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...?) 

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!)