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This has to be my
most successful and favourite army. And the army that has gone
through the most iterations. It stems from two passions: one for
pikemen and one for the idea of hard desert warriors like Al
Muktar's Desert Dogs. The pikemen stems from a battle at school, in
the school CCF huts, where a unit of pikemen held a destroyed city
gate in a huge seige battle. Actually, not only held the city gate,
but drove the enemy out of the city entirely. I was only about 13
at the time and I've loved the idea ever since. As for the arab
link comes in, I'm not really sure, but I never could see a way to
fielding an army out of dogs of war.
The reason I'm such
an avid dogs player is the scope it gives you to play around with
your army as well as fill blank bits on the warhammer canvas. Back
in 4th and 5th edition, the armies seemed much more one-dimensional
than now, and so i turned to dogs for the flexibility i wanted.
Dogs is not a killer list, though the pike rules do seem to unsettle
opponents, but I've since found a genuine empathy between dogs
generals: that i imagine is not existent between skaven war-mice.
For a while I had a
lot of the tribesmen painted up already, but the real genesis came
one Sunday afternoon in Spring 2001, when
Ziegfeld Cinema, 54th Street, NYC put on a matinee of Lawrence
of Arabia. Full screen, a break half way (I think half way is about
2 hours in) and I came home that evening and started cutting
bretonnian horses in two. I was hooked.
The army started
off with some pikes and some araby stuff, but as i've looked at
books and history for information I've pushed the Araby feel more
and more. The army has been played so much that a lot of the early
figures are looking in need of a new paint job, so I've put them
into semi-retirement for the moment and indulged in some other
armies.
I'm also waiting
for the design studio to pull their fingers out of their butts and
give the dogs a decent magic items list. Any dog's general will
seethe with frustration at the official tournament rules which state
the 'dogs of war armies may take any banner up to 50 points' when
the only banner available is the 25 point War Banner. Come on guys
- you could do it in your lunch hour!
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