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Army Building: Using Gormiti for Fantasy Wargaming


The funny thing about doing some house chores is that I inadevertently unearth stuff that I've kept stashed for some time. In this case, I found a boxful of toys I bought a year ago. Among the odds and ends I found some vinyl toys, gashopon & Gormiti figures. I've been holding on to some of these figures that I found at the local toy department and I've been eyeing some as new recruits for various fantasy armies.

The big four armed bruiser with the tree-like limbs and vines seems a likely candidate as a behemoth in my People of the Woods army as an ent. A resculpt of the head and a bit of a trim at the left hand may do the trick. As is, the monster looks like he's giving someone the dirty finger:)
Aside from the Ad&D Battlesystem and Warmaster rulesets, I'm also swaying towards HOTT as another regular ruleset and found a seller in ebay. Pretty soon, I may purchase the rules and begin my foray in HOTT. Meanwhile, the fishy thingie shown below could stock up an undersea army. Some of the other figures from the Sea tribe look promising enough too.


A visit at the Gormiti homepage identified the four-armed monster as Tasarau, the leader and member of the Forest Tribe. A few other members of the tribe --Mimeticus, Branchtearer and The Wise Destroyer-- look cool enough to be monster ents.

Here are some posters I found online showing the 1st and 2nd series of figures. There's another set of posters with a different set of figures but one's in Italian while the other was incomplete, showing only tribes of Space and Fire.


These may be part of the original European release that are unavailable in the US. Here in Asia, I've only seen figures from Series 1. Does anyone game with these models?

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