Regiment Fillers

[bladerunner313]

I have a pretty simple question about regiment fillers. Are there any rules set forth by Games Workshop about these? Are they tournament legal or is it kind of house rules. I think you could make some really cool Lizardmen themed fillers and stretch out the figs I have no to make more units. Anyone have any thought on this?

 

[Lord Cedric]

My experience has been that unit fillers are great and accepted especially if they really fit the army theme and as long as it's been incorporated into a way to count/remove dead models. Some methods Ive seen were LM unit fillers with different snakes/or other scenic items that were removable (magnetic?) to count for a dead model. Im not sure what others have experienced though.

- Lord Cedric

 

[Lord Tsunami]

you can see them even in white dwarf: a magazine made entirely to sell you more citadel miniatures. if they think it is OK there, id say its OK anywhere

 

[Agrem]

I'd say as long as most of your unit contains the models they are supposed to be it is fine. I think it actually make the unit look even better if you are able to pull it off and gives it some more character. I don't see any point why anyone would disallow them if they keep in the reasonable measures. Just don't stretch it and I think you're fine.

BR
Agrem

 

[borkbork]

Basically anything goes, but they just should not be confusing, and you should not milk them to the extreme.

In some of my Night goblin units i put some old cyclops models i had lying around. In an goblin unit that is ok, but in a skink unit you cant because they could be mistaken for kroxigors.

personally i limit myself to roughly 20-25% of the unit. So in a 20 strong regiment i would "fill" 4-5 models.
Anyway if it fits the theme you could get away with more.

In special units (like skirmishers) you really should nt use fillers, as that may get confusing.

 

[Ihx-Karaq]

I think it's a great way to "tailor" your units more, make them more personal. I've heard something about 2fillers/10models, so 4 fillers in 20man unit and so on. But I don't know where I've heard it
I also like to make the fillers to be "fightable", lite snakes or lizards instead of stones and bushes (a mix of the two can be awesome! - a snake on a stonepillar as a saurus )