Lesser Goblins - The Bloody Fingers.

The battle had not gone to plan.

Nilbog had planned to lead his band to loot and fame. Nilbog had planned to time it just right and charge in just as the enemy were turning, to cut through the Orc line and take down the best pickings.

Nilbog's plan had never gone so wrong

The Orc line had broken under a furious Cavalry charge from armoured Knights and his band had been caught up in the rout, taken down by first the fleeing Orcs and then by the hooves and blades of the persuing Cavalry. Nilbog had escaped with his life and little else, his band scattered or worse and he had fled to lick his wounds as start again. 

Wandering into unknown territory he had come across the lands of the Severed Hand tribe Orcs and amongst them the lesser goblins of the Bloody Fingers. Nilbog began again and was soon leading the Bloody Fingers as he had led his last band, a mound of fingers at his hut door and a eager mob to lead to glory and loot!

Alternative Armies runs a free gift promotion each month with their orders and through that I acquired a small band of goblins, Nilbogs Backwoods Goblin band. 

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They were added to my Goblinoid lead pile but with my ongoing Bloodbath at Orcs Drift project I had a flash of inspiration and dug them out. Paired up with an old citadel goblin standard bearer and a lesser goblin that had been shamefully bouncing round various boxes for far too many years they would be a lesser goblin uint to support by Severed Hand Orc tribe.

With the test figure done using the same style as their larger cousins I also settled on a name for them in line with the Severed Hands. Before they had banded together and joined with Nilbog these were the ones who would be sent out to collect the severed hand trophies for the Orcs. The bravest would join the fighting and started taking their own trophies, a finger rather than a whole hand  and  which often resulted in the Orcs complaining that there was bits missing from the hands. 

'Bloody Fingers?!' started out as a complaint but became the name of their little band.

With the first batch done I couldn't settle on a figure for Nilbog, there was no official designated figure and the citadel lesser goblin felt more like a 'lumbering' champion rather than the brains of the outfit so I ended up getting some more and building a centrepiece for the newly crowned boss.

 

The Bloody Fingers