Realm of Warcry: Krule and the gang

 Greetings all.

After having so much fun building and painting my champion, I added a couple mates for him to boss around:

Bonus Johann now included to run away from various things.

We also played a cheeky game via zoom the other day, a sort of trial of champions. Great fun too, with lots of twists and turns. We rolled up some additional followers (including more bloody dwarfs for me...) so I'll be adding them to the merry little band shortly.

Realm of Warcry: Part One

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A somewhat odd post from me today... if any of you follow my good buddy Alex's blog Leadballoony you might have seen his efforts in building a Realm of Chaos/Warcry mashup warband. Essentially rolling up a champion and followers in the hallowed tomes of the Lost and the Damned and Slaves to Darkness, and then translating this to modern minis and rules.

A few weeks ago I suggested to my fellow geeks that we should at some point do a "Tale of Four Gamers" style slow grow project. Everyone immediately jumped on it as a good idea, and Alex suggested that we hop on his Realm of Warcry bandwagon and build warbands on a monthly basis, with the occasional game in between. Given that this is obviously a brilliant idea, that is exactly what we did!

We got together on Zoom to roll up our initial warbands, and either by fate or personal choice we all ended up with Nurgle as our patron. My champion and initial clutch of followers are as below:

• Orc Champion of Nurgle - Very long legs, Nurgling infestation
• 2 Orcs
• 1 Dark Elf
• 1 Cold One
• 3 Beastmen
• 6 Dwarfs

Bit of a mixed bag I think you'll agree! We've allowed ourselves a bit of artistic licence with this whole project, given that the end goal is a bit of fun and creativity, so we'll be rerolling anything that is too silly, and there's a certain amount of interpretation allowed as to what the choices actually refer to (for example, my Cold One may end up being a slightly different beast, but keeping the general theme).

The catch is that all of these minis will be from the "modern" GW range, to save us the headache of hunting down old lead. With that in mind, I present my champion, Slumpsha Swampstrider:

He's built from the incredible new Kruleboyz kit, with a few Nurgly additions and a bit of green stuff to give him those lanky legs. Very pleased with how he came out and I can't wait to see how he performs in his quest for glory.

Mordheim: The Circus is in town!

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Bit of an unusual post from me today, because it's a Mordheim warband! I've got some major nostalgia about Mordheim, despite never having actually played a game... I fondly remember 1999 (for a great many reasons) and being very interested in the game with my school friends at the time. I got the boxed set for my birthday or Christmas that year, and fiddled around with the minis a bit, but never actually rolled any dice. I assume we got distracted by the equally awesome Blood Bowl, Necromunda, or possibly Warhammer Quest. Since then I've sold off what little Mordheim stuff I had (or converted it for other things), and never really thought much about it since.

That all changed when my good buddy Alex gave me the complete Circus of Corruption set from Old School Miniatures. This little lot are an awesome re-imagining of the classic Carnival of Chaos from Mordheim.

They actually sat unloved in my to do pile for a couple of years before I got round to them, but I finally did:

The complete warband

Carnival Master & Plaguebearers

Clowns (Tainted Ones)

Strongmen (Brutes)

Brethren 1

Brethren 2

Nurglings

I went with round bases for this lot because it's 2022, and I also based them all (except the Nurglings) on the slightly larger 32mm bases. Partly this was a functional choice because they're some very chunky models, but mostly I just like the way it looks. I'm itching to play some Mordheim with them now and party like it's 1999!

The rest of the Untamed Beasts

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I've finished up the last of my Untamed Beasts for Warcry (and other stuff I guess), just in time for 2nd Edition. Given how little I played 1st edition I can't say I'm thrilled about having to buy more books, but that's just how it is with GW these days. 

I bought the double box of Untamed Beasts (the AoS one) to give me plenty of options and painted most of them up a little while back. I almost didn't bother with these last few guys but it seemed silly just to have them sat on the sprue doing nothing, so here are the rest of the pack:

I did a few conversions on these ones just to make them a bit more interesting and different to the others. I kinda wish I'd done that with more of them, but never mind. Pleased with how they all look on the whole.

Painting update: Warcry (Untamed Beasts)

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Another quick update just to try and catch up. This time it's my new-ish Untamed Beasts warband for Warcry. I've already got plenty of AoS style warbands that I could use, but I really wanted a "proper" one because they're so cool.

And here they are in action:

Till next time.

Painting update: Death Guard

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I'm still keeping this blog limping along with the intention of doing something with it. Still haven't though. However I have actually been doing a fair bit of painting, so I'll post a few updates in the coming days with what I've been working on. The first of these is a few additions to my small Death Guard army

There's not much to say about these. They're pretty standard and all painted with my best friend Contrast Paints:

Till next time.

We captured it for Chaos... a long overdue update

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Bit of an unexpected update this time. Many moons ago (like seven years or so) I painted up some of the very cool, and not very readily available Chaos Cultists from 2nd Edition 40k, sculpted by Paul Muller. I've got a fair few of these guys, but tbh I wish I had even more because they're some of my favourite models of all time. 

I had originally planned for these guys to be part of a Khorne Daemonkin army, but given that I don't really play 40k any more, and Daemonkin dont actually exist any more, they sort of sat unloved for a long time. My first batch were painted up in Khorne colours (i.e. red!) and were mostly unconverted, but these guys were chopped up loads. I decided to paint these up in Undivided colours, given that they weren't planned for inclusion in any particular army or project, and will just turn up as and when I need some deluded mooks (probably in Stargrave more than anything). I also added in an old Redemptionist flamer to give them a bit of firepower, and it fits the aesthetic nicely.

I also updated the basing on my older Khorne cultists to bring them in line with my current minis a bit more (with a sneak peek of some other bits in the background):

Hope you like em!