Cult of the Leering Lune month 3

Another big unit of spiky stick boys has joined the ranks of the Night Gobbos! It's been tight going this month as there have been lots of other things (nuisances, troubles and celebrations) going on. Nevertheless I actually managed to have a clear weekend to finish them off. The plan is to get the big units out of the way before the nights draw right in so that my limited hours of light for painting in the winter can be spent on smaller amounts of figures. These I have primed ready to go because who knows when there will be another dry day...

This is another 'monopose' spears unit made up of a cheeky spear chappie. I'm not sure there were any unlisted variants of this one? I haven't found any on my collecting journey.

I swapped the banner and gong around as both these guys are duplicates of models already in the army. I also lengthened the banner. I'm not sure why the night goblin standard bearers all have such short poles... perhaps to cram more into a mould? The champion is also a duplicate so I gave him to Kev Adams at BOYL in the hope he'd put a new head on. He did not disappoint! 

My front rank goblins got a bit of extra attention on their hoods just to spice up the look of the unit a bit from the front.

The rest are quite plain. They do have yellow moons and flares on their hoods but they're not easy to see against the cream. I probably should have outlined them in black.

The essential fanatics for this unit share the yellow hoods of the command squad to associate them with their point of origin.

Another shaman has crept into the month's output, this time with his familiar. Again sharing the yellow hood motif. This guy is a Heartbreaker Dark Goblin from Ral Partha Europe. A number of the Heartbreaker figures have been coopted into my night goblins for variety, including the two on my first machinery of destruction...

The wolf chariot. The chariot itself is Harlequin/Black Tree, which I purchased with no crew or wolves from a chap at Colours last year. The replacement wolves are also Ral Partha Europe. Since the two goblins in the crew are quite a bit larger than the rest of the night gobbos I decided putting them in the chariot would disguise this.

I have tried to give the chariot a bit of the look of the classic Kev Adams machineries with some putty plants and rocks on the base. Not as many as on Kev's (it has still got to fit in with the rest of the army and I didn't have an entire day to sculpt little features for the base) but I may add to it at some point in the future.

Let's do the points/gold coins/costings thing then. From month three of the challenge you only get 25 'gold coins' to spend each month and the army has to remain 4th edition 'legal'. Fortunately I still had 34.6 gold coins banked from the last two months (goblins be cheap y'all) so no danger of running out of funds just yet. By my calculations this is 36.45 gold coins (fanatics are 1.15 each if you're wondering where the odd decimals are coming from). It takes the army total up to 1157.5pts with 511 pts of characters, 560.5pts of mobs and 86pts of war machines, so totally fine on the legalities front too.

 

Cult of the Leering Lune month 3