Heyou, Grand Pouhah and the tribe of the Red Hand
For some reason a project seems to come alive where you start to put time into bringing it about. For me that always means I eventualy start naming characters and a background for them begins to pull the various bits together. This even goes as far as to become almost like a pallet for determining my colour scheme's.
One of the things I did know when starting this project what that I did have the green Kislev, including some basic conversions done and undercoated in the yellow/tan undercoat and that I earlier this year took the advise of an old friend and got me some Armypainter.... the Painting challenge was going to be challenging in more way then one !!
Heyou is an old nickname of mine, and it was used, I guess on the Direwolf list for some time during my early days there. Heyou used to be you average Gob, with one BUG problem.... whenever the bosses needed something done, for some obscure reason they ALWAYS knew to pick HIM. even if he tried to hide, some Warchief or Bigboss would shout "Hey you, come here and do [insert impossible task]".
Finding himself picked out for the most difficult assignements and surviving most of them, he gradualy picked up a trick or two and some ideas of tactics, and when an opportunity put him with on of the norhern nomad tribes he managed to beset their chieftan and thus he became the Grand Pouhah of the Red Hand tribe
When reading an article in Wargames Illustarted on Native americans and their horsemarking I had already figured I wanted to "mark" all mounts in the army with a Red Hand.
As most nomad tribes the "real" warriors go to combat mounted, either on the mobile wolfs, as raiders or on Hairy Squiggoths, an honour anly the most valiant gobs can hope to aspire. Heyou also introduced them to the concept of using some of the tribal waggons into a defensive platform. Those contraptions will be trooped by the bulk of the infantry forces available to the tribes, which other then some hireling Orc foot, is made up of defeated warriors from other tribes! These captives are bound to their new tribes, but wont have full status in the tribe, forcing them to wear white habbits as token of their status, and disallowing the, to fight mounted. As on the tribal mounts the captives will be clearly marked with the Red Hand to show their alliance.
Currently the bulk of the troops is wolfrider/horsearcher, with some Blacktooth Orcs filling in for Knights, but I have alsready decidede to create some haiy squiggoths to double both as bears, as well as to provide me my GOBLIN heavy Cavalry