I have been idly looking for more Zombies for my Undead (a fourth horde!), and instead stumbled onto an odd ebay bundle with some Dungeon Saga minis. It was a set of repeated Zombie Trolls, along with a Troll Necromancer, I think? He might be a campaign baddie or something. I don’t have a plan for the Necromancer guy yet, but a few of my existing Troll units have had minis popping off their bases, so I figured why not buy this, and take the opportunity to touch these all up while expanding them a bit?
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| Same-Model Syndrome, but thankfully, spread over two units. |
While my existing units are varied with skin tone and such, the new Trolls all got the same coloring, since I was going to spread them across those existing units. Each unit got a new Troll, and with the models replaced, I was able to make another regiment. Two troops are bespoke for demo games, but I now have three full regiments to deploy in regular games as well.
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| The first touched-up regiment. |
The troops were finished first, and once I was onto fiddling with the regiments, oh boy, the new green was jarringly bright. I didn't really mind it with the smaller troops, but having one extra-bright model in the regiments was too much. I took a dark green paint, watered it down a bit, and just slapped it on, and then used a green wash to even things out. They are zombies, so tidiness wasn't a concern, I just wanted to deaden the vibrant green.
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| The second regiment. |
On the table, these have actually been a little disappointing in 4E. All Large Infantry, aside from Ogres, took nerfs to their number of attacks, and the unit size revisions smack down their Unit Strength a bit too. We've played with them a few times already, and both nerfs have been noticeable on the battlefield, and they cam take up space just fine, but don’t grind as well as they used to.
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| And then the third. |
The Zombie Trolls can't help with the Core Tax at all, and with the new unlock system, they are competing against Wraiths and Soul Reavers and Werewolves in the Specialist slot.
Werewolves are the hot new trend, a strong, fighty unit with 20 attacks and Strider. Soul Reavers are also a pretty fighty unit, so these seem in competition with each other for a damage-dealing role. As mentioned, the Trolls mostly take up space well and survive, thought their output isn't good enough to really reliably out-grind an opposing unit. In my head, their main competition is with the Wraiths, with both filling similar roles of staunchly holding ground. I hope to explore these two particular options more directly very soon!