Told you this would be intermittent.
This project has sat on the back burner as the Battle Companies campaign I was playing in petered out due to real life problems of several players.
However, I'm now heading down to an event at the end of September which requires two painted 600 point armies. As such, I've drafted up the following two lists. The first is 600 points of Thorin's company on Goblin Town bases, which should hopefully be reasonably quick to paint up (Quicker than 600 points of Goblins at any rate).
List one
Thorin with Orcrist
Fili
Kili
Dwalin
Balin
Oin
Gloin
Nori
Ori
I know this list isn't exactly 600 points and I could chop and change a few dwarves to reach the target, but I wanted to keep the dwarves in their "sets" as much as possible. I don't think it's got much competitive edge, but it's at least theme-y. Certainly no intent to source ponies for them, as while this may help win games, it kills some of the theme for me as they didn't have ponies in Goblin Town.
The second list is basically every model you can take for a pure Goblin Town list. From memory it's something along the lines of:
Goblin King
12 Goblins
Grinnah
12 Goblins
Gollum
8 Goblins
Goblin Captain
12 Goblins
Goblin Captain
12 Goblins
Mercenary Captain
12 Goblin Mercenaries
I've got to paint around one model per day to get this force ready in time. Remember that I'm not duplicating any models, so not only is this a lot of models to paint, I've got a large number of Goblins to convert too.
Is it a stupid plan? Certainly.
Can I do it? Why not come along for the ride and see?
For starters, here is my Thorin's company. Gloin will most likely get re-painted as it's not my paint job. If he's lucky, poor Kili might even get a replacement hand by September.
C&C very welcome.
Dallo