Maggotkin of Nurgle Bleak Host Spearhead

With the Lord of Afflictions and Pusgoyle Blightlord finished... I now have the Maggotkin of Nurgle Bleak Host Spearhead complete! 

The entire Spearhead force. 

This Spearhead includes:

• 1x Spoilpox Scrivener (General) 
• 1x Pusgoyle Blightlord 
• 1x Pusgoyle Blightlord 
• 5x Putrid Blightkings 
• 5x Plaguebearers 
• 5x Plaguebearers

Spoilpox Scrivener (General) 

Pusgoyle Blightlord 

Pusgoyle Blightlord (technically, this model is a Lord of Afflictions... but if you don't tell them... no one will know!) 

Putrid Blightkings 

Plaguebearers 

Plaguebearers

I will replace the Lord of Afflictions with a second regular Pusgoyle Blightlord, as soon as I get another assembled and painted. 

Looking forward to trying these out against the Sylvaneth that Amanda has been playing! 

Lord of Afflictions and Pusgoyle Blightlord

These two horrific-giant-fly-riding-Rotbringers of Nurgel came in the Maggotkin of Nurgle Spearhead box. They can be built as either two Pusgoyle Blightlords OR one Pusgoyle Blightlord and one Lord of Afflictions! Despite the fact that the Spearhead army is meant to have just two Pusgoyle Blightlords, I built one as a Lord of Afflictions and figured most wouldn't know the difference - as it's two blobby dudes riding giant fly-things... 

The reason I did one of each is that if ever I expanded beyond just Spearhead play, force need to be organized into regiments lead by Heroes, some of which are very particular about who they will lead in their regiment! At the time, I only had Heroes that would lead Nurgle Daemons or Rotbringer (mortal servants of Nurgle) INFANTRY... and these are considered Cavalry. The Lord of Afflictions is a Rotbringer Hero that can include Pusgoyle Blightlords (or Plague Drones!) in their regiment... 

(Mind you now I have a Great Unclean One - which can lead include ANY Maggotkin of Nurgle (Daemon or Rotbringer) in their regiment - and a Harbinger of Decay - which can include ANY Rotbringer in their regiment... so the Lord of Afflictions is less necessary...)

Lord of Afflictions and Pusgoyle Blightlord

I made the mistake of FULLY ASSEMBLING these before painting them... and that turned out to be a nightmare. For the next four, I will definitely be painting some parts or sub-assemblies before final assembly and touch-ups! 

Lord of Afflictions

 

Pusgoyle Blightlord - the Pusgoyle Blightlords can be fielded in either a unit of one, or as a unit of two - that can be reinforced to four.

I have four more to build that came with the Shudderblight Cyst Battleforce Box... I wasn't sure, initially if I should build one as a Lord of Afflictions... because then I'd have two Lords of Afflictions and then two units of two Pussgoyle Blightlords... but considering now I have 6-7 Heroes  ; Great Unclean One, Harbinger of Decay, Lord of Afflictions, Lord of Plagues, Sloppity Bilepiper, and Spoilpox Scrivener (and, technically, a Rotbringer Sorcerer, if I use Fecula Flyblown!) That's more than I really need... 

I think you can only have five regiments...? And, for the most part, each regiment is lead by a single Hero.... though there are a few that can include another hero... The Great Unclean One can include a Plague Scion (A daemon hero - like the Sloppity Bilepiper or Spoilpox Scrivener) and the Harbinger of Decay can include a Rotbringer Lord - like the Lord of Plagues!) 

So the five regiments could be 

1. Great Unclean One (with the either the Sloppity Bilepiper or Spoilpox Scrivener as a Plague Scion)
2. Harbinger of Decay (with the Lord of Plagues as a Rotbringer Lord) 
3. Lord of Afflictions
4. either the Sloppity Bilepiper or Spoilpox Scrivener (whichever one ISN'T in the Great Unclean One's regiment) 
5. Rotbringer Sorcerer

So I'll probably build all the others as Pusgoyle Blightlords. 

now that these are done, though, I can play some SPEARHEAD with the Maggotkin of Nurgle!!

Maggotkin of Nurgle Spearhead! with the Maggotkin of Nurgle 

The Maggotkin of Nurgle is a classic match for the Sylvaneth that Amanda is currently favouring! Stay tuned for that!! During the Age of Chaos, Ghyran, the Realm of Life, was almost completely overrun by the servants of Nurgle and much of the fighting in Nurgle since the begining of Sigmar's Tempest at the dawn of the Realmgate Wars, has been the forces of Order trying to cleanse the realm of the taint of Nurgle!!

The entire Nurgle Army, so far... 

Rotbringer Sorcerer-General's Regiment

• Rotbringer Sorcerer (1) 110 
• Lord of Plagues (1) 100 
• Putrid Blightkings (5) 190

Spoilpox Scrivener's Regiment

• Spoilpox Scrivener, Herald of Nurgle (1) 80 
• Plaguebearers (10) 140
• Plaguebearers (10) 140

Lord of Afflictions' Regiment

• Lord of Afflictions (1) 170 
• Pusgoyle Blightlords (1) 130

Total: 1060

MORE than I'd need for a starting Path to Glory army! I'd have to drop the Lord of Plagues. 

To this I will be adding The Great Unclean One, a Harbinger of Decay, a Sloppity Bilepiper, five more Putrid Blight Kings, four more Pusgoyle Blightlords, and ten Rotmire Creed... 

I have the Great Unclean One assembled and primed! 

(and the Sloppity Bilepiper is coming along as well!) 

Haven't even opened the Shudderblight Cyst Battleforce Box yet! 

Committing to the Plaguefather (and Tanksgiving!)

I had planned to wait on these things... until I was finished the Maggotkin and Helsmiths Spearheads... or Black Friday... which ever came LATER... 

But then I realized I'd missed the Beast Feast - which was an event held at the Warhammer Store last weekend where you committed to building and painting a (previously unassembled upainted..) warmachine or monster and brought it to throw down in a mega battle... 

There is another event coming up next month, though... TANKSGIVING... which is a 40K mega battle where you commit to building and painting a (previously unassembled upainted..) vehicle or monster... 

So... I thought... I could build and paint a GREATER DAEMON because they can be used in both Age of Sigmar AND Warhammer 40,000... but WHICH ONE!? 

I don't really have much of a Tzeentch army, so Kairos Fateweaver/Lord of Change was pretty easy to eliminate. 

Slaanesh was kind of my first Chaos army... and I do have a fair bit of stuff for it... and I've kind of wanted a Keeper of Secrets for a long time... and Shalaxi Helbane's Soulpiercer attack in 40K is BRUTAL... Six attack, hits on 2+, STRENGTH 12(!), Armour Piercing -3 and dealing D6+2 damage for each of those hits! OUCH! Buuuuuut.. I haven't really been playing or painting them for a while... and I'd want to do a good job on a Keeper of Secrets and wouldn't want to rush it... 

So it was kind of down to a Bloodthirster of Khorne or a Great Unclean One of Nurgle. The Bloodthirster is fast and even more brutal than Shalaxi Helbane... and I do have a Blades of Khorne army with over 2500 points of painted minis ready to go... It's the army I've been thinking about playing and I have the Battletome... ugggghhh... 

In the end I went with the Great Unclean One, though...  

It's arguably the worst of the Greater Daemons - at least in 40K... it is the slowest (if everything else that shows up is a tank, they could probably just drive away and shoot ny daemon to bits). It doesn't hit nearly as hard as the others - at least the Khorne and Slaanesh Daemons (best attacks are Strength 10, Armour Piercing -2m versus Strength 12-16 and Armour piercing of -3/-4 of the others...)... but... It's what I'm working on right now and interested in painting right now, so.... 

Having done that... 

I'd noticed there was a Shudderblight Cyst Battleforce box still sitting at Dragon's Den Games - one of the previous year's Battleforce Boxes... which has a lot of great units - stuff I'd have gotten to build up my Maggotkin army over the coming months... but at, like, 30% off... I was thinking of waiting until Black Friday (to make it close to 50% off!), but picking up the Great Unclean One kind of felt like COMMITTING to building a Nurgle army... and the guys at Dragon's Den Games give me really good deals all year long... and the box itself was at a significant discount over the regular price of the contents... and so I realized I'd be pretty disappointed if I went on Boxing Day and it was gone (as has happened other years)... 

So I went and got that today as well... 

So... I guess I have a full-on Nurgle army as well now... 

Now, you don't HAVE to buy something brand new to participate in Tanksgiving... you CAN bring in stuff from your pile of shame and show it to the staff when you sign up... and I COULD have done that... because... 

STILL SO MUCH GUARD STUFF TO ASSEMBLE AND PAINT!!!

(I'm SURE I had a third unassembled Leman Russ somewhere...?)

But I wanted to stay focused on Age of Sigmar stuff... and keep working on the Spearheads... And so, taking a few weeks to a month off of working on Age of Sigmar stuff to knock out some Imperial Guard tanks... well... I was concerned it could completely distract me from THE PLAN... so... Maybe next year...?

(How did I end up with so many unassembled Guard tanks...!? Well I'm pretty sure I bought all of these about a decade ago..? Maybe as 7th edition was wrapping up, or beginning of 8th Edition....? Some at a Black Friday sale... some at a Boxing Day sale... back when they were HALF the price they are selling for now!? But then before I could get around to assembling or painting any of them, I ended up buying MULTIPLE lots of used Guard armies from local guys... all of which contained multiple tanks that were already assembled and painted or partially painted... So almost all of the Guard vehicles I've painted over the years are ones that were assembled by others that I just repainted?! and then never got around to assembling the ones I'd bought new for myself! I STILL have a few more built tanks to repaint before I get to THESE! I will have an entire Tank Squadron when I'm done - plus supporting arms vehicles)

Warbands of Spitewood

 Well... this arrived... 

Warbands of Spitewood

It's the cards for all the warbands being rereleased in the four Grand Alliance boxes of four warbands from first edition. I wasn't sure about getting it... but... 

I HAVE ALL THE WARBANDS for this series... Not all of them are painted (9/16 are fully painted and ready to play!)... and, to be honest, I have not played the game once this year.... 

and... I'm not going to lie, here... sitting with this small pack of cards... I do not feel as though I'm in the presence of EIGHTY FUCKING DOLLARS worth of gaming materials... I was looking at Finspan a few weeks ago during the Anniversary Sale at Dragon's Den Games (from Stonemaier Games - same people that made Wingspan - one of our MOST PLAYED games over the last five years...) and it was only SEVENTY DOLLARS... FOR A WHOLE FUCKING GAME!? 10x the weight of this in paper, card and ink!? 

I though, when I picked it up, "Maybe I'll start playing again" and "Well, I shouldn't have to do this again"... except that there were 58 warbands in first edition... They CAN do this again next year... and probably again the following year (but will have to rererelease another warband.. or maybe mixing in some second edition warbands into the boxes...) 

Sorry... just feeling a little salty today... feeling like I have not made great life decisions this afternoon. To actually play the game on the regular, I'd have probably spend another $100 to pick up the three newer decks that I don't have. 

If I was playing this regularly... and it was the ONLY thing I was really playing (other than Warhammer Quest and/or a role-playing game) - which it was, for a while - this wouldn't be such a big thing... a few hundred dollars a year for a game that I play a few times a week, every week. That's nothing... but for a game that has been side-lined and not likely to be THE GAME I'm focused on and painting stuff for and playing regularly... I think it's just gotten to be too much. 

You can see all my painted Warhammer Underworlds warbands on the gallery page:

Age of Sigmar - Warhammer Underworlds Warbands

A Few More Things

 Another small order from Fenris Workshop arrived Monday. 

The Farstriders (because I don't have them... they included all the original cards... and it was $13!?), a Lumineth Realm-Lords Scinari Cathallar (because it was the only miniature I need to finish the Lumineth Realm-Lords Spearhead force) and a bunch of resin rats (to make a MEGA-RAT-SWARM base for when the characters take on Kritza, The Rat Prince in Night Wars... because there is a gigantic rat swarm... or Tide-o-Rats that chases them around much like the Suffocating Gravetide did in the first campaign) 

Not even opened... Not that any of those cards are of any use in second edition. I haven't ENTIRELY given up on the idea of playing Warhammer Underworlds again, I guess... 

Lost Song Spirits - Regiment of Renown

I forgot to include this in the previous post about the last of the Tree-Revenants and Spite-Reveneants. The whole reason I bought the extra Spite Reveneants was to be able to build this Regiment of Renown! 

Near the end of last year, Games Workshop posted a bunch of new Regiments of Renown as part of "Grotmas"... One of those Regiments of Renown was the Lost Song Revenants.

This Regiment of Renown hails from the isle of Decrepita (in Shyish, I think...?). These Sylvaneth of the Lost-Song Forest have become deafened to the spirit-song. They can now only hear the mournful cries of wayward souls, which has driven them to cruelty and madness. Shrouded in the chilling fogs of their native land, these Outcasts follow the legions of the dead, hoping to vent their own spite and bitterness.

The Lost Song Revenants include: 

• Hero - Treelord (1) 210 - Any Sylvaneth
• Unit - Spite-Revenants (5)  80 - Infantry
• Unit - Spite-Revenants (5)  80 - Infantry

Total: 370 points

INCLUSION

This Regiment of Renown can be included in armies from the following factions:

• Flesh-eater Courts
• Ossiarch Bonereapers
• Idoneth Deepkin
• Soulblight Gravelords
• Nighthaunt

I HAVE Soulblight Gravelords and a growing force of Nighthaunts, so I could potentially include them in either of those!! 

Lost Song Revenants with Nighthaunts!

This force currently comes to a little over 1000 points... When the Scriptor Mortis and Craventhrone Guard and second unit of Myrmorn Banshees are complete, it could be about 1450 points! 

Lost Song Revenants with Soulblight Gravelords!

THIS force comes to 1950 points - using (almost) all the current Soulblight Gravelords that I have painted! (Next June a number of these move into "legends")

Last of the Sylvaneth (for now...)

 Hot on the heals of the Awakened Wyldwood... I have completed the last of the Sylvaneth I have... for now..

(Not including Skaeth’s Wild Hunt... the Warhammer Underworlds warband, which is only really playable in Warhammer Underworlds...) 

Last of the Sylvaneth... 

Tree-Revenants

Spite-Revenants

The Tree-Revenants I built last year sometime and did not make a musician or standard Bearer, so I was clearly thinking these new ones were to reinforce the existing unit of Sylvaneth. 

Technically, the Spite-Revenants can also be reinforced and COULD be fielded as a unit of ten... but I'm not sure I'm going to do that... But this is what they'd look like if I DID! 

ALL of the Sylvaneth (so far...) 

This could all be fielded as a starter Path to Glory army

(Could add another unit of Revenants or Dryads... and still be under 1000 points) 

Treelord General’s Regiment 

• Hero - Treelord (1) 210 - Any SylvanethUnit - 
• Unit - Kurnoth Hunters with Kurnoth Greatbows (3) - 200 Kurnothi, Infantry
• Unit - Tree-Revenants (10) 180 - Infantry

Total: 590

Branchwych’s Regiment 

• Hero - Branchwych (1) 110 - Any Infantry
• Unit - Spite-Revenants (5)  80 Infantry
• Unit - Spite-Revenants (5)  80 Infantry

Total: 270

Faction Terrain: Awakened Wyldwood

ARMY TOTAL: 860

I should, at some point, pick up the Sylvaneth Endless Spells. They cost no points to include in your army in this edition, so there is not reason NOT to have them (other than it's another THING TO BUY)

I'm also seriously considering picking up the the Outcast Spitegrove - the new Sylvaneth Battleforce Box - which would add:

Drycha Hamadreth - a monsterous hero wizard

Spirit of Durthu - the model could be built as Spirit of Durthu, a Treelord or a Treelord Ancient... but I think I'd build it as Spirit of Durthu - another monstrous hero treelord with a great big sword that is particularly good at taking down other monstrous heroes! 

15x Tree-Revenants or Spite-Revenants - models can be buit of either. Part of me just wants to build more Spite-Revenants... but maybe I should wait and with both and see which are more fun (or useful?) 

20x Dryads

So, lots of fun stuff to play around with. All fairly quick and easy to paint!

NOW I need to focus and finish up those last few Nurgle things... and then move onto the Helsmith's of Hashut... and maybe some more terrain!