Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

So I am starting a gobin army and want a squig herd. I do not really like the ones GW made so I am curious if this would work:
Spider riders, off the spiders herding the mountless-spiders like squigs, like a squig count as.

It could work, but you'd have to say they were spider-squigs.

I have to agree with the below poster, squigs are cool.

I'd allow it, but be sad about it. (I like squigs.)

Look into 3rd party models. I think anything which is clearly a beast herd would work.

Nice thing about fantasy is being ranks of models, you can really model pretty much anything as long as it can count wounds and takes up the same space.

 stompygitz wrote:
So I am starting a gobin army and want a squig herd. I do not really like the ones GW made so I am curious if this would work:
Spider riders, off the spiders herding the mountless-spiders like squigs, like a squig count as.

Giant Spiders (the ones goblins ride) are also quite a bit bigger than squigs. Squigs go on a 20mm (or 25 mm, I forget base, while those spiders just barely fit onto a cavalry base. You might be better off looking for the smaller 'giant spiders' that used to come as part of the Dungeon Denizens box set. Otherwise, your 'spider squigs' will be way too big, and won't rank up properly at all. The old metal spider riders are a bit smaller, so you could use those spiders as 'speshul jumpin' spidas' too.