The Fishmen of Sartosa: Kap'n Hadduk's Halibuteers!

During the first "Flame On" Sartosa campaign there were repeated rumours that the Fishmen where attacking coastal villages and carrying off loot and captives. They only ever attacked on foggy nights and no-one ever got a good look at them. Later-on some of the towns even started accussing their neighbouring settlements of colluding with the Fishmen in a kind of protection racket.

It was the Naval Alliance (the goodies) who eventually got sick of not knowing what was going on first and sent an investigative band to one of the aflicted towns. The investigators returned empty handed after receiving a beating from the squamous menance.

Eventually the Beastmen of Nethrag discovered that the "Fishmen" were Pirate Black Orcs in disguise, trying to frighten off the invaders in a "Scooby-Do villain" style hoax! Kap'n Hadduk's Hallibutteers had been behind the attacks all along!

The Fishmen went on to terrorise the inhabitants of the Great Forest during the Nemesis Crown summer campaign, but this time they were a little less bothered about keeping their secret!

WOW

Awesome conversions ...and what a great idea !

This is cool !!
Your octopus-ork looks great! Must be difficult to "wear" this octopus all the time... your murlok must be sweating a lot!
Have you got any squigs in your warband ?

Wow! What the...

What did you use for the "fish-heads"?

Tortiou wrote:

Have you got any squigs in your warband ?

Not yet - I thought have about adding Squids though....

Erkwin wrote:

What did you use for the "fish-heads"?

Greenstuff and parts from other plastic kits. Here a few WIP pics of the Troll:

wow - for me it still seem daunting when I contemplate converting one of my dwarves to wield a blunderbuss

Woah, great green stuff skill! Truly great!
Can't wait to see the troll painted

Wow great warband, great conversions!

(I see you're a WoW player haha: Murlok )

WoW! Indeed, they've got the Murlok style!

Impressive... Most impressive! My wife loves the Orcs (she finds them cute, don't ask me why... And no, she doesn't find me cute the same way she finds them!) And she found yours very beautiful.
Nice work!

Great job Warboss Kurgan!!!

I love warbands with such a strong theme (and in your case great conversions too!).

Fantastic! I love it! Thank you very much for sharing. It's posts like this that make the "gallery" section one of my favourites.

Great job!

Great conversions! it gives much inspiration:D

NUTZ! That is so freaking rad! This is the coolest conversion/theme EVER! I can't stop laughing and staring in utter amazement! I love it! Great Colors, Great fishscales... Great Everything. It's freaking amazing

Quote :

"Oh Yea!!!"

I must agree with Tom a job well done!!

Cheers
Hellfoot

wow!! nice!! good work!!

Love them! well done man.
Mig

like the rest of the guys i love these..

and it's so cool when u see a theme that never has been done before

Warboss: You mentioned the Sartosa campaign not having an Orc Warband... well, I think you've inspired me. Want to co-write a Fishmen/Orc warband?

EDIT: On an amusing side note, I most certainly knew an actor who could never remember the name for an axe-headed polearm. (a prop of his) He kept refering to it as his 'halibut'.

StyrofoamKing wrote:

Warboss: You mentioned the Sartosa campaign not having an Orc Warband... well, I think you've inspired me. Want to co-write a Fishmen/Orc warband?

It's a nice idea but I have two reservations: One, I don't think may people would use it – it took quite a while to make them. Two, I don't want everyone using Orc Fishmen!

For Orc Pirates in your Sartosa book you could just allow normal Orc and Goblin warbands as long as they have a Piratey look/theme to them. The rules are fine as they are but they just need a Pirate flavour for a Sartosa-themed campaign.

Sigh. You're right. I left Greenskins a special Blackpowder rules and a new weapon (the cheap 'Booma') and and I'll leave them at that.

I wanted to say that I really like these guys too. I especially like the first image. Way cool idea, and great job on the conversions and the paint.

Oh my gosh, does that third image show an Orc in an octopus disguise?? I didn't notice that at first... That is frakkin' awesome!

dougbass68 wrote:

Oh my gosh, does that third image show an Orc in an octopus disguise?? I didn't notice that at first... That is frakkin' awesome!

Yeah, WBK's creations are full of great little (funny) details! That is (amongst other things) why his models are so great

Wow! This indeed is a great warband, Kurgan! I really like the attention of details, and I just love the theme.

There's nothing better than the "Scooby-Do villain" theme.

Thanks very much guys! Comments like this are really truly appreciated.

You have become a Legend in my own mind. I keep coming back to look at this great piece of work, browsing through the Sartosa pics, & the ships, & himself the Adm'rul, & the pumpkin patch. It leaves me speechless; so this time I just skipped to the end. You are one of the most creative & imaginative people I've ever almost met.