Giant Spider w/ Howdah!

[MiniPatton]

Okay - made some good progress on this during the afternoon.  I like the way that the spider with howdah/bolt thrower turned out.  I also based one of the spiders in preperation of rigging a saddle or some such on it.  Here are some more pictures:

Same two angles as before:




Here is the pair mounted on the bases - custom sized 60X20mm from some leftover movement tray pieces.


Here is a High Elf Hero and entourage bravely preparing to engage a monster spider...


Unfortunately they do not see the danger lurking behind them...


I like that scurry movement idea...maybe it's allowed at a -1 Command instead of once per game...that might make it too fast.

[Jurisch]

Hello,

my first spiders arrived and are available for sale.

I will provide some pictures soon.

Cheers,

Jurisch

[David Wasilewski]

I am thinking of making my own spider too - good timing for me as I have been collecting a small horde of forest goblins.
I was just going to use the Lizardman Stegadon rules and points and only field it in larger games?

Dave

[Bel]

Why don't use it as a Giant proxy? It would be fun bearing in mind Goblin's Cm and permanent 'Giant goes wild' condition of the subject.

[Geep]

It takes up 3 normal bases like a stegadon, so a stegadon's rules make sense to me. They're also both large creatures with howdah's.

Thanks for the idea MiniPatton, I think I'll create my own version at some point (and will probably use a Stegadon's rules as well).

[fracas]

looks great


GW also make spiders for LotR that i think might be suitable for conversion as well

[MiniPatton]

I might use the Stegadon stats for ease of use - though I might decrease the effectiveness slightly, my thinking is that a Stegadon would be a little bit tougher of a creature.  I found some really good spiders to use to create my own spider riders as well - from the Reaper familiars pack.  In the same pack, I also got some snails that would work perfectly with 10mm riders on them as well...need to decide which race should have snail riders.

My thinking is one of the following:
Dwarves
Wood Elves
Dark Elves

If I did a gnome or halfling army that might be better suited for these.