All Dwarf armies

[warbeads]

I have a ton of dwarf figures    and have decided to play a few fantasy games with them with few other races (I have a small contingent of "wood" elves (1970's,) a small army of gnomes (1970's) plus a very small pair of units unit of humans on Lizards/Dinos) but don't want cookie cutter armies.   

I have about 80 (not counting siege weapons/artillery or "cavalry" stands) 60 mm x 60 mm stands of figures.     Yeah, geekiness on steroids I suspect.   

I was thinking:

1)  Gunpowder (muskets and artillery)/Steam powered artillery using dwarf army.

2)  Traditional Axe/Spear/Sword/Crossbow equipped Dwarf army.

3)  Non-Gunpowder artillery, Pikes, and bow armed light troops Dwarf Army.

Non-traditional ideas such as a woods dwelling dwarf army or a magic using dwarf army doesn't upset my sensibilities so I invite people to contribute alternative army ideas for different flavored dwarf armies.

Looking forward for something fun/different to consider for the fourth army.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Red Orc]

I think Finnish mythology has at least one 'water-dwarf', and there may be a whole race of them. That may be something to think about. Either an aquatic race, like Mer-dwarves, or maybe a steampunky, submarine-weilding force of Dwarf Pirates?

Japanses mythology has a kind of gobliny thing called a bakemono, I believe; orange skinned and unpleasant, they might (they're short and violent) be dwarves rather than goblins. I think they lived underground, like Norse dwarves.

Joan Aitkin wrote a book where dwarves living in a cave in Wales were not, as first thought, "Fair Nixies" but "Phoeniceis". So, Middle Eastern dwarves, who had pit camels instead of pit ponies. Or, perhaps a dwarf army of 'the Fair Folk' of English myth (blue and green, Fairy Queens and all that).

How about nomadic dwarves? Either steppe-nomads, or a Mormon/Oregon Trail kinda settup, with wagons and cavalry? Could be fighting the dino-riding humans perhaps...

Perhaps some of these will suggest something. Perhaps not. I offer them anyway.

[warbeads]

Those are good ideas, appreciated!

[Galman]

Also Iceland has 'Elves' that live in the woods, but by thier description they are Dwarfish/gnomish....They are common pranksters.  Luring people into semi dangerous traps just to get some giggles out of it.  So kinda like a court jester type theme.

By the way I love Dwarfs, so when ya can pics are appreciate...now back to painting my dwarfs.

[Renfield286]

Steampunk dwarfs get my vote.

Undead dwarves are not seen that often, but could be really cool.

i keep meaning to do a small warband of "circus Dwarves" for mordheim but its getting round to do the conversions, its an idea though.

another second on the Dwarf pirate theme (7 seas, 7 famous dwarves. Coincidence? )

Dwarf superhero's could be quite fun to do too.

[Doomhippie]

Dwarven superheroes??? With their incredible superpowers of - um - changing full beer barrels into empty ones. 

[HRE Joseph III]

I did a small HOTT army of Feral dwarves. Scroll down a bit on my blog.

josephdragovich.blogspot.com

 

[Tacgnol]

Ages ago I toyed with the idea of an Egyptian themed dwarf army. Ceremonial burial, the construction of intricate and deadly traps to defend tombs, great feats of construction- all common trends between dwarfs and Egyptians (well, at least their pulp counterparts  )

Dwarfs in elaborate Egyptian head-dresses, fortified pyramids, war chariots, and dwarf priests bringing to life armies of ancestor-mummies to defend their cities. I always thought it would be pretty cool.