A Ganga Snots!

Few thoughts are more likely to stir terror in the breast of an honest hausfrau than the spectre of finding a bloated snotling stuffing itself noisily in the bottom of her pantry.  Although one of the tough women of the Black River country is by no means incapable of dispatching one such loathesome creature with her trusty carving knife, where there is one there are always more, and unless drastic measures are speedily taken, home and community can be over-run with ravenous green mites within a matter of days.

Typical anti-snotling measures involve the calling up of the local militia, who must painstakingly scour the village and surrounding area with dogs and torches, prodding snotlings out from under every house and hedge and fallen tree and hopefully dispatching them quickly and efficiently.

In extreme cases, poison must be resorted to, though this is not the preferred method of Snotling extermination, as the area must be evacuated of children and livestock while the poison lies out...

 In the not-too distant future, I want to start gaming Snotling infestations of little villages.  Militia and dogs and hausfraus with frying pans battling snotling stands as they pop up almost at random throughout the town.

It seems like you have to have some snotlings in your Orc and Goblin army, although I have to wonder if they are really good for anything.  Last time I tried to use any of them in a Warhammer game was very long ago indeed, and I didn't use that many of them.   I tend to think the 3rd edition rules over-price them a little.  I believe it's 35 points for a stand of creatures who are essentially harmless and only really useful for soaking up arrows and such.

What they most definitely are, however is characterful and entertaining.  Just the thing for a chuckle, And if they get wiped out, it's not upsetting, because, like Skavenslaves, getting wiped out is sort of their job.

I've got a bunch more of these little creeps waiting to be painted.  Not sure if I'm going to start on them right away, though, as I'd originally planned.

I'd sort of planned to do all my Snots in one swoop but having finished this bunch I'm feeling a touch of Snotling fatigue.

"Ere we go!!!!!!  Yaaaggghhhhhh!!!!!"