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!) 

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!) 

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!) 

It's Been Kind of Quiet Around Here...

I haven't been painting a lot of miniatures so far this year... 

Partly this is because I've been a bit busy, having returned to school... 

But also earlier this month I injured my shoulder and neck and that's made it pretty painful to sit and paint or assemble miniatures... 

This is really kind of bumming me out as I was REALLY hoping to be playing Warhammer Quest: Darkwater in February, but I still have so many miniatures to paint still!!  

On the plus side... 

(this meme was probably funnier when a friend posted it on their discord just a week into the year!) 

It's a bit more of an actual brag that I made it through January without buying any miniatures! 

Especially considering Dragon's Den Games had three copies of Fury of the Deep and one copy of Warcry Heart of Ghur on their discount shelf at 40% off! The contents of Fury of the Deep I think I calculated to be around $500CAD now... and 40% off the original retail price put it at around $120...? At one point I would not have thought twice about buying that... do I NEED a force of Idoneth Deepkin or Fyreslayers?! Fuck no! But they would be FUN to have a paint up! 

Realistically, I haven't painted more than a unit or two... or maybe a Unit and a character...? from the last three of those old battle boxes I've picked up...

(no... that's not true, I DID paint ALL of the Nighthaunt half of Arena of Shades! That's kind of how I ended up with a Nighthaunt Spearhead Army - after I bought a few more units...) 

I DID pick up the new Nurgle Battletome... but that's about it... 

NONE of the new Nurgle units or the new Nurgle Spearhead army, though! I'll probably pick up that new spearhead - just to get the units it contains (SO MANY NURGLINGS!!) for considerably less than the regular retail price of the individual units! 

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But only AFTER I have ALL the other Maggotkin of Nurgle stuff I already have done (including the Warhammer Quest Darkwater stuff!)... 

(which is four Pusgoyle Blightlords, five of the older Putrid Blightkings, a Harbinger of Decay, ten Rotmire Creed, a Sloppily Bilepiper, and the Feculent Gnarlmaw... and from Warhammer Quest: Darkwater; a pair of Cankerborn, eight Pestigors, fourteen Poxwretches, and maybe all the Sylvaneth stuff I have... If I add in the Sylvaneth, I have fifteen Spite-Revenants, two Treelords, and Drycha Hamadreth to finish up - though the latter is nearly done!) 

I was pretty excited about the Tzeentch stuff presented at the New Years Preview. There wasn't much in terms of new miniatures - just faction terrain and a mortal infantry hero... 

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The new faction terrain looks really interesting. 

What also caught my eye was the Battleforce Box being released along with the new Battletome and the new Spearhead - all look fun. There is nothing new in either of those boxes. Just a lot of older miniatures all at deeply discounted prices! 

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The Battleforce: Warpflame Cavalcade contains a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch, three Screamers of Tzeentch, three flamers of Tzeentch, an Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch, a Herald of Tzeentch on Burning Chariot, and ten each of Pink, Blue and Brimstone Horrors! A great big PILE of Daemons! 

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The Tzaangor Warflock Spearhead is all Tzaangors - a Tzaangor Shaman leading three Tzaangor Enlightened, Three Tzaangor Skyfires, and 10 Tzaangor. 

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So I'll probably pick up the Battleforce box and Battletome when they're released (as the Battleforce Box  will only be available for a limited time) and then I'll pick up the terrain and the Tzaangor Warflock Spearhead when I finish the daemons in the Battleforce box (and... maybe the Tzeentch Spearhead I already HAVE?!) 

Because, apparently, I need ANOTHER chaos army... 

Hopefully none of it is released until later in March... 

Maybe this will be the YEAR OF CHAOS!! 

Boxing Day

I walked over to my FLGS - Dragon's Den Games - for Boxing Day. I hadn't initially been planning to go, but they sent me a message late afternoon on Xmas Eve to let me know that the Dreadscythe Harridans I'd asked them to get in MONTHS ago had finally arrived!!it is the ONLY unit I need to complete the Nighthaunt Cursed Shacklehorde Spearhead army. 

While I was there I also picked up some Flamers of Tzeentch... because they, also, are the only unit I need to complete a Spearhead army. 

Both things I was going to get at some point in the not-to-distant future... so might as well pick it up at 20% off! 

Dreadscythe Harridans and Flamers of Tzeentch

The difference between the two is ALL of the other stuff needed for the Nighthaunt army is painted - once these are assembled and painted the army will be DONE! Only ONE unit in the Tzeentch army is painted... I still have four units to paint (including these) to complete that army - but these will be handy for the Soulbound Role-playing campaign. 

I had, briefly, considered rolling out to the Warhammer Store on Boxing Day - they had some special edition miniatures available... 

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The Steel Rook looked pretty cool... cooler than some of the other commemorative minis I've picked up... but... ugh... I just couldn't. I've spent so much on minis this year. (Also, Amanda might have murdered me if I had!). 

Orion was considering of picking her up as well - thinking she'd make a great Vampire Lord! 

I'm going to be really sad if they release rules for this one for Warhammer Quest: Darkwater, or something... 

In other hobby news... 

ALL of the Warhammer Quest: Darkwater miniatures are assembled and primed and over the weekend I'm going to try and knock out the heroes and a few of the hostile groups so we can try the game out on Tuesday with a few friends! 

I'll probably assemble and prime the Dreadscythe Harridans and Flamers... and then leave them be until I'm done the stuff I need for Tuesday... but then I might try to knock out the Dreadscythe Harridans on Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning - just to see if I could get ONE MORE Spearhead army done this year!! 

Looks like I'm going to be in the red again this year (purchased more than I've painted)... ah, well... I've gotten painting again and having acquired most of the things for most of the armies I'm interested in, MAYBE I'll be able to lay off the acquisitions next year and just focus on getting stuff DONE!!!

I've gotten a bit behind on the game reports again. I think I have three to catch up on, and I'll try to do that before the end of the years so I can start with a clean slate in the new year! 

Warhmmer Quest: Silver Tower - Gaunt Summoner of Tzeentch

 This Gaunt Summoner of Tzeentch is from Finnegan's copy of Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower... which I am technically painting it for... but also... I need a Gaunt Summoner of Tzeentch for our Soulbound game later today! 

Gaunt Summoner of Tzeentch

It COULD be used in a Disciples of Tzeentch army (or, I think, even a Slaves to Darkness army...?)... But it is Finnegan and I doubt he will ever play Age of Sigmar, so... 

If ever I get enough Disciples of Tzeentch ready to play them in Age of Sigmar and need a Gaunt Summoner... I'll probably just pick up my own, at that point! 

Spearhead Armies Status

I've sort of ended up with a BUNCH of armies for Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Spearhead. There are elements of Spearhead that remind me a bit of De Bellis Antiquitatis, which I like; short games, small footprint (on the tabletop), fixed army lists, you don't need a full battletome for each army you want to play... Of course, the gameplay isn't nearly so elegant as De Bellis Antiquitatis... it is a fun excuse to have a smattering of miniatures from a bunch of different armies - which is handy for other skirmish games or role-playing games. 

It all started with the Hedonites of Slaanesh. I'd started building an army of these when the Third Edition of Age of Sigmar came out four or five years ago, so when they announced the new Fourth Edition and the new play mode (Spearhead) I wanted to start there... unfortunately NONE of the units I already had were included in the Spearhead army. Not to worry, the starting Spearhead armies for the new edition exactly matched the contents of the Vanguard boxes from the previous editions and  was about $50-70 cheaper than buying the units separately. 

So I bought that box and built and painted the Hedonites of Slaanesh before Fourth Edition was released!

When Fourth Edition was released, I bought the Skaventide launch box. I'd never bought a lauch box for any edition of either 40K or Age of Sigmar, so I thought it might be fun. It included a Spearhead rule book with ALL the Spearhead army's information that you could not get in print anywhere else!? (sure, you can download the basic rules of the game AND all of the rules for any of the armies as a free PDF from GW's website...) AND the board and terrain and cards you need to play (which, on their own, would be released later for $80) AND it included two full Spearhead armies (Stormcasat and Skaven!). 

Initially I'd planned to sell off all the Stormcast and Skaven... but then thought maybe I'd keep them (or, at least, the Spearhead armies) so I could have some opposing armies that could be loaned out should anyone ever come over to play! So then I had three... 

THEN, I ended up buying the Soulblight Gravelords army, because I was ordering a book from an online seller that was super cheap... and the had the Soulblight army deeply discounted as well... and I figures since I already HAD a Soulblight Gravelord army - just from the contents of the Warhammer Quest: Cursed City box! That made FOUR!? 

THEN I traded some 40K Knights for a complete Blades of Khorne army - which conveniently did include the units requires for the Blades of Khorne Spearhead army!? That made FIVE. This was the second one I actually managed to get painted!

Then, somehow I managed to convince myself AND Amanda that I should get the Sylvaneth Spearhead army... and I painted that one up right away! SIXTH army, third one painted. 

In the fall, when the Slaves to Darkness battletome was announced they also announced that a new Slaves to Darkness Spearhead would be released along with it. As I had a LOT of Slaves to Darkness models (another army I'd intended to build as an ally for my Hedonites of Slaanesh in Third Edition) but didn't have the models for the initial Spearhead Army, I decided to pick up the Darkoath Raiders Spearhead - to have ANOTHER (SEVENTH!) Spearhead army and build up the Slaves to Darkness army! 

Through the rest of the year I ended up buying two deeply discounted battle boxes from previous editions of the game that the Dragon's Den had in their Bargain Bin (it's really more of a shelf... but you get the idea); Arcane Cataclysm and Arena of Shades (I also picked up the Extremis Starter box for third edition, but it didn't help with any Spearhead Armies!) 

The Arena of Shades box included the units I needed to finish off a Daughters of Khaine Spearhead army (as I'd started a small force of those when I started playing at the launch of third edition, thinking Amanda might be interested in trying it out - since she was so fond of playing Morgwaeth's Blad-Coven in Warhammer Underworlds!) EIGHT...!?

As it would turn out, Arena of Shades also included most of the units required for the new Nighthaunt Spearhead army the following year. (potentially a NINTH!) 

The Arcane Cataclysm Box has more than half of the units required for both Tzeentch and Lumineth Realmlords Spearhead armies!? (potentially TENTH and ELEVENTH!?)

Finally (so far) about a month ago, when GW announced the immanent arrival of the new Blades of Khorne Spearhead army and the NEW Spearhead army that would go along with it, the Fangs of Khorne, which I already had most of - Karanak and all the Flesh Hounds, only needed the one unit of the Claws of Karanak! - so, obviously I bought those! (TWELVE?!) 

So... What is the status of all those armies... 

Hedonites of Slaanesh - Blades of the Lurid Dream

DONE!

• 1x Shardspeaker of Slaanesh (General)
• 3x Slaangor Fiendbloods
• 5x Slickblade Seekers 
• 5x Blissbarb Archers (plus 1x Blissbrew Homonculus)
• 5x Blissbarb Archers

As it turns out, these armies are not super well balanced and some of them are just objectively better than others. This one is NOT one of the better ones.. It does kind of suck buying and assembling and painting an army only to find out you picked the wrong one if you ever want to win a game... ever... despite that, I've played with them a few times:

Hedonites of Slaanesh versus Soulblight Gravelords

Heodnites of Slaanesh Versus Stormcast Eternals - Yndrasts's Spearhead

Blades of Khorne - Bloodbound Gore Pilgrims

DONE!

• 1x Slaughterpriest (General)
• 5x Blood Warriors
• 5x Blood Warriors
• 10x Bloodreavers
• 3x Mighty Skullcrushers

I've played a few games with these... 

Age of Sigmar - Spearhead League - 2 Games (versus Flesh-Eater Courts and Soulblight Gravelords

Blades of Khorne Versus Soulblight Gravelords... Again...

Sap for the Sap God...? 

Sylvaneth - Bitterbark Copse

DONE!

• 1x Branchwych (General) 
• 1x Treelord
• 3x Kurnoth Hunters
• 5x Tree-Revenants

I have played a few games with these:

Last Spearhead League Game - versus Maggotkin of Nurgle 

Sylvaneth Battling Soulblights in Shyish!

Lizards and Trees Clash in Shyish!

Sap for the Sap God...? - loaned to John to play against Blades of Khorne

Blades of Khorne - Fangs of Khorne

Almost done!

• 1x Karanak (General) 
• 8x Claws of Karanak
• 5x Flesh Hounds
• 5x Flesh Hounds

Karanak and the Flesh Hounds I've had for a while and were fully painted before Fourth Edtion of Age of Sigmar was even announced. I'm over half done painting the Claws of Karanak. They should be done shortly... 

Stormcast Eternals - Vigilant Brotherhood

Still to do... but getting close! 

• 1x Lord Vigilant on Gryph-Stalker (General) 
• 1x Lord Veritant (with Gryph-Crow)
• 3x Prosecutors
• 5x Liberators

This one is also so very close to being done, I really need to just push through and FINISH THEM. All are assembled and over half painted. Maybe 80% done...? 

I have played ONE GAME with this force (not mine, the store's copy at the Warhammer Store in Saskatoon) I did not finish the game, I was leading when we had to call it, but I would NOT say victory was certain! 

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Spearhead - First Game!

Soulblight Gravelords - Bloodcrave Hunt

Still to do

• 1x Vampire Lord (General) 
• 3x Vargheists
• 5x Blood Knights
• 20x Deathrattle Skeletons

The Vampire Lord is done. Everything else is assembled and primed and the bases are done. These will probably be next after the Stormcast. 

Nighthaunt - Cursed Shacklehorde

Almost done!

• 1x Spirit Torment (General)
• 2x Chainghasts
• 10x Dreadscythe Harridans
• 10x Bladegheist Revenants
• 2x Dreadblade Harrows

The Spirit Torment, two Chainghasts, and ten Bladegheist Revenants I already had (from the Arena of Shades box) and are painted. The two Dreadblade Harrows i recently acquired (second hand) and need to be repainted. I still need to pick up the ten Dreadscythe Harridans... 

Daughters of Khaine - Heartflayer Troupe

Still to do... 

• 1x Melusai Ironscale (General) 
• 10x Witch Aelves
• 5x Blood Stalkers
• 5x Doomfire Warlocks

The Melusai Ironscale is painted, the rest have been assembled but still need to be painted. (warlocks are partly painted) 

Slaves to Darkness - Darkoath Raiders

Still to do!

• 1x Darkoath Warqueen (General) 
• 5x Darkoath Fellriders
• 10x Darkoath Savagers
• 10x Darkoath Marauders

The Darkoath Warqueen is assembled and partly painted. The rest... still on the Sprue... 

Skaven - Gnawfeast Pack

Still to do...

• 1x Clawlord on Gnaw-beast (General) 
• 1x Grey Seer
• 1x Warlock Engineer
• 10x Clanrats
• 10x Clanrats
• 3x Rat Ogors

These came with the Skaventide box. I've thought about getting rid of them more than a few times.. (and I DID get ride of the Skaven stuff from the box that WASN'T part of the Spearhead!) But ultimately decided to hold on to them - partly because I like the idea of having forces for all five of the dark gods of Chaos!

So many little rats to paint, tho... 

Luminath Realmlords - Glittering Phalanx

Still to do... 

• 1x Scinari Cathallar (General) 
• 5x Vanari Bladelords
• 10x Vanari Auralan Wardens
• 10x Vanari Auralan Sentinels

I have the three units of Vanari, two are assembled, one still on the sprue, and I still need to pick up a Scinari Cathaller, but I probably won't do that until some of the other armies are finished up and I actually start painting the units for this army

Disciples of Tzeentch - Fluxblade Coven 

Still to do

• 1x Magister on Disc of Tzeentch (General)
• 3x Screamers of Tzeentch
• 3x Flamers of Tzeentch
• 10x Tzaangors
• 10x Kairic Acolytes

Some of this came in the Arcane Cataclysm box... I picked up the Magister and Screamers separately, and still need the Flamers. So far, only the Screamers of Tzeentch are the only thing painted (though I have painted Tzaangors and Kairic Acolytes, those were all for Finnegan's Warhammer Quest games...) 

STILL TO GET!? 

It is bonkers to even consider any more at this point.

Yet... 

Not going to lie, there are others that I would totally love to get... 

Primarily, the Maggotkin of Nurgle - Bleak Host Spearhead army... mostly just to have all five Chaos gods represented (ugh... that still feels wrong including the Great Horned Rat in that... but whatevs). 

Also the Seraphon - Starscale Host looks fun - I mean, General on a GIANT LIZARD!? 

and more recently, I kind of like the idea of the new Helsmiths of Hashut... 

Now, I'm NOT going ot run out and buy ANY of these any time soon. I definitely need to finish painting a bunch of the ones that I already have before I even consider getting another! 

I've basically copied and pasted this post into a page where I can update it. If you're looking at this on a computer, it should be in the list of pages over to the left... if you're on a phone.. I'm not sure where it is, I never look at this on a phone... you can find it here, though:

Age of Sigmar - Spearhead Armies

Cursling, Eye of Tzeentch

A Cursling is a powerful wizard-warrior devoted to Tzeentch, the god of change. I picked up the Cursling in the Arcane Cataclysm battlebox I picked up last year. It is the fourth (out of FIFTY-FIVE!?) miniatures I've painted out of the box!? (I also painted the Tzaangor Skyfires).

Cursling, Eye of Tzeentch

I AM still working on the terrain bits for Spearhead: Sand and Bone. I generally have a pile of OTHER THINGS tucked around the periphery of the main painting space for when I have a moment because I'm waiting for something to dry... I just pick up something else to work on for a bit. Or if I've finished painting a colour on the main miniatures I'm working on and have some left over because I squirted out too much, I'll look around to see if any of those side projects need that colour... and... eventually... I finish off some of those odd extra things! 

The Hag Priestess I finished yesterday was one of them. 

This Curseling is one of them...  

I don't have a LOT of Tzeentch stuff painted, for myself. I have painted a LOT of Kyric Acolytes and a few Tzaangor for Finnegan - that came in his Warhammer Quest games. I have the Tzaangor and Kairic Acolytes that came in the box to paint up for myself... but then I have another batch that I got in trade from Orion... 

Once I've got a unit of each done I just need to paint up the Magister on the Disc of Tzeentch... and then pick up a box of Flamers of Tzeentch... and paint those... and then I'll have ANOTHER Spearhead army!! 

First Aquisitions

It's only just half way through January and I'm already acquiring new things... Well... New to me things... On the plus side, I didn't spend any money on them! I traded away a PILE of World War Two Americans that I was just NEVER going to get around to painting... 

Orion was looking to get rid of a pile of Kairic Acolytes and a few Tzaangor. Do I really need MORE Kairic Acolytes and Tzaangor!? No, probably not... but, at this point, I figure I'm far more likely to paint and play with these, than I am WW2 Americans. 

There are 35 Kairic Acolytes and 14 Tzaangor. In Age of Sigmar, both are fielded in units of ten.. So there are a few extras I don't super need... BUT the Kairic Acolytes and Tzaangor that Finnegan got in his Warhammer Quest Games are weird numbers (18 Kairic Acolytes and 6 Tzaangor...?) So maybe I could paint up the spares and give them to him and then he'd have full units of 10/20... Y'know, just in case he ever decided to play Age of Sigmar with them...?!

A number of them are broken... but, conveniently, I have a pile of Kairic Acolytes and Tzaangor new-on-the-sprue (from the Arcane Cataclysm box) and there are a LOT of options on each sprue, so I can totally repair any! 

It was a mix of regular US Army infantry, some Airborne infantry and a small handful of WW2 USMC! 

I also gave away a bonus copy of Bolt Action (first edition) that I had kicking around. Not sure how much the game has changed since then...? I bought the second edition rules at some point. but never played them. Now there's a THIRD edition out?! 

Hopefully they'll see some paint and play at their new home! Maybe I'LL get to play against them at some point!? 

The Lot I traded away has almost 100 miniatures in it, so... in terms of the overall number of unpainted miniatures, I now have FEWER!

Age of Sigmar - Tzaangor

I really had these mostly finished up yesterday... but didn't get to posting pictures, and including them in the year end totals, etc... so I'm counting them as the first miniatures finished this year.. 

I was trying to finish these (and a dozen other miniatures) for my Soulbound roleplaying game yesterday... which was just too many... in the end I finished the three Tzaangor on Discs of Tzeentch and five on the other Tzaangor and used them in the game! But then after the game I finished up the sixth Tzaangor and touched up most of the others... and I finished that after midnight... so... first miniatures finished this year!

Tzaangor on Discs of Tzeentch. 

The three Tzaangor on Discs of Tzeentch included in Arcane Cataclysm could be built as either Tzaangor Enlightened or Tzaangor Skyfires... Because I wasn't really planning to use them in Age of Sigmar (the tabletop miniatures game) I ended up building one as he Champion from the Tzaangor Enlightened options (hoping I could pass it off as a Tzaangor Shaman) and the other two as Tzaangor Skyfires. 

If ever I did use them in a game of Age of Sigmar, I'd just call them Tzaangor Skyfires...

Tzaangor

These six are from Finnegan's Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower set... which gets me a touch closer to finishing those... just have goblin scuttlings, the Gaunt Sorcerer, and some weird little imps and critters that, I think, are used as tokens...? 

I have ten Tzaangor of my own to build now - and twenty Kairic Acolytes!? 

For next week I need to finish up some Goblins and Squigs and Kharadron Overlord Arkanauts.... Most are about half painted. I tried to get the Arkanauts painted for this week.. but had to abandon that plan when it became clear I was nowhere near being close to finishing EVERYTHING up... 

Age of Sigmar - Screamers of Tzeentch

 (Technically, these COULD be used in a 40K Daemons of Chaos army as well!) 

Screamers of Tzeentch - These are daemons that fly through the sky at great speed slashing their enemies as they pass with spines, fins, horns and teeth while emitting a harrowing wailing and screeching noises!

The downside of painting a small number of this and that for role-playing and skirmish games is I always start thinking; "wow, these are super fun! I'd love to build a WHOLE ARMY of them!?" Which is ridiculous and I absolutely cannot... but the feeling is always there... 

They'll soon be seeing action in my Soulbound Role-playing game. Still need to finish some Tzaangors as well! 

Boxing Day at the Dragon's Den

Okay, I went out and bought a few more things on Boxing Day... 

It was a nice ride... Clear, which often means FUCKING COLD around this time of year, but today was quite mild (as it has been for a few days now)

I arrived four minutes after they opened and the store was already packed with people and the line went from the register all the way to the back of the store! (Not the longest line up I've seen in there on a Boxing Day... but still!) 

I just grabbed a few things and was on my way home within 20 minutes, most of that was standing in line! 

There was a PLAN for all the purchases. I went in looking for specific things, got those and got out! 

I got a box of Tree-Revenants (which can be built as Spite-Revenants) to have a second unit of Spite Revenants. With those, I can field the Lost-Song Spirits Regiment of Renown - which includes a Treelord and two units of five Spite-Revenants. The Regiment can be included in Soulblight Gravelords or Nighthaunt army! (or Idoneth Deepkin, or Ossiarch Bonereapers, or Flesh-Eater Courts - but I don't have any of those!) 

The box of Deadwalker Zombies I'm splitting with Orion. Units of Deadwalker Zombies are fielded in groups of TWENTY. Warhammer Quest: Cursed City only comes with ten. So I suggested we could split a box to add to our Cursed City zombies to each have a unit of twenty in our respective Soulblight Gravelord armies! 

The Arkonaut Company is to make up the crew of the Grungi's Face (and later the Grund) - Kharadron Overlord skyvessels the player characters encounter in the first few adventures - and if all goes according to plan, become recurring allies!

The Magister on the Disc of Tzeentch I picked up because Tzeentch is going to be a regular foe in the campaign (as ALL the player characters met because they were chasing down a Sorceress of Tzeentch)... but also this model leads the Disciples of Tzeentch Spearhead Army... and isn't normally available on it's own anymore (not on GWs online catalogue) and I DON'T want to buy a Spearhead Army box to play a Disciples of Tzeentch Spearhead army... because I just don't need MORE Kairic Acolytes or Tzaangors. I would also need to pick up some Flamers of Tzeentch, at some point, to finish up the army... But as Tzeetch are going to be recurring opponents in the campaign... I'd probably pick those up at some point, anyway... 

The book, Blackened Earth, is an adventure for Soulbound in the city of Greywater Fastness in the realm of Ghyran. Most of the antagonists are followers of Khorne and Skaven - both of which I already HAVE a lot of! And Sylvaneth also show up in the game (maybe allies... maybe opponents) but I have some of those already, as well! 

Probably getting ahead of myself as the campaign is currently heading towards Brightspear, a city in the Southwest of corner of Aqshy... and I have other adventures and an entire campaign (Shadows in the Mist) set in Aqshy... but I have high hopes it will be a fairly regular, on-going thing! 

After I got home we started playing ANOTHER game of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City! I'll be posting a game report of that later this evening! 

So this should be IT for the year... and hopefully shouldn't need anything else for a bit! 

Work-in-Progress Wedensday - 25 December 2024

Happy Christmas to all who celebrate (and I hope all of the rest of you are having an equally fabulous day!) We're going to play another game of Warhammer Quest today... but I have gotten a little painting in this week. 

I got a fair bit done in the past week... I finished up the last of the Cursed City Heroes; Octren Glimscry and Cleona Zeitengale, then I also finished up the second-to-last of the Cursed City hostiles; Gorslav the Gravekeeper, and finally a Chaos Sorcerer Lord! 

First I cracked the Arcane Cataclysm box that Santa gave me... 

I assembled, based and primed the Cursling from the box... 

As well as a few of the Tzaangor on the Discs of Tzeentch. I assembled one as a Tzaangor Enlighted and the other two as Tzaangor Skyfires. 

I also assembled and primed the three Screamers of Tzeentch

The Tzaangor and Screamers are needed for the next session of the Soulbound Role-Playing Game, which is next Tuesday! If I got those done this coming week I would be very happy! 

Of course, all of the Sylvaneth and Nighthaunt I ALSO wanted to finish up by the end of the year are still on the workbench... not so sure I'll finish these now... 

There is still Torgillius the Chamberlain and the two Gibbet Mysterious Objects - the last three miniatures for Cursed City - still haunting the workbench. Having looked at the Encounter Cards and found Torgillius doesn't ever show up until Level Two (and only half of the Heroes have even made it to Level One!) and I've been making good use of all the Hellboy terrain features as Mysterious Objects... so I'm not in as big of a rush to finish these... 

I DID do some work on the Darkoath Warqueen... even if it was just undercoating her skin! 

And now some Goblins and Squigs have made their way back onto the table - as they'll be needed in some upcoming sessions of Soulbound...!

I have a GAME PLAN post coming up at the end of the Month that detail the miniatures I'm hoping to get done over the next few months. Generally, the plan is to work on anything needed for the Soulbound game, and when there isn't something immediately needed, I'm going to focus on assembling and painting the Soulblight Gravelords and Slaves to Darkness armies! (and maybe finishing up the Nighthaunts and Sylvaneth, if I fail to finish them up by the end of the year!?)

What's everyone else working on this week!? 

Did Santa bring you any goodies!?

Age of Sigmar - Arcane Cataclysm

Heh... to be honest, we don't really celebrate Xmas around here... but it kind of felt like I was buying myself a little present today... and, it's that time of year, so... 

The Arcane Cataclysm box has been sitting on the Discount Shelf since I bought the Extremis Starter Set and Arena of Shadows... 

(image ©2024 Games Workshop - used entirely without their permission)

The Arcane Cataclysm box is all Disciples of Tzeentch and Lumineth Realmlords stuff... totalling up the miniature contents of the box, it would cost $531 to buy all of these items separately... The price tag on the box was $270... and was being sold for 40% off... so... $162... which is about 70% off - or $369 in savings...!? 

Not that I would have bought all of these things at their regular price... My "NEED" for most of the items is tenuous, at best... Two of the units were very definitely going to be useful in the current adventure I am running for the Soulbound role-playing game... I do like using miniatures in role-playing games and Tzeentch forces are likely to be recurring foe, given the backgrounds of the characters (and the location they are in and the adventures that I have!) 

I also just like the idea of having a smattering of units from ALL THE ARMIES for small little skirmish games or for use in role-playing games. 

I could sell off the Lumineth half of the box for half of what they would cost new... and that would just about pay for what I bought the entire box for...!? I may or may not do that... I don't know... I may get to painting them at some point!? 

Both forces are about the same size as a spearhead army, but don't quite have the right units... 

The Lumineth Spearhead force is lead by a Scinari Cathallar, instead of the Scinari Enlightener included in this box. The units are 5x Vanari Bladelords, 10x Vanari Auralan Wardens, and 10x Vanari Auralan Sentinels. Whereas this box has 5x Vanari Bladelords, 10x Vanari Auralan Sentinels, and 5 Vanari Dawnriders... I COULD pick up a box of Dawnriders and a Scinari Cathallar... to make a Spearhead force out of this... But it's $126 for those TWO THINGS (the Scinari Cathallar and one unit of Vanari Auralan Wardens)... and an entire Spearhead force is $175!?

The Disciples of Tzeentch Spearhead is lead by a Magister on Disc of Tzeentch, instead of a Cursling, and has Flamers and Screamers of Tzeentch instead of the Tzaangor Enlightened that are included in this box... I did just buy a box of Screamers (as that was something else I needed for an upcoming game of Soulbound... but do I want to go buy a box of Flamers and a Magister on a Disc of Tzeentch just to have ANOTHER spearhead army!? 

I probably won't bother with picking up the things needed to make spearhead armies out of these forces... Well... at least not the Lumineth... The Flamers and Magister could be useful in Soulbound as well!? And Boxing Day is right around the corner!