Bloodletters

I finished up the TWENTY Bloodletters! 

This finishes off the Chaos Daemons Combat Patrol I bought a few weeks ago - it also finishes up ALL of the Khorne Daemons, including ones I've had for years! (I do still have a few Khorne Bloodbound I could finish up!) 

Twenty Bloodletters!

One unit of ten Bloodletters

Another unit of ten Bloodletters

ALL THE DAEMONS

In Age of Sigmar, just these daemons adds up to 1920 points!? It could be fielded as an army all on it's own!! (I have almost as many Bloodbound - or, will have, when they're all finished... they could fight each other!) 

In Warhammer 40,000 this only adds up to 1130 points...? So enough for a Chaos Daemons starter Crusade force, and a few things to add to it... but not a full 2000 point tournament force. 

I briefly wondered about a World Eaters force (the Combat Patrol looks fun - with a DAemon Prince of Khorne!) but in the World Eaters force, Karanak and the Bloodmasters aren't allowed... and I imagine, like the Emperor's Children, daemons are probably only allowed in one of the Detachments and only allowed to make up 50% of the force... But the World Eaters Combat Patrol is only 500 points, so if I wanted to build anything other than a starter Crusade force (of 1000 points), that would be MORE stuff I'd have to buy... (I'd hoped maybe some of the old Chaos Space Marine stuff I have that didn't make it into the Emperor's Children codex might be allowed in the World Eaters - Venomcrawler, Obliterators, Master of Possession, etc.) alas... none were... so probably not going to bother with that. 

It has just occurred to me that I did not take a picture of the Combat Patrol... which was why I bought this latest batch of things... Ah well... 

All of the Blades of Khorne, so far... 

I do hope I'll get another couple small batches of Blades of Khorne units while riding this current wave of enthusiasm... Mighty Lord of Khorne, the Skullreapers and ten Blood Warriors. If I got all those done (and half of them are MOSTLY done...) the only thing I'd have left to do are thirty or so Bloodreavers?

So I'd started painting these with Warhammer 40,000 in mind, as either a Combat Patrol on their own, or random wandering daemons in Crusade: Armageddon, etc... in the process of painting this batch of daemons, it's gotten me thinking a lot about Age of Sigmar again... 

It didn't help that yesterday the Sunday preview on Warhammer Community announced that the new Blades of Khorne Battletome will be available for pre-order next week... and there will be a new Khorne Spearhead army (which I have MOST of the stuff for!) 

That led to thinking about running a Vampire-themed game of Soulbound... using the archetypes from Champions of Death... and... maybe the group ISN'T Soulbound. (This is the thing I like LEAST about Soulbound... is the fact that it is so focused on playing a soulbinding, it is so limiting... why not have just called it the Age of Sigmar Role-Playing game... have Soulbinding be an OPTION for a type of campaign...)

Oh! AND! This puts me back in the Black for this year - at least for 28mm foot figures - 272 purchased (or otherwise aquired through trade, etc!) and 282 PAINTED! (Also I've traded away over 100 minis, so the overall ratio of painted to unpainted is even highter!)