Timeworn Ruins, Wight King, and Snarlboss with Wolfgit Retinue

 

I rolled out to the Warhammer Store to play a few games this week (Game Reports Coming Soon!) and both times items I ordered arrived while I was there!

Snarlboss and Wolfgit Retinue

These are the same models as Rippa's Snarlfangs - the Warhammer Underworlds warband. I haven't played for a while, but I haven't entirely written the game off. In the BIG SUMMER PREVIEW last week they announced the new Underworlds core box and that they'll be doing four more boxes of four re-released warbands - one for each Grand Alliance - AND they'll be doing a pack of cards again for all sixteen warbands (for those of us that already HAVE all those warbands!). 

As it happens, I have ALL BUT ONE of the warbands being re-released (Rippa's Snarlfangs)! I checked the age of Sigmar section and found they still had the Snarlboss and Wolfgit Retinue - which, itself was a rerelease of the Rippa's Snarlfang models (but without cards) that could be used in a Gloomspite Gitz army. Last year, when they did the same, all of those warbands being re-released were removed from the website, so I ordered this right away and had it shipped to the store (because that's FREE!) 

WILL I return to Warhammer Underworlds...? Maybe? If not, I have three really cool goblin wolf-riders I can use in other games! 

Dominion of Sigmar: Timeworn Ruins

I did pick up Radukar the Beast a few weeks back (or months!?) and I still haven't assembled him... partly because the model is climbing over a big log with gnarled branches and stuff... and ALL THE OTHER Soulblight Gravelord stuff I have has been based on urban bases of flagstones and rubble... so I though that would be a little out of place... In the end I decided to pick up the Timeworn Ruins set so I could use one of the bits as the thing Radukar is climbing over, and then I'll have a bunch of fast and easy to paint scatter terrain for... whatever...?! 

AND THEN... Because I was feeling like I needed a bit more exercise, I rolled out there AGAIN! (it is ~20Km round trip, depending on the route I take...) 

Wight King

I picked up a Wight King for Finnegan to use as his character in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound game we are playing with Champions of Death! 

I am going to replace the skull and crown with maybe a chaos knights helmet - with some ridiculous horns or something - the concept was the character is covered in armour from head to toe, so you couldn't tell, just form looking at him... from a distance... that it's just a skeleton in that armour... 

Spearhead: Sand & Bone Terrain

As I was planning on getting in some games of Spearhead over the rest of the summer, I picked up the new setting for the game last week- Spearhead: Sand & Bone. Unlike the previous set (Spearhead: Fire & Jade) which Aqshy (Realm of Fire) on one side and Ghyran (Realm of life) on the other, both sides of this board are supposed to represent different areas of Shyish, the Realm of Death.

Oh, I could totally still play with the Fire & Jade set... but, y'know, NEW STUFF! 

Terrain Bits for Spearhead: Sand and Bone. 

Terrain bits on the Ossia side of the new board! The Crypt of blood is only used in games where the angled deployment map is used. 

Terrain bits on the Dolorum side of the new board! The Icon of Nulhamia only shows up as a twist on the Dolorum board. If using angled deployment on the Dolorum side, both the Crypt of Blood AND the Icon of Nulhamia could be on the table. 

If you have a unit within 6" of the Crypt of Blood or the Icon of Nulhamia during a particular phase of the turn, there are special actions you can take. 

(weird how different the colour of the table looks in all three pictures!?) 

Next I'm hoping to finish up the Blades of Khorne Skullreapers. I don't have an IMMEDIATE use for them, but they're SO CLOSE to being finished... 

After that I'll probably focus on getting the Claws of Karanak done... 

Radukar the Beast and the Fell bats are also in the queue... but as I don't need them for a few weeks, I might just try to finish up some Stormcast Eternals or Daughters of Khaine - or even the Soulblight Gravelords! - to get those Spearhead Armies finished up! 

(although... having recently finished up the Curseling, there's a part of me that wants to clear everything away and paint up ALL THE TZEENTCH STUFF... or at least enough for the Spearhead army!?)

Cursling, Eye of Tzeentch

A Cursling is a powerful wizard-warrior devoted to Tzeentch, the god of change. I picked up the Cursling in the Arcane Cataclysm battlebox I picked up last year. It is the fourth (out of FIFTY-FIVE!?) miniatures I've painted out of the box!? (I also painted the Tzaangor Skyfires).

Cursling, Eye of Tzeentch

I AM still working on the terrain bits for Spearhead: Sand and Bone. I generally have a pile of OTHER THINGS tucked around the periphery of the main painting space for when I have a moment because I'm waiting for something to dry... I just pick up something else to work on for a bit. Or if I've finished painting a colour on the main miniatures I'm working on and have some left over because I squirted out too much, I'll look around to see if any of those side projects need that colour... and... eventually... I finish off some of those odd extra things! 

The Hag Priestess I finished yesterday was one of them. 

This Curseling is one of them...  

I don't have a LOT of Tzeentch stuff painted, for myself. I have painted a LOT of Kyric Acolytes and a few Tzaangor for Finnegan - that came in his Warhammer Quest games. I have the Tzaangor and Kairic Acolytes that came in the box to paint up for myself... but then I have another batch that I got in trade from Orion... 

Once I've got a unit of each done I just need to paint up the Magister on the Disc of Tzeentch... and then pick up a box of Flamers of Tzeentch... and paint those... and then I'll have ANOTHER Spearhead army!! 

Daughters of Khaine Hag Priestess

I picked up this figure a year or so ago to potentially use as one of Finnegan's characters from Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound. The miniature is actually a Darkling Coven Sorceress, but I thought it could work as a Hag Priestess (or Hag Queen - which is a High Priestess).

The character had been raised up in the temples of the Daughters of Khaine but... was always a bit... off... She liked baking... and though popular with some of her fellow priestesses, Morathi thought her a bit of an embarrassment and possibly a bad influence to her coven sisters... but she hadn't ever even remotely showed any disrespect to grand matriarch and couldn't just throw her into the fighting pits... So she devised a plan to get rid of her by attaching her to a soulbinding

Hag Priestess of the Daughters of Khaine! 

In the Age of Sigmar tabletop battle game a Hag Queen is a character you can field as an independent character - that can lead regiments. But you can only get them by buying a Cauldron of Blood (a $100 model!), which, if I (or Amanda) ever gets playing Daughters of Khaine might be something I'd look at getting... but I wasn't about to buy one, just to get a character model for a role-playing game!

All the Daughters of Khaine, so far! 

Ooof... I do NOT have a lot of these done... I have about 40 foot and five mounted to do... (Though I only need to finish about 15 of the foot and the five mounted to complete the Spearhead army!) I'm going to try and at least get the Spearhead army done before Amanda gets back from her trip!!

I'm just about done the terrain bits for Spearhead: Sand & Bone, so expect that soon-ish... (and then maybe some game reports!?) 

Quicksilver Swords (and the BIG SUMMER PREVIEW... and PLANS!)

The Quicksilver Swords are an endless spell from Age of Sigmar. They are part of the Aetherwrought Machineries manifestation lore along with Chronomantic Cogs and Aethervoid Pendulum. They can be summoned onto the battlefield and, until destroyed of banished, can fly around slashing units to bits. Fun little bonus that they have is that there are no ward saves to reduce damage against them... so... maybe fun to use against undead or chaos...? 

Quicksilver Swords 

I have to admit, I didn't paint these because I have any sort of immediate use for them... I painted them because they were among the quickest and easiest of the endless spells and this one, in particular, has been haunting the periphery of my workbench for FAR TOO LONG and I needed a break from Khorne things and I figured this would be quick and easy to knock out in an evening... so... 

The scale is a bit off.. or they are GIANT swords! 

The Aetherwrought Machineries are a generic manifestation lore that can be used by ANY army... I'm not sure who I'd ever have use these...? I guess if I ever had a Cities of Sigmar force... Or, I guess, If I had a wizard in a Stormcast Eternals force, they could use it..?

I should probably dig out the other two (Chronomantic Cogs and Aethervoid Pendulum) and get them done so I have all of the Aetherwrought Machineries ready, should I ever need them. I think they were pretty simple and would be easy enough to crank out! 

In other news... 

I have come up with a bit of a list of Next Things To Do, to help keep me focused:

1. Skullreapers (5)
2. Spearhead Sand & Bone terrain bits (6) 
3. Radukar the Beast (1) 
4. Fell Bats (3) 
5. Claws of Karanak (8) 

Skullreapers because they are SO CLOSE to being done... The Spearhead stuff because I'm planning to play some games in the upcoming weeks. Radukar and the Fell Bats are for Cursed City: Night wars (which we are taking a break from and won't be starting for 3-4 more weeks because Amanda is away) and the Claws of Karanak because it's the last unit I need to finish to complete another Spearhead army (which I don't have the rules for yet, and won't until the first week of August when the Blades of Khorne Battletome is released!)  

After that...? Well, I guess it depends on how long these take and what I've been doing in the meantime. I've made plans to get in a bunch of games of Spearhead over the next three weeks while Amanda and Morgan are away. If that works out and I get excited about spearhead I could try and knock out one or two of the other Spearhead armies.. Which ones? The Stormcast Eternal one is half painted and it's only TEN MINIATURES... so I feel like THAT should be a priority (because MORE THINGS DONE!!). After that...? Maybe the Daughters of Khaine or the Soulblight Gravelords...? The former could possibly entice Amanda to try playing, the latter being useful if I get the role-playing game I've been planning this last week off the ground... 

Also, Games Workshop had their big summer preview yesterday, which was full of fun stuff... They announced a new faction joining Age of Sigmar in the fall; Helsmiths of Hashut - Chaos Dwarves! They look kind of fun. IF I were to ever finish up ALL the other Spearhead armies I have and start playing regularly, I could see myself potentially picking up a spearhead army for them (just to have as a little side force) - but only if there were Bull Centaurs in the Spearhead army, because those are probably my favourite minis from the bunch. 

They also previewed the new Warhammer Underworlds box - Spitewood - which looks really interesting - and has a Chaos Dwarf warband... but... I haven't played a single game so far this year! (I did play nine games of the new edition last fall, though... and I didn't HATE it!?). But I don't know if I can justify buying the new box if I'm not actually PLAYING the game anymore. 

They also announced they'll be rereleasing another sixteen of the older warbands in four Grand Alliance boxes. Like last year, they're also releasing a set of the cards for those warbands separately for those that already have them - like me - in THIS set of sixteen, there is only ONE warband that I don't have... so... maybe worth picking up those cards while they are available... just in case?Although i was a little horrified when the last set turned out to be $75CAD!? 

The also announced the new Flesh-Eater Courts (Ghouls) and Nighthaunt (Ghosts) Battletomes and Spearhead armies. The Nighthaunt Spearhead army looks interesting - in that I HAVE over half the units that it is made up of! AND they're even painted! The two additional units I'd need, however, is another $100, purchased separately... and I still have a few Nighthaunts to paint up. So, I'd have to say I need to finish painting the Scriptor Mortis and five Craventhrone Guard that I already have (which shouldn't be too hard, they're fairly easy to paint and all over 50% done!) AND I'd have to be regularly playing Spearhead AND have finished up a few more of the Spearhead armies I already have. 

I still have five full spearhead armies I need to paint... Stormcast Eternals, Soulblight Gravelords, Daughters of Khaine, Slaves to Darkness - Darkoath Raiders, and Skaven. I have one miniature painted for two of them (the General for the Soulblights and the Daughters of Khaine), but otherwise all still need to be painted. I also have MOST of the stuff required for a Disciples of Tzeentch army (I'd just need to pick up some Flamers of Tzeentch, which kind of makes a sixth I need to paint. And then there is the second Blades of Khorne Spearhead army (Fangs of the Blood God), though for that I only have the one unit to paint... 

Spearhead: Sand and Bone (and Fangs of the Blood God)

So painting up all these Khorne daemons, ostensibly for Warhammer 40,000... I got thinking about Age of Sigmar again... and then I started painting more Blades of Khorne... and then they announced the new Blades of Khorne Battletome... and a new Khorne Spearhead Army that will be included in the Battletome (and, presumably, sold in it's own boxed set...?) 

Fangs of the Blood God! (The picture above is Copyright ©2025 Games Workshop and used here entirely without their permission) 

So I did a thing... 

The new Spearhead: Sand and Bone and the Claws of Karanak - the only unit I don't have to fill out a Fangs of the Blood God Spearhead army! 

I had initially told myself I wasn't going to buy Sand and Bone until I'd actually STARTED playing some games of Spearhead again... but I made some plans with a friend to play some games over the next few weeks.. and I wasn't going to buy the Claws of Karanak until I was DONE the Skullreapers... but then I happened to be in the vicinity of my FLGS - Dragon's Den Games - this afternoon... so I went ahead and picked them both up... 

This way I can get the new terrain painted up this week and the Claws of Karanak finished up in the next week or so and have them ready for when the new Battletome comes out and the rules for the Fangs of the Blood God are released! 

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

Mighty Lord of Khorne

Not at Daemon!

Mighty Lord of Khorne

I've been working on this guy, on and off, for almost a year... Not totally happy with it... but I'm calling it DONE and moving on! 

This finishes up the Khorne Bloodborn Heroes (that I'm going to paint!)

(I do actually have a second Bloodstoker and a second Bloodsecrator, but I'm not sure I'll actually ever use them... But you never know... the new Battletome comes out in a just over two weeks and maybe they'll have totally new, amazing abilities and I'll want five of each!? Or... maybe they won't even be things that are IN a Blades of Khorne army!? I was a little worried as I noticed there were no Bloodstokers, Bloodsecrators, or Mighty Lords of Khorne even ON the GW website a week ago... but then on Sunday in the Pre-order Preview all three showed up in the new Gorblade Warband that will be released alongside the new Battletome!) 

All of the Bloodbound!

So Far!

This can currently be organized into three Regiments

General's Regiment

• Hero - Mighty Lord of Khorne (1) 130
• Unit - Bloodsecrator (1) 130
• Unit - Bloodstoker (1) 100
• Unit - Mighty Skullcrushers (3) 220
• Unit - Korgorath (1) 120

Total: 700

Regiment

• Hero - Slaughterpriest (1) 160
• Unit - Bloodreavers (10) 90

Total: 250

Regiment

• Hero - Slaughterpriest (1) 160
• Unit - Blood Warriors (10) 220

Total: 380

Army Total: 1330

I don't have a LOT left... there are the aforementioned bonus Bloodsecrator/Bloodstoker, and then I have five Skullreapers, ten Blood Warriors and thirty Bloodreavers!? Once I have them done, I'll have slightly over 2000 points of just Bloodbound (PLUS another 1820 points of Daemons!)

(oh, and the Gorechosen of Dromm - Warhammer Underworlds warband, that aren't really useable in Age of Sigmar any more...)

ALL of the Blades of Khorne! 

Currently about 3150 points... 

and I don't even have a Bloodthirster or a Daemon Prince of Khorne in there!? 

Wow that's a lot! By far the largest Age of Sigmar army I have. Hedonites of Slaanesh are probably close... if ever I got all the seekers and daemonettes and chariots finished... 

I should have the Skullreapers done in the next few days.