"DoW Player: How do you use your Gnoblar?" Topic

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Well of course I only have the one, and *I* think it's Special, but it's my Gnoblar (I didn't know anyone else called it that, actually), and it's not really any of your business how I use it.

What on earth are you going on about? DoW?

Allen

It would sound rather racy to any non-Warhammer players who read it! 8)=

"My mistake, I forgot to mention Manbiter, the name of the troop type, in the title. I suppose that could have raised more questions."

(blink)

(blink)

Oh, surely not.

Allen

LOL Allen!

"Could I have aliented the Warhammer Fantasy community by my recent criticism of White Dwarf?"

Nah. Weekends are traditionally slowish. People are doing the chores they've put off all week, and some people only manage to log on from work.

A friend claims he is going to build a gnobler army. Hasn't done it yet, though. I have not yet fielded my ogres.

I am, BTW, resisting an impulse to add to the silliness. The title, the name of the mini, the 'race', everything just cries out for more of the Allen treatment.

Considering the cost of the basic troops, bulding a serious GNoblar army is an expensive and time-consuming proposition. I'm even daunted by fielding them in Warband games, because you *still* need two boxes of the little knee-biters to get unit minimums…

I gather you plan to count all of them as Man-biters despite visible equipment? Man-Biters are normally a little better (or more interestingly) equipped.

OK. I thought I should go educate myself on the subject, instead of just playing smartass. Found the little s in the GW online stores: kinda cute. Pretty desperate cost ($$) per point ratio. Then found what people were writing about them and simply gave up:

"i dont want any gnoblars at the moment cause i just dont fell like painting them i got 1000 points of goblins to paint"

"I am Ogre too but I dont have much expierence with them so i cant really give good advice"

Right now, I am feeling the desperate need to find a 28mm grammarian…

Allen

""I'm even daunted by fielding them in Warband games, because you *still* need two boxes of the little knee-biters to get unit minimums…""

"Unless I'm mistaken, the standard box of 20 fulfills the minimum unit size requirement."

If fielding Gnoblars from the OK book, or assuming they are all Man-Biters (as you are), yes. If you differentiate them by the Gnoblar Army list from WD, then a single box has only two pigback riders, two slingers, etc. Under Warbands rules (from several recent WDs, but mysteriously vanished from the UK website recently), unit sizes are much smaller, but have to be at least three bodies if on 20x20 bases. Thus two boxes of Gnoblars to get your three slingers, etc…

Well if that isn't a cheesy trick to try to sell a bunch more miniatures.

OTOH, if two of you want to build up gnoblar armies, you can buy 3 boxes between you and split one 50/50.