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A big thumbs up for ‘alternative’ minis, especially if they’re metal and reasonably priced !

There is no ‘official’ GW store within several hours of my place, so I’ve never worried about what they consider ‘tournament legal’ or not and just used whatever minis I, myself, wanted to buy and paint and what I, myself, wanted my armies to look like.

When I ordered the 5th edition box set, someone at the Mail Order Trolls screwed up and they sent me 2 – I only paid for one, I checked – so my Bretonnian army does have a lot of Citadel models in it, but there are others, such as Harlequin/Black Tree Design, which match up very well with Citadel, especially if you like the 80s/90s look.

My Lizardmen are also mostly Citadel – see ‘boxed set’, above – but also contain snake men from the Carnage box, and even some toy store dinosaurs, there was no way I was going to pay $ 30, 50 or whatever the price was for a Citadel Stegadon when I can get the same for 1/30th of that price.

Orcs & Goblins a mix of Citadel, Harlequin, Grenadier (including the VERY impressive Goblin War Giant) and a few others, Empire a wide variety: Citadel -including LOTS of Battlemasters –  Grenadier, Harlequin, some extra Halberdiers from a game system called Weapons & Warriors,  Wizards from Reaper, Ral Partha and who knows who else.

Beastmen mostly Citadel because I do – or did –  like the figures and back when I built the army it was difficult to find non-Citadel models matching that look, but the Wizard’s from Fenryll, the Shaggoth from Scotia Grendel. I found the Citadel Shaggoth rather disappointing.

Dwarfs mostly Grenadier with some Vendel and Mithril ( I used that army to play LotR) , Wood Elves a mix of Citadel, Grenadier, Reaper, even a few repainted Mage Knight figures, Ral Partha,etc.

High Elves mostly Citadel thanks to a few closeout sales at game stores and lucky Fleabay swipes, with tons of 4th edition spearmen and archers – I like those – as well as Alternative Armies, Ral Partha, Harlequin and others. There are even a few Citadel Melnibonéans, from WAY back in the day…..before the Empire became the focus….

I suppose I could field a Chaos army with nothing but Battlemasters and Heroquest figures and have a small box full of assorted other minis that would fit perfectly into a Chaos army, many of them would require a deep dive into Lost Minis Wiki to identify.

Thanks to a lucky Fleabay find, I now also have 3D-printed Chaos Dwarfs, clones so close to the 4th/5th edition Citadel ones that it would take an expert – or someone armed with the massive 1999 Citadel catalog – to figure out they’re  not actually Citadel. And I  discovered some metal Hobgoblins I didn’t even remember I had…..

You’ve heard of the ‘pile of shame’, well, I have a whole room full of shame……