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! 

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... 

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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! 

Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal - Session Six - The Grinding Gear

For a second week in a row, Amanda and Finnegan and I sat down to play Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal! We are getting close to the end! 

To start off, our heroes found their way down to the bottom layers of the catacombs... and there they found Archaime! The Lord-Castellant's Gryph-Hound that had gone loping off on it's own in Session One!

The Lord-Castellant led the way, choosing to take the passage to the right. Golnir Coalbeard, pushed past him and opened the next door, finding four Putrid Blight Kings huddled together having a discussion about something... they all turned to look at the Cogsmith in the doorway. 

Before they could react, the Loremaster charged in their and lobbed the excavation Charge they'd axquired in the Previous Session! BOOM!!!

Vizrin Kyre danced in and cut down one of the Blightkings. 

Archimaine loped in and took a chunk out of another. 

The Gryph-Hound has a special ability, that if an adversary is adjacent to it, they MUST attack the Gryph-Hound! So the remaining Blightkings healed themselves - because of all the corrupted icons carved into the wall of the chamber and then attacked the Gryph-hound... but did not kill it!!

Kyre took out another Blight King... 

Then the Lord-Castellant stepped in and finished off the last of them. 

Rooms were searched, gold was found. 

Then Kyre and Sunhelm moved into the next chamber and opened the door to find a bunch of Kairic Acolytes and a Chaos Sorcerer lord in the middle of some sort of ritual in a room with large grinding gears that Golnir Coalbeard recognized as having sometihng to do with the flow of white-hot magma below Hammerhal and that disrupting and redirecting the flow could lead to the deaths of thousands... TENS of thousands, possibly! 

The rest move up, Archimaine charged in and Alnaryn slipped in the side and started blasting Acolytes! 

The Acolytes surged forwards and attacked the Gryph-hound taking them out of action! Other magic bolts were thrown at Alnaryn, injuring them! 

Vizrin Kyre had an Elixir of Life and bought Achimaine back immediately. 

At the beginning of the next round, when the Destiny Dice were rolled, there were NO DOUBLES and so a Unexpected Event took place - EXPLOSION! Three of the heroes were pretty seriously injured (2-3 wounds each) this was NOT the time for that to happen!! Luckily, they all survived the next round - and used all those destiny dice to recover. 

The other time Unexpected Events take place is when ALL the destiny dice are discarded as they all have doubles (or triples, or whatever). THAT would have been DIRE!!!

All piled in and started attacking the Acolytes. 

The Lord Castellant used his Magic Lantern and stunned a bunch of them. 

Then Alnaryn used the Amulet of Mist to just dance right through the lot of them... 

...and into contact with the Chaos Sorcerer Lord! 

On the Adversary Phase, one of the Kairic Acolytes at the rear of the mob did come back to try and help the Sorcerer... but coudln't attack... 

Also, at the end of the second Adversary Phase since the Chamber of the Gears was entered, all the Bloodreavers realized something was up and came running! 

Yiiiiiikes! 

But then in the next Hero Phase, Alnaryn cut the Sorcerer down! 

Just before the Sorcerer pulled a "This ain't over yet!" move and cast a spell disappearing... But no longer doing his ritual, the city was saved! 

The heroes just had to mop up the minions and fight their way out! 

Alnaryn cut down the Acolyte that had run back in a vain effort to save the Sorcerer! 

The others moped up the rest of the Kairic Acolytes While Sunhelm blocked the Khorne Bloodreavers from entering the room! 

With the last of the Acolytes despatched, they heroes moved to engage the Bloodreavers. 

Sunhelm moved into the room and used the Ring of the Slumbering King to attack all of them and dealt a bunch of damage to the ones in the room with him. 

The rest of the heroes charged into the room and took the rest of them down! 

Everyone levelled up once during the adventure and gained new skills. 

A clue was found indicating the Sorcerer may have fled to the House of Venargo... So they Heroes left the catacombs beneath Cinderfall and made their way to the House of Venargo, to hopefully confront the Sorcerer there! (But along the way, they made stops at Baugren's Bountiful Bazaar, the Guild of Certified Thaumaturgists, and the Chapel of the Shattered Blade, to collect a few magic items and have Archimaine's greivous wound healed... and Coalbeard made a quick trip to the GAMBLING DEN!? 

Next Week - Our Heroes will check out the House of Venargo and see if they can find the Chaos Sorcerer there! 

We are getting so close to being finished this... I'm going to have to switch gears and get some stuff done for either Silver Tower of Cursed City. To be honest, I'm kind of thinking of skipping Silver Tower for now and moving on to Cursed City. We discussed the possibilities, briefly, after this game. When I explained the general plot and Characters and their motivations and their adversaries, Finnegan got pretty excited. When I told him about the prequel novel, he got even MORE excited. 

So I guess I better get painting the rest of the Cursed City heroes and villains!