Anton's Army of the Eight Peaks

I would like to see archer units, 5 wide x 10 deep... with unit fillers of goblins being goblins, i.e. hilariously shooting each other with arrows and slingshots and generally misbehaving and being all in with animosity. 5x10 plays well and isn't too unweidly. And 50 goblins, volley fire, wont kill much BUT 30 shots will almost statistically do 1W even with 6's to hit and 6't to wound... and that's something. BS shooting actually is worthwhile sometimes in 8th edition.

Aesthetically I'm not fond of 5x10 units, but I realise they are the most efficient ones. But a bigger archer unit could be nice.

Anton, awesome army! How long did that take you to paint up? Great job!

As far as what to do with your remaining blocks, I'd say several smaller blocks of 30 spears 6 wide x 5 deep. They can act as redirectors, protect flanks, and also screen for your gigamob and act as Fanatic delivery units.  You could litterally have dozens of Fanatics flying around the board!


As for as the ones with bows, I'd probably make one huge block of them, 10 wide, with a BSB carrying the Spider Banner sitting inside them. Let them shoot from behind your huge blocks of Spears and just soften up your enemies with poison shots. They aren't going to be hitting very much anyway, so that'd give them a huge advantage. Your main disadvantage will be Ld anyway, and having your BSB behind your blocks will keep him relatively protected and in a position to rally your fleeing units.

I could really see you using some Mangler Squigs and Squig Hoppers to great effectiveness in this army as well.  They can't really be ignored and are (usually) fast and effective.  I almost always take two Manglers and if I take a Big Boss on Giant Cave Squig (the one you have pictured) then I also take 12 Squig Hoppers to escort him into battle and make him all that more effective.  

Have you read the Skarsnik book that GW produced a little while ago?  Not the best read, but still entertaining.  It had an interesting concept in it though.  I like to play fluffy armies like yours here.  So if I take a Night Goblin army, then I tend to gravitate to ONLY taking Night Goblins.  In the book, Skarsnik becomes allies (well, leads) some Plains Goblins who bring Wolf Riders and Wolf Chariots to his army.  All that to say that it could be fun to add other "clans" to your horde by focusing on one particular element.  That's what I'm doing with my goblins.  I have my Skarsnik horde (nowhere near as big as yours, but still large) and adding Wolf Riders (25 currently) and Wolf Chariots (3 ATM).  I'm also trying to do that with Forest Goblins (20 Spider Riders, 1 Big Boss on Gigantic Spider and 1 Arachnarok Spider).  Fun times!

The problem I find with units of 20-25 is that it doesn't take very much to force them into taking panic checks from losing 25% of the unit. I find that units of 30 last me much longer.

It usually is. I usually try to position them in a way that they can protect a flank but far enough away that when something starts to come around that direction, I can advance/charge them so that it pops the Fanatics, then they charge in and redirects the unit or gets stuck in away from my other units. Not always possible, but usually worth the risk while my main blocks do their thing. The most Night Goblin units that I've ever used was 4 blocks of them, but that also equated to 12 Fanatics! Crazy fun! (Pun intended)

I see that you like a lot of Forgeworld figures. Are you going to get the Squig Gobba? I've wanted that one so bad! I think it looks uber cool!