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Good day fellow ghosts, 

With the halt on GW orders and the current situation, I'm trying to see what kind of list I can do with the NH models that I have and that I want to play.

Here's a list I came up with following @EnixLHQ guide and I am at 1320 points . I am, however, unsure how to fill up points to 1500. Initially I had a 1000pts list in mind (Dreadblade, 6 Spirit Hosts, 20 Grimghast and 5 Bladegheist, a Spirit Torment and a Guardian of Souls) and I realized that I have enough stuff to go to 1.5k I think.

So here's my list: 

Allegiance: Nighthaunt
Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed (120)
Guardian of Souls with Nightmare Lantern (140)
Spirit Torment (120)
20 x Chainrasp Horde (160)
20 x Chainrasp Horde (160)
20 x Grimghast Reapers (320)
10 x Bladegheist Revenants (180)
Chainguard (120)

Total: 1320 / 2000
Extra Command Points: 1
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 86
 

Now, I think including the Chainguard batallion would make sense here to pair with the chainrasp and GoS. It would make them really durable. The Grimghast would kind of be on their own as a force and bladegheist and KoSoES in Underworld for deep strike.

Seeing as I have 6 Spirit Hosts and a Dreadblade Harrow that are painted, I am wondering how to complete my 1500 pts with something that makes sense synergistically. I am fairly new to NH, this is my first shot at creating a list, so I might be missing some cool tricks to work with. I also have a Lord Executioner that I can paint that can be like a hero killer in the back on his own. 

Could you guys provide some advice as to how to round up this list to 1.5k pts intelligently? (The models I have to round it up are: 2x Dreadblade Harrow, Lord Exec and 6 Spirit Hosts) Thanks in advance for your help. 

I'm gonna include some pics of my paint job so far :)

 

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Edit: On a second d thought, perhaps I could go with a list like this at 1750pts? 

Allegiance: Nighthaunt
Guardian of Souls with Nightmare Lantern (140)
Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed (120)
Spirit Torment (120)
Dreadblade Harrow (90)
Lord Executioner (80)
20 x Chainrasp Horde (160)
20 x Chainrasp Horde (160)
20 x Grimghast Reapers (320)
6 x Spirit Hosts (240)
10 x Bladegheist Revenants (180)
Chainguard (120)

Total: 1730 / 2000
Extra Command Points: 1
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 114

I basically added my group of the Dreadblade Harrow and Spirit Hosts as a standalone threat that can move around. If I had the models I would add a Black Coach and another group of Bladegheist but I don't :) Let me  know what you guys think.

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Any thoughts on the lists I presented above? I also did a build at 1500pts including a group of 40 chainrasps and with discount, it was damn cheap and was dead on 1.5k.

When should we use a group of 40 rasps? I haven't seen such a big blob in lists, is it better to go 2x 20 instead?

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14 hours ago, Jabbuk said:

Any thoughts on the lists I presented above? I also did a build at 1500pts including a group of 40 chainrasps and with discount, it was damn cheap and was dead on 1.5k.

When should we use a group of 40 rasps? I haven't seen such a big blob in lists, is it better to go 2x 20 instead?

If you know your battleplan use the 40 blob on stuff like starstrike. Just deep strike or spectral summon them on an objective and let your opponent spend forever getting rid of them. Bubble wrapped around a guardian of souls bringing em back every turn is a mighty anvil.

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I have just finished 18 sprint hosts so of course I need an amusing list for them all..

First stab...

 

Allegiance: Nighthaunt
Lady Olynder, Mortarch of Grief (200)
Guardian of Souls with Nightmare Lantern (140)
Lord Executioner (80)
- General
- Command Trait: Ruler of the Spirit Hosts
- Artefact: Pendant of the Fell Wind
Knight of Shrouds (100)
- Artefact: Midnight Tome - Shademist
6 x Spirit Hosts (240)
6 x Spirit Hosts (240)
6 x Spirit Hosts (240)
30 x Grimghast Reapers (420)
Black Coach (220)
Execution Horde (100)
Suffocating Gravetide (20)

Total: 2000 / 2000
Extra Command Points: 1
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 118
 

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So I've got a little project I've been working on, custom Hexwraiths. 

Still WIP but I wanted to show them off and get a bit of input. 

For the Hellwraith (unit leader) do you guys think the horns are too much or think they look good as a small way of making it stand out a bit more?

The last two pics are the closest one to being paint ready. 

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@Tropical Ghost General Thanks. 

Its Miliput with some green stuff as the base. However, I'll only be using miliput moving forward on the project

if you're referring to the flames, those are from the Dreadblade Harrow kit. I have plenty as I use the heads for my Grimghast so opted to hack them up to get my $$$ out of the kits. 

Got the first one almost all primed last night. I really just wanted to check on the blending transition from putty to plastic and I'm very happy with that. 

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18 hours ago, Vasshpit said:

So I've got a little project I've been working on, custom Hexwraiths. 

Still WIP but I wanted to show them off and get a bit of input. 

For the Hellwraith (unit leader) do you guys think the horns are too much or think they look good as a small way of making it stand out a bit more?

The last two pics are the closest one to being paint ready. 

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Cool idea you got going here.

IMHO the horns are fine for the leader. But if all of them had them it would be too much.

Please keep us updated on this project. 

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On 4/19/2020 at 3:52 AM, backslide said:

I have just finished 18 sprint hosts so of course I need an amusing list for them all..

First stab...

 

Allegiance: Nighthaunt
Lady Olynder, Mortarch of Grief (200)
Guardian of Souls with Nightmare Lantern (140)
Lord Executioner (80)
- General
- Command Trait: Ruler of the Spirit Hosts
- Artefact: Pendant of the Fell Wind
Knight of Shrouds (100)
- Artefact: Midnight Tome - Shademist
6 x Spirit Hosts (240)
6 x Spirit Hosts (240)
6 x Spirit Hosts (240)
30 x Grimghast Reapers (420)
Black Coach (220)
Execution Horde (100)
Suffocating Gravetide (20)

Total: 2000 / 2000
Extra Command Points: 1
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 118
 

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I can't believe the pain you went through in assembling them... You're a hero. That being said, I finished my first group of Bladegheist Revs and I absolutely love the models. I tried to go for a cursed blade look.

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10 hours ago, Jabbuk said:

I can't believe the pain you went through in assembling them... You're a hero. That being said, I finished my first group of Bladegheist Revs and I absolutely love the models. I tried to go for a cursed blade look.

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I only assembled 6 of them as the rest came second hand I didn't actually find them that bad 

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Work in progress is moving along on my custom Hexwraiths. 

Got this one almost done, still fine tuning. I really wanted to see some color on a model. 

The other four are in various stages.

I'll get these five done and probably jump on something else for my Gloomspite as a change before getting started on the next five. 

I want to run a dolorous guard. 

 

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4 hours ago, Neck-Romantic said:

Anyone else working on their ghosts?

Currently working on 36 myrmourns, which have been removed from their scenic bases (as much as possible).

Also finished (minus the basing) a mini resculpt of Garkorr, to be used as a vamp lord ally.

(Top pic is in darker lighting for showing paint job. Bottom pic is under normal lights for showing bling bling chrome of the paint job. I'm not a good painter by a long shot, but chuffed with how this looks.) 

 

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4 hours ago, Neck-Romantic said:

Wonderful smooth paintjob man!

Anyone else working on their ghosts?

I had a massive conversion going with Kurdoss but I cant find a good arm 😅

Nope, during the first couple of weeks of lockdown I finished my remaining ghosts. So now my army has reached the 4000pts and until we get some new rules add ons or something it makes no more sense to buy more Nighthaunts.

So currently Im dooing my Frostbitten Blightking Warband for Warcry and then I will go back to doing more scenery for my Shyish table. Have about 5-6 pieces for the table and in my mind I dream about being able to play on different Shyish settings. 
 

 

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5 hours ago, Neck-Romantic said:

Wonderful smooth paintjob man!

Anyone else working on their ghosts?

I had a massive conversion going with Kurdoss but I cant find a good arm 😅

I knocked these guys out last month. Now I have a bunch of Grimghast Reapers to slough through. 0715D1C4-4216-4C71-9D5A-8F1E145FE90F.jpeg.63cc7a9583e62a3c3c13c1f9f579b85c.jpeg

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3 hours ago, Tropical Ghost General said:

@Greasygeek that table is 👌👌👌.

What's the paint formula used?

Sure thing. Quite easy did the table last summer in a few effective days work.

undercoat: molotow spray think it was called deep sea blue or something like that. I went for a tone as close to stegadon scale green as I could get.

earth soil

dry brush1: Russ grey

dry2: fenrisian grey

dry 3: blue Horror

Green non rift parts was done after the blue/grey stuff.

first i hit up all areas with another Molotow green tone (don’t remember its name though). 
then it was drybrushing time again.

dry1: kabalite green

dry2: sybarite green

dry3: Gauseblaster Green.

The rifts was done similarly, except that I wetblended ulthuan Grey into the Gauseblaster to make the ghostly bright green glow.

metal:

Seriously watered down Warplock Bronze. 
Then drybrushed with a wee bit of baltazars gold and Stormhost Silver.

thats more or less it.

 

 

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32 minutes ago, Greasygeek said:

They look really cool. Does all of your ghosts look like this? Share some pics.

Thx, I have had a blast working on them. The Hosts are my first painted ghost models, though this month I am hoping to jam through a chunk of Grimghasts. I am trying to do the scheme Israel Gonzalez showed off in White Dwarf a little while ago. I know I will not get to his insane level but I am giving it a go.  

 

 

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