Putrid-Rot-Blight-Sword-Kings!?

This week I finally finished up a unit of ten old Putrid Blightking models, which I put on 32mm bases to use as Rotswords in my Maggotkin of Nurgle. 

The NEW Putrid Blightkings seem more like lightly-armoured, sumo-warrior-priests of some sort... The role of heavily armoured tanks has been passed on to the Rotswords. Putrid Blightkings are still pretty tanky... but in a 3-Health kind of way instead of the 3+ Save kind of way.  Rotswords now have 3+ save... Putrid Blightkings have been reduced to a 5+ save. 

While a few of these guys have bare bellies, ALL of the new Blightkings are shimmying about the battlefield with their corpulent bellies bare for the world to see... though with armoured trousers and helmets...?! 

These guys read more like heavily armoured tanks than Buddha-in-plate-mail-pants, so... Rotswords... 

"Rotswords"

At some point I'd like to get a box of the newer Rotswords and mix and match them with the Putrid-Rot-Blight-Sword-Kings of this unit, so it is utterly clear what the two units are. 

I probably won't be rushing out to get those (or any of the NEW Putrid Blightkings) anytime SOON... I pre-ordered the Disciples of Tzeentch Warpflame Cavalcade Battleforce... and that is released this weekend! So I'll be plenty busy with THAT... and a few Tzeentch things I already have (a pile of Kairic Acolytes and Tzaangors and some flamers and a Magister on Disc of Tzeentch), and the rest of the Nurgle stuff I already OWN (which in now just the Feculent Gnarlmaw, a Harbinger of Decay, four Pussgoyle Blighlords, ten Rotmier Creed and the eight Pestigors from Darkwater!) AND the  Sylvaneth for Amanda... which is, I think just the two treelords and putting the last touches on Drycha Hamadreth...? 

(Oh, and then fifteen models that can be build either as Tree-Revenants or Spite-Revenants...? I'm king of leaning towards just building them ALL as Spite-Revenants... but maybe I'll wait until we've played a few more games and see which works out better...) 

I also have a few Soulblight Gravelord things to finish for Cursed City: Nemesis - ten Grave Guard, a Necromancer, and three Vargheists... then I'll be SO CLOSE to finishing ALL the Soulblight Gravelords, I should really just push through and finish the Blood Knights and the Warhammer Underworlds warband and they they'll ALL be DONE (I think...?) 

Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed and Guardian of Souls

I rebased and quickly repainted the Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed and Guardian of Souls over the long weekend. Most of the weekend I spent working on some old Putrid Blightkings that I've put on 32mm bases to use as Rotswords, but then switched gears and decided to quickly knock these out! 

Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed and Guardian of Souls

Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed

Guardian of Souls

ALL THE NIGHT HAUNTS

Now, with the Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed, I can legally field the Dreadblade Harrows (as all the Nighthaunt Heroes I'd had previously could only lead INFANTRY Units... and the Dreadblade Harrows are CAVALRY!). Fielding them all together could look like:

Knight of Shrouds General's Regiment 

• Hero - Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed (1)  160 -  0-1 Cursed Soul, Any Nighthaunt
• Unit - Scriptor Mortis (1) 120 - Any Infantry - This Hero can join an eligible regiment as a Cursed Soul.
• Unit - Bladegheist Revenants (10) 210 - Infantry
• Unit - Craventhrone Guard (5) 110 - Infantry
• Unit - Dreadblade Harrows (2) 50 - Cavalry

Total: 650

Spirit Torment's Regiment 

• Hero - Spirit Torment (1) 120 - 0-1 Black Coach, Any Infantry
• Unit - Chainghasts (2) 90 - Infantry
• Unit - Myrmourn Banshees (4) 100 - Infantry

Total: 310

Guardian of Souls’ Regiment 

• Hero - Guardian of Souls (1) 130 -  0-1 Black Coach, Any Infantry
• Unit - Chainrasps (10) 110 - Infantry
• Unit - Dreadscythe Harridans (10) 210 - Infantry

Total: 450

Army total: 1410

If I added in the units that are soon passing into Legends... 

Cairn Wraith’s Regiment

• Hero - Cairn Wraith (1) 130 - 0-1 Black Coach, Any Infantry
• Unit - Glaivewraith Stalkers (4)  100 - Infantry

Total: +230 = 1640

If I picked up Lady Olinder and added her to this mess... 

+ Lady Olinder 320 points = 1960

This is not really a PRIORITY force right now, though... I just like having all the stuff done for them! 

(though, technically, I still have two Warhammer Underworlds Warbands yet to paint, one of which can still be fielded as a regular unit... Maybe I should get to those at some point!) 

I will probably finish up those "Rotswords" sometime this week. It's reading week and Amanda's off on a little vacation, so I have some time to devote to painting projects! 

this brings me to 33x 28mm Foot and 1x 28mm Mounted painted so far this year - versus 19x 28mm Foot and 1x 28mm Mounted acquired! Still in the black... until Saturday, at least... 

Nemesis, Flowers, Blightkings, Ghosts, and Others...

 My order from Fenris Workshop arrived today... 

The primary reason for the order was picking up the third campaign for Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - NEMESIS! We'll be starting this in March - when Amanda gets back from her little vacation... 

Since I was ordering from them, I decided to pick up a BUNCH of flowers for basing. Regular grass tufts and shrubs of all varieties of greens and browns are available at Dragon's Den Games... but not colourful flowers! These should last a while!

and then I picked up a few used miniatures... Some Putrid Blightkings (to fill out a unit of ten that I'm basing on 32mm bases to call Rotswords) a pair of Nighthaunt Heroes (Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed  and a Guardian of Souls), an old metal Dark Elf Sorceress and an old metal Necromunda Bounty Hunter (both minis I've seen and thought looked really cool... but I've only ever seen being sold for $30-60... these were less than $15 each!) 

The metal ones I might strip the paint off of... the others, I'll probably just paint over! 

This puts me at 19 x 28mm foot and 1x 28mm mounted miniatures purchased... and 32 x 28mm miniatures painted. Still ahead! 

Dire Wolves

I picked up these wolves over a year and a half ago when I picked up the Fangs of the Blood Queen Dawnbringers box. I needed the Fell Bats for Night Wars and that was a way to pick them up - and some other Soulblight Gravelords stuff - at a bit of a discount!  I just didn't get to painting the Dire Wolves... (or the vampire that came in the box, for that matter!). Now that I have a copy of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Nemesis on the way, I finally found some motivation to knock them out quickly... I think what kept me from getting them done was colours - I agonized over how to to a pack of wolves with some variance in colours... This week I decided, fuck it, they're evil undead fantastical wolves from a fictional realm.... they can all be BLACK!! 

Dire Wolves! 

ALL of my other Soulblight Gravelords models are on flagstone bases, but that felt like it might look odd for these - especially since many of them had large boulders incorporated into the model and I thought they'd look funny just sitting on the flag stones. I guess I could have made them look like rubble...? As it is, I did them all on rocky bases painted the same colour as the flagstone so they could blend in a bit and it COULD be rubble in a city OR it COULD be rocky mountainous terrain!? 

Once I'd decided on just painting their coats black, these went VERY quickly! 

Most of the Vampire Heroes I have are named characters of the Vyrkos Dynasty. The fluff suggests some relationship with wolves - like maybe they're descended from Wolves or something? Belladamma Volga (one that I don't have) can have a meatshield of Dire Wolves. When I have megalomaniacal dreams of possible armies, I sometimes think of an entire Soulblight Gravelords army based around the Vyrkos Heroes and just packs and packs of wolves... It would probably be total crap as a competitive army... but it would look cool and be very thematic! 

(Well now I HAD to math it out... If I picked up Belladamma Volga and Ivya Volga - the two Vyrkos characters I don't have - I'd need another FIVE packs of Dire Wolves to make a 2000 point army... and that would be just a bit under $500CAD...) 

It felt like they were HUGE while I was painting them..probably because, in my minds eye I was comparing them to ancient metal Wolves I had... 

I think the one on the round base is from Westward Productions and the goblin wolf-rider is a metal Marauder Miniature from the 1990s that I still haven't stripped and repainted! 

I'm not suggesting this is BAD thing. I think it is apropos that they be HUGE and TERRIFYING... they are DIRE wolves, after all!! 

Comparing them to modern Vyrkos Dynasty Vampires, though... they're kind of perfect! 

With Radukar the Wolf

With Kritza the Rat Prince

With Lady Annika

Somparing them to the Vampires on their flagstone bases, I kind of feel like maybe I need to hit the bases with another dry-brushing of a slightly lighter grey...? to make them match the tone of the flagstone a bit better - but also seeing them on the game table, it will make a bit better contrast between the bases and the wolves... Will I get around to doing this any time soon...? Maybe...? 

I still have the Vargheists, a unit of Grave Guard, and the Necromancer to finish up for Nemesis, but we won't be playing for almost three weeks, so I'll easily get those done. The Vargheists came with the Soulblight Gravelord Bloodcrave Hunt Spearhead army, so getting them done will get me a bit closer to finishing those as well - I'll just have the five Blood Knights to finish up! (Then we'll see some Vamp-on-Vamp violence versus Orion's Soublights!) 

First Purchases of 2026

Technically, the stuff below aren't really the first purchases of 2026... I bought some stuff on Friday... but that was mail ordered and won't be here until later in the week and I don't really count things that aren't in my grubby little hands yet! 

It is BECAUSE of said purchases that I wandered on over to the Dragon's Den and bought the stuff below. 

Fenris Workshop had a copy of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - NEMESIS! The THIRD campaign in the trilogy - long out of print and I'd kind of given up the idea that we'd ever play it as the only copies I'd seen available were hundreds of dollars! The copy Fenris had was still in shrink-wrap and not too unreasonably priced! So I bought it! (and since I was ordering from them, I also picked up a BUNCH of flowery tufts for basing and a small handful of used miniatures). 

Luckily, the required miniatures for Nemesis include Varghiests, Dire Wolves, Grave Guard, a Wight King and a Necromancer. I already HAVE Varghiests and Dire Wolves and a Wight King... I just needed a Necromancer and the Grave Guard.... 

So I picked up the Necromancer and Grave Guard at the Dragon's Den. 

I should be able to knock these out pretty quick. I've already started on the Dire Wolves - which is what's distracted me away from the Pestigors. We won't be playing ANY Warhammer Quest until March, anyway, because Amanda is very suddenly off on a little vacation for the latter half of February! 

(I guess if I finished up the Pestigors, I COULD just play through the whole campaign with OTHER PEOPLE while she's away!) 

(I could probably play through it a FEW times!) 

For our Tuesday evenings, however, we'll probably return to play in March with Cursed City Nemesis... and THEN when we're done that Amanda, Finnegan and I will play through Warhammer QuestL Darkwater.

(but, yeah, I might just play it with others - or solo it myself - while she's away!) 

This puts me at 22 painted, 11 purchased for the year so far. Another 8 foot and 1 mounted are arriving with the Fenris Order. I'm hoping by the time it arrives I'll have finished either the Pestigors or the Dire Wolves (or maybe BOTH!?) which would be another 18-20 miniatures (depending on whether I can find some of the old beastmen I have squirrelled away to use as stand-in pestigors or not - to make it a full unit of 10!?) 

In another couple weeks, the Battleforce: Disciples of Tzeentch – Warpflame Cavalcade will be arriving, which will be adding almost another FORTY miniatures!! It's actually thirty-six little Daemons, an Exalted Flamer (which is big enough I'd classify as "Mounted/Small Beastie") and a Herald of Tzeentch on Burning Chariot and a Lord of Change - Greater Daemon of Tzeentch (both of which would be classified as "Vehicles/Bigger Beasties"). This will bring the total purchased/acquired to 55.

Can I get another 33 x 28mm foot miniatures painted in the next two weeks - to keep me "in the black" in that category at least...? Maybe... Maybe not... Regardless, these graveyard should be pretty quick and easy to knock out, so if I could finish these AND the Pestigors AND the Dire Wolves, I'd be CLOSE - and within the next week or so, I'd be able to finish up a few others bringing the painted back higher than the purchased!! 

I am trying really hard to keep from adding too much to the collections this year - and definitely want to keep it lower than the amount I paint. I'd would be nice to paint twice as many as I purchase, but I'm not going to do anything silly like make a proclamation that I will be doing so! 

The Cankerborn

The Cankerborn are some Nurgle Daemons that were included in Warhammer Quest: Darkwater. They are born of despoiling the realm itself, especially place of power (like the Jade Abbey!) 

The Cankerborn

According to the latest Battle Profiles, the Cankerborn are HEROES....?! They can include any Daemon in a regiment they command!? I absolutely DO NOT need MORE heroes to lead more regiments, though! Luckily, these two can be included in Gelgus Pust's or the Great Unclean One's regiments as a "Plague Scion" - or, apparently, in a regiment commanded by Belga the Cystwitch...? So that's where they'd be fielded if ever I was playing with a game big enough I needed to include these! 

(They can also be included in a regiment commanded by Festus the Leechlord or Rotigus... but it's not likely I'll be picking up either at any point in the immediate future!) 

I've also been working on the Pestigors this weekend, but probably won't finish them up until early this next week... I actually have an exam on Monday I need to spend SOME time today studying for!? 

Then it's just Belga the Cystwitch and the three heroes (and familiar.. and a few tokens...) and I'll be DONE all of the Warahmmer Quest: Darkwater miniatures!! 

Pox-Wretches

Pox-Wretches are the lowliest of Nurgle's Rotbringer minions. Human cultists that revel in filth and disease. I imagine they could easily be mistaken for zombies, except that they move faster and slightly better at fighting (The have the same stat profile as Deathrattle Skeletons - except they move 5" instead of 4")

Pox-Wretches 

These came with Warhammer Quest: Darkwater.

I painted them very quickly - just doing my rusty metal mix and then blocking in basic colours and then I sloshed the whole model with Agrax Earthshade. The look a bit of a mess on close inspection... but they're SUPPOSED to look a bit of a mess!! 

The Mire Kelpies were on the same frame, so in Age of Sigmar they are included in the unit as tokens that can be expended to help spread disease against their opponents in combat.

A fun little addition to my growing Maggotkin of Nurgle army and a large chunk of the miniatures I needed to finish to get started on Warhammer Quest: Darkwater! 

All the Darkwater Hostiles stuff so far! 

I still have eight Pestigors that I'd like to finish before we start the campaign! They shouldn't take TOO long as I was trying to get them done for the first time we tried playing Warhammer Quest: Darkwater... but had to abandon them when it became clear I just wasn't going to finish them AND get ANY sleep... 

After the Pestigors, there are just a few more characters and monsters to finish up - Belga the Cystwitch, the two Cankerborn and the three other Heroes; Kelthannor, Drasher Vorn, and Jacobus Vyne (with his familiar, Wisper).

I hope to get them ALL done before the long weekend - just a week away! 

Once I have all the Darkwater stuff finished, it will be back to working on the rest of the Maggotkin of Nurgle and Sylvaneth stuff... and then maybe some Tzeentch stuff, as that is being released a little earlier than I expected!! 

All the Maggotkin of Nurgle stuff, so far.. In addition to the Pestigors and Belga the Cystwitch and the Cankerborn... I have a unit of Rotmier Creed, four Pusgoyle Blightlords, five Putrid Blightkings (which I may put on 32mm bases and call Rotswords) and a Harbinger of Decay to finish up...