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Now that we have this dedicated thread it means we have a great place to discuss the new black knight meta, right? ...right? Anyway.... in terms of Avengorii looking over the warscrolls I'm definitely thinking that the Zombie Dragon just isn't great without a rider compared to the terrorgheist since it still has its potentially 6 mortal wound bite attack. Are there any situations where having a regular zombie dragon stomping around might actually be better? I know it gets lots more claw attacks and its breath will do more than the shriek against high bravery enemies but I'm not sure if they're enough to justify taking one over the terrorgheist for a monster mash. Also I have to say one of my favourite things about the anvil of blood (which is now officially out in white dwarf for anyone who wanted it but didn't know when it was coming out!) is that the Vengorian lords nightmare ability is in it, it's a nice little touch for people who want to make custom vengorians.

Radukar the Beast would be fine, yes. But the original post was referring to Radukar the Wolf and his court, all of whom have to be taken together for 700 points (aka the cursed city bundle).

For my soulblight they are led by a pair of twins. Cassia von Ravenspeak who is my vlord on zombie dragon (also have a horse mounted version of her) and now I have a model for her sister Lucia von Ravenspeak. Lucia is my 'Vengorian lord' or rather she's the graceful vampire stood in front whilst her corrupted shados takes hideous form representative of her monsterous nature to destroy enemies. Still working on fleshing out lore for the twins but will definitely be making anvil of blood versions of them too!

Yep! Lots of cutting/sawing to get just the top part of the plinth then just glued the zombie dragon head/neck onto it and added greenstuff lightning energy. Drilled a couple of holes in the steps and platform so that prince ducal can stand there for when I want to use it as a Vlord on Zdragon. Had to remove his standing rock and cut away some of his cape to make him fit nicely. Originally I had planned to use a realmgate but unfortunately my local GW had none in stock (online only now I think?) so I figured I'd try this. I would like to get a realmgate to have my spare unbuilt mortarch mount (or anothe r zombie dragon / terrorgheist head) coming out from though!

Decided to put together a warscroll for a vargskyr as a hero, I see it as being a vargskyr that whether due to some anomaly or magical means has managed to retain a shred of its former intelligence/personality, enough to allow it to lead others into carnage. Clocks in at 280points

Tried my hand at making a fun little curse of lycan themed Hero. Clocks in at 190 points, no idea if she'd be any good but the idea is rush in make a flurry of attacks with her inaccurate but dangerous claws. Felt like bring me their head made the most thematic sense for a command ability for a character like this. Also I find it weird that martial vampire lords have the wizard keyword but no spells. EDIT: Errors in the warscroll: Forgot the hunger ability and natural movement for vamps is 6" not 5".

More WiP for you all!

I'm very tempted to make a Vyrkos Vampire with anvil of blood that has curse of the lycan and just take 2 pairs of bestial claws for my weapons and just have a full crazed rip and tear vampire werewolf running around for a giggle. EDIT: I can also see potential way to use the blood born or zombie ogor models as Bestial companions for your vampires/necros/wights with the anvil, just nice to think outside the box with it.

Oh wow! Those look great! How did you do the skin? I'm wanting to also have a snowy theme for my soulblight so would love to be able to replicate a similar cold dead skin look.

Started getting some paint on the pair!! Still very WiP but happy that I'm getting it going. Going to keep a white walker theme for all my dragons and terrorgheist like I did for my old vampire on zombie dragon though I've totallt forgotten to greenstuff eyes on this one... whoops! Will need to add those in.

Count me in for Anvil of blood too. Really excited to see what options we get!!

Can confirm that contrasts over metallics work very well. Retributor armour with blood angels red over it is great for a more vibrant cherry red like 30k thousand sons.

At least the lack of mounted vampire can be easily remedied with anvil of apotheosis. It would have been great to have rat swarms for Kritza to utilise and give him a little pied piper playstyle, definitely feel they missed a bit of a trick with that one.

So I've been working on using the spare zombie dragon head from my terrorgheist kit to make this fella! First two pictures are its current state (still wip) and 3rd picture is an earlier one showing where I'm planning to magnetise a vampire lord to look like he's summoning it from the portal. Quite looking forward to getting it finished and it's even ended up being the right sort of height/width to use as a z-dragon and not just a terrain piece

So spent this evening working on a conversion as a way to use up that spare zombie dragon head from the terrorgheist kit ;) Wip currently but certainly looking like it will make for a cool piece. It's a zombie dragon being summoned out of a portal.

So Mannfreds ability to jump out of combat and teleport looks like it could be really useful... especially if he's just been charged.

Why not both?

They did that with the models from the first starter set. Put them into start collectings.

So I am big happy with the new stuff, I had literally been talking to my dad the other day about wanting to see a little more monstrous vampire creatures (like vargheists) and the bat-dragon-centaur-vampire-coolkid-lady definitely scratches that itch for me! I can understand it being a bit marmite but unlike actual marmite I am loving this model. I have also found myself surprisingly drawn to the Vyrkos as a bloodline, the new models for them look pretty sweet and I'll have to hope their rules mesh with how I like to play because I can totally see myself greenstuffing russian hats onto all my vampires and getting lots of wolves.

I finalized some models with my lumineth scheme today! Definitely had some fun experimenting with colours and finding what worked nicely together, they definitely have a nice pop to them with the reds and yellows and hopefully should make for an eyecatching army! Will have to work on bases for them when I can, planning to use the greenstuffworld greek rollers.

I've now made my conversion of my settlers gain assassin from a loreseeker. Quite happy with it! Just need shadow warriors next.

So for a bit more of a casual-competitive local environment which of the two aelementari temples would likely be a bit more fun to play? Stoneguard for swinging big hammers or Windchargers for speeeeed. I'm having quite a difficult time deciding where I want to begin with my lumineth but I know I'd definitely like to go heavier on one of the temples (lovely models) and of course throw in some bladelords because they're fun but I'm not sure if windchargers would be too difficult to get consistent damage out of before they die or if stoneguard would be too slow to do much of anything. If anyone has had experience with units or armies like these I'd love to hear how you found them. (There's also the fact that I kinda prefer smaller model counts both for ££ and playing reasons)

See this is now making me want to make a fun little shadowblade focused force. I'm also having a lot of fun thinking about converting up a loreseeker into an assassin for it! I think for friendly local games this could be a cool idea, having lots of shadow warriors popping up whilst dark riders (and potentially dawnriders) run interference. Big mobility options for sure. I think a lot of lumineth options could go well with it, dawnriders for more mobility and chaff killing, skyshard ballista for ranged support, loreseeker for another unit to jump onto objectives, bladebringers for chaff clearing or quick surgical melee damage, wardens for having an actually defensive unit etc So definitely not a bad one to consider, even if it likely won't do great competetively it at least gives a lot of tactical play with all your popping up units and deciding where best to keep them.

So the bladebringers and the loreseeker have truly pushed me into the wanting to build up that LrL box I've got and make an army XD Those models are gorgeous ❤️ I'm also pretty happy with the rules for the ballista, it looks like it'll be pretty fun to play. I may end up seeing how well I can go in my local club with a list utilising a lot of bladebringers and some other nice models put in (rule of cool!) My favourite thing about this release has been how there's now a lot of options for list building and a few different playstyles (especially for more casual environments)

Honestly I think just adding that would do a lot for the viability of the chariot, making it a good on the charge piece whereas the scourgerunner is a good shooty harassing piece.