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  1. N@g@sh
    So, my latest diorama, is going to be an Ossiarch Bonereapers Necropolis by the stormy ghoulish sea. The only thing is, I don't know what to make the walls look like.
    In the battletome,  it says that all the Necropolises are meant to be very similar looking, and the walls in the art are made of stone and bone. This makes me feel like I should do them like this, but I don't really know, because I think they look cool, but aren't that interesting.
    Another option is to make them solely out of bone, which was my original plan, but would be very difficult to construct.
    The last is to make them out of Nadirite, or at least plated in nadirite. For those of you who don't know, nadirite is the material that Ossiarch Bonereapers' shields, armour and swords. This could look really cool, and I could do some reflections of things outside, and it would be fairly simple to make. The problem is that it would be incredibly difficult to paint well.
    The thing is that I can justify it not being stone and bone, so I am torn about which one to do. So the answer is up to you. Please tell me what you think, and whichever gets the most votes, will be completed.
    Thanks!
  2. N@g@sh
    Second  entry on the blog, and it is going to be as I hinted in the comments and in the last one, very big! So let’s get on with it.
    My roll on the exploration table was:

    Yes this time, it actually was a 2!!
    And if you know what that means you’ll be as scared as I was for this time Nagash was giving his heroes a true challenge. The Boss Fight!
    In this post when I write in italics, it means that I am writing story text and by the end of the campaign I will copy all the relevant pieces of story and create a little short tale of my adventurers.
    Also a thing to note is that I am playing on my themed board that you can see me making here, so that's why I talk about a trench and a hill, and if this blog gets 10 likes overall, I will see that people are enjoying it and take some photos. So far I have received one comment saying that they want photos, so I count that as 3 like, because it was very nice.
    The three heroes were relaxing mainly because the first challenge was just searching in the rubble for a treasure, which Vasilisa Rickenbacker was now practising with, they were alert however, as all dead things are to an extent, expecting a battle. Nagash wouldn’t be so kind just to reward them, then leave them unchallenged, and then they started to feel a slight sense of dread, with the anticipation that you feel when you are about to sneeze. Then they came. A horde of Chainrasps coming from the East, and leading them was Aberran, the Bitter Gatekeeper, Guardian of Souls. They swooped in from the trench with a foul glee for the battle that awaited them. Crixius Shadowend and Fonasphef the Exalted rose to stand with Vasilisa, who was locked in a death stare with her old nemesis, Aberran. “This is how he balances my reward then, I suppose.” she said while looking at her Slaking Blade. She swung it around once and without further ado the battle began.
    If you didn’t understand that (or just want to skip it), basically there is a Chainrasp Horde led by a Guardian of souls, coming from the east. I was lucky to only get one minion unit to face!

    Roll to see who goes first, and I get a 4, so it is me first.
    Though it was a surprise that this number of foes was approaching them, they just got up in time to face their foe prepared.


    Here I have made an exception to the rules, where I am allowing Fonasphef the Exalted (my Wight King, to be able to use his command ability on himself.
    And that is what he does! So he adds one to his attacks.
    Instinctively, Fonasphef speaks words of encouragement to his troops to spur them on, when he realises that they are not here and he may not see his beloved skeletons for a very long time, however, just thinking of his troops is enough to motivate him.

    Vasilisa attempts to cast Arcane bolt on the Chainrasp Horde and gets a 10. The Guardian of Souls, attempts to unbind the spell, and gets a 9. So close, but the spell is cast. Getting a 10 on Arcane Bolt means that it does D3 mortal wounds and I got a 6 so 3 Chainrasps are dead.
    In the cold fury of the Vampire Lady, a bolt of powerful energy is cast and directed straight towards the Chainrasps, Aberran tries to intercept it, and for a moment, it looked like he succeeded but it was too powerful for him and it obliterated three of his minions. Aberran glared at Vasilisa in silent anger.

    Crixius Shadowend, my Necromancer, attempts to cast Mystic Shield on himself. He gets a 12! Obviously the spell is cast.
    Selfish as ever, Crixius Shadowend casts a strange shield on himself to protect him from any damage. Being a Black Disciple of Arkhan the Black himself, the spell is easily cast going as he had practiced many times.

    The movement phase is as always, quite boring. (I know that it is all about strategy, but it is the phase I enjoy the least (except missile phase because I never have any missiles unless I bring Nagash or my Gothizzar Harvester) Basically, Vasilisa moves into the trench, Fonasphef climbs the hill, and Crixius Follows Vasilisa, but does not actually enter the trench.
    Vasilisa advances towards her rival,entering the trench as she does so, followed by the cowardly Necromancer. Then, Fonasphef tactically advances up the hill, hoping to lure the lesser ghiests towards him.

    As I said earlier, I don’t have any missile weapons, so this will be the only time you will see this, and I’m doing it to tell you I’ll never do it again. Next time I’ll skip it.

    Vasilisa charges Aberran, Crixius also charges Aberran and Fonasphef charges the Chainrasps.
    The three heroes move in to catch their prey.

    Whoohoo, the best phase😃! Also the longest phase😥.
    First of all, Vasilisa is attacking Aberran.

    1,2,2,4

    3

    6
    Nothing happens.
    Next Aberran is attacking back at Vasilisa.

    4,4,6

    2,4,6 (8 oh wait, that isn’t possible)

    2,6
    Vasilisa takes a damage. Nooooooo😰!
    Oh well, hopefully she will heal that later on.
    Next, Fonasphef attacks the chainrasps that he is surrounded by.

    1,1,2,6,6

    1,6

    Basically that means that the damage is D3

    5
    Nothing happens.
    Next, the Chainrasps pile in Fonasphef, and then they attack.

    1,2,2,3,4,5,6       Wow, even though there are 3 dead, this still looks like a lot of hits

    2,3,5

    5
    Nothing Happens.
    Crixius then tries to hit Aberran with his stick.

    1 How pathetic.
    Nothing happens (yet again)
    Well, that was uneventful.
    Instantly, Vasilisa starts slashing at Aberran with her Slaking Blade, but she only hits him a few times. Some of the hits are powerful enough to wound the Guardian, but due to his Ethereal nature, the blade passes through him. However it is enough to anger him even more and he instantly retaliates, wounding Vasilisa with his chill blade. He laughs triumphantly. Then Fonasphef tries to attack the chainrasps and he is about to behead one of them with his blade, when they nimbly dodge out of the way. Then they attack back, but Fonasphef’s armour is too strong, and their puny weapons do nothing to him. Then Crixius, eager to join in the fray, attempts to hit Aberran with his staff but fails miserably. The reason for this, is that he has never hit anyone with it before, and he does not know how to use it effectively. (this is true, it is the first time I have attacked with him, and I have used him in battles about 20 times. Shows how useless I think his stick is.)

    Not enough people are dead to do battleshock.
     
    End of my first turn (see how long this is? Hopefully, I won't have to do one this long again for quite some time.)
    Now for the enemies.


    Rampage!
    Rampage means that they attack now, and they are going to attack their sworn enemy (why wouldn't they), Vasilisa.

    1,4,5

    5,5

    4,5
    Nothing happens.
    Aberran is filled with the fury of battle, and he slashes at Vasilisa, trying to achieve what he did before. However, Vasilisa expected this and she dodged out of the way, the blade just missing her.

    Then the Guardian of souls uses spectral lure which brings back 3 chainrasps.

    Hold. 
    Hold means that they do nothing.
    The chainrasps stay put however, leering at Fonasphef.

    Yay, combat phase again. The time where nothing happens.
    The Guardian of Souls attacks Vasilisa as always.

    1,3,4

    2,5

    4
    As I said, nothing happens.
    Then Fonasphef attacks the Chainrasps.

    2,3,4,4,6

    1,2,3,4 No beheading strike this time.

    1,2 What something actually happened! How is this allowed?
    2 more Chainrasps dead. That leaves 4. Damned Guardian of souls. Why did you have to bring them back?
    Then the Chainrasps fight back.

    1,2,3,3,4,5,6,6,6 Wow that's a lot of numbers.

    2,3,4,6,6

    1,2,4
    Nooooooooooooooooo! Fonasphef takes 2 damage!!!!
    Ugh I shouldn’t have said that nothing happened in the combat phase.
    Next Crixius attacks the Guardian of Souls (don’t get too excited)

    6     So good so far

    4     Oh Yeah

    6     Damnations!!!!
    Nothing happens again.
    And last but definitely not least is my Vampire Lady Vasilisa Rickenbacker attacking Aberran.

    4,5,6

    1,3,3

    3,4
    Aberran takes 3 damage. Yes! And Vasilisa gets 3 Slaking Blade points (did I say that they were going to stay between battles like the wounds)
    Yay.
    First of all Aberran attacks Vasilisa but his strikes are not powerful enough so they did not quite wound Vasilisa, with her Vampire skin. Then Fonasphef strikes the Chainrasps, and with a blur of skeletal energy he slays two of the puny ghouls. Then the Chainrasps fight back in anger and their malignant weapons break through Fonasphef’s armour making him even weaker. Then Crixius, learning the mastery of battle strikes Aberran with his staff and he hits, but then at the last moment, Aberran fades into a different position, making the staff miss him entirely. Then Vasilisa strikes Aberran with her Slaking Blade and succeeds at wounding The Guardian of Souls severely. Then Vasilisa feels power returning to her slowly as her Slaking Blade drinks up the spoils of battle.

    Yet again not enough people have died for Battleshock.

    Wow all that just in one battleround?
    I rolled the dice again and it is me first again which is good because I might have taken some more serious damage.
    Nagash’s chosen ones are still ready for action and have not been deterred by the malignant spirits facing them.


    Again Fonasphef uses Lord of bones on himself. One more attack this round. Cool.

    Crixius casts Mystic Shield on Fonasphef because he has the most wounds. He gets a 7 and Aberran's unbinding roll is 4 so now Fonasphef rerolls 1s on his save roll.
    Crixius Shadowend analyses the battlefield and sees that Fonasphef is the most wounded so casts a Mystic Shield over them and he feels a little strange, because he normally casts it on himself, but knows that the survival of his ally is vital. Then, in an instant, Aberran notices his move and tries to counter it, knowing that the spell would be terrible if it succeeded, but his unbinding went astray and the spell was still cast.

    Then Vasilisa casts Arcane Bolt on the Chainrasps hoping for the same result as last time, but she only gets a 6 on her casting roll, still, one Chainrasp dead is quite good.
    The Vasilisa shoots a bolt of energy at the Chainrasps for a second time, however, this time it is less effective. However, one Chainrasp is still obliterated by the powerful energy.

    Nobody moves.

    Nobody charges.

    Yay the combat phase again.
    Just to say before we begin if you have read this far, a very big well done, I hope you are enjoying it.
    Ok first of all Fonasphef the Wight King is attacking the Chainrasps, so that I can fully eliminate them.

    1,2,3,4,5 Wow that was nice!

    2,3,6


    4,6
    D3 damage but I rolled a 2 so only one Chainrasp dead. Pity.
    Then the Chainrasps are fighting back.

    2,3,3,3,5    Nice, only one hit.

    6

    1 But wait!

    6 Yes!!!!
    Next the Vampire Lady is attacking the Guardian of Souls

    2,3,3,5

    4,5,5

    1,4,5
    The Guardian of Souls takes a damage. He is on 1 health! Yes!
    Then the Guardian of Souls strikes back.

    1,3,3

    1,6

    2
    Damn. Vasilisa takes a damage.
    Next is our all powerful hero of the realm that definitely always does stuff. That’s right Ladies and Gentlemen may I introduce Crixius Shadowend, all powerful Necromancer who is attacking Aberran.

    1
    Yeah I always knew he was useless.
    And the battle rages on, the Wight King beheads a single Chainrasp, leaving only two of them left, the two who now attack Fonasphef himself, but he is protected by the Mystical shield that Crixius casted. Then Vasilisa attacks Aberran, wounding him again, so that he has not got a lot of life left in him (or should I say death), then Aberran retaliates dealing damage to Vasilisa, and the Crixius attack the Guardian (what has the newspaper ever done wrong, why are you attacking it Crixius, (Crixius could never do any damage to anything, not even the Guardian) Also please do not start a political discussion in the comments, it was a joke) and does nothing. And that explains the To and Fro of the battle, however, it is slowly drawing to a conclusion.

    Yet again not enough people have died for Battleshock.
     
     
    End of my turn. This time, it was a lot faster. Now for the enemies.


    Twilight Translocation.
    So the Guardian of Souls is Translocating in the twilight, how interesting. This basically means that he is teleporting. And he is teleporting to the bridge over the lava stream.
    Then he tries to do his Spectral Lure, but he fails to cast, so no more little Chainrasps.
    Sensing that he is losing, Aberran the Bitter Gatekeeper disappears then reappears on the bridge over the lava stream. He cackles evilly thinking that he is safe. Then when he attempts to bring back his minions, he fails to cast the spell. He doesn’t care all that much though, because in his eyes, he is still winning.

    Hold
    The minions are Holding again, how very boring of them. (not that I’m complaining)
    The Chainrasps stay strong, and glare at Fonasphef.

    Ooh, how exciting, we are nearing the end. Let’s get this over with.
    First of all the Chainrasps attack Fonasphef:

    1,1,3,4,6

    6,6

    4,6
    Nothing happens. (Phew)
    Then Fonasphef retaliates.

    1,1,5,5,5       Interesting.

    2,6,6


    3,4
    3 Damage, yes all of the Chainrasps are dead!😃
    Then no-one else can attack because Aberran teleported away.
    The sway of battle has been corrupted by the Gatekeeper (Aberran) and so only the Wight King and the Chainrasps are locked in combat. The chainrasps attack Fonasphef but they fail to slay him and as their punishment, Fonasphef proceeds to behead all the remaining Chainrasps. Then all the heroes turn towards the lone Guardian of Souls, who is now fearing their power.

    I bet Aberran wishes he could run away, but his so-called “Bravery” forbids it.
     
     
    End of the round. So close to the end!

    I roll a 6 so it is my turn first for the third time in a row!

    You'd think that being this near to the end I would skip all of this, but no.

    Vasilisa casts a mystic shield on Fonasphef. She gets an 8  and then Aberran gets 4 to unbind so the spell is cast.
    The reason I did it this way round, is because I didn't want Vasilisa to get all the Trophies.

    Crixius Shadowend casts Arcane Bolt and gets a 5 So close!!!!! But the spell is cast, dealing 1 damage to the Guardian of souls.
    Vasilisa casts a Shield around Fonasphef protecting him from what might come, when Crixius shoots an Arcane Bolt of energy at the Guardian of Souls, killing it. The three heroes looked at each other in grim pride as they thought about how the battle had gone, and prepared for the next threat that Nagash might throw at them in this twisted test of his.
     

    So rewards: I decided to give Crixius Shadowend :

    so yeah that was cool, and on the loot table I got:

    Less exciting, I know, still it's cool.
     
     
    And so that's it I hope you enjoyed, a big well done for if you read all the way through, I hope you enjoyed it! Do let me know in the comments what you thought about it, whether it was too much detail, too little detail and whatever. I am not going to stick to the post a day thing that I set for myself most of the time, but anyway enough from me, I have written far too much already. I should mention that all the fancy text was done here, so check it out.
    Thanks again, Bye!!!!
     
     
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    Water and Lava

    By N@g@sh,

    This one is going to be our last one, I'm afraid, or at least for a while, I am starting to make a new diorama for armies on parade at the moment, but it is at very early stages. I have not included the part about the tower yet, and stuff like that because I did not take any good pictures for it. I may do another little outro as my next piece with the completed thing, but anyway let's get on with making the water and the lava.

    Then I started to do my water feature which was a complete tale of woe. I started to pour the liquid into a pot then I mixed it with orange and yellow paint to make it look like lava and I poured it into the pool. Sadly the foam absorbed it and I wasted loads of the expensive water resin. I asked my friend and he said I should put PVA glue as a protective layer. Then I persevered, tried again and poured it in and guess what? It went wrong again, it cracked as it said in the bottle if I put it too thickly, WHICH I DIDN’T!!!! I asked my friend and he said it probably didn’t react well with the foam, but he also said it looked pretty cool and lava-like so I just continued with my fingers crossed. Luckily it worked!


    My friend said that I should add a water section to contrast the lava. Since then I added a pond and fountain coming out of a shell. I was thinking that if I let it just be clear water it wouldn’t get the effect of water so I created a milky blue colour by mixing dark blue with lots of white. When it was dry (it takes 24 hours between layers) I put a clear layer of the water resin to look like water. I also added a bit of paint around the shell and created a halo or glow coming from the shell. Then I created a fountain effect by putting some clear resin and wait until it dried. Then I cut a strip and put it onto the half-dried clear layer and then when it was dry I added some more water resin onto the top and bottom and it is finished as a sort of omni-flowing fountain.

     
    Above is the strip put into the half-dried fountain and to the left is the part which I cut to create this fountain. (I got this idea from the video of how to use “Vallejo water effect” on Youtube) And also you can see the glowing effect around the shell above.
     
    I hope you have enjoyed this blog, and as I said earlier, it's not over, just not happening for a while. I may start another blog though about my models, so if you're interested leave a comment about how it should be. Also check out my other blog where I am playing a solo campaign on this battlefield. You can find it here.
    I hope that you enjoyed this!
  4. N@g@sh
    So here in this entry I am going to introduce you to the idea of the campaign. If you know me or my army, you should know that I play exclusively death. I know Skeletons vs Nighthaunts is a bit weird but I have come up with a story (despite appearances).
    My heroes are:
    Crixius Shadowend, the Necromancer,
    Fonasphef The Exalted, the Wight King,
    and Vasilisa Rickenbacker, the Vampire Lord (or Lady)
    The story is that Nagash has sent them to an out to an outpost in Stygx (my army is from Stygx) where they are being tested to see whether they are worthy to serve at Nagash's side. Nagash will throw them random challenges and see if his heroes survive, and if so, how long for?
    I will release content daily (hopefully), but they will always be from rolls of the exploration table, so some days I will give you a summary of them healing and possibly some stats about who they've killed and what their command abilities/traits are.
    I will be playing the games on my themed board, (even though it is a bit smaller than the size it recommends to play) which you can see the development of in my other blog here. 
    I have not taken photos because for me it is quite an effort and it will probably double the effort that it takes to make this anyway, but I can add photos if this blog (it does not matter which post) gets 10 likes or any other (nice) reaction, just to let me know that people are enjoying this and they would like the content to be of better quality. If you don't like it, don't feel pressure to like, it as I am not begging for extra likes, just feedback. 
    I hope you enjoy, my first proper entry will be tomorrow.
  5. N@g@sh
    This is my first (proper) entry on the blog, and it is going to be a bit of a boring one today, but next one is going to be quite long and detailed, so I'll start writing it now to ensure that it is the best quality. I did say in my last post that if I rolled something on the exploration table that wasn't a battle, I would do it as my second one any way...
    My first roll on the exploration table was:

    No, it wasn't 2, it was
    !
    9 on the exploration table is

    so I have to give one of my three heroes some treasure. I decided that I would go for artefacts before spells, and none of them are priests, so the question is, which artefact. I didn't even know which hero so I didn't have a clue of where to start. So I went to my natural fallback, the story.

    was my newest recruit (and my first conversion) so it seemed wise that Nagash would give her a little aid in this test, so I looked on her artefacts table and I chose:

    because it seemed to be quite powerful and also thematic because her actual blade looks all fancy (still unpainted) and I think it would be cool to have a blade that quenches your thirst (especially if I was a vampire (which I am definitely not 😉😈)
     
    So there that's it for today, tomorrow you're in for a treat, let me tell you!
    I hope you enjoyed it, I added the special effects to make it more interesting, and with battles I will use them for the rounds and whatnot, if you find it annoying please tell me. At the time of writing we have one feedback, which I'm saying counts as 3 likes  towards adding photos to battles, if you are confused, see my  last post.
    Thanks again! See you tomorrow!
     
     
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    Magic Sand Things

    By N@g@sh,

    Another short one I'm afraid, and I've only got a few left to go so I thought I would keep it alive by not merging this one into another one. This one was quite interesting to think up, I was wondering what was going to make my trench special. Then a few days later someone told me about using sand on your models to sort of look like grass, I wasn't interested at first since I already new what the bases of my models look like. Then I thought that that would be good in my trench, but what would make it special? Then I thought of grave-sand, and so it was decided. A grave-sand trench, and it could have rules that meant all death units (except Nighthaunts because of their etherial ability) could add one to save rolls in the trench.
    But what colour was grave sand? I had to think of that as well.

    Then I spent the entirety of two days thinking about what colours the trench was going to be then I decided it was going to be purple.  To make it interesting though, I decided it could be purple, black and blue and the story was it was a trench for the dead and it had a flowing motion.

    It was the way it is because after digging the trench, they sprinkled special dust onto it. To physically make this, however, I got three pots of sand which I then coloured blue, black and purple. I mixed these and applied a layer of PVA glue to the trench and then I sprinkled the sand on and shook off what remained.
    And here it is:

    I think that the colours go quite well together in the end.
    I hope you enjoyed, even though it was quite a short one, but the next one is going to be long, and then we're done, I will do a little thing to finish it off.
    Thanks again, See you next time!
     
  7. N@g@sh
    In this one I am going to paint most of my terrain; so that is the lava pool, the bridge, and the simple ground. Here we go!
     
    With the carving all done I started to add some colour to my “lava pool”. First I watered-down yellow, and applied it all over, then a heavy drybrush of orange (you can’t see it very well in the photo)
    Then a lighter drybrush of brown and then black.

     
    I then painted the ghostly ground with a watered-down green, to which I then did a heavy drybrush of blue and then a heavy drybrush of black to create the really ghostly underworld earth.

    Then I painted my bridge, starting with a basecoat of watered-down black, then a drybrush of grey mixed with black and finally a light drybrush of grey (left). Then because of it being above a lava pool, I added some glow effects (right). I started with a medium drybrush of orange then I proceeded to a light drybrush of yellow (I didn’t just do this for the bridge, I also did it around the lava pool).

    I hope that you enjoyed!
    Next one is going to be really short I'm afraid, doing some magic with the trench...
  8. N@g@sh
    This one is quite a short one, but I will do my next one tomorrow.
    First, I went to the beach and collected some driftwood, stones and shells… (I wasn't in lockdown at the time)

    And here you can see that I am positioning them on my model, I tried a few varieties of where they would go, but I was pretty certain of where I thought they would go already.

    I liked the idea that there would be a tree (stick) hanging over the lava pool. I was even at one point thinking about spraying the sticks white and applying hexwraith flame onto them, but I thought it wouldn't work. And here I am now wishing that I still had spray because it would be a fun idea to try out at least.
    Here I am using a hot glue gun to attach the hill, I also used the glue gun to attach everything else, but I didn't take a photo of it (and it happened right at the end so I wouldn't show it to you now).

    There that's it. 
    Hope that you enjoyed,
    The next one is quite long, I am doing the painting. (don't get exited, it is not the most intricate painting in the world)
     
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    Starting the carving

    By N@g@sh,

    This entry is of how I started to carve the area of my scenic board set in the realm of death.
    I started with these two pieces of equipment that I got on Amazon, below, you can see my electric foam cutter and my bottle of “ Vallejo Water Texture”

    Here is the scalpel that I used for more rough cuts

    I started with this piece of insulation foam.  Then I did my first carving, as shown here.

    Here is the rough start of the positioning of my pieces.

     
    As you can see here I have made the terrain more rigid and natural rather than flat, sadly this took up a good 5 hours or so!

    I hope you enjoyed this!
    Next time will be quite short as I am attaching some boulders, hills and dead trees.
     
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