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  1. Praecautus
    Making progress on this unit of warriors.
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    Couple of random ideas Polystyrene and moulded cardboard packing make great scenery after being painted up. Make your entire list using proxy bases for a test game against a friend before investing stick to a list and play it a lot, the familiarity w your units and list will stand you in good stead against most people/lists (to a point) without having to invest in the latest hotness. Besides winning w the same list will truly show how good a genera you are 😀 Try a few different game systems. There are plenty with a quick buy in. Fancy a skirmish then try Undaunted Normandy or Undaunted North Africa both about £20 a pop. Bigger modular war game then try memoir 44 w the overlord expansion (2x memoir base sets and the expansion is ~£100) w a socially acceptable number of friends in a up to 4/side battle. After a different painting project try Star Wars rebellion or war of the ring, 153 and 205 minis, respectively and each is ~£70.
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    I’ve been building a new Khorne list based on slaves. WIP shot . Once these are done I plan to get a chaos lord on daemonic Mount (or convert one with a spare horse) I have also continued exploring the vast range of excellent board games out there. Recently getting War of the Ring. in the pic, Saruman is smashing Rohan, but Pippin is in fangorn - what could possibly go wrong. There are 205 minis! The quality of the plastic is bad but I am contemplating using different contrast paints and picking out key details to help distinguish the armies.
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    Star Wars Rebellion is complete - obligatory shot of the whole lot. Wip of the slaves to Khorne - built, primed and armour started
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    I suggest actually doing something else ax a project. Sometimes a break/change to something else is worth it. I got burnt out earlier in lockdown painting gw models and could not get the enthusiasm, probably due to lack of games. Picking up something totally different (Star Wars rebellion) has helped me get my mojo back. It was like a palette cleanser and just painting something for the joy of it as opposed to the chore
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    When I got back into the hobby I started building a Khorne army and essentially went rule of cool and buying painting what looked fun. As I got to about 1500 of random stuff I started playing again and ended up fine tuning the list a lot. I ended up with a solid 2k list and a lot of add ons allowing experimentation around a core or mortals. It allows me a lot of variety and keeps it fresh. I can pretty much field different list types now eg horde, elite, multiple battalions When slaves to darkness came out it became clear I had most of a Khorne marked slaves army ‘by accident’ so I am currently expanding into that list. As such I can’t see my Khorne being complete with daemons and beasts of chaos still to explore, but it provides a huge area to experiment and play in. I also have an Idoneth army. I have about 2.5k and have stopped. Baring an interesting update these guys are done. I like them but currently I find them to be 1 dimensional to play and with none of the tricks I can pull in a Khorne army. They make a nice palette cleanser so to speak
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    Close to the end of rebellion and it’s back to AoS. Rebel fighters and ships done. Just the last 3 min cal cruisers to go.
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    Holy cow!
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    First off I am not a competitive player, I just play at a club with a competitive mindset. Second I have not played Sigmar for months due to lockdown. Before lockdown I was playing gorepilgrims in goretide and was generally doing well. Struggled against the top tier armies eg Slaanesh and bonereapers. Plus w changed in GHB2020 I need to rebuild my list. I am planning to build around Slave knights w Khorne mark. I am still refining the list but it will include Lord on daemon Mount Priest or 2 Blood secrator 15 chaos warriors 10 knights w lances 2x5 knights w ensorc weapons some reavers or marauders warshrine skull reapers skulls alter darkfeast battalion
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    I only play mortals so can’t really comment on thirster builds. In terms of mortals the best battalions avoid having units close to a squishy hero or putting too many leaders you don’t want into your list. So ones like gorepilgrims, dark feast and slaughterborn are my favourites. gorepilgrim is great, good buff as well as battleline and 3 or 4 heros you will want to take in 1 drop. dark feast is cheap and brings in your battleline and a priest. It synergises well with expensive low count builds eg thirster builds slaughterborn is good fun especially if you like skullreapers. It makes them harder to kill. The exalted deathbringer can become a powerhouse if built right. The big spear one can get over 10 attacks w his MW spear. if playing mortals you will need 1 thirster maximum for summoning. He is not worth being in the list on his own in a mortal list. too squishy and expensive plus bring a nothing to a mortal army
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    A good start for a mortal list is a gorepilgrims build using the goretribe slaughterhost. It’s quite forgiving and relatively easy to get the pieces. a minimum build is 2 priests blood secrator reavers 2x10 blood warriors 1x5 This is cheapish and gets your battleline and support pieces down in 1 drop. The trick w Khorne is multiple small units so you can rack up the tithe so generally taking units at their min size is best and most efficient for us. On top of this you will need some real hammer units. Mortal options include Skull reapers - 2x5 is good A beat stick hero - our best options are Khorne marked lord on krakadrak and manticore lord armed w lance and sword. Give either hew the foe and gorecleaver on their main weapon and you have a real beat stick. Get the blood blessings - skulls and axe are good. Skulls will give a magic heavy army a real problem - hello lumineth. Axe is just a mean damage dealer Get the alter for your priests Uou will need something speedy to grab objectives and or react to threats. Chaos knights look interesting for us now - especially w lord on krakadrak or lord on daemon Mount. Daemon Prince is usually fun, but he is more of a support piece now. His command ability will really mess with fast charging armies For summons 10-20 bloodletters max, 5-10 hounds. Rest is pretty situational but try not to fall into the trap of saving up for a thirster. A mortal list really needs good tithe use to be effective and hogging it all for 1 model is usually not a good idea
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    Both are great units. Skull reapers are one of the best mortal damage dealing units and will butcher hordes. wrathmongers are great assault troops and attack buff source. They work very well with Skarr bloodwrath You can build both units from one box, you just need some spare legs eg from easy build blood warriors or some such.
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    Get some flesh hounds to summon Are you wanting to go mortal or daemon or mix?
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    This month I plan to finish Star Wars Rebellion as well as build and start a box of 15 Khorne marked chaos warriors.
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    Y wings. Nearly done with this box of minis. Even at this scale having them painted adds massively to immersion into the game
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    Some more Star Wars rebellion. The end is in sight now and then I can start my new AoS Khorne slaves list
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    I would love to see Valkia get updated to be in line with the quality of the new plastic engineering.
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    August was a bad month for hobby due to work and leave. September however has been good. I have made good progress on Star Wars rebellion - the imperials were completed done (89 models over 6 weeks) and I have painted 21 rebel troopers and 6 airspeeders. i hope this month to finish off the shield generators and ion cannons as well as the star fighters. I have also planned a new slaves to darkness list and I am buying the models in prep for the next project.
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    Your list earlier in the thread has inspired me to make a knight based Khorne army with the lord on daemon Mount as general.😀
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    The chaos lord on daemon Mount is also quite interesting. Not as hard hitting as crackerjack lord or manticore. But he is slightly cheaper and has the mortal and daemon key words, the buff for knights and will act as a daemon hero locus for your summons to reroll hits of 1. Juggerlord is nice with hew the foe and gorecleaver he can deal some pain. Its made me think this is a clear gap in the Khorne army ie a decent non unique mortal leader in the 200-300 point bracket, khorgus doesn’t really cut the mustard.
  21. Praecautus
    Working through Star Wars Rebellion Finish the imperials - 2 star destroyers - 1 super star destroyer - 2 death stars - 1 Death Star under construction then I get to work on the rebels 😀 69 tiny models, including: - fleet troopers - air/snow speeders - shield generators - ion cannons - y wings - x wings - transports - cornelian corvettes - mon cal cruisers at this scale you can really blast through groups of minis so I expect to get the majority of it done. Then back to AoS
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    Great looking minis, keep it up! The Imperial Fleet is coming together, 6 done and 4 are WIP.
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    The Star Wars continues. Progress to date, this is about 3 weeks of painting. I hope you all don’t mind the clearly non AoS minis, buts it’s really helping to paint my progress in order to get the mojo back for painting
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    Really nice. Like the scheme - ‘simple’ but effective
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    I am working through Star Wars Rebellion and hope to have the Imperials completed in July plus make a start on the Rebels. So far I have painted 30 storm troopers, 24 tie fighters, 4 at at and 10 at at. Next up are 8 Gozanti assault carriers. Its not AoS so I won’t spam pics, but enjoy this tie fighter
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