1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:07,960 Hello friends, Owen here I am back with another deep dive into 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,560 one of the classic army books from the past. 3 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,800 But before I start, can I thank you very much for all the kind 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,840 words you have sent my way regarding my deep dive into the 5 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,080 Dwarf book. It seems like many of you hold 6 00:00:23,080 --> 00:00:25,600 it just as close to your hearts as I do. 7 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:31,120 Special thanks to Cam of Warwick who sent me a copy all the way 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:36,720 from the USA, flying through the air across the Atlantic to once 9 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:42,160 again sit proudly on my shelf. Thank you Cam, that means an 10 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:46,000 awful lot. Today we're going to talk about 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,240 the Orcs and Goblins army list again from the 4th edition. 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,520 Now, I can't remember the exact time I bought this book. 13 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:59,160 I can't remember the exact time I opened its hallowed covers, 14 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:05,000 but what I can tell you is exactly how it made me feel. 15 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,840 This is quite a bittersweet book for me to look at. 16 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:14,720 You see, as a child I got into Warhammer probably about 1984, 17 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,520 which put me at 11 years old and 11 years old. 18 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:23,440 Me, who had just read The Hobbit, saw Goblins as something 19 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,040 totally different. They were sinister, sneaky, 20 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,800 horrible creatures. I imagined them in my head just 21 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,240 like they were on the cover of the Ravening Hordes book or the 22 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,760 classic Middle Earth role-playing game with Chris 23 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,000 Achilius. I think it was all those years 24 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,160 ago. Those to me were goblins. 25 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,560 But at this point, when we came to 4th edition, things started 26 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:51,720 to change. And that evil, sneaky, snidy, 27 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:57,200 horrible goblin of the past became a much more comedic 28 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,880 beast. A beast who was still horrible, 29 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,920 a beast who was still nasty, a beast who could still rip your 30 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,200 head off, but with a horrible gurning smile as he did it. 31 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,880 And this was featured fully in this book. 32 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,200 You see with 4th edition and the army books, Warhammer and the 33 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:19,040 Warhammer World, the old world was starting to find its feet. 34 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,440 They had the Chaos warriors, they had the Dark Elves, they 35 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:26,800 had the Scaven, although comedic in their own way, which were all 36 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:31,360 a darkness sort of species. And then we had the orcs and 37 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:36,520 Goblins who could be brilliant and who could be Dan Wright 38 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,840 horrible. Now up to this point around 39 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:43,160 1993, I had always played. My armies had been Orc and 40 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,960 Goblin armies, I had played through Bloodbath at Orcs Drift, 41 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,040 I had been in the second edition, I had been the 3rd 42 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,560 edition Raven in Hordes Warhammer armies. 43 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,280 And here we are in a far more colourful world. 44 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,800 So I'm going to work my way through the book. 45 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,840 I'm coming to a totally blind, so everything I say here I am 46 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,920 uncovering for the first time in as many years. 47 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:10,360 The same as you. But what I'd recommend, if you 48 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,680 have it, why not bring the book in front of you? 49 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,680 Why not discover it at the same time as I am? 50 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:22,200 Although I have another E copy here, not a real one sadly, but 51 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:27,520 let's go. Warhammer Armies, Orcs and 52 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:32,200 Goblins, a Warhammer supplement by Games Workshop. 53 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,600 The cover is excellent, isn't it? 54 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,640 Bull riding orcs rampaging through the mountains followed 55 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,520 by a cloud of giant bats flapping through the sky. 56 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,680 The orc in front is holding a huge axe with a look of total 57 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,480 Glee in his face. Next to him, an orc with a giant 58 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,120 two handed axe. He must be a good bull rider. 59 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,160 And the one next to him with a morning star and an axe itself. 60 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:03,720 Now not long before this point, both orcs and goblins rode 61 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,960 wolves like they did in the Lord of the Rings Wags. 62 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,440 But now we are seeing the emergence of the difference of 63 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,000 the species really. The goblins riding wolves, the 64 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,959 orcs riding boars. When we turn the page here, we 65 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:22,920 have some scenes of battle very much like the Orcs, 1 Savage Orc 66 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,160 boys and Goblin Wolf Riders on the warpath. 67 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,800 Look at this scene. There's a unit of goblin wolf 68 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,600 riders emerging from the trees, rampaging in between an old inn 69 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,840 and a hilltop. On top of that hilltop, a unit 70 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:42,760 of Orc Archers, already with their bows. 71 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,600 Terrible Archers, really. They probably couldn't hit the 72 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,320 Ale House, but there they are. And some savage Hawks in front 73 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,720 of them, wielding their red clubs with Glee. 74 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,320 And under that an assemblance of an orc and goblin. 75 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,440 Woah, that is second to none really. 76 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,680 The old plastic spear wielding goblins. 77 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,000 The title says orc bull riders and goblins with trolls and 78 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,600 snottlings in support. There we have some bull riders. 79 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:18,240 There we have some night goblin nectars along with the squig 80 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,080 herders, the snottling bases, the snottling pump wagon, and 81 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:26,040 three river trolls and a goblin doom diver. 82 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:32,240 Amazing stuff. Orca Goblins by Rick Priestley, 83 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:36,320 cover art by Dave Gallagher, story by Bill King, Black and 84 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:40,360 white art by John Blanche, Wayne England and Mark Gibbons. 85 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:45,720 Again, a top tier team of creatives putting this together 86 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,160 and there is a picture of perhaps my favorite character 87 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:54,800 from the Orc and Goblin Canon. Two characters actually, 88 00:05:55,320 --> 00:06:02,040 Skarsnik and Gobbler. I loved Skarsnik, I had a finely 89 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,360 painted model of that double bass with both Gobbler and 90 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:09,760 Skarsnik on it for many years, but sadly it has been lost to 91 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:14,040 time and the vagaries of eBay. In some weak moment I think I 92 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,520 sold it. He led my armies in later years. 93 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,840 The 6th edition, Skarsnik at the four. 94 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,040 I'm sorry, Skarsnick, I let you go. 95 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:29,480 The contents are here again, pages and pages of background. 96 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,800 The history of the orcs, a calendar, the deadly subject of 97 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,480 animosity, and many other things. 98 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,120 Black and white banners. It takes a similar format to the 99 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:44,480 Dwarf book. Again, so much in it we get to 100 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,880 the introduction. Now this is an almost breaking 101 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:52,360 the 4th wall introduction. Great picture of an orc wading 102 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:57,040 forward with the the red sun on his shield and a wolf rider. 103 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,200 A goblin wolf rider who looks almost from the old school, a 104 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,120 little bit serious and sinister in his aspect. 105 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:09,120 Let me read it to you. This is a book about Orcs and 106 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,440 goblins and their armies in the Warhammer game. 107 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,040 Well, thank God for that, otherwise I'd have bought the 108 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,480 wrong book, wouldn't I? Within its pages you will find 109 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,760 background information explaining much about orcs and 110 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,880 their smaller cousins, Where they come from, how they live 111 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,600 and fight, how they wars have helped to shape the Warhammer 112 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,360 world. In addition, you will find all 113 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,480 the rules you need to use an Orc and Goblin army in the Warhammer 114 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:40,840 game, including rules for new creatures and troop types not 115 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,280 covered in the Warhammer Battle Book itself. 116 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,440 Unfortunately, we didn't have room to include the complete 117 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,720 rules for War Machines and Chariots as they appear in the 118 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:54,840 Warhammer Rule book, but you will find a summary for them at 119 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,920 the end of the War Machines section. 120 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,920 The heart of this book is the Army List section, which 121 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,760 provides a full list and points values for the Orc and Goblin 122 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,760 army. By means of the army list, you 123 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:13,120 can choose your own orc and Goblin force, equip your warlord 124 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:17,320 and his entourage of shamans and bosses, and descend upon your 125 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:21,320 quaking foes with the awesome power of the wah behind you. 126 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:26,560 Orcs and Goblins one of the most popular and effective armies in 127 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,400 the Warhammer game. One of the reasons for this 128 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,640 popularity is the tremendous degree of choice. 129 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,559 For example, although we generally refer to orcs and 130 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,679 goblins, you can perfectly well feel the force that is all orcs 131 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:44,200 or all goblins. You could go further and have an 132 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:49,160 army made-up entirely of Night Goblins, Savage Orcs, or Forest 133 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:53,400 Goblins if you wanted. We know of at least one person 134 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:57,000 whose army consists entirely of Goblin Wolf riders. 135 00:08:57,680 --> 00:09:02,440 However such extreme examples are exceptional and most players 136 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,840 use a wide variety available to create an effective mix of 137 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:11,240 different troops. You should wisely decide to 138 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:15,440 abandon any attempt to out shoot your enemies in favour of a 139 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:19,360 fast, hard hitting attack force combined with long range 140 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,400 artillery. These options are available in 141 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,560 abundance with Bull riders, trolls and Chariots for attack 142 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:31,120 and Rock Lobbers or Doom divers for long range destruction. 143 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,880 On the other hand, a player faced with an Empire army would 144 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,880 probably adopt A different strategy altogether. 145 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,600 With its Knights and cannons, the Empire Army would soon sweep 146 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:47,120 aside an army based around ball boys, while orc artillery and 147 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,840 large creatures such as trolls would present excellent targets 148 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,520 for cannons and hell blaster volley guns. 149 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:58,000 In this case, the Orc general might choose night goblin units, 150 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:03,200 with fanatics backed up by units of orcs to provide some backbone 151 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:08,120 and either doom divers or flying monsters to take out cannons 152 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:12,480 from the air. Woe betide those Empire Nights 153 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,360 when they tangle with a Night Goblin fanatics. 154 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,080 The options are many and varied, and part of the challenge of the 155 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,360 Orc army is to discover the combination of troops and 156 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,120 equipment that works best for you. 157 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,920 In writing this book, we have assumed that the reader either 158 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,240 owns or has access to copies of both Warhammer and Warhammer 159 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,680 Magic. As far as possible, we've 160 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:39,760 attempted to provide references within the Warhammer Rule Book, 161 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,480 the Battle Book, or the Warhammer Magic Rule Book so 162 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,640 that you can find relevant sections more easily. 163 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,960 Where practical, we've chosen to repeat information or at least 164 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,480 summarize pertinent details within this volume. 165 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:58,960 Shouldn't you need to keep swapping from one book to the 166 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,720 other? That's an honest introduction, 167 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,480 isn't it? And something we don't see 168 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,600 anymore. Just the author introducing you 169 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,920 to how this army works. Not talking about the character, 170 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,600 not talking about story, not talking about the background, 171 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,680 just talking to you, reader to reader. 172 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,760 Well, like I'm talking to you now, but with far better grasp 173 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,360 of the English language for sure. 174 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:31,400 The first page turns to the dominion of the Orcs. 175 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,160 Here we have a description of where the orcs live, where the 176 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,560 orcs come from. Here we have talks about the orc 177 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:42,280 tribes, the different ways that they meet and many, many 178 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:47,720 different parts of background. Followed by a page with a map of 179 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,240 the old world. Again. 180 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:54,720 There it is, my friends, something from all our pasts, 181 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,760 the one which has the winding rivers of the Empire, followed 182 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:05,080 by the world's Edge Mountains, taking us into a nicely written 183 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:12,440 piece on Orc history, starting with the Battle of Black Fire 184 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:17,200 Pass. That's a great one, and a long 185 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,080 one. There it talks about all the 186 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,280 things that happened in that Great War, that great battle, 187 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:29,240 and then it tells us a little bit about Gorbard Iron Claw, one 188 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,400 of the great orc heroes. Let's read a bit about him, 189 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,120 shall we? Gorbard Ironclaw was one of the 190 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,760 most successful orc leaders of all time. 191 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:44,920 His campaign of destruction raged across the Empire and left 192 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:49,320 the region of Sol, and so devastated that it has never 193 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:53,840 fully recovered, he arose to power deep in the Badlands, 194 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:58,760 where his tribe, the Iron Claws, held the fortress known as the 195 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:03,680 Iron Rock. The Iron Rock is a core of 196 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:08,560 molten iron vomited from the bowels of the earth during some 197 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:13,560 incalculably ancient upheaval. It lies in the western shadows 198 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:16,600 of Thunder Mountain. There it is again, and was 199 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,040 discovered by the dwarves who mined into it, creating a 200 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,600 labyrinth of tunnels and caverns and partially completed 201 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,200 workings. The orcs found the Iron Rock 202 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:31,320 when they overran the World's Edge Mountains, establishing 203 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:36,280 their over domain over all the peaks between Mad Dog Pass and 204 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:40,800 Fire Mountain. Look how evocative all this text 205 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:45,280 is bringing to us backgrounds away from the beaten track. 206 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,440 We are looking at different aspects of the orc, different 207 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,400 characters, different places, different tribes. 208 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,560 It doesn't need to do this, but still it does. 209 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,480 We have pages and pages of Gorbad Ironclaw. 210 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:06,640 I'll read a bit more. By the time Gorbad Ironclaw's 211 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:10,880 reputation had spread amongst all the orc and goblin tribes of 212 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,480 the Great Forest, and many more great green skinned warriors 213 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:19,240 flocked southwards to join him, the orcs began to loot and 214 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:23,560 pillage in their usual fashion, but Gorebad had other plans. 215 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,920 On his orders, the Iron Claw Biggins prowled the burning 216 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,880 streets, gathering up half the drunken orcs and dragging the 217 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,760 goblins back to their battle lines. 218 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,560 This caused much grumbling and many heads were knocked together 219 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,000 just to remind everyone who was boss. 220 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,800 Nun was next to feel the power of the Wah Gourbard advanced 221 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,520 towards the city from the east, roughly following the line of 222 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,720 the River Ava. Nun was already clammed with 223 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:56,360 halfling refugees and people from eastern Avaland who had 224 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:01,160 taken shelter from the OR Cord. The orcs barely slowed their 225 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,840 pace at the town walls, but poured over the gates, 226 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,360 destroying and killing in a repetition of slaughter. 227 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:12,680 At Aberheim, Brutus laid off the Count of Avaland, ordered the 228 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,040 retreat over the Great Bridge, and rallied his troops in the 229 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:22,320 western half of the city. It's like some epic myth, some 230 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:27,040 great battle from history's past, and here it is. 231 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:32,200 Great writing, I should say, lost in a Warhammer army book. 232 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,560 But I don't think it is lost. It lives in our hearts for many 233 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:40,200 of us remember this, these stirring words that took us to 234 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,680 the table, which put the paintbrush in our hand and 235 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:48,400 caused us all to walk forth and buy orcs and goblins in their 236 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:52,600 hundreds. I still have many locked away in 237 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,120 small boxes. Tool boxes. 238 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:59,440 Sometimes I feel when all is dark and all the lights are out, 239 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,840 that I can hear them chittering and chatting in that box, hoping 240 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:09,080 one day to once again take to the field to do battle to March 241 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,640 forth. I wonder if they ever will. 242 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,200 Anyway, I'm getting carried away. 243 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:20,480 After pages and pages of Gourbad Ironclaw, we head on to Azhag 244 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,360 the Slaughterer. We have some history about him 245 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,840 as well. Again, it seems like more 246 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:30,520 battles, more of them put out. And then we get to a character I 247 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:35,520 can't leave behind, a character I hold in my heart greatly. 248 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,160 And I am looking at one of his earliest inclinations. 249 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,440 In fact, yes, his earliest incarnation. 250 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,760 I am talking of Grom, the Paunch of the Misty Mountain. 251 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:52,600 I was lucky only scant few years ago to take to the field against 252 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:56,240 a load of high Elves in an online game with Marcel 253 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:01,080 commanding Grom the Paunch. But before he was Grom the 254 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,240 Paunch, it was Grom's goblin guard. 255 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,920 But here he is now, fully formed. 256 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,359 Let's read a bit about him, shall we? 257 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:13,280 Most of the warlords whose campaigns of destruction have 258 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,480 shaken the world and threatened the destruction of the realms of 259 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,400 men had been Hawks rather than goblins. 260 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,839 Orcs are bigger than goblins, more dangerous and more brutally 261 00:17:23,839 --> 00:17:27,839 ambitious. Grom was to prove the exception, 262 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,760 a goblin who was not only as dangerous and ambitious as the 263 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,720 best orc, but vastly bigger as well. 264 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,880 It was not that Grom was especially tall, certainly not 265 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:43,600 as tall as an orc, but he was enormously and infamously fat. 266 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:48,440 In fact, he was so huge that he became known as the Pawnsh of 267 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:52,760 Misty Mountain, or simply Grom the Fat. 268 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,160 If tails are to be believed, his Improbable Habulk was due to him 269 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,680 eating raw troll meat for a wager. 270 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:04,760 Apart from being enormously tough, troll fresh troll flesh 271 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:09,480 even has the unusual property of being able to regenerate itself 272 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:13,000 quite quickly. If a troll suffers harm, his 273 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,800 flesh will almost instantly regrow. 274 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:21,360 It is this muscle that takes and makes trolls very hard to fight. 275 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:26,600 It also makes troll flesh virtually impossible to eat. 276 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:32,400 Let it is thoroughly cooked. Determined to out eat his 277 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:37,720 challenger, Grom consumed a plate of raw troll steaks only 278 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,560 to discover the meat regenerating inside his stomach. 279 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,440 As the churning mass swelled within him, his resilient goblin 280 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:50,600 digestive system got to work on the overabundance of raw 281 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,040 material. For days Grom lay moaning and 282 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:57,600 groaning as the first of the trolls regenerative abilities 283 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:02,240 outpaced his own ability to digest it, and then his stomach 284 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:07,480 gradually gained ground. Eventually equilibrium was 285 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:12,080 reached, and although the troll flesh was still there, Grom was 286 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,240 digesting it as fast as it was regrowing. 287 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,440 It's gross, really, isn't it, when you look at it? 288 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,840 Of the several weeks of fevered indigestion and almost terminal 289 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:27,320 flatulence, Grom emerged triumphant. 290 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,000 He was also quite a bit fatter, although he ain't nothing 291 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,400 afterwards, he continued to gain weight thanks to the presence of 292 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,480 the troll flesh. He was to suffer from bouts of 293 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,320 explosive flatulence for the rest of his life. 294 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:51,440 The The balance between evil and nastiness and genuine threat and 295 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,480 comedy is well kept in this book, is it not? 296 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:59,600 We have pages about Grom and his invasion of Othrin, the the high 297 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,320 health capital that go on for ages. 298 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,680 And then we go to Washington. Skarsnik, you know, of course, 299 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,360 in later years, a great favorite of mine, Skarsnik. 300 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:16,120 After the collapse of the Dwarf Empire almost 3 1/2 thousand 301 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:20,160 years ago, the Dwarf stronghold of Carrick, Eight Peaks, lay in 302 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,440 ruins. It's steep caverns and tunnels 303 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,360 were taken over by Night Goblins, and Scaven deeper with 304 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:31,760 the Nameless Horrors, crawled into the Dwarf mines and settled 305 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:36,200 in long abandoned depths. Within a few years of Carrick 306 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,960 Eight Peaks Fall, the Night Goblins had settled permanently 307 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,760 into the ruins and split into many tribes based around the 308 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,120 adjoining mountains and tunnels that ran beneath them. 309 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:51,360 Although the dwarves tried to recapture Carrick Eight Peaks, 310 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:57,120 they did not succeed until the Imperial year 2470, when 311 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:01,120 Belagard established a fortified bridgehead in the old Citadel. 312 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,160 Though the dwarves were forced to live in a virtual state of 313 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:10,360 siege, they gradually managed to clear the Night Goblins and 314 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,880 other evil creatures out of the upper levels. 315 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:18,160 Today, Pelegar and his King's Folk live amongst the ruins of 316 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:23,480 Carrick Eight Peaks, and hope one day to reconquer the whole 317 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:29,000 realm of their ancestors. Look at this again. 318 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,720 Many, many pages of background. We haven't even introduced 319 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,040 Skarsnik yet, and yet we talk about him. 320 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,080 We talk about the background which lead to his story. 321 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,160 We talk about what he gains, what he has, and where he goes. 322 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,640 Even just reading this now, I feel the need to break out to my 323 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,600 orcs and goblins. The writing in these books was 324 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:56,760 so inspiring, made you want to take to the field, genuinely 325 00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:01,040 made you feel that you could be the difference for this army, 326 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,440 that you could March them forth the fight, you could do battle. 327 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,160 We've got some important events in orc history leading up. 328 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:18,600 I'll just read a couple for you. 1250 The Troll Wars The trolls 329 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,640 were driven north by fresh eruptions of Thunder Mountain 330 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,760 and drawn to it again, attacking dwarf miners and prospectors and 331 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,160 over running several dwarf settlements South of Karasa. 332 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:38,640 Karak -469, the York warlord Dork Unfortunate, leads a huge 333 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:42,920 army of orcs and goblins to take the dwarf hold of Karak Azaga 334 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:48,400 Karak Asghar even, which he destroys and abandons, leaving 335 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,240 the secrets of its depths unexplored. 336 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,440 Three years later, he attacks and captures the dwarf hole of 337 00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:00,800 Karak Dras, which is occupied and renamed Karak Black. 338 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,200 Within 50 years of the fall of Karak Eight Peaks, the Dwarves 339 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,840 have lost all the major holes South of Karasa Karak, with the 340 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,840 exception of Kalakazoole, which is under constant siege. 341 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:18,840 All the mountains between Mad Dog Pass and Carrigate Peaks are 342 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:26,760 controlled by the Orcs or goblins. 2488 The Battle of 343 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:31,600 Death Pass, a Bretonian army is defeated by Morglum Necksnapper. 344 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:36,600 The Bretonian King declares the Errantry Wars at an end. 345 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,080 Momentous event in the history of Britonia. 346 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:48,200 There now, even though we are on page 16 of the book, only now do 347 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,120 we start to talk about rules. And the first one is one that 348 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:56,640 all Orkin goblin players both love and hate in equal measure. 349 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,480 Just like Gollum loves and hates the ring. 350 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:06,440 The rule of animosity. The amount of times that this 351 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,800 would rear its ugly head and cause me to lose many a battle 352 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,120 was unbelievable. In early fiction with orcs and 353 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:17,960 goblins, mainly Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, they are 354 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,360 often found losing battles because of their inability to 355 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:26,840 get along with one another, and this played out a lot in the 356 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,360 rules of Warhammer. They changed it with nearly 357 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:31,520 every edition. I think sometimes it was worse 358 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,040 than others, but it was always there. 359 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:38,200 But without it, the orc and goblin army was probably too 360 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,760 powerful, with it, it could be too weak. 361 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,480 When I started to play many tournament games back in the 362 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,360 early 2000s, there were very few orc and goblin armies, and this 363 00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:52,120 was mainly due to the unpredictability of the 364 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:54,880 animosity rule. But here it is. 365 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,800 Orcs and goblins argue and fight amongst themselves continually. 366 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,560 Even at the best of times, fighting in the ranks can cause 367 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,680 disarray and confusion in the army. 368 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:10,320 The behaviour of orcan goblin units mobs can be rather 369 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,280 unpredictable. One moment a mob is striding 370 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,520 purposely towards the enemy and the next it is suddenly brought 371 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,240 to a halt while two warriors settle their difference. 372 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,440 This wayward tendency is a great drawback to the Orc warlord. 373 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,480 Inevitably you will hear the cries of squabbling amongst your 374 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:32,040 forces and realize that once again your best laid plans have 375 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,640 been laid low by some dispute in the ranks. 376 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,640 A good orc warlord takes such things into account when he 377 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,840 draws up his battle lines, but even the best commander will be 378 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:48,800 lucky to avoid the effects of animosity all together. 379 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,960 The authors of the book seem almost apologetic about the 380 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,960 rule, telling you that some days it will lead to your downfall 381 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,400 through no fault of your own. There's even a section here 382 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,000 saying living with animosity. Animosity is just one of those 383 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,600 things. If you command a horde of Orkin 384 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,320 goblins, you will suffer from its effects now and again, and 385 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,960 sometimes it will be a real pain in the neck. 386 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,200 There are few things you can do to make sure there are sorry. 387 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,800 A few things you can do to make sure that when animosity 388 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:25,120 strikes, the effect is minimal. When you choose your army, 389 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:28,640 remember that the more mobs you have, the more likely you are to 390 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,320 fall. Fail an animosity test? 391 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,880 You have 6 mobs which are subject to animosity. 392 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,240 For example. On average, one unit will fail 393 00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:39,240 each turn. It's almost telling you to get 394 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,760 less troops. I wonder if the bosses at Games 395 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,280 Workshop read this before it was published. 396 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,400 I'll lead you to the next page, the Orkin Goblin Animosity 397 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,560 table. If you roll A1, that was the 398 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:58,080 worst. Get them if you roll A1, because 399 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,960 every orc or gobbling unit would fail an animosity test on A1. 400 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:06,280 If you rolled a second one, you would attack your nearest army. 401 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:11,400 Your nearest unit, 2 to five was a squabble that just caused your 402 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,920 unit not to move, whereas 6 could be beneficial where your 403 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,760 unit would charge forward with an extra move. 404 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:23,000 I used to hate animosity. It was such a wild thing. 405 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,880 Let's move on from it. Shaman's. 406 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,800 Yes. Shaman's had different rules, 407 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,160 didn't they? Different magic. 408 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,560 Shaman's heads could explode. The magic was extremely powerful 409 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:40,520 and yet extremely dangerous. Night goblins, Forest goblin 410 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,520 shamans, Orc shamans, All of these are chronicled here in the 411 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:48,040 next few pages. Yes, and the night goblin 412 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:52,280 shamans could consume mushrooms, forest goblin shamans could 413 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,360 plant plus one to their dice when rolling on the head bangers 414 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:58,440 chart, you know, were their heads more likely to blow up? 415 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,040 I don't know. There's lots of special rules 416 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,320 here that I'm not going to go into. 417 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,200 But look, there were there were many types of shaman. 418 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:12,320 You could have ork shamans, savage ork shamans, forest 419 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,720 goblin shamans, night goblin shamans, just goblin shamans, 420 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,720 all of them. Such a variety and a great great 421 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,240 figure range to go with it. The next page takes us to the 422 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:30,000 Goblin Doom Diver catapult. Now this is one of the things I 423 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,400 really didn't like, although a lot of people did. 424 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,520 The Goblin Doom diver catapult where you would catapult a 425 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,560 goblin into the sky, causing it to land into a unit and cause 426 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:44,400 carnage. I always thought these guys were 427 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,640 tiny. They would probably cause a 428 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,280 headache at the most, but no. I can remember taking off reams 429 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,680 and reams of troops when one of these hit. 430 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,240 I'm not going to linger at the Doom Diver, such is its 431 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,640 disappointment. But then again, the Snotling 432 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,800 pump wagon is next and that was the same. 433 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,520 What a model this was. I've still got the little 434 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,080 Snotling who is to stand at the front hosting his middle finger 435 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,640 in a rude gesture to all who would look at it. 436 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,560 You could have the double layer one and the half layer one. 437 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,320 Silly thing. Pump wagon making its way 438 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,160 through the landscape in order to attack. 439 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,280 Rock lobbers, boat throwers, chariot rules. 440 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,080 We've got plenty of that. And then we have a page on 441 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,680 tactics written by Mr. Rick Priestley, with a very young 442 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,880 looking Rick glaring out at us with his huge glasses in a black 443 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,080 and white photo taken straight from the early 90s. 444 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,840 Top button done up, of course. Rick stares at us ominously, 445 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,680 almost apologetically, but somewhat wondrously as he talks 446 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:57,480 about Ork and goblin tactics. The Ork and Goblin army is a 447 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,440 real gamblers army. An army with many, many 448 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,400 different choices, but ultimately an army that favours 449 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,600 aggressive play. Your troops are not completely 450 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,760 predictable. When they're good, they're 451 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:15,240 brilliant, but when they're bad they are the worst. 452 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,960 Even the best generals sometimes lose with this army just because 453 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,200 that's the way it is. On the other hand, if the dice 454 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,760 roll lives in your favour, you'll thrash your opponent no 455 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,360 matter how good he might be. That's not to say it's just a 456 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,040 question of luck whether you win. 457 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:33,880 Nothing could be further from the truth. 458 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,280 Like any good gambler, you have to understand how the odds work 459 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,560 and how to stack things in your favour. 460 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,920 When you start to put your army together, you'll be confronted 461 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,840 with a bewildering amount of choice. 462 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,600 Because there are so many kinds of troops. 463 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,640 At first, the very quantity and variety of the troops can be 464 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,880 confusing. It's important to realise that 465 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,960 you can't hope to include every type of warrior and machine in 466 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,600 your army. There are just too many. 467 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,640 Instead, build your army around a core of reliable troops, such 468 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,560 as black orcs, big guns, or ball boys. 469 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,600 This core doesn't have to be very large, it could be a single 470 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:19,520 mob, but it's necessary to give some solid solidity to the army. 471 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,640 Once you have decided on your core force, you can elaborate 472 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,120 upon it by adding more troops, war machines, and monsters. 473 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,480 When choosing your army, bear in mind that some types of 474 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,680 character model war machines or special troops are only 475 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,200 available if your army includes mobs of corresponding orcs or 476 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,840 goblin types. For example, you need at least 477 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,480 one goblin mob to include Doom Divers. 478 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,240 If you want to include specific troops or machines, you have to 479 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:52,640 tailor your army appropriately. Arrange your units as deeply as 480 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,440 possible. The more ranks a unit has, the 481 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,080 better its combat results. If your unit has four ranks 482 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,800 deep, you receive a + 3 bonus, the maximum. 483 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,680 If your units are 5 ranked deep, you receive the maximum bonus 484 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,760 and you can afford to take some casualties before you start to 485 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,680 deplete the all important fourth rank. 486 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,840 Remember, if you have relatively few models in your frontage 487 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,120 compared to your depth, the advantage of the rank bonus is 488 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,960 accentuated because neither you nor your enemy can inflict many 489 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,120 casualties. Rick taken advantage of the 4th 490 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,720 edition rules very much here. It is therefore to the advantage 491 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,000 of poor troops goblins to have as much depth and as little 492 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,440 frontage as possible. Oh Rick, this is disappointing. 493 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,680 Give all your units bosses and standards whenever you can 494 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,680 afford it. You cannot afford it? 495 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,920 Consider dropping the unit altogether. 496 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,360 Goblin units must be led by big bosses, or else you'll find some 497 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,960 other way to improve their leadership or combat resilience 498 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:55,240 with magic items or standards. The reason for this is that 499 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,800 goblins, with their leadership of only five, are very fragile, 500 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,480 which means they are virtually certain to fail any break or 501 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,240 psychology psychology tests that they have to take. 502 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,320 Remember, an Orc big boss can be placed with a goblin unit to 503 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,080 lead it. By including bosses you will be 504 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,960 improving your chances of inflicting casualties and 505 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,440 reducing the number of casualties sustained. 506 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,920 By including a standard, you add +1 to your combat results score. 507 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:27,440 All these are important to any unit and vital to goblins 508 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,360 attack. Your enemy contains troops which 509 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,600 are very good in hand. Your army, sorry, contains 510 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,200 troops which are very good in hand to hand combat. 511 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,240 Use them to spearhead your advance. 512 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,360 Your army also contains troops which are good at pinning or 513 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,800 delaying the enemy. For example, large gobbling 514 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,880 units, fanatics pump wagons, snotlings, etcetera. 515 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:54,040 If you can bog down one of your enemy's top units with snotlings 516 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,200 or keep him pinned down by landing fanatics in front of 517 00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:01,480 him, you are free to win the game with your core units. 518 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,760 I like the innocence in which this is written. 519 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,840 It basically tells you to min Max your army. 520 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,199 It's basically telling you in a tournament head in the army 521 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:16,960 book. But there we go. 522 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,320 They would never write that these days, would they? 523 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,480 But it's good. There are some pages then 524 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,320 looking at tactics for different types of orcs and goblins 525 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,360 different. The cavalry, the wolf riders, 526 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,400 the snotlings, the spider riders, all these things. 527 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,560 We have the Chariots and supporting troops. 528 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:39,400 The war machines was such a big army with such a big choice and 529 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,239 range of troops that you could get characters, monsters, pump 530 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:48,120 wagons, bull riders, magic items, animosity and tactics. 531 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,040 We then have a couple of pages of the black and white banners 532 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:54,560 so favoured at this point in history. 533 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,400 Banners that look great on the page, but you try painting them, 534 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,800 especially when you're a painter like me, which is not the best 535 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,200 of painters. A great John Blanche picture 536 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:10,640 follows of night goblins causing absolute chaos, herding their 537 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:16,000 squigs into battle and drizzly eyed fanatics whirring around 538 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,280 with their great balls and chains. 539 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,160 That's an amazing picture. We come to the heavy metal 540 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:24,920 section at the front of the middle of the book. 541 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,200 Look at that red orc lock rock lobber. 542 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,200 I think that there no, it was a variant of the skull crusher, 543 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:38,520 which was an early old hammer stone thrower that I once had. 544 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,720 That was the gobbling skull cutter. 545 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,360 It was the man mangler. They were all these old things. 546 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,040 But here we have the Wyvern rider. 547 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:54,200 What an iconic model that was, gobbling green base and foot 548 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:58,680 raised in triumph. Pages of metal ork boys with 549 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,440 swords and Shields. Here in a mix of that comedic 550 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:06,240 look and yet still something sinister about them, their great 551 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:09,600 gaping Moors opening, that grinning smile. 552 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:13,000 Both evil and yet extremely funny. 553 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,960 Forest goblins. There they are, those little 554 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,920 beauties followed by spider riders with the spiders really 555 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,400 erect on the base to try and fit them into the small space that 556 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:30,600 they had Forest goblin regiment. And then we move to the Battle 557 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:35,040 of Iron Peak by Jervis Johnson and Bill King. 558 00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:41,560 The goblins and the dwarves do in battle once again. 559 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:47,520 Here we basically have a White Dwarf battle report in an army 560 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,440 book. But I'm looking at this army 561 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:55,840 book 30 years later. This battle, this force, this 562 00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:01,240 battle fought between Bill King and whoever else. 563 00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:06,880 It was Jervis Johnson. His battle still rages. 564 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:11,840 This is an eternal war. We have some pages of 90s 565 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,200 graphics and arrows as these battle out. 566 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:21,000 Yeah, wow. To have this in an army book and 567 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,640 not just have it in the army book, it lasts about 15 pages. 568 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,680 That's incredible, isn't it? Anyway, let's move on. 569 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,120 Some goblin figures follow next. Oh, these were great. 570 00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:37,960 We have a metal version of what was the spear holding goblin of 571 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,800 the day that came with the box set and other variants that fit 572 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,760 in beautifully with that unit. Some great goblin fanatics. 573 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,960 The doomed liver. There it is, one of the greatest 574 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,440 weapons of the day, on one of the smallest bases, a selection 575 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,760 of cave squigs and then night goblins. 576 00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,080 Cave squigs, night goblins, river trolls. 577 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,520 They were good, weren't they? Look at them, but my favorite. 578 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:09,520 Then follow the stone trolls. Such iconic figures. 579 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,400 They've brought out a newer plastic range of these in the 580 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,960 Age of Sigma in order to recap the greatness of these sculpts. 581 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,920 I don't think they ever will. Look at them. 582 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,120 The one with the stone above his head, the one with the two 583 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:29,000 handed hammer. All of them with that gawky ugly 584 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:34,160 looking face. Great days, great memories. 585 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,600 We then come across some more battle pictures, a fearsome band 586 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,120 of orcs and stone trolls, and then a large unit of night 587 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,920 goblins which has just crossed a bridge, which it would never 588 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,400 have done in that formation because the bridge is only about 589 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,480 half as wide as the unit, but still they come. 590 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,280 An orc war band lines up for battle. 591 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,640 Then we have some pages of orcs, then a painting guide showing us 592 00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:01,960 how to paint those great goblin arches from years gone by. 593 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:07,120 Until at last we get to the beastry orcs. 594 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,920 Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than 595 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,960 humans. Some are no taller than a man, 596 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,400 but most are substantially larger, and the biggest orcs 597 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,920 stand well over 7 feet tall. They are also much broader than 598 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:27,200 humans, with big deep chests, massive shoulders, and long, 599 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:31,720 powerfully muscled arms. Orcs have large heads with huge 600 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:37,760 jaws, but tiny foreheads, behind which lurk a thick skull and not 601 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,680 very much brain. Despite their apparent lack of 602 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:44,760 intelligence, orcs are not stupid, although they are rather 603 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,680 limited in the way they think and act. 604 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,520 They are not the deepest thinkers in the world, but 605 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,080 neither are they doubtful or divided. 606 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,040 When an orc wants to do something, he simply does it. 607 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,280 Where a human might spend untold time weighing the alternatives, 608 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,240 the orcs single mindedness is one of their greatest strengths, 609 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,520 especially as they are fighting more than anything else. 610 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,920 When they're not actually at war, orcs spend their time 611 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,080 fighting each other to establish rights of leadership. 612 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:18,480 Orc leaders are known as Boss Orcs, but even Boss orcs fight 613 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,720 amongst themselves. Decide which of them is the 614 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,920 overall leader. This means there are innumerable 615 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:30,800 layers in the orc pecking order, from boss to big boss, war boss 616 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,920 and warlord. A warlord is an orc who has 617 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,840 established total supremacy over his rivals, having either killed 618 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,360 them or driven them away, and now leads all the tribes in 619 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:47,960 glorious conquest over their puny races such as Men, Elves 620 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,360 and dwarves. Orcs call elves skinnies and 621 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,600 dwarves stunties and Orcs life is therefore spent in constant 622 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:59,040 battle, either with his fellow orcs or against some worthy 623 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,240 opponent. This is regarded as a good thing 624 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:06,720 by Orcs, who are universally content with their lot, being 625 00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:11,040 ultimately happy to meet their end in battle so long as they 626 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:16,440 get a chance of a good fight. The Orcs start line is next. 627 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,400 Movement 4. Wepescal 3 both skill three, 628 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,520 Strength 3, Toughness 4, Wounds 1, Initiative 21 Attack, 629 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:29,800 Leadership 7 the big Boss, the boss Orc next, followed by the 630 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,280 big boss and then the War Box, the war boss who maxes out at 631 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:37,360 movement 4 Weapons Skill 6 both skill 6, Strength 4, Toughness 632 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:41,600 5, Wounds 3, Initiative 5, attacks four and Leadership 633 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,800 nine. We have a bit on Savage Orcs 634 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,440 next, then Black Hawks. Black Hawks tended to be the 635 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,480 leaders in these days and in all days. 636 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,960 Powerful characters. Starting off with Movement 4, 637 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:59,360 weapons, skill 4, Strength 4, Toughness 4, the war boss, 638 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,160 Movement 4 weapons, Skill 7, both skill 6, Strength 5, 639 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:07,320 Toughness 5, Three wounds, Initiative 5, four attacks and 640 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:11,120 leadership. 10A. Good general for any York army. 641 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,960 We then go on to talk about Biggins, then goblins, then 642 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,240 night goblins, then night goblin fanatics. 643 00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:21,680 Now the goblin stat line was terrible. 644 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,000 Movement 4. Weapons skill 2 bow skill three, 645 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:26,320 strength 3. Toughness 3. 646 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,960 Wounds 1. Initiative 21. 647 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:35,400 Attack and leadership 5. Boo shaman stats or goblin 648 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:39,160 fanatics Night goblin squig hunters, Night goblin squig 649 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:44,160 hoppers, Night goblin netters, Forest goblins. 650 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,000 We then have snotlings. Then we have giant spiders and 651 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,160 goblin wolf riders. The giant or great wolf of the 652 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:56,480 warhammer Whirl is a fearsome monster with slavering fangs and 653 00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,320 huge claws. They are a great menace to 654 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:03,200 humans and have been haunted to an extent at huge wolf packs 655 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,720 that terrorize the whole provinces are now a thing of the 656 00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:09,840 past. Only in the vast wastes of 657 00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:14,200 Kislev is it still common for entire villages to be raided and 658 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:18,920 destroyed by marauding wolf packs, for children to be stolen 659 00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,960 away or herds of domestic animals to be destroyed in a 660 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,200 single night. Attacked and driven out by men, 661 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,280 the giant wolves of allied themselves with goblin tribes. 662 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,520 This partnership of goblin and wolf have proved to be very 663 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,640 successful. The goblins protect and feed the 664 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,960 wolves. In turn, Goblins are small 665 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:42,120 enough to ride giant wolves and hitch them to Chariots and carts 666 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,280 in place of horses who detest the smell of goblins and won't 667 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,080 be have anything to do with them. 668 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:52,160 Wolves and goblins seem to get along very well, and the two 669 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:56,520 races have thrived together. Goblin wolf riders raid and 670 00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:01,080 pillage far afield, while outriders scour the surrounding 671 00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,240 countryside for any sign of enemy armies. 672 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:09,760 The giant wolf movement nine that gladdens my heart. 673 00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:14,680 Weapons Skill 4 both skilled 0 Strength 3 Toughness 3 Wounds 1 674 00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,200 Initiative 3 one Attack Leadership three. 675 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,520 And there's that picture that like Hun, like goblin wolf 676 00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,760 rider. Do you know folks? 677 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,880 But I've talked about this before, but in the first game of 678 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:30,360 Warhammer I ever played, I commanded an army of goblin 679 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:34,800 wolf, a unit of goblin wolf riders who rode through a river 680 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:39,600 to emerge on the other side. And it was on that day in 681 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:44,680 Swansea War Games Club, I'd say circa 1984, the my love for 682 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:49,600 fantasy battles was awakened. I can still see those wolves 683 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,200 riding through the river. I can still feel the water on 684 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,400 their pelts. I can still hear the noises as 685 00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:00,640 they emerged on the other side. And since that day, I think of 686 00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:05,560 all days, and of all creatures and all armies, the gobbling 687 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:11,440 wolf rider is still my favorite troop type in all of fantasy. 688 00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,960 Next to me as I speak here, I have a cupboard full. 689 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,600 There must be 1000 figures in there at least. 690 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:22,720 I'd say the most numerous of them all are different units 691 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:27,040 from different ages and different manufacturers of wolf 692 00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,920 Rider. My favorite troop type. 693 00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:34,920 I love a goblin wolf rider. There, I've said it. 694 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,840 Not in a strange way. They've just awakened my 695 00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:43,400 imagination. They'd thought of them riding 696 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,800 across the table whooping and howling into war. 697 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,480 Makes me love fantasy all the more. 698 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,840 I'm sure you have a favorite troop type. 699 00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,800 Giant spiders and spider riders. Never really liked them. 700 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,400 I did have a few war boars. I preferred it when they used to 701 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,440 ride wolves. Trolls. 702 00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,960 Then we have the army list. Of course there were different 703 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,120 ways in which you could build the army, but this give you a 704 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,000 lot of freedom. Characters. 705 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,440 Your warlord, Black Orc, 140 points, an orc 110. 706 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,720 Did anyone ever take a savage orc warlord, I wonder? 707 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,520 Battle standards, they were important. 708 00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,440 And then we have the shamans, we have the mobs. 709 00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,440 Orc ball boys, 27 points per model. 710 00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,720 So a lot of points, wasn't it? Savage orkbo boys Gobble. 711 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,520 I liked savage orks. Goblin wolf riders. 712 00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,520 Great drawing there on this page. 713 00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,400 I can't see the number at the bottom, but the ork Arab boy, 714 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,720 hooded ork with a checkered black and white rim on his hood 715 00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,000 firing a bow. Reminds me of the Harbath 716 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,360 Archers from years gone by. Arrows stuck in the ground. 717 00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,240 Yeah, great drawing that. I like that. 718 00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:04,520 Terrible Archers though. Savage Yorks, Night goblins. 719 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:08,960 Not to one mob of squig hunters. Squig hoppers, netters, trolls, 720 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,800 giants. Of course, paired with this army 721 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:18,120 is the fantastic Marauder giant. There was never a better giant 722 00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,440 was there to go with this. Snotlings. 723 00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,080 I can remember in this age people used to have a lot of 724 00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:27,800 snotlings. 15 points per base, like 10 bases in front of the 725 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,600 army. Horrible Doom, Diver, 726 00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:37,240 Caterpills, Boo Monsters, Manticores, Cockatrice, Griffin, 727 00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:40,720 Hippogriff, they're all here. Then we've got the special 728 00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:43,600 characters, all the ones mentioned earlier on in the 729 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,680 background, including our friend Grom the Paunch. 730 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:52,240 Let's have a look at him. Grom, Web movement 4. 731 00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:58,800 Weapon Skill 5, Bow Skill 6. Strange strength 4. 732 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:00,120 Toughness 4. Wounds 3. 733 00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,320 Initiative 5. Attacks 4. 734 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,360 Leadership 7. Of course, he had regeneration 735 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,400 as well, didn't he? And the Axe of Grom and his 736 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:14,440 standard bearer, Niblet, a chariot drawn by wolves. 737 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:18,480 Is there anything better? Nauglem neck snapper? 738 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,560 Oglok the Horrible? Did anyone ever take him? 739 00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:24,680 And then of course Skarsnik, Warlord of the Eight Peaks at a 740 00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:28,640 mere 80 points, 50 points extra if you want to include gobbler 741 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,520 and 70 points 75 points for the prodder. 742 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,840 The prodder was deadly wasn't it used to do a lot of damage that 743 00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,640 did. Then we have the magic item 744 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,680 cards, Gorks war banner, the evil sun banner. 745 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,840 A unit carrying this standard may re roll any failed animosity 746 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:52,120 test points value 10. The Sword of Bork, the Spider 747 00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,440 Banner, the Collar of Zorga Morga the Mangler. 748 00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:59,840 Scarsnick's prodder of course fights in combat like a normal 749 00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:05,160 sprig prodder, but it unleashes why energy 75 points. 750 00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:10,520 Wowsers said wowsers a lot in this one, haven't I Right then. 751 00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:16,320 Then we have just pages of story pages and pages of Bill King's 752 00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:20,600 text telling us all about the orcs and goblins. 753 00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:26,760 A story about Azhag. Too long to read right now, but 754 00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,680 I'll give you the first couple of paragraphs and perhaps you 755 00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:34,080 could re explore this below. Azhag. 756 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:40,160 The great green horde advanced as the shadow of his Wiven fell 757 00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:44,000 upon his troops. They looked up, gazing skyward 758 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:48,960 with a mixture of awe, fear, and brute stupidity in their red 759 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,320 eyes. On the left of the column were 760 00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:55,040 the mighty orc warriors of Gore's renders, each a towering 761 00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:59,120 giant whose yellow tusks gleamed proudly in the sunlight. 762 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:04,400 To the right were Jog's trolls, huge blue skinned monsters 763 00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,800 eating the miles with their long loping strides. 764 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:12,440 Behind them, stretching for mile upon mile, came gobbling tribe 765 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:16,320 after goblin tribe and orc mob after orc mob. 766 00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:20,400 The enormous bulks of stone throwers towered over the Moss, 767 00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:26,400 each drawn by a sweating team of gobbo slaves, spider riding 768 00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,680 chieftains led by clans of stunted forest gobblins. 769 00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:33,080 Across the open plain they came black garb. 770 00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,200 Night Goblin shuffled and limped along in the bright sunlight, 771 00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:40,600 here and there amid the lines as I could be seen sweating 772 00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,920 gobbles, carrying the great ball and chains of their fanatic 773 00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,560 brethren. At the head of the army rode the 774 00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:50,880 Bull Riders, controlling their sorely bristle, snouted mounts 775 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,240 with blows and grunts. And far off in the distance, as 776 00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:59,960 I could see the long Gray line of the Wolf Rider scouts who 777 00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:04,680 spearheaded the hordes advance into man territory. 778 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,840 That's beautiful, isn't it? Again, if you were the sort of 779 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:15,880 player who would take the time to read these stories, there was 780 00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:20,920 no better companion to get you into the hobby than to have one 781 00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,200 of these army books in your hand. 782 00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:29,160 To reach up and pick Warhammer armies, Orcs and goblins off the 783 00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:35,960 shelf was a treat and I don't think we rightly got that at the 784 00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:39,280 time. I can remember I used to moan 785 00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,000 and I still speak with my friends because Games Workshops 786 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:46,760 release schedule is now bonkers. There are new books, new games, 787 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,240 new figures coming out every week. 788 00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:54,560 Back in that day we were lucky to have three army books a year 789 00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,120 and if your army wasn't one of those army books, it could be a 790 00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:02,480 long wait and I would wonder what were they doing? 791 00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:08,640 But I tell you what they were doing, they were creating works 792 00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:15,200 of fiction which stand up as some of the greatest war games 793 00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:19,400 and role-playing supplements there have ever been. 794 00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:28,360 I truly think that this this age in the early 939495 was probably 795 00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:32,080 the zenith of the Warhammer world. 796 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:37,000 It was when the twin sons, or those the twin sons of Satuen 797 00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,800 and maybe the twin grinning moons of Morris Leb and Morris 798 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,960 Webb or whatever it was, shined more brightly than they ever did 799 00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:51,680 before or ever did since. My time here, my friends, is now 800 00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:56,800 scant and I must scarper, but I hope you've enjoyed this little 801 00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:01,040 dive, if not the deepest of dives, at least it's been a dive 802 00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:04,960 where at least put my head under the water of the Orc and Goblin 803 00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:10,680 army book from back in the day. I've really enjoyed exploring it 804 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,040 and I hope you've enjoyed listening to it. 805 00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,240 My name is Owen Stanton, you can find out more about me at 806 00:53:16,240 --> 00:53:21,080 welshstoryteller.com but also follow my podcast Time Between 807 00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:25,760 Times where I explore Welsh myths, legends, ghost stories, 808 00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,520 not just Welsh from all around the world. 809 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,120 I even have a little gaming channel on YouTube called 810 00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,560 Adventures at the time Between Times. 811 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,440 Have a look at that or my other YouTube channel which gives you 812 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,600 some slumber stories. Some people like to listen to my 813 00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,120 voice and fall asleep. I don't know if that upsets me 814 00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:49,280 or not, but I've tried to make some videos to get people happy 815 00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,000 at it. Anyway, I thank Josh for giving 816 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,800 me the time and the place to be able to do this for you. 817 00:53:56,000 --> 00:54:00,040 Wherever you are, my friends, whatever you're doing, the hobby 818 00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,520 is a great thing. It's quite easy to get caught up 819 00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:07,320 in their hate and the horrible and the nastiness of the net. 820 00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:12,880 It's not a horrible place. There is always war in 821 00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:16,880 Warhammer, but it's done with a wink of the eye and a smile in 822 00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:21,400 the face and the thought that you, however old you are, 823 00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:27,440 whoever you were at that time, could lose yourself in a place 824 00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:33,200 of pure fantasy. I hope you've enjoyed it. 825 00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,720 Take care, my friends. No star.