New Units in 8th Edition
The new 8th edition army book has two brand new units, the mangler squigs being the first. Mangler squigs are two great cave squigs chained together, with a night goblin trying his hardest to direct them towards the enemy. They act much like the night goblin Fanatics, causing random damage as they come into contact with the enemy.
The most well known new unit, with a multi part model released is the Giant Arachnarok Spider. This is seen as an avatar to the Spider God, created by the goblins, to show their fear of these spiders. They can contain primitive catapults known as flingers in their howdah, that throw a weird goo that slows the enemy. They can also be the mount for a Goblin great shaman. In this case they contain the powerful catchweb spidershrine, boosting the power of nearby wizards.
Savage orcs units can now be supplied with Big Stabbas, which are huge primitive spears that cause impact hits. Goblin units can contain hidden Nasty Skulkers, a sort of goblin assassin that, when revealed has killing blow, to represent them leaping out and cutting someone's vulnerable bits off!
Great news for some, Wurrzag Ud Ura Zahubu returns! This savage orc wizard, renowned for his power to turn enemy wizards into squigs, was last featured is 6th edition. Two brand new characters, Gittla da hunter, a wolf rider with good archery skills, and Snagla Grobbspit, a spider rider, both of which are reasonably cheap (110 and 115 points each respectively)heroes.
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