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Citadel AD&D Umber Hulk And Oldhammer Evil Princess
This post we got some old school 80's Citadel minis.
An Umber Hulk from Citadel's AD&D line.
And a pre-slotta Fantasy Adventurers – Evil Princess.
Because this blog loves Citadel Codes, here are the mandatory Citadel Codes:
ADD77 Umber Hulk & FAC23 Mounted Evil Princess
On this blog's LOTR campaign this figure is now known as Karla, Night Elf Princess of Lodoss.
Princess Karla is the last survivor of Lodoss – an ancient Drow Kingdom of Sorcery.
Many millennia ago, the Kingdom of Lodoss was facing annihilation because of the Great Wars between Chaos, Dwarves, Humans, and Elves.
The Seers of Lodoss saw the destruction coming for all civilizations and a long period of darkness.
Princess Karla was placed in stasis-sleep in the hope that one day she would wake in a better world.
Her pet Umber Hulk named Skitters was also chosen to accompany her.
Skitters was content to dream for ages next to his beloved master.
And so the ancient world fell, and darkness reigned for ages.
More time passed, and Lodoss became a myth and Karla's chamber was buried deep and forgotten by time.
Numerous empires rose to glory and fell to obscurity, and still mistress and pet slept on.
Until just recently, thousands of years later, the Night Elf Patrol have found the ancient stasis chamber of Karla and awoken her from her long slumber.
The Night Elf Patrol realized that the ancient myths of Lodoss were indeed true and have embraced Karla as royalty.
Karla has reciprocated and declared that the Night Elf Patrol would be her personal entourage and royal bodyguard.
Would the Dark Elves of today accept her ancient claim to rule?
Umber Hulks are subterranean creatures and are excellent at digging tunnels.
They have 4 eyes and can create Confusion among its foes.
In Warhammer terms, I made these stats and special rules for the Umber Hulk…
Movement: 6
Weapon Skill: 3
Ballistic Skill: 1
Strength: 6
Toughness: 5
Wounds: 3
Initiative: 1
Attacks: 4
Leadership: 8
Special Rules:
1) Confusion: All enemies in melee with Umber Hulk suffer a -1 To Hit modifier in Close Combat
2) Tunnel: Umber Hulk may Deep Strike instead of deploying normally at start of game.
3) Umber Hulk Causes Fear.
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So there's the latest post and I am glad to finally include these minis in the campaign.
Lets see how well Queen Morathi receives news of this ancient Drow Princess being awoken.
Will they get along… or will it be a Dark Elf Cat Fight!
Also at the top of this blog's banner, in the left pic, to the right of George the Giant you will see Princess Karla.
I consider those black and white illustrations and their respective minis as icons of Oldhammer.
Many more of those figures will be showing up in the next few posts.
Such as the Night Elf Patrol mentioned in the above fluff.
In fact, we have a trio of Citadel "White Boxes" coming up.
Keep on Oldhammering!
Next Post: Citadel White Box SS3 – Night Elf Patrol
Cheers,
Mar
finally starts his first Four Enemies campaign.
