I need some idea or help to create a goblin riding a wolf. Here are the problems:
A goblin should be size small (it is around half the size of a human and the mount has to be bigger than the rider). but there is only 1 (?!?) trait in the whole book that allows to reduce the size of a model (small dinosaur)
A wolf is a bit smaller than a human, therefore it cannot be size L. But since it is impossible to reduce the size of a model outside the saurien traits it is also impossible to be ridden (except by small dinosaurs... lol)
The wolf should be able to attack on its own (all mounts have 0 attack)
So, any ideas?
Btw: It is a bit frustrating to have so may options to increase the size of a model but almost zero opportunities to reduce it. There are no options to create rules for things like nurglings, brimstone horrors, normal sized rats and so on. It also invalidates ideas like creating a faction of lilliputians from Gulliver's Travel (using 15mm or even 8mm miniatures to represent them).
I am thinking of general options to decrease the size of a model or maybe some rules for a swarm.
I am a bit surprised they are missing and wonder if they run into problems during play testing and decided to cut the rules?
Anyway, I hope to see an addition to the ruleset soon, so we can give the little guys some rules too.
There were indeed some rules issues with the rules to reduce the size of miniatures. The biggest though is that there was not a good distinction beyond saying they were smaller. This is listed in the Dark World Expansion for the future.
In the Open Beta there were indeed reductions to sizes.
One problem is that for rules, they fit just as easily as a Medium sized miniature (albeit on the smaller size), and use normal mounts ofrMonsters for the wolves.
So while size reductions were not wrapped up, swarms had some playtest issues. I can say definitely these will be tackled in the near future.
Size Reductions are in the works already. Swarms are still on the list. Playtest sessions here have been on hold since the shutdowns. I really cannot wait to get them back up and running.
for some reason I thought the goblynoid decreased size, but now I see that you are correct. now there were some issues for insekt larava bases in play testing That may be where the rat hordes ended up...needing more testing for a later supplement.
Technically goblins most goblins ive seen are on 25 mm bases. So they could be considered medium and warmounts (generic available to all races in the armory just make them wolves are 15 pts a piece and large.) i would not have an issue if you said these guys are all small and my warmounts are medium...from what I’ve seen in the rules there is no difference between small and medium if anything it’s a nerf to yourself.