Warhoon

One of the very first armies I painted for HOTT was Peter Pig's Green Martians. That was back in about 1995 or 1996. Since then I have put together six other Barsoomian armies. In fact one of the earliest posts on this blog showcased them.

Anyway, the Green Men of Barsoom are found across the planet in various tribes (or hordes) who fight everyone, including (and especially) other Green Martian hordes. So, whilst I have four Red Martian armies who can fight each other, my Green Martians have, up until now, been starved of an opponent of their own ilk.

I bought a second Peter Pig army back in late 2013. At the time I joked that I'd probably have the painted in 2024. I was wrong. I finished them this morning - over halfway through 2025. They sat in the packaging they arrived in until two years ago, when I got them out and actually put a couple of coats of paint on them. Then they sat for nearly two years mocking me until last week when I finally bit the radium bullet and got on with finishing them

So here we are - my second Green Martian army for HOTT:

For head-canon purposes they are the hordes of Warhoon, who are pretty unpleasant even for Green Martians and crop up a couple of times in the books. The army is pretty simple - eight knights (including the general) and four shooters.

 I gave them a battle-scarred general with a big skull-crusher of a war-hammer.

I also took the opportunity to tidy up my other Green Martian army. They have, up until now, been led by their hero general (John Carter's best buddy, Tars Tarkas) although I had an extra knight element I could drop into it so I could down grade the hero to a knight and use the hordes as a more generic one. However they always got the heroic-looking leader, which irked me. So I made a new knight general element for the first army. Now they can masquerade as the hordes of Torquas, Thurd or whatever. I scratchbuilt a wicked-looking sabre for him, to make him stand out.

Flushed with the success of that sword, I made another and gave it to Tar Tarkas, to make him look extra heroic. 

Just a reminder of how big these chaps are; here's Tars Tarkas riding alongside his bosom friend, John Carter and the incomparable Dejah Thoris.

John Carter takes on the Jeddak of the Warhoon. All in a day's work for the Warlord of Mars.

Naturally my intent for their first game - when I get chance to play it - is a dust-up between two Green Martian hordes. Here's a preview of how awesome that will look.

Next in line is another Red Martian army. The four I have all represent specific city states. I have one - Gathol - that is pretty close to being a 'generic' Red Martian army, but I actually have enough figures and airships to do another. This can then masquerade as an army friendly to John Carter (Ptarth), somewhat neutral (Kaol) or a definite foe (Dusar). And with nine armies I think I'll be done*.

*Until I find some figures to do Yellow Martians ...