Beastman thoughts

What is a beastman anyway? A little research will tell you that they used to be known as "broos" in the late seventies, and it does not take much of an interest in mythology to see that there is some inspiration from the satyrs and other pagan men-with-goat-elements that may be considered devillish, if one is into that whole sort of thing. They were apparently known as caprigors, but most of us probably know them as gors by now, or ungors if they're a little bit smaller and less goat headed. However, in early Warhammer books (I have reviewed quite a few here) the beastmen used to be... well, basically any animal that had been corrupted by warpstone. This gave us some pretty naf ones that were generally not represented as miniatures in any significant amounts. Please correct me, if I am wrong. I like to laugh. The squirrels, badgers, rabbits and other forrest critters that one might encounter made for some... not so scary antagonists. Chickens, anyone?

There is a pretty cool "animal" team for Blood bowl out there, by the way. Horse, rooster, sheep. I like it. Surprisingly, perhaps.

Even among the gors there is significant variation. The latest batch I have done are a funny bunch, for instance. Goats? Weeeell... I think they're a bit lama-esque, maybe. With horns. Is that some sort of antilope? Beats me. If you look at GW gors, you can find variation in the horns, making some of them more ram-like, buffalo-like or whatever other animal with horns you can think of and model with some wire and green stuff. I wouldn't recommend unicorns, but there's no stopping some people... Anyway, this last bunch of beastmen do not have the bull terrier profile. They are a little bit more like doggies with horns, think Mickey's dog Pluto with horns. And rabies, maybe.

Ideally you would want to mix and match your beastmen. It's Chaos, right? Do they need to look uniform? The very idea seems silly, philosophically speaking at least. Another point is of course the look of the team. So, tempted though I may be to just mix all my beastmen (I have enough for at least two teams), I think I may stick with more of a distinct tribe (?) look for each.