Orcs in Frostgrave: some old roots replanted

 I needed a Frostgrave warband in a hurry for Friday night, so I rapidly repainted bases of these old orcs to match the earthy tones on my current skirmish stuff. I also matt-varnished over their ageing gloss and touched up the odd thing here or there. The chap with the two cleavers made for a rather militant necromancer, with the whip-wielding hobgoblin as his ferocious apprentice. A couple of Descent undead dog-things filled out the ranks as war hounds. 

They looked the part, I thought, but proved rather less than fearsome on the table (aside from killing one of the other players' apprentices. As a result of a total wipeout and a failure to gain any treasure, they'll be taking to the field in round 2 with neither wizard nor apprentice, both of whom are badly wounded, and neither of the dogs, who are dead. So I'm looking through their decade-old pallid kin to procure some suitably low-rent thugs and thieves ...

C14 Lesser Goblins as a 15mm warband

 

Here are some Citadel lesser goblins painted up for use in 15mm skirmish games. These six will form the basis of a Frostgrave warband: wizard and two thugs at the front; apprentice and two thieves at the back.

Citadel produced two kinds of lesser goblin: these fellows and their ilk, who were lesser versions of the great goblins (or gnolls); and the hooded lesser night goblins. Both types work fine in 15mm as large goblin-types (hobgoblins or man-sized trolls or whatever). The 'great' breed are especially good for Frostgrave, as most of them have either a large one-handed mace (good for thugs) or a short club (fine for thieves in Frostgrave).