mob of runts fearless. (not to mention fear no pain...lol)
mega nobs in trukks..... to add some steel (you can say they are actually grots in suits, its a viable idea, and variant of killer kan).

With killer kans, mega armour nobs and the mad doc, the army might last a few turns, but how can your grots in other mobs ever survive shooting or cc???

we need an army list to bounce ideas off....

OTG

You could probably run a grot deffwing with killa kans and have everything work alright (little grots in big suits, and you can take 2 meganobz mobs as troops choices if you have 2 warbosses.) You could also have grots driving their battlewagon transports. I don't recommend grotsnik in that army though, as gretchin get almost no use out of feel no pain because every weapon and every attack from every model in the marine or CSM codex will instakill grots, which denies a FNP roll, or is AP 2, which again denies FNP. Meganobz just don't need FNP. Anything they need to worry about also ignores FNP.

You could even work up some counts-as lootas or somesuch with grots on big guns.

Take the grot from the Stormboyz box who's holding controls. He looks the part for a pilot, and you could just stick him on top of a mega armored nob or something.

You could do a "masta blasta" (like Mad Max thunderdome) with a grot on the back of a "warboss" (or troll or whatever, just a huge dude). That way you could claim the combat skills/stats of the big guy, but keep the little guy in charge.

^^^ That idea is far better than mine. Master Blaster is the way to go.

Although it is rather funny having grotzilla if use av' a warped sense u' 'umor like mi' mates. I think that I should get grotsnictch, it means that I can give grots robot bodys and therefore I could give some of my grots walkers (counting them as boys).

Yes I could get a stormboy rokkit pack, but I don't want to have all of them the same so I could do a bit of sculting and get some other grots like the battlewagon one.

I could get away with a 30 piece grot mob and two ten peice troops megagrots/nobs but I want a grotsnic and grot boy thingys, so I will get them and grotzilla with his retinue of megagrots.

Back to the OP, How should I convert the HQs, now for the weapons I could get a squig-hound as the attack-squig, I could use the original stone troll club for the big choppa.

linky
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod20018a&rootCatGameStyle=

P,S, Don't forget that I can get a unit of zappgunz!

Coments?

Skarboy wrote:You could do a "masta blasta" (like Mad Max thunderdome) with a grot on the back of a "warboss" (or troll or whatever, just a huge dude). That way you could claim the combat skills/stats of the big guy, but keep the little guy in charge.

QFT

Here's my take on masterblaster:


Alternatively, here's my take on grot mega-armour:

a mek in his little exo-sentinel/walker thing made from a IG sentinel, a CMB and a buzzsaw with some choppas on it(if you have seen the new movie Avatar you will know what I mean, if not, where have you been?, and you must watch it). he will count as a
big mek in mega armour with cyborg body.

I've been thinking about a powerlifter suit, but haven't managed to pull it off yet. Give it a go though, Im' curious to see what you'll make of it. And more grot armies can only be a good thing!

the grot in mega armour is pretty cool , but i think you should put a right arm on him , feels like he's mmissing it

Leone wrote:the grot in mega armour is pretty cool , but i think you should put a right arm on him , feels like he's mmissing it

I agree. You should get a proper arm or no arm at all.



I think that it would be an idea to have both. but I don't know what to class him as.

Leone wrote:the grot in mega armour is pretty cool , but i think you should put a right arm on him , feels like he's mmissing it

zilegil wrote:
I agree. You should get a proper arm or no arb at all.

Mega armor = TL shoota + PK
He's properly equipped, and I think the lopsided look is appropriate.

Leone, Zilegil: I wanted it to look like the grot was piloting the suit, hence the gun arm instead of a 'proper' arm. it's not like the grot's hand is inside the power klaw either... You can class them as whatever you want, that's the beauty with 'counts as', just be consistent.

Gorkamorka: thanks . I like the lopsided look as well, it adds to the cobbled-together grot style we all know and love

Gorkamorka wrote:

Leone wrote:the grot in mega armour is pretty cool , but i think you should put a right arm on him , feels like he's mmissing it

zilegil wrote:
I agree. You should get a proper arm or no arb at all.

Mega armor = TL shoota + PK
He's properly equipped, and I think the lopsided look is appropriate.

Thats twice in the same week I agree with Gorkamorka. I thought it was totally appropriate, and rather Orky. Remeber gents, Orks are anything but balanced, when it comes to how their looted things come out

What I mean is that I think that you should make an arm or just dont have that stub.

If you're making a grot army, I'm sure you could convert something out of this guy:

http://www.minidragon.net/images/World%20of%20Warcraft/WoW%20Shredder%20001.jpg

Goblin Shredder from WoW Minis

I was actaully thinking about the grot shredders from wow. Didn't know they made models out of them :-)

Thats an amazing find you have there, but it needs orkyfing, it just looks too neat, tidy and orderly, but a few crazy things and some glyths might orkyfi it.

Panic... (if you him which I don't, but look him up anyway) was doing a grot army, and I thought that he had some exaples of what I mean.

zilegil wrote:Panic... (if you him which I don't, but look him up anyway) was doing a grot army, and I thought that he had some exaples of what I mean.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-5478-3658_Panic%3A%20Rebel%20Grot%20Horde....html

My one is just the grot head with welding goggles in a Meganob suit. When I get round to it, I'll put the one with sunglasses and a hat in the ghazkull body as a fullblown warboss. It needn't be over-complicated. I just paint the bits that should be ork colour black like gaps in power armour or whatever. Plus the grots with hats look cuban as with a cigar, perfect for the commie-grot theme.

Thanks Gorkamorka.

I just had an idea, I could use the tougher cooler looking goblins you get in fantasy for the megagrot.