Age of Sigmar - Brimstone Horrors

The first of the Disciples of Tzeentch stuff to roll off the workbench... 

Brimstone Horrors

Because they are entities of pure warpfire, I felt it looked odd them just standing on the plain grey cobbles... so I tried to paint a little yellow light reflecting off of the cobbles... I'm not entirely happy with how it turned out, but it looks marginally better than they looked on the plain grey and it doesn't bother me enough to want to paint over it and start again... so... 

Brimstone Horrors are the lesserer of the trio of Horrors and, canonically, the outcome of destroying a Blue Horror. It starts with Pink Horrors. If a Pink Horrors is destroyed it collapses and explodes into two Blue Horrors. When a Blue Horror is destroyed it bursts into two Brimstone Horrors.

On the tabletop... In the current edition, if a Pink Horror is slain you can CHOOSE to replace it with two Blue Horrors (if you have any available!) OR pick an enemy unit in combat with the Pink Horrors and roll a die, on a 5+ it inflicts a mortal wound. Each time a Blue Horror is slain, a die is rolled and on a 3+ a Brimstone Horror model is added to the unit. 

Weird that there is only a 66% chance of bringing out a Brimstone Horror...? 

The diminutive Disciples of Tzeentch force, so far... 

There will be more... SO MUCH more... 

I have the Blue Horrors assembled, and they'll likely be next. I've been working on assembling ALL the Tzeentch Daemons from the Warpflame Cavalcade... Strangely, I haven't even started on ANY of the Tzaangors from the Tzaangor Warflock...? 

I had also been working on the two Treelords on the workbench a little bit... an bits of other things (Grave Guard... Pestigors... ). But they've mostly shoved all that to the side to just get some of these Daemons painted and hopefully that will motivate me to get OTHER stuff done! 

Age of Sigmar - Disciples of Tzeentch: Warpflame Cavalcade

An absolutely HUGE parcel was dropped off today

YOINKS! 

Kind of dwarfed the box contained within! 

Disciples of Tzeentch: Warpflame Cavalcade

This box includes:

• 1x Kairos Fateweaver
• 3x Screamers of Tzeentch 
• 3x Flamers of Tzeentch
• 1x Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
• 1x Herald of Tzeentch on Burning Chariot
• 10x Pink Horrors
• 10x Blue Horrors
• 10x Brimstone Horrors

The Kairos Fateweather model could also be built as a generic Lord of Change (Greater Daemon of Tzeentch) - instead of the named character. Also the Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch and Herald of Tzeentch on Burning Chariot could alternatively be built as a Changecaster and a Burning Chariot of Tzeentch. 

I think I'll stick with the Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch and Herald of Tzeentch on Burning Chariot.. But I'm really torn about whether to build Kairos Fateweather or a Generic Lord of Change... The named character greater daemons (Kairos Fateweather, Skarbrand, Rotigus, Shalaxi Hellbane) are alway better than the generic ones. I've seen them referred to as "Auto-Include" in discussions of army building... Now.. I don't care at all about matched play, or competitive gaming. I like narrative play and making up stories about my OWN heroes (or, anti-heroes) carving out their own destinies by their sword (or... spells?).. but the people I do play against (other than Amanda) DO build competitive armies and there's always a nagging feeling in the back of my brain that I am hampering myself and dooming myself to always lose by not making the "competitive" choice... 

Also... the Kairos Fateweather version of the model looks pretty cool - with TWO heads! 

But also... I don't CARE about Kairos Fateweather, that giant battle chicken's story has already been told... 

I can think on it a bit, I have LOTS of other stuff to build and paint. 

I think I'll start with the Fateskimmer, Herald of Tzeentch on Burning Chariot.. partly because it's a cool model and partly because I picked up White Dwarf #518 recently, and there are chariot racing rules for Age of Sigmar in there!!

I'll probably simultaneously put together all the Horrors... just because they look fun and they'll be super easy to paint and that will bring me close to being back in the black quicker (at least for the 28mm Foot)! 

This puts me at...

2026 PAINTED

• 28mm Foot: 43
• 28mm Mounted/Beasties: 2

2026 PURCHASED/ACQUIRED

• 28mm Foot: 65
• 28mm Mounted/Beasties: 9
• 28mm Vehicles/Monsters: 2
• 28mm Larger Terrain bits: 2

I doubt there will be any other purchases in the near future... so it shouldn't be too hard to catch up and start chipping away at the Pile of Opportunity!

(I guess there are the Endless Spells for the Disciples of Tzeentch... but I won't worry about those until I actually have enough of these painted to actually PLAY a game!) 

February Games

 I played a game in February... 

Tuesday, 3 February 2026

Started off the month with the GRAND FINALE to our Warhammer Quest: Cursed City campaign! This was the 44th game of Cursed city and the 15th game of the Night Wars campaign. I think it lasted 3-4 rounds...

The scenario looked HARD, but Brutogg got in a lucky hit against Carmilla Du Sang early on, and Glaurio finished her off and it went all downhill for the vampires very quickly after that... 

You can read all about it here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 15 - The FINAL BATTLE...?

Aaaaaand then... that was about it...

Everyone was kind of busy with work and school.

Amanda was away half the month. Orion and Nick went on a ski trip... 

Maybe in March... 

I did track down a copy of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Nemesis - the third and final campaign of the trilogy. I'd initially given up on trying to track one down... but then one showed up at Fenris Workshop among the Used Miniatures and Games (though it was brand new and still in the shrink wrap!) for a not unreasonable price... so I picked that up and the two units I still needed to play the campaign and have been working on trying to paint them up so we can carry on with Warhammer Quest: Cursed City in March!

I guess we'll get to Warhammer Quest: Darkwater AFTER that! 

One More Trip (Tzaangor Warflock)

 I made one more trip to the Dragon's Den this week (my third!) and went back and picked up the Tzaangor Warflock. I had originally told myself (and... Amanda...) that I was going to hold off on getting these UNTIL I painted ALL of the Warpfire Cavalcade Battleforce... but that's been delayed... and I'm going to get these anyway at SOME point... so I just wandered back Friday afternoon and picked it up!? 

Tzaangor Warflock

I think Tzaangors look fun. I hate actually painting them... but they look fun and I got it in my head that it would be fun to have an entire force of just Tzaangor and Deamons of Tzeentch. No humans.. I also like the idea of piles of Tzaangor on Discs of Tzeentch whizzing about the field of battle.

I already have three of them:

Tzaangor on Discs of Tzeentch

Of the three above that came in the Arcane Cataclysm box, I built one as a Tzaangor Enlightened, and the other two as Tzaangor Skyfires... (as, at the time, I wasn't concerned with building a full unit of one or the other to use in Age of Sigmar!). The Enlightened I actually used as a Tzaangor Shaman... 

Now that I have some more, I think I'll build two as Enlightened and four as Skyfires, so I have one unit of three Enlightened, and two units of three Skyfires... Also, now I will have an ACTUAL Tzaangor Shaman! 

(Maybe I should actually have a look at the Battletome before I actually start assembling!) 

Drycha Hamadreth - Regent of the Outcasts

I FINALLY finished up Drycha Hamadreth! This model has been sitting on the corner of my painting desk, almost entirely painted for... months now...? I think what was holding me up was not being able to decide how to paint ALL THE BUGS... and in the end I decided to just make them all blue-glowy-spirit-bugs, just to make it simple and get it all done! 

Drycha Hamadreth - Regent of the Outcasts

She can launch a swarm of Flitterfuries as a ranged attack or a swarm of Squirmlings into melee and has some nasty sharp claws of her own! 

ALL the Sylvaneth, so far... 

I still have a pair of Treelords to finish up (a Treelord Ancient and Spirit of Durthu) and fifteen Tree-Reventnats or Spite-Revenants. I could wait until Amanda's played with both to decide which she'd prefer... or I could wait until the new Battletome comes out later this year and see if and how either changes... OR I could just say screw it and make them ALL Spite-Revenants for Drycha Hamadreth - Regent of the Outcasts to lead into battle!! 

Currently this could be fielded as... 

Treelord General’s Regiment 

• Hero - Treelord (1) 210 
• Unit - Kurnoth Hunters with Kurnoth Greatbows (3) 200 
• Unit - Tree-Revenants (10) 180 
• Unit - Gossamid Archers (5)  120

Total: 710

Branchwych’s Regiment

• Hero - Branchwych (1) 110 - Any Infantry
• Unit - Dryads (10)  90 - Infantry
• Unit - Dryads (10)  90 - Infantry

Total: 290

Drycha Hamadreth's Regiment 

• Hero - Drycha Hamadreth (1) 220 - 0-1 Forest Sentinel, Any Sylvaneth
• Unit - Spite-Revenants (10) 160 Infantry

Total: 380

Faction Terrain: Awakened Wyldwood

ARMY TOTAL: 1380

The additional Treelords will add another 550points which will bring the force to 1930! The additional Revenants will add 240-270 points of optional extras!

Oh, I think I also have one of the Endless Spells to finish!  

Tzeentch: Lord of Entropy, Changer of Ways

Saturday I walked to the Dragon's Den to pick up the new Tzeentch stuff on release day. It was -41°C windchill when I woke up and wondered if I really should... but I'd had a week off and barely left the house so I decided I needed exercise and bundled up for the 4.5 Km hike to the store (9Km round trip) through the snow. I got there and discovered they had not received their order from Games Workshop that week!? So I turned around and hiked back home, empty-handed... 

Well, not entirely empty-handed... I bought last month's White Dwarf with the bonus Warhammer Quest character cards for running a Flesh-Eater Courts retinue and some Green Stuff! 

I got a note yesterday saying the stuff arrived, but they'd been shorted the Warfare Cavalcade Battleforce...

I had been a little worried about that... Warhammer.com and a few of the other stores I look at online were sold out of it already... luckily 401 Games in Toronto had a few in stock, so I ordered one from them and it should be here next week. 

I did go pick up the Battletome from Dragon's Den and while I was there grabbed the Argent Shards (new faction terrain for Disciples of Tzeentch) and the new White Dwarf (with the bonus character cards for a Lumineth Realmlords adventuring party!) 

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...?)