Hello,

I'm glad that you picked up Mighty Armies. It is a great game imho, and i've been playing it for a while. I've hacked a lot of my own custom rules onto the game and added units. I more or less try to base custom units on existing ones, as there isn't a table for point costs.

One unit i have made for barbarians is Frost Giant. I use an old Ral Partha figure, it is HUGE compared to 15mm scale. It's stats are move 5", Fighting +7, Support 0, Fearless, Rampager, Shooting II, cost 7 AP. I made its support 0 to balance it. Giants are arrogant they wouldn't help puny runts. It can't be grouped with other units. It is is more or less immune to most shooting like arrows, but cannons and trebuchets can kill a giant, as well as hand guns (I'll maybe get to that another time)

What do you think? I have used this in my own games, it is quite a lot of fun. The shooting I treat like a dwarf cannon, except the giant hurls stones instead.

no, I could take some but I believe the figure is in print again at Iron Wind metals. If you made it official that would be great, do what you think is necessary to make it balanced. The barbarians lack artillery, so that is why I made him a shooter, as they already have the war mammoth which is one of the most powerful units in the game ( I have 2! )

I love this game as it is very simple to learn but  truly hard to master. It's very easy to teach it to young kids and they love it, plus it is the most inexpensive mass combat game on the market. I hope to see what you do with the game in the future!

Warmonger Jim wrote stats are move 5", Fighting +7, Support 0, Fearless, Rampager, Shooting II, cost 7 AP.

Using the points mod I made for MA and the stats you listed I have come up with a unit cost of 9AP.  In my mod the support factor is linked to the fighting factor so a fighting skill of 5+ would get a support of 3.  Dumping the shooting would reduce its AP by 2 to 7.