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Well I'm debating using at least one of them as a hurricanum instead as it's gotten quite tall! Potentially can put a zombie lightning rod attached to its mast and a creepy necromancer for a Frankenstein lightning power feel to its storm abilities and + hit aura. Would end up actually being a nice boost for the handgunners and any non mobile artillery I field (cough helstorms cough). I'll try and post up some pictures of the conversion so far when I get home today and dig out my ship mortis engine I plan on rejigging into... something for this project and get pics of that too. I also have a box of zombies sat at home that I really should convert into more handgunners. EDIT: Hurricanum would let me cut out the freeguild general in theory as handgunners wouldn't need his command ability hit bonus. Though this definitely is feeling like a project that could easily go to 1500 or 2k points.

Super fun to read! Kudos!

Welp now after seeing that Louise Sugden model I'm now gonna have to learn to paint bright colours and get myself pastel colour paints because boy does that seem exactly the sort of style of colour I'd love painting! Looks like that dark elder covens project I was about to start is gonna get loud and pastel!

So having recently lost myself to Warhammer total war 2 and then seeing someone else mention the idea of using a cities of sigmar army to make vampire coast my long held dream of wraith fleet / vampirates will come to fruition! I have already made a unit of zombie handgunners and am currently making steamtanks from my pirate ship mortis engine I made ages ago (hello steam tank commander) and the other half of the idoneth ship that I had which -will- look suitably ridiculous which is half the fun. This also gives me a great way to use up all my bloody spare bits that I have lying around. I'm looking to just do 1000 points to start as a fun little project that I may expand or may just leave at 1k and figured greywater fastness made sense for a pirate ship and GUNS army (and boy have I been wanting to revisit my favourite city of crazed cannon lovers for ages). I'm considering the following as a start point: Allegiance: Cities of Sigmar - City: Greywater Fastness LEADERS Steam Tank with Commander (250) - General Freeguild General (100) UNITS 10 x Freeguild Handgunners (100) 10 x Freeguild Handgunners (100) 5 x Freeguild Pistoliers (100) 1 x Helstorm Rocket Battery (130) BEHEMOTHS Steam Tank (200) - Cities of Sigmar Battleline (Steam Tank with Commander General) TOTAL: 980/1000 EXTRA COMMAND POINTS: 0 WOUNDS: 66 LEADERS: 2/4 BATTLELINES: 3 (2+) BEHEMOTHS: 2/2 ARTILLERY: 1/2 ARTEFACTS: 0/1 ALLIES: 0/200 Now granted it's probably not a good list but looks like a fun one (I plan to my make my pistoliers out of spare black knights i'll never use and pistolier pistols spare from making my living city outriders) My only concern is whether I should have some freeguild guard or something to protect my gunners or whether I just say heck it and go all out (cannon)balls out. I will post some pictures of my conversions when they're more finished too.

I had considered slaves to darkness but would be much better for bretonnia if we had access to chaos knights instead of just marauder horsemen but the marauders for peasants work for sure. I was personally considering Ossiarch Bonereapers for my bretonnians, they have appropriately tough horsemen I feel though the regular mortek guard as peasants might be a bit too tough? But I mean they're also all strength 3 which seemed to fit.

Hi @7phwt Are any of these still for sale? If so are you looking to only sell it all as one lot or would you be willing to split any bits?

So originally I was all like 'pfft I'm not interested in high elves'... then I saw their helmet plumes and was like 'I mean okay they look nice' and now I feel myself super interested in them *flops* (by the gods not another army I wanna collect) I think I will try and see how exactly they play before I get any and see how convertible their heroes look. I'm not really a fan of the teclis model, love Eltharion though. I'm hoping they'll have some cool hero choices, and hoping their spearmen wont be horde units as I really don't wanna run super big blocks (also dunno if I have the space for so many models..) They definitely look like they could be fun for paint schemes though. Hopefully will be good with contrast.

So does that mean that hero varanguard is literally the only thing the knight of the empty throne gives? Or does it have some other abilities too since it's a full allegiance as opposed to a sub-alliegance?

This sounds like something interesting to try out... Would be great to make conversions with literal skeleton crews. I definitely have found cannons useful when playing old ironweld arsenal so I could really see them working for Death to provide some nice shooting. Just gotta make sure you can get them onto a nice bit of terrain to get the vantage point for line of sight.

I would definitely love to see more pictures! Especially of the dragon, he's made from a carnosaur right? And what kits did you use for the blood knights out of curiosity? Pistolier bodies & horses with guard swords/shields?

I had far too much fun adding a zweihander and a wight king crown onto a mangler squig loonboss for my Arthurian goblin knights conversion project. My big worry is how I'm gonna handle doing heraldry on my boingrot bounderz whether I just do them as one per squad or proper mix and match them like bretonnians. Probably the latter and keep the uniformity of the squad only in which colour squig they ride. Themed army projects have definitely become an exciting prospect for me. Even if this one will be light on conversions.

Hey guys. So I've recently begun my little gloomspite conversion project for King Arfur and the knights of the bouncing table. Which is basically an excuse to give a loonboss a crown and have loads of boingrot bounderz I've been toying with a starting 1000 point list and have come up with the following: Realm: Hyish -Loonboss on Mangler Squig - Artefact: Blade of symmetry (for representing his looted blade Excalibur) - 280 -Fungoid Cave Shaman - Artefact: Aetherquartz Brooch - 90 -5x Boingrot Bounderz - 100 -5x Boingrot bounderz - 100 -6x Squig herd - 70 -6x Squig herd - 70 -6x Sneaky Snufflers - 70 -3x Rippa's Snarlfangs - 80 Batallion: Squig Rider Stampede It's probably not the best and the main reason I have the snarlfangs is because they look cool (and movement 12) and the snufflers were my spare 70 points and I will have 6 due to getting warcry boxes for my squig riders instead of just regular boxes (plan on getting 2, not sure whether to make any as squig hoppers though. Maybe 5 so I have the option for AoS and warcry) The herd seemed like a cheap battleline, I will look into Stabbas at perhaps higher points games (I do plan to expand into 2k) along with some troggoths for some harder hitting. As a final note I am wanting to scratch build a more thematic looking loon shrine (perhaps a broken castle wall or siege tower turned into one?) If anyone has any suggestions on things I could look at or kits to consider as a basis for a more knightly loonshrine then please let me know

So last month I got some fair bits of painting done across a variety of things even if I didn't do (or finish) the pledges I was going to (Whoops!) but important thing is I did a lot of painting! For this month I pledge to finish the final details on my mangler squig that I started on the 1st of February. And to finish 5 boingrot bounders I started on the 2nd. Provided I accomplish that I want to finish my cypher lord warband and do another 5 either bounders or hoppers. If I have the chance (or simply feel like it) I'm hoping to do some more bonereapers too! Will try and make sure to take photo's this month as I progress!

Been painting my boys and girls recently! Still wip but I'm liking how they're coming out.

These guys are certainly proving fun to paint! All contrast & metallics so far. Very happy with the purple going into pink on the hair and loincloths too.

I'm definitely eyeing up the newer push fit chaos knights for making some blood knights. Definitely will look like big heavy chargers! Though my death is in a weird place with some bits (such as one of my coven thrones) converted into wraith fleet pirate style. Anyone got suggestions on cavalry that could be used to convert some more pirate looking bloodknights? Or should I just go heck it and go all in on the big heavy armoured knights. Would fit my armoured vampire lord on dragon a bit more than all pirates. Bonus points if I have some heavy armoured knights and some pirate looking ones to represent a story of perhaps 2 different vampire forces coming together to fight (can be a nice theme to differentiate two dragon lords) Though alternatively I could see the ossiarch horses being an interested shout for those who want a more skeletal death theme! (could still paint them up like shadowy bone horses) I've been away from soulblight for too long though, my vampires need to taste blood again soon EDIT: Just seen some pics of freeguild outriders being used to make blood knights. I actually really like the look of this idea! Always happy to see new ideas for knights (and I'm totally gonna have to make that saurus dragon conversion!!)

So last night I got curbstomped by my buddies Sylvaneth in my second ever game with bonereapers. However I still had a lot of fun and for most of the game I was only behind by 2 points in objectives which I'm quite happy with. My list I ran was the following: Subfaction: Crematorian (Or burny bois if you will) -Boneshaper (General, crematorian trait and artefact) -Boneshaper 2 (electric boogaloo) -Liege Kavalos (Artefact: Helm of the ordained) 20x Mortek Guard 5x Deathriders w/Swords 5x Deathrider w/Lances 1x Harvester 2x Morghast Archai Batallion: Kavalos Lance So I probably misplayed to heck (because I still do not have enough games under my belt really in AoS in general) however I found that the cavalry gave some good punch and when the morghast got stuck in they certainly surprised me. One big problem was not enough bodies to hold objectives (especially backfield) we played border war which meant having to try and split my force, which did not go down well with this list for sure. I also had my liege with the lances (lances did very well with empower weapons) and the sword cav were on their own but I think I should keep the entire battalion together and have them ride around causing mayhem like a gang of bullies. This list was basically everything I have built so far, I still have 10 more guard and 3 stalkers to build. I'm thinking for the future of this list possibly looking at adding in katakros (because he's cool and the longer range resurrection would benefit the cavalry) and using some of the endless spells because the nightmare predator is pretty and would give me something to potentially chase around backline heroes (though he is 2d6 move which is oof) I also want to increase the lance cavalry to 10 to get some nice exploding lances on the charge. I'm ideally trying to get it to work without spamming mortek guard since putting loads of them together and giving them the straw hats I was converting is a pain but 2 of 20 would probably be better than 20 and 10. Though it's also points I can't spend on the pretty horses or something with good rend and damage (like stalkers)

Ironbones and the Jaw Splitters sounds like a great name for a band

This month I'm hoping to build & paint a Bull Centaur Taur'ruk for a friend I'm also hoping to undercoat and then paint 10 freeguild greatswords and start making a little dent in my free cities army. If I can manage those my stretch goals would be quite frankly to get anything else painted

I absolutely adore the kharadrons riding gryph hounds!! How did you do the legs?

I'm looking at Cultist units to use alongside my armoured boys because I really do not like the marauder models (rip) but love the warcry models. Looking at the warscrolls I'm really considering unmade with the amount of attacks they can throw out (and the scythes on the blissful ones). My favourite looking warbands are the corvus cabal and the cypher lords but they just don't really look like they'll be able to do enough in terms of attacks unfortunately (though the fly on the corvus could warrant them as early objective grabbers) I know marauders are generally the go-to because they do the job better but is there much potential for something like the unmade to be able to throw down alongside an army? (rather than being the main focus etc)

Mind giving me a rundown on what colours you used to achieve that? Especially the armour.

So book scheme isn't too difficult (I used yellow contrast instead of iyandan yellow step but basically same effect) since you start with the light colours it's easier to get all the crevices as the black drybrush then won't go into them however you may need to rego over some of the sticky out skulls with your yellow. As for extra yellow in the recesses (as per book scheme) I found the recesses generally easy enough to get a brush into and for the ones that weren't they were small enough that having darker orange instead of light yellow wasn't too noticeable or much of an issue (I kind find you wanna keep some orange showing in them really else it looks too yellow and not burny enough). It's an easy scheme to paint for sure as it's basically just base yellow, wash orange, drybrush black (i'd then suggest drybrush dark grey over that black to make it less flat) and then yellow in recesses. The only difficulty is making sure you don't go too overboard on yellow in recesses and end up making it look like an odd wasp Here's an example I've done so you can see the general idea of how it looks: Unfortunately I've yet to snap pics of the smaller guys I've done but will try and put them onto my blog asap. This was also me being quite messy and not too careful with the scheme so if you're more careful with the recess yellow and such it'll probably come out looking even better

How do people find Katakros in legions outside of Praetorians. I'm looking at how to expand my crematorian force and I'm considering getting either him or Arkhan, I know Arkhan would be really good for magic and such but I've got 2 boneshapers currently already and Katakros is a really nice model (expensive though in points and £££). For reference the current things I own: -2 Boneshapers -1 Harvester -30 Mortek Guard (swords) -5 Deathriders (swords) -3 Stalkers -2 morghast archai (halbards) -2 unbuilt morghast I don't want to go just infantry and harvester spam because the lists for that look a bit dull for me, I'd like to be able to use a bit more of a range of units (like the fact I love the look of stalkers & deathriders) But I do totally plan to have at least a 20 guard + 1 harvester combo in most lists because it's pretty useful! A bit of advice on what sort of things I could look at would be nice (I know I'll probably need a liege kavalos). Also as a sidenote I'm really enjoying painting up my Crematorian guys, the scheme is pretty simple and quite fun. It might end up being my first fully painted army (above 1k)

That's really weird people got mad because the first knight incantor (from the starter set) was already female?