Hordes: Gargantuans

I have just finished reading through Privateer Presses newest book for Hordes and oh, boy, it's shiny!
Lots of new background advancing the storyline, lots of new models including the eponymous gargantuans, Warlocks that are units or battleengines and tons upon tons of gorgeous art. My absolute favourite piece is the art for Morvahna the Dawnshadow.

She is a druidess riding side saddle on a goat. How cool is that? When I buy the Two player Hordes box I might have to keep the Circle models, since her mini actually does her artwork justice.
Also there is a new Unit Attachment for my favourite halberd swinging werewolf dudes, the Skinwalkers. I'm told he makes them awesome.

So if I like Circle so much, why am I not playing them (yet) you may ask?
The answer is simple:

Dragons!

Legion gets probably the awesomest (yes, that's a word) model in the history of Privateer Press.

The Archangel, spawned from the blood of four warlocks with a side helping of a dead dragons teeth, this blighted monstrosity takes to the skies of Caen.

My Legion is also kinda purple-ish

I don't care about the rules (which seem halfway decent to me, anyway), I want one!
The pricetag however says that it will have to wait for a while.

The rest of Legions releases are also very cool. Everblight blesses us with a flying version of the facehugger from alien, the Afflictor. (Nicknamed the rapesnake or NCPS in America)
There is the Nephilim Bloodseer, a humanoid dragonbeastie that make everything magic more awesome. Can't wait to play that guy with Hex Hunters and Bethayne.
The Warspear Chieftain made me giddy when I added up all the bonuses I can get for his unit. It's going to be more like chucking cruise missiles at your enemy.
Our new Warlock, Lylyth also cranks awesomeness up another notch and is the first Warlock to be a Battle Engine. She rides a huge warsleigh pulled by blighted ulks. But I am not fully sold on her rules, which seem kinda "meh" to me.
Finally there is the Nyss Beast Mistress, Legions crazy cat lady. Only instead of cats she keeps dog sized landsharks that eat you. She is another first for Legion being essentially a second Warlock on a smaller scale. I'm not really sure about her either. She may be able to buff a lot of models for you, but her beasts won't benefit from Legion's ubiquitous battlegroup spells. Maybe in bigger games.

But wait, there's more: Voodoo alligators and zombie fishmen. Yeah, you heard right. The gatormen bokor brings his swamp shamblers. I haven't given them much thought yet, but they are usable by the Legion and their art is cool. Kinda like Alexia Ciannor and her risen. I have to look if you can raise casualities for more zombies and spawn lesser warbeasts from the spawning vessel. Might be interesting.


What was supposed to be a short post about gargantuans exploded into something much larger, eh?

Cheers
Fenris
(not a purple pony)

Big Draconic Gribblies

The promised Scythean to accompany Vayl got finished today. I like big eyeless beasties, they are easy to paint.

Rawr!

Blight-bred by Everblight (say that out loud) during the days, when he made his lair under the Iosan city of Issyrah, they are the perfect killers, needing no light to see int he tunnels and caverns.
I am unsure how you swing giant scythe-claws in a tunnel, but then I am not a dragon beastie and that is what lore says.

Ingame it brings two POW 17 attacks to bear, fueled by Legions excellent Fury management. (You can push you beasties as much as you want, but sometimes they need a hug to not flip out and Legion is best at hugging.)

It also brings a Chain attack to the table. If it hits with both initial attacks, it can do a swipe at everything unlucky enough to stand before it. I doubt that this will remove lots of models, because who will cluster his Infantry around something big enough to take two hits from a Scythean?

*generic Dragon noise*

Then again smacking something big with a third, free attack is always welcome.

Also it looks bloody awesome! All evil, spiky dragonmantis!


This has been my first plastic Everblight kit. It was much easier to assemble and feels quite light. Nothing like the solid block of pewter my Carnivean is. I tried to magnetise it, but finally was too lazy, so I now have a bunch of additional arms and heads lying around. Those should come in handy for an eventual Typhon conversion or to upgrade the Carnivean from the two player box.









Finally a groupshot of my painted Legion stuff.

Cheers
Fenris

Can't sleep, post minis

If you are a regular reader of my blog (hah, yeah, right!) you might have noticed the background of my blog has changed some time ago. I picked that because I was painting Freebooter's Fate miniatures. (and it looks cool.)
So have some Pirates:

Gunpowder Mary and Spitfire

Bringing up some heavy Firepower are these two girls. Some players may tell you the Imperial Armada has the ranged advantage. I tell you, I'm bringing a goddamn cannon! And a six-barreled musket to back it up, too.

Matelot aka "That Black guy that dies first"

A cheap Pirate grunt. Got shot by an Arquebus in the first turn of the game, today. And he even managed to survive. Which could not be said about the Arquebusier after Mary's retaliation.

Finally something for my Legion of Everblight. You can't see her awesome ice-base, because she is wearing such a big mantle. Apparently she is the essence of Legion play. I have no idea about that, but her spells and model looked cool. She is soon to be joined by a Scythean warbeast.

The better my Paintjobs get, the worse my photos seem to turn out.
Fenris