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I managed to grab a box of the 10 year old Battle for Skull Pass box with the night goblins. They are now called Moonclan Grots and look cool with their KKK robes. I like to play armies no one plays like in 40k I play Harlequins and Eldar Corsairs (FW codex) and when Genestealer Cults comes out I will play them too. I think very few people will play Moonclan Grots because most people play Space Marin... I mean Stormcast Sigmarines and or Orruks.

However I do like the look of some of the Orruk models like the new ironjaws Gore-Guntas however I know in the Old World fluff the night goblins were 100% goblin tribes living in caves also in the tribes with both goblins and Orks the Orks would always be in charge. I intend to run the Night Goblin warlord on the Squig. Would running say a squad of mercenary ironjaws make sense fluff-wise or not?

Also have a 100% goblin army has some deficencies like really crappy Calvary. The Grot wolf riders are pretty bad.

My good friends have been playing AoS for some time now. I'm thinking about starting too. I just read the war scroll for night Goblins, I have a tone of them in my old O&G collection.
How many Night Goblins were you thinking about using in a unit?
I'm thinking 45 to 50. How many units like that would be ...fair?
It's likely I have 2 or 3 hundred of them. I haven't figured out what else I would want to push around in an army. Maybe some Orcs in smaller units. mostly Arrer boys and a few Black Orcs. I haven't even considered which Heroes yet.

I'm not exactly going for a Night Goblins only force.
Would a list with that many, 2 or 3 mobs of 45 to 50 Night Goblins, be doing it wrong? Also. Do they have points now?

Orks and Night Goblins worked together all the time.in the old world. It was mainly Skarsnik's army that was all-Night Gobbo. I'm sure Moonclan Grots would work alongside Orruks, as it lets the latter get hit in the face while the grots get in some good stabbin'.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Orks and Night Goblins worked together all the time.in the old world. It was mainly Skarsnik's army that was all-Night Gobbo. I'm sure Moonclan Grots would work alongside Orruks, as it lets the latter get hit in the face while the grots get in some good stabbin'.

No but what Orruks would follow a night goblin warlord general? Orruks would probably never take orders from a goblin.

You could have a Night Goblin use a Ork as a figurehead in lore at least though.

Would orks fight for grots/Goblins if they got paid in teeth with the promise of more in battle-loot like the freebooters in 40k fighting for the imperium or Tau?

Most of my army will be moonclan/ night goblins but maybe a squad of brutes or Gore-Guntas

DorianGray wrote:
Would orks fight for grots/Goblins if they got paid in teeth with the promise of more in battle-loot like the freebooters in 40k fighting for the imperium or Tau?

Most of my army will be moonclan/ night goblins but maybe a squad of brutes or Gore-Guntas

Personally I can see it happening.

It happened in the Old World - orcs following goblin leaders were definitely the exception rather than the rule, but any gobbo ruthless and cunning enough could gather some of their larger cousins as enforcers or shock troops. He'd probably have to kill one every now and then to make sure he retained control, but that in itself would be pretty good...proppa-orc-ganda!

Skarsnik and Grom, for example, both had orcs following their banners as underlings or allies, and Grom in particular was singled out as having black orcs answer to him.

pm713 wrote:
You could have a Night Goblin use a Ork as a figurehead in lore at least though.

That wouldn't work - a ork war boss or mega boss has different rules and synergy to a goblin/grot general