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I'm not sure we would see them on foot. I've always seen chaos mounts as a status symbol, and the varanguard are powerful chaos warriors, and their mounts show other chaos warriors that they are more powerful! A new elite unit of chaos warriors on foot that aren't God specific would be cool though

Agreed, it will be very difficult to bring their particular flavour and style into the AoS setting. I wonder if they do release a cavalry heavy/only faction they will be descendants of Brettonia, or if there will be some kind of hat tip towards them in the fluff

Yea that's me! I don't get to club as much as I would like these days, I'm studying with the open university so that's pretty hit and miss. Ive got exams at the start of June, but then off till October so I fully intend to make the most of the hobby time!

"The disappointing beginning of things that will probably never go anywhere"...proceeds to paint some beautiful miniatures. These are awesome! If you haven't done so already, get these into the gallery!

Payment sent, please add me to the list! (Adam Petford)

Hi All, Lets kick this off with a little introduction! I'm Adam, from Dorset in the UK. I have been in the hobby since around the time of the Dark Elves army book release in 8th. I have always been a massive fan of anything Orc related. In Warcraft 3, I always played them, WoW my characters were always orcs (apart from the time I played a blood elf, we don't talk about that), when I used to play Dawn of War with my friends at LAN parties, I could always be found yelling Waaagh in the corner. So naturally when I started play Warhammer i picked up the greenskins! I like to think my love for them has only grown. Now, I must admit I did lose interest when AoS came out, but now I'm back into it and going in with both feet! This first blog is all about the bases. I have decided that I am going to rebase my army onto rounds (orcs look way better in a mob that in rank and file anyway!). I was very close to just buying myself lots of resin bases, and I did take a good look around, but I couldn't find anything that I felt really fit with what I think an greenskin should be stood on. I always saw them as being stood on some dry, cracked arid wasteland, and no resin base I could find did it for me. My 8th army was based using agrellan earth, which fits the theme, and I decided that I would build on that now I have a little more hobby knowledge under my belt. So I did a test base I was super happy with my test base! I feel like it fits my theme perfectly! When it comes to the real thing, the slate will be large enough so that a model can be mounted onto it, and I'm also using a few different (read cheaper) materials for mass production, including using MDF bases instead of plastic. The test base was agrellan earth followed by various bits of dry brushing, but I am using distress crackle paint for the cracked effect which we will talk about more when I come to that part. . Tonight has been all about laying down the texture. I am going to be using wood filler to make the surface uneven, which I think should give a more natural feel to the base This literally just involved dolloping on wood filler randomly to give the base an uneven texture, it takes about half an hour to dry and is ready for priming, which I will be doing in black. I started with my 32mm bases, and there are 100 of these guys, so I enlisted some help in the form of my girlfriend and her sister! This is what we are looking for, you don't need an awful lot. just enough to "un-flatten" the base. And here we are, 100 bases textured and ready for priming! This lot took about a half hour to do, and I'm pleased with the variety of the filler. Once they are primed, we can add our cracked earth. I'll be adding the crackle paint to these hopefully later on this week, and then I can get painting the slate for these. Thanks for reading!

When AoS first dropped I must admit I lost interest, I was gutted, but I don't think I ever rage quit (although I'm sure a few members of my gaming group would disagree, I can be a bit vocal!). I pretty much stopped playing with my greenskins and focused on my CSM 40k army Since then though, my play time has taken a massive hit, due to study, and I don't get weekly games like I used to. This means that the 40k rules are just too overwhelming, as in the time between games I would become unfamiliar with the rules meaning my games of 40k were less enjoyable. So I decided to revisit AoS. Honestly, this game is perfect for me. I remember the first time I tried it after a break from playing due to assignments etc. I turned up at club with my orcs, nothing prepared, no list, no pre-thought or anything, and I thought to myself; "what do I fancy playing with tonight?". I then just started unpacking models to play with as I fancied until I had enough to play with for that evenings game (it's probably worth noting we were using a pool system we developed as a group to "balance" games). That was when I was hooked, I had a great game, and I haven't looked back since. I have now got a fairly hefty project planned for the summer when I am between modules (hello Ironjawz, goodbye money) and I have already vowed that I am going to SCGT next year. AoS is better than 8th to me now, playing the game is way more fun. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH