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Obscureblade

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  1. Sails ho! Hi everyone! I'm back in sunny Spain (way TOO sunny, I have to say, after almost three years in the UK now I look like a Blisterskin Ghoul) and after the release of the new Soulblight Gravelords I decided it was the best moment to resume this project. I decided to start creating a background for the army and its troops, and taking better pictures of the units that I already have, I hope you don't mind seeing them again. (art commissioned to @Lanadaminiatures on instagram) After Teclis dispelled the effects of the Necroquake, the attacks of spectral Nighthaunts became rarer and more scarce, for the relief of the Realms. Now lacking a swift attacking force, the presence of the undead through the Mortal Realms started to decrease. But when destiny closes a door...sometimes it opens a chest. Ripples of amathyst magic roamed Shyish after Nagash's demise, reaching even the higesth peaks and the abyssal depths of the realm's seas and oceans. And it there, in a shipwreck graveyard forgotten after many centuries, the dimished Undying King presence couldn't keep strong enough to hold the locks of the Dead Man's Chest. The skies all over Shyish went black, clogged with massive storm clouds, and its waters started stirring, faster and faster, creating a maelstrom so massive and great that could almost compete with the Nadir at the center of the realm. Somber masts started rising up the colossal maelstrom, its black, ragged sails swollen by the howling gales of the storm. Afterwards came creaking, drenchen hulks of long forgotten vessels, their cannons reaching outside rotten gunports, water still dripping from their roaring muzzles. Diving from the highest spars and rigs, great vampire bats opened their black wings, screeching with excitement as they crossed the skies once again. The unquiet crews raised their swords and guns, screaming silent shanties to the dark skies. And flying high above, atop of the skeletal frame of his dread abyssal came the Dark Admiral himself. Who knows why did Nagash locked away the fleets of the Mortal Seas, maybe He decided to punish the self-proclaimed Mortarch of the Depths for his arrogance. Centuries has passed, but now, the seas would become the Admiral's hunting grounds once again. Orval Vesh had returned. Under Vesh's grip, a great number of captains, bosuns, boatswains and such make sure that the Admiral's orders reach the mindless crew. Zombie Deckhands make the most of these undead crews, their fingers still twitching with eagerness while they try to fire their soaked blackpowder guns. Cutthroat Skeletons are always ready to board any enemy ship that comes too close. Not all those who die in the sea are pirates or sailors. The spirits of Drowned Men often follow the trails of the fleet's ships, willing to bring more souls to an underwater grave. Back in the day, Deck Droppers were my favourite concept and conversion when I saw the original Vampire Coast army on the WD. .As my army is heavily based on that list, I needed to make my own rendition, after so many years waiting for new Fell Bats to be released. Inspired by the great work of @Melcavuk with his Abyssal Fleet battletome, I started to make my own version, taking many of the amazing rules he created and adding already existing warscrolls to the mixture. Not only from the Gravelords range, for example these Carrionades use skaven Poisoned Wind Mortars rules with its keywords tweaked. Thank you for reading! Stay tuned for more to come soon (hopefully!)
  2. Thank you for your comments! I feel so sorry I couldn't answer before. @excalibur the whole idea of this army comes from the original zombie pirates of the Vampire Coast army on the WD during Lustria's campaign. I was really amazed with the theme and the awesome conversions, and when in AoS I saw the rules for the Wraith Fleet i fell in love again. With the release of the idoneth shipwreck I knew that the moment has come ?? @Izotzuhure I'd love to see your pirate army when it's finished!!! @Kisufisu I had the same idea too! I had in mind a Blight Cyst of the Drowned Men, armed with pistols instead of death heads! The algae/seaweed/thingie is indead colored caribou moss. I bought mine through greenstuffworld. @Thundercake sadly I can't recall the model. It's a cheap toy ship from a dollar store. If you're planning to do something similar you should check the Revell's pirate ghost ship (code 05433) and the Penn Plax action-air shirpwreck ornament. I'm afraid to inform you people that the Fleet of Bones has shipwrecked. I'm in the UK right now and all my models are at home in Spain. But I'm willing to continue with this project, as I still need to summon lots of zombie and skeletons pirates, and found a way to fit some units with the theme (I have some ideas for the vargheists, but it's still in the air...) Keep sailing and see you soon!
  3. In life, Isaiah Letzel was the miserly quartermaster of the sturdy Ydrargyreid at the Beryllium Sea. In death, he is the eternal guardian of the souls captured by the Fleet of Bones. Isaiah now commands the spectral figure of the old ship, suitably renamed the Wraithdagger, and he claims the very souls of his enemies as a macabre booty, kept in the dead man's chest located at the guts of the ship. His scummy courses are lost in the myriad of screams and mourns of the cloud of tormented spirits that swarm the ship constantly, preventing it of any harm: they know that the destruction of the dead man's chest would mean the utterly destruction of their last anchor to the Mortal Realms, and their fall into the void.
  4. Thanks for the comments! I see that you guys liked the ghost sea horses a lot. At first I thought that the cheap plastic tails would look plainly weird and out of place, but once painted the minis they blended really nicely with the horses. Phew! @Black Waltz the banshee model is just one of the Coven Throne vampires with a daemonette head. Yes, the kit comes with three banshees, but I'm planning to add those to the bloodseeker palanquin and my future mortis engine. Talking about the palanquin, it's finished! I still had no background for the vampire lady, but I can tell you that she logs where the best blood samples are in a vast map that's always with her. (As I lack of such painting skill, the map as painted by lanadanollora in instagram, maybe you've seen his nurgle circus army in warhammer community)
  5. I planned to use the flying ship as a terrorgheist (thus called The Black Shriek), but a lot of people told me that doing so would be... well, weird. Now I'm thinking in use some proper monster as the terro (maybe a kharybdiss or an idoneth turtle), and the ship as a coven throne or bloodseeker palanquin. My first idea for the palanquin was a conversion that implyied the spirit host of a mortis engine and a dark eldar raider as the vampire's pleasure barge. It turned out terrible and was discarded. But I liked the vampire conversion. Just as Orval Vesh wants to be a mortarch like Mannfred, I made a generic vampire using the body of Neferata. So what do you think of this?
  6. The mist! They came from the mist! That sickening green mist emerged from the shore, and they came for us. We who bear the black spot, we are doomed. Hello! First post here, I'd like to introduce myself with a project i've been thinking around since the experimental list of the Vampire Coast, and now with the rules from the Wraithfleet (or the surprisingly similar Legion of Night) and the release of the idoneth shipwreck I knew that the moment has come. Orval Vesh is the supreme admiral of the Fleet of Bones and self-proclaimed Mortarch of the Deeps, a deathlord wannabe whose greed is only overcome by his ego. He even "assembled" his own dread abyssal, Dagonys, out of the corpses of some of the greatest creatures from the seas of the realms, like the deepmare of Cerinthgaile, athelian queen of Fuethán, or the two headed lurkinarth that hunted the deeps near the Coast of Tusks. The fleet keeps growing with the corpse cart (corpse boat?), a drowned banshee and a necromancer: a soulscryer who thought he could negotiate with the undead pirates in exchange for new souls for his idoneth soldiers. Now his own soul is trapped in the dead man chest and he is a slave of the pirates, helping the fleet in pursuing the souls of the very idoneth he swore to protect.
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