Barbarian Army (and a copuple of questions)

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**SIRSEAN**

Hello

I been playing with Bretonnia my whole life, but, with the new rules, they are not the same...

So, I need a new army, one that I really like on the table, and with a lot of skill in combat.

the problem is that I only like the humans, and the Empire... well, is not a reallly strong HTH combat army

looking for ideas, I think about an strong human fighter, and the answer appears in the Avatars of War Website: a Barbarian

So, I star to think about it, and decide to create a whole barbarian army.

I order a ton of GW marauders, and some figures from other companies, and here you have some already painted figures, specially lords and heroes:

They will be the lords and heroes of the army, and I will use the orc rules

The question is about the list, using a lot of barbarians, maybe a chariot...

And now, with the new rules, I'll need a big 'count as' spider... any ideas? a mumak?

thanks for your advices.

**Enzephalon**

This is awesome.
For real... I love them. ^^

**Theofilos**

Great work for sure!

**Phototoxin**

Love them!

**Teeffless**

love that last one !
great job overall

**Illumini**

Awesome idea, love the heroes

**shingouki**

very cool idea and could pave the way for more original armies.

**SIRSEAN**

Thanks a lot for your comments

I finish with this guy

and with tthe chariot:

I'm working in two giants, some riders, two shamans, the bolt throwers, and the 'black orc' unit

no ideas so far to replace the big spider?

**Illumini**

War mammoth?

**Wyrmalla**

Maybe a pair of giant boars or similar creatures (tuskors etc) with a structure suspended between them mounting a catapult or whatever the spider has. You could always go down the Conan route and go for a big gribbly monster, the badies always seem to like those for some reason, or you could even just go for something like some ogres-ie big guys-, lugging a platform between them-maybe a sled or them all hefting it on their shoulders-, or, heh, having a slave giant or warbeast with the platform suspended on its back-or maybe the giant throwing a big rock like they do with hammers in the olympics...ie count as catapult. Meh, just things off the top of my head. Keep up the work on your army, heh, but definately stick more Conan references in there. ^^

**SIRSEAN**

Thanks!

it's a long story, but I HAVE the war mamoth... yep, the one from forge world...

the problem is... is too big... even for the size of the spider

but the elephant idea es really good, I'm thinking in a mumak, or perhaps the mammoth from dwarf wars, it all depends of the money.

**rubirub**

crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women.

the first two totally remind me of conan^^
really nice barbarians.

**SIRSEAN**

OK, The Big Brothers are watching you:

I hope that I can post pics of the riders and the 'black orcs' next week.

**shingouki**

the giants look class.

**Joske De Veteraan**

I have always wanted to make gaint.. now i going to oder one.. RIGHT NOW!!

**chrisyella**

Great work!
How about a giant bear for the counts as spider?

**A Black Ram**

Very neat and original army, looking forward to watching it grow.

**SIRSEAN**

OK, the first set of riders:

**jprp**

why orcs? This is a marauder army so why not use chaos warrior rules.

**SIRSEAN**

I do not want to sell my soul to chaos...

or do I...?

**Moltar**

I have to agree that a giant bear could replace the spider, but if you want to take the OOT angle, why not toss in some vicious dinosaurs from the lizardmen army to tote around with your barbarians.
I'm aware that barbarians and dinosaurs were not around during the same time period in our world, but dinos are all over the old world, apparently.

**SIRSEAN**

Thanks for your ideas, but...

could you please send me images or links of the figures that you suggest?

**Moltar**

Sure!
T-Rex: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440066a&prodId=prod820836

Triceratops: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440069a&prodId=prod1690060

Pterodactyl: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440068a&prodId=prod1690062

and a bear!
http://www.wyrd-games.net/forum/showthread.php?p=110461

**Sageheart**

looking real good

**SilverMK2**

SIRSEAN wrote:

I like the whole "Bring your babes to battle day" going on here

Look forward to seeing more.

**jprp**

SIRSEAN wrote:I do not want to sell my soul to chaos...

or do I...?

You may as well, the powers will get it in the end anyway (and then you can use your Mammoth with the Mammoth rules).

**sleazy**

There are smaller mammoths out there, Black Tree Design do one ( i have it) and theres one from a range called Dwarf Wars or something, might be by Westwind.

**Nightbringer's Chosen**

That first one clearly has the power of Greyskull.

**SIRSEAN**

Yep, that was the original idea:

HE MAN!

(Now I know how gay he is, but back in the 80's, was my hero, I have a lot of action figures)

I cannot find the Black tree mamooth, and the one of dwarf wars is awesome, but too expensive.

**sleazy**

here it is:

http://www.blacktreedesign.com/uk/product.php?productid=23651&cat=2312&page=1