Les mooks nouveaux 'sont' arrive!

[S'mon]

One sort of mini I find you can never have too many of is mundane-looking human infantry. Unfortunately historical medieval minis are generally too small, unpainted, and need assembly.

Some time back I got 8 "Caravan Guard" minis, which are mostly silvery in colour, and they're ok for some purposes, but I really needed some evil-looking guards/soldiers for the PCs to fight. I long sought some generic-looking "evil soldier" prepainted plastic minis, in vain. Until...

Today in the post arrived my 10 Harmonium Guard minis (3e Planescape). I unwrapped them, took my baby toenail clippers, clipped off all the silly spiky bits on their helmets and shoulder guards... et voila! Ten generic, mean-looking armoured guys with sword and shield, ready for a hundred different uses in dozens of games over the next few decades!

I did leave the smaller set of horns on one figure though, so I could denote him as a leader.

 

[Jack99]

Is there a hidden joke in the title?

 

[Erekose]

Is there a hidden joke in the title?

Unless I'm missing something isn't the title just, "the new mooks arrive"?

 

[Jack99]

Unless I'm missing something isn't the title just, "the new mooks arrive"?

Its "the mooks new and arrive", which is why i wondered if I was missing something

 

[Fifth Element]

Its "the mooks new and arrive", which is why i wondered if I was missing something

Actually, shouldn't it be "Les mooks nouveau sont arrive"? (Accent on the 'e' in arrive.)

OP was looking for "est" presumably, but that doesn't match "mooks", which is plural.

 

[Dausuul]

Yeah, and there should be an accent on the last letter in "arrivé." Seriously, dude, what were you thinking*?

Now that we're done castigating the OP for messing up the verb conjugations in his mildly humorous thread title... yeah, the DDM secondary market is an awesome source of cheap mook minis. Everybody pays top dollar chasing the rares, and the commons get thrown on the market for next to nothing. I just picked up six Human Rabbles at $0.69 apiece and twelve Doom Dreamers at $0.89. You can never have too many mooks.

[Edit: Ack! French grammar ninjas!]

[SIZE=-2]*Actually, I am slightly amazed that I noticed this. I haven't studied French in nineteen years, and I don't think I ever had a solid grasp on participles. Chalk it up to osmosis from the occasional snippet of French encountered while surfing the web.[/SIZE]

 

[Fifth Element]

Now that we're done castigating the OP for messing up the verb conjugations in his joke title...

Which definition of castigate are you using? It's not a synonym for 'correct'.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

le jour de gloire est arrivé... french national hymne

 

[Dausuul]

Which definition of castigate are you using? It's not a synonym for 'correct'.

No, it means "criticize harshly." I was engaging in a bit of hyperbole, which means "extravagant exaggeration." And now I'm engaging in pedantry, which means... okay, I'll stop.

 

[S'mon]

EN World doesn't let me edit thread titles after posting, my friends.

Edit: Also, I got a 'C' Grade in GCSE French!

Edit 2: It was a reference to Beaujolais Nouveuax, the annual coming of the much-looked-forward-to French wine.

Edit 3: And the mooks arrived from Tritex minis the day after I ordered them, which is pretty good!