All of the minis that I have for my trollkin are some variation on foot soldiers. Be they warriors, gunners, or guard, none of them really fit the bill for an artillery unit. Of course, there is actually an artillery piece in the Hordes trollkin mini line, but I'm trying to be thrifty (aka cheap) so I decided to see what I could cobble together from what I have.
Part of the plastic kriel warriors box is three caber throwers. The models are pretty cool and full of character as is typical for the Trollkin, but I had no idea how I could use them. A caber is thrown, so a ranged attack of some kind makes sense. It should hit like a ton of bricks because... well, it is a stone caber after all but this also means that it shouldn't have too much range as that would be silly.
It took some digging through the dwarf list but I think I managed to find a way to slot them into my army, complete with a crew. In the dwarf list is the bombard which has a minimum range and a relatively short long range which seems like a really good fit. It is also overhead attack and does d4 hits, which again seem to line up nicely. It is a giant piece of stone that the trollkin is chucking after all.
To represent the piece on the table, I'm going to field one caber thrower with two of the old metal kriel warriors. This gives me a crew of three, and having them move as a unit while maintaining base contact will turn them into a large miniature. This also gives me something to do with my original kriel warriors since they are a bit runty compared to the plastics.
One artillery piece is good, but two? Well, that sounds priceless doesn't it? Again looking at minis that I already have, the impaler is a light beast armed with giant javelins. Looking at the dwarf list, I can see two options that this could line up with nicely. The large bolt thrower and the small cannon are virtually identical in their stats, except their ranges are quite different. The bolt thrower goes all the way out to 60", while the cannon only goes out to 40". Personally, I'm thinking the bolt thrower since literally that is what he is doing and it gives me a longer range artillery option which could be handy. As for representing the unit, this time I'm thinking use the impaler with a couple of the trollkin whelps. These little guys are adorable and would look great next to the oversized beast.
With these two options, I'm pretty sure that I've bumped my available points to over 1,250 which means I've got a lot of options! Just need to keep on plowing through them with the painting while I make a list, then I will be good to go. Until next time...
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