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Hi. I am new to warhammer fantasy and want to know what good. I have currently got 30 night goblins and a giant
Any ideas would be great and it has to be legal

If you are shooting for a night goblin only army I would get some heroes/lords like shaman and bosses, fanatics are also a must in night goblin lists and the manglers are quite solid. The thing that a night goblin army lacks is heavy hitters and your fanatics and your manglers bring that, however they are not stable so I think the giant and some trolls would help. If you are willing to bend the rules and allow other goblins this gives you war machines, chariots, wolf and spider riders, archanox. Or you can use night goblins in place of their goblins or sculpt some hoods and robes. Overall enjoy it they are a very fun army.

You can build pretty much any list from that, ae you looking for the only greenskins in it to be night gobbos or do you want others with them?

Best suggestions would be to get a rulebook and the Orcs and Goblins army book if you don't have those. You can find the small rulebook from Island of Blood on Ebay for cheap. Read through it, learn how the basics of the game works, then read through the army list. You will get a decent idea for what could work. Then perhaps post an army list in the army list section and get critique there.

Night Goblins are VERY swarmy, so you will need lots (I mean LOTS, like a few hundred pretty easily for decent to large point games). The Goblin based army (and really all of Orcs and Goblins) is really random, funny and often explosive. Mangler Squigs, Fanatics and other squig based models (hoppers, herds) are very nasty, hard hitting and random. Giants are probably the silliest unit in any army book, with a lot of random attacks.

Hope this was helpful and I'm not stating obvious things to a veteran player I just thought was new. XD Good luck!

Cheers, Yesterday i got my night goblin shaman, what next would make it good, i'm looking for a codex and rulebook online!!!

If going all-Night Goblins, look for some leftover copies of The Battle for Skull Pass. Each box comes with 60 Night Goblins, a Shaman, a Troll, and a Big Boss / Warboss with a Great Weapon. Three of them, some greenstuff / string (for net conversions), and a few boxes of Fanatics will have all the basic Core models you'll ever need.

Three boxes worth of Skull Pass gives you enough for three units 36-Goblin units with either Spears or Hand Weapons (hand weapons requires minor cutting, and can't be done well with all models, but you can get at least one unit of 36 from two boxes), and two units of 29 Archers, all of them Full Command.

Similarly, the old Night Goblin boxes (the one with giant Goblins) work amazingly well for converting characters. If you have any conversion experience, you can clip and chop them every which way to have Shield-bosses, Great Weapon-bosses, Shamans, etcetera. They are also slightly taller than regular Goblins, which makes them easier to pick out when putting away / make a focus of your army.

I have now got some other 20 goblins with bows to shoot with, What is the difference between a manglere squig and a Troll

Get more Night Goblins, a Lord/Hero, a Bsb and a few other hardhitting things like the Arachnarok Spider or some trolls for example. Make sure you get some Fanatics when the opponents charge release Fanatics from back. They re-appear at the front of your unit causing alot of damage to your opponent, sure you may loose a few Goblins but your opponent will loose more than what you do.

rockerbikie wrote:Get more Night Goblins, a Lord/Hero, a Bsb and a few other hardhitting things like the Arachnarok Spider or some trolls for example. Make sure you get some Fanatics when the opponents charge release Fanatics from back. They re-appear at the front of your unit causing alot of damage to your opponent, sure you may loose a few Goblins but your opponent will loose more than what you do.

That is a cruel, disgusting play. I like it

timetowaste85 wrote:

rockerbikie wrote:Get more Night Goblins, a Lord/Hero, a Bsb and a few other hardhitting things like the Arachnarok Spider or some trolls for example. Make sure you get some Fanatics when the opponents charge release Fanatics from back. They re-appear at the front of your unit causing alot of damage to your opponent, sure you may loose a few Goblins but your opponent will loose more than what you do.

That is a cruel, disgusting play. I like it

Another trick - similar to this - is parking the front of a Spear Chukka about 4-5" in front of your unit. You make it so, even thrown sideways, a 2 will wind up ahead of the Spear Chukka, it's rather unlikely for you to roll enough to go through the enemy unit (again, sideways throwing), and a Spear Chukka is T7 meaning you're unlikely to cause more than a single wound in the process.

hi guys, Thanks for suggestions, i am now all night goblins with SKarsnik, and lots of gobbos and am planning to get lots more and spuig hoppers and herders

Here is a quick run down of my 3k army. It is just to give you some ideas.

Skarsnik
BSB
Lvl 4 shaman
Lvl2 Shaman
Warboss on cave spuig
6 units of 20 with 3 fanatics, no command, delivery system
40 ccw/shield, skarsniks unit
20 hoppers
3 manglers
araknarok with slinger
rock lobba
doom diver