Hobby Update: Undead Zombie Trolls

Up now, from the Mantic Vault, are some rather gross Zombie Trolls for the Undead, and we have a double thank you to Trevor from Data and Dice for the unit. Firstly, because he 3d printed them for me alongside a batch for his son. And second because my own interest in the unit was largely fed by his Undead Army Review, which had marked these as a cost effective unit for the army. So, multiple thank yous go out to him here for these units specifically, as well as for helping me up my undead numbers more recently with the movement trays for the multi-system Revenant units too!

A horde.

As mentioned, these were 3d prints, and were presented an assortment of pieces, much like a typical unit. Sifting through, I had a few extra heads, but lacked 2 arms, but raiding a bits box secured two old WHFB Ogre arms plus weapons, and green stuff bulked them out while still leaving some negative space for adding muscles. Overall, the models are ok? Things come as arms, heads, and then a big singular torso/leg piece. While everything seems interchangeable, there are definitely a few bits that look and fit and work better together. 

A second Horde.

My wife is a bit of an artist, and paints up her D&D minis and such. Seeing these, she had expressed interest in wanting paint these up for me. These were primed up within a week or so of getting them, but they weren't touched until in August, when I got impatient and went to sit down with them. My wife saw me sit down, took over, and then lost motivation, and then I finished with the blood effect a few months later. Being zombies, I had suggested a variety of colors and washes, and like the disheveled look these ended up with.

Two regiments, which could be run as a third new horde.

On the table, the points are the same, but transition to undeath has stripped the Regeneration rule from these arisen Trolls, replacing it with Fearless, Lifeleech 1 and Shambling. Regeneration is more fun, I think, and really turns the unit into an anchor, but Fearless is nice to have, so we'll see what we can do with these. So far, I have run them just once I think, back in March with some old counts-as units when I tried my first real game with running the Undead. They were not used well, but that's typical for a unit debut for me, and despite the lack of Regeneration, I would agree with Trevor's analytics, and do think there is some good grinding potential here given their price point. We'll just have to get them on the table sometime and try them out again!