I have finished a large Orc and Goblin army over the past two years. One thing that I love about it are all the crazy conversions and unit fillers. Some people use unit fillers to just reduce the number of models they need for a unit. Other times you can use unit fillers to add character to a unit. It can have the same number of models or even more than it takes up. I happen to like adding character.
With that in mind, what can I do with Chaos Dwarfs? I have some of the old big hats and soon some Mantic ones. I was thinking of going with the standard cork bases with lava. I have great ideas for a display base, but what about the units, themselves? What can be a good filler? I don’t want to throw in a bull centaur or an Ogre slave. Maybe for hobgoblins, but not the CD’s.
The only thing I can think of is some ruins, like a pillar or something and the CD around/on top of it. Put out some evil bits like ruined, metal weapons or lanterns on spikes. Maybe some chaos icons stickin out of the ground on poles?
I’ve seen Ogres, as you say, Death Rockets in units of Blunderbusses, one of Willmark’s Warrior units has a few guys holding up a petrified Sorcerer, and Bassman has a couple of units that are more Daemon-engine than they are Dwarf!
I have the limited edition Warhammer Forge chaos ogre as a unitfiller for my CC-unit, and use the limited edition ogre bruiser (festooned with pistols) as a unitfiller for my blunderbusses…
But, in a unit of shooty-troops, you could place a CD bazookateam on a 40mm base as a unit filler.
For warriors, you could use a minotaur or an ogre, or something like that…
I find scenery-pieces as unitfillers very pretty, but I don’t really like it, seeing as marching troops won’t pull out those hedges or walls to take with them, whereas a monster would just walk along with them…
That aside, CDs are slavers… so you could put anything from every army in there as a unitfilller, just think up a suitably cool story to go with it
I use a demon with a sorcerer on top, a hero on a cerburus, a chronopia beast rider and two swivel guns with crew and (for my not finished Titan Wargames CD unit) a Reaper Elemental as unit fillers! :cheers
My CD Templedog riders are also possible unit fillers!
You can also use minotaurs like the awesome Hasslefree one!
