The Great Year Of Greenskins, Weekly Update-Week 17

Note; this was supposed to post on the 8th and I didn’t save correctly

So around a third a way into the Great Year of Greenskins, and I realize I haven’t explained what exactly I mean by Greenskins. While most of the folks following along know, I have family and friends who humor and nod when I talk about it, but could probably use some explaining.

When I say Greenskins, what I mean, is orc(or orks), goblins, and any other orc or goblinoid race with green skin. Because Games Workshop was an early user of green skinned orcs and goblin, it should come as no surprise they are also the biggest reason for the term, which can be used in Warhammer, Age of Sigmar, or Warhammer 40K games (and their associated spinoffs and cousin games).

From them, we have this. an orc (or in 40K ork, or Age of Sigmar orruk, or further even harder to type, more heavily trademarked versions.

Smaller than orcs, and sneakier and more “cunnin” are goblins

Goblin then have many subtypes, but the current focus of the blog is these guys, night goblins. These are cave dwelling, light hating sneaky backstabbers who farm and harvest fungus and fungoid creatures called squigs. Night goblins are the most like Tolkien’s goblins from Moria or the Misty Mountains, and even more than baseline goblins rely on numbers to swarm their enemies.

At the bottom of the greenskin hierarchy is snotlings. They do the worst jobs, have no power or wealth, and are often stepped or sat on, eaten when rations are low, and are mostly passive, but do have some agression when when pushed to far or scared (I mean, little dude there is carrying an goblins head, something has gone down).

There are also many greenskin adjacent and cousin races that are included or excluded depending on who you talk to and setting to setting. Squigs and trolls being the most prominent.

So that concludes are quick discussion of what I mean by greenskins. There is a good chance the entire year will be the nightgoblin project, but I am hoping to squeeze in some other examples of greenskins, so keep an eye for those.

And now, it’s time for our Greenskin STL of the week, Montrous Encounters Goblin Unit. As you can tell from the image, the artist is a fan of the 80/90s era of Warhammer, and has replicated the look (including images for each release and fonts)

The unit has 2 different champions, musicians and standard bearers, and 18 different base bodies, allowing a lot of variety (which can be stretched even further with some digital edits or kitbashing). I suggest giving Monstrous Encounters a look.