I've been torn about what to paint next - brand new teams? old teams I never painted? touching up old teams that were painted, but need fixing or that I have a few extra minis I can finish up to add to the teams!? I've been doing a bit of all three and getting nowhere... So I've tried to focus on touching up the Gnarly Green Gobbos and painting (or RE-painting) a few extra minis I have that I can use with the team.
The first I've finished up are a trio of female goblins that I'm using as cheerleaders.
Goblin "Cheerleaders"
These were the original cheerleaders I had for the team, when I was playing 35 years ago. They are old, early 80's, pre-slotta Citadel miniatures. I think they came in a pack called Goblin (or Orc?) Villagers. Some years ago I stripped the original paint off and planned to repaint them as orc/goblin villagers or camp followers... but I never really got around to that... So now they're back to being Goblin "Cheerleaders".
They kind of look thoroughly unimpressed. I have two stories that could explain this...
First they're the girlfriends of players on the team and are entirely unimpressed with their shenanigans and know that after the game, should they survive, their boyfriends all going to be going out and drinking with their friends and getting rowdy and in no way be able to come home and help out with the family or pay any attention to their girlfriends...
The second, and, I think more likely, is that if we go with the idea that all fantasy orc/goblinoids are asexual/non-binary fungoids that grow from spores... These are just regular goblins dressed up in drag and pressed into service as "cheerleaders" and thus they are grumpy because they don't get to play and feel like they're being made fools of, dressed up like the cheerleaders of the other non-fungoid, humanoid races...?
Wasn't even sure if there was a game benefit to having Cheerleaders, just felt I needed to get these done first... because I think they are hilarious.
It turns out you can hire up to six cheerleaders for 10,000 gold each (or temp agency cheerleaders for 5000gold?). As far as I can tell the only game effect they have is give you a +1 to the cheering fans roll, when the Cheering Fans Kick Off Event happens (a result of 6 on the 2d6 Kick-Off Event roll), which, if won, you count as having on additional offensive assist on the first Block Action performed in your next turn...?
Is it worth it...? for a shot at a bonus on ONE Block Action, about 14% of the time a kick-off happens...? I don't know... I have my doubts... I'm probably going to hire them anyway!


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