The Harvesters of Khorne

Hi all! This is my second Gnoblog, this one will be based mainly on my Beasts of Chaos army. Why include the Maw in their name? Because they will have close ties with the Iron Maw Tribe, in fact so close that some of the beasts in the army will actually begin to worship the Great Maw! This simple name is given to the mass of beasts that emerge from the forests to swarm over any villages in the way. They hit in the dead of winter, when supplies are already low for townsfolk, just to inflict that much more suffering  .

The basis of this union is that I have a large OK army, and a huge BoC army, and I want to use them both! But for background purposes, what will happen is Blugh the Iron Maw will ally with the leaders of my beast herds. They currently are Undivided, and of course worship all of Chaos. Blugh's incessant preaching actually reaches some of the beasts, and convince them to worship the Maw. In the meantime, the Bray Shaman's of my herds try to convince the beast leaders to stay away from Blugh and his Ogres. However, they cannot deny the awesome prowess the Ogres bring to the battlefield...

I hope this is an interesting twist on the idea of Chaos Ogres. Blugh's devotion to the Maw is so deep and powerful, he begins to sway even non-Ogres around him, gathering allies and making new enemies among the followers of Chaos.

For my actual army composition, I will focus on all Beasts, with the exception that I will use some Chaos Knights as well for Specials. Following PsychosisPC's examples, I made "Knightgors". Those models (along with just about everything else of his) really inspired me. The regular Centigor is one of my favorite models, so I made the Knightgors to fit with them and my all beast theme. I am working on making my own Gorthor the Beastlord model, because

A: I don't like the current model

B: I don't see a place for chariots in an army based in the woods.

So what I am doing is making a "Centaur Lord" of sorts. I got Archaon's horse, did some massive cutting and sanding, and added a Dragon Ogre torso/head to it, to make something I hope is unique! I will use Gorthors full rules, but base this model on a chariot base in order to comply with all the rules. So the fact that he is a Centaur is for my own wishes, and to help explain the high movement/hitting power of the chariot/Bagrar/Tuskgors.

For my Doombull (which I am using simply because I like them!) I used the Ogre Tyrant body, with a GW minotaur head, extra sculpted details with GS and Sculpey, and we'll see what else! It is not done yet, but I hope to have some WIP pics up soon! What I figured is, if I ever do use a Tyrant, the mino head can be explained as a trophy taken in battle against The Reaping during their first meeting. It's just large enough to look like a big helmet if necessary.

Here are some pics of the WIP Doombull:

cool, good to see another gnoblog from you Blugh (and a chaos one at that ) The Doombull conversion looks pretty cool, but I really want to see it painted to get the full ffect! The conversion for Gorthor also sounds like a great idea. I'm doing something similar for scrag, anything suitably impressive on a chriot base can make a geat 'counts as chariot' and you giant centigor sounds like it will be awesome. Have you seen the old wood elf centaur thing that was amde form archaons horse and orion's upper body?

Thanks
Corai

Thank you! Yes I hope to work on it more this weekend, both models actually. Some of the time may be taken up with ANOTHER project of mine...Might get a third Gnoblog, LOL.

No I've never seen that, do you know where that could be found??

I plan to make some house rules for an actual Centaur Lord, I think that could be awesome. My model will be removable from the chariot base for this purpose!

he's in a white dwarf (at least that's where I've seen him) but I'll check out the modellers name tonight, should help with a google search to see fi the mdoel exists on the net.

Thanks
Corai

Hey nice models! Although can you get some larger pictures?


 thanks Greasus409

Have you clicked on the pictures? they're thumbnails that lead to bigger pics

Thanks
Corai

Here is the full list of what I have available for Chaos. I do proxy some things, so I basically made a list of "haves" coupled with "counts as". It's my full potential if you will, LOL. Hopefully you can make sense of it!

I'll post lists hopefully this weekend too.

FULL CHAOS LIST 9215

210: M: LORD OF CHAOS (4)
235: M: Exalted Sorceror
100: M: Exalted Champion
80: M: Aspiring Champion
85: M: Sorceror

625: D: KEEPER OF SECRETS (1)
665: D: Lord of Change
300: D: Daemon Prince

95: B: BEASTLORD (6)
60: B: Wargor 300

180: B: GREAY BRAY SHAMAN (4)
75: B: Bray Shaman 225

180: B: DOOMBULL

33: M: KNIGHTS OF CHAOS (10/5) 330
13: M: Marauder Horsemen 195
15: D: Chaos Furies 225

6: M: WARHOUNDS (20/15) 210
16: D: Flesh Hounds of Khorne 560

7: B: GORS (51) 357
4: B: UNGORS (52) 208

12: B: BESTIGORS (50) 600
50: B: Pestigors
16: D: Plague Bearers (15) 240
7: B: Gors
16: D: Bloodletters 800
14: M: Warriors of Chaos 700

17: B: CENTIGORS (5/10) 255

55: B: TROLLS (5) 275

40: B: MINOTAURS (5) 200

70: B: DRAGON OGRES (4) 280

295: B: SHAGGOTH

205: B: GIANT

Wow, that is an impressive collection. Can't wait to see pics.

Yes it came together so quickly, I didn't even plan for all this, but through two large trades, here I am! I absolutely LOVE BoC, only played a few games with them but I'm a sucker for armies with mad options, and Chaos has it!

I'm also a huge fan of making sure I can get multiple uses out of my models, so that explains some of the units I have listed. For example, my "Bloodletters" are old plastic Beastmen (which surprisingly rock), but of course they can sub in as regular Gors if necessary. My Pestigors can double as Plaguebearers...etc.

Following your lead Ghworg, I may craft my own Chaos list using BoC and OK together more than just using Ogres as Special choices...but thats a bit off from now. Just gotta get on my themes and get crackin'!

SUNDAY APRIL 29TH: MORE WIP PICS

Here are some pics of various units. The Doombull you've seen, I added a Minotaur weapon and old Chaos shield for forearm armor. I could've gone with the huge axe...but I love the sheer brutality of a huge @$$ cleaver!

The Beastlord is one of, I don't know, 7 that I've built, LOL. I seem to have this problem with building too many leaders (same as with my Space Wolves, but there its necessary!). I bought the Beastlord with two axes on Friday, I've always liked that model. However because of the Centigor conversion I'm doing I had leftover Archaon bits, so I built a second Wargor/Beastlord.

The Centigor will serve many purposes for me. As I said earlier he will count as Gorthor, a Chaos Lord on Steed, and as a Centigor Lord character I'm planning...

To tie in with the Centigor is a "Drunkeness Counter" I made for my Centigor unit. I saw the idea on the Herdstone, and I loved the simplicity!

And finally, I don't have pics ATM, but I also converted a Chaos Lord using the Archaon on foot model. I actually used this originally for a Doombull, and had some fluff going that this was a human Chaos Warrior that was such a bad mutha, he ended up in control of a Beastherd, with insane combat skills. So he actually counted as a Doombull, but he was a human. This was done to b*tch-slap a friend of mine with limited imagination, who tried to tell me that humans look down on beasts. I too read that in the army books, but didn't care! I explained it that this guy was so crazy and awesome, no one stepped to him, EVER! Oh well, I like doing things differently sometimes, my personal rule is, as long as you have a cool theme, with clear explanations that don't break the rules, you're good to go 

Here you go! The pics are links to larger images:

Drunken Counter


Doombull


Centigor Lord






Beastlord

I know excatly what you mean about converting too many characters. something about chaos makes me want to just keep making more! I love your centigor conversion, it looks realy amazing. did you say the body came from a dragon ogre? And I'm assuming the head is from the steed which forms the body? This guy is really amazing. I can't wait to see him get some paint! The Beastlord from archaon at the bottom is also really dramtic and great. However, I think the plastic legs look a little weedy compared with the metal torso. Maybe a loincloth or some armour plates/chainmail etc could help with this.

Thanks
Corai

Wow they both look very nice. Way to ge getting two awesome characters from one model. I know what you mean about characters just look at my O&G blog.

cheers,Gorg

edit whoo frikkin whoo I'm a hunter now

@ Corai: Thank you! Yes the body of the Centigor is Archaon's horse, with a Dragon Ogre torso, and the horse's head is on there as well. I tried a few different ideas, but nothing seemed right. This horse looks evil and more importantly, pissed off! I agree on the legs of the Beastlord, I was thinking of adding armor plates and some chainmail. It was just getting late, LOL. Yeah I have I think 4 Bray Shamans in the works, and I know I have at least two other Beastlord/Wargors, plus the new one PLUS this one. I can't help myself.

@ Gorg: Ha ha, yes I watch your gnoblog, I know what you mean! Thank you!

Yeah, that Centigor is blimmin' amazing Blugh, as is the Beastlord. Good work!

@ Ghworg: Thanks man, I'm glad people are liking it. I thought of the idea a month ago, and Was looking for the right parts. Archaon's horse is one of the most awesome, already in a cool pose and all, so there you go!

Today is one of those days I could really work on my army. I need some blessings of Khorne or something to get me through the work day.

I hope to get more work done tonight, stay tuned!

*cough*go paint!*cough*

*eats a gnoblar* don't you dare coughing in somebodies gnoblog again.

man, the doombull is one brute of a cool conversion. Looks like a smashed minotaur in the thumbnail, turns out to be a smashed minotaur which looks so brutish 

TUESDAY, MAY 1ST: QUICK UPDATE

No pics today, but I added armor and a loincloth to my Beastlord last night. I also sculpted a bracer for the Doombull's right arm. I started sculpting muscle onto the Centigor Lord, the more I looked at it the more I realized the horse head is just slightly too big for the Dragon Ogre body. So using the body as my armature, I started to bulk out the Centigor. I hope to get some pics up tonight!

looking forward to those new pics. the centigor lord is reaslly amazing and I'll enjoy seeing eachstep i nthe process

Thanks
corai

@ Corai: Thank you! I did some more sculpting to the Centigor, as well as removing the gut plate from my Doombull. I just didn't like it round. It looked too similar to an Ogre Gut Plate. Not that there's anything wrong with the gut plates of course, I was just thinking for something different!

BTW, does anyone out there know the official name for that kind of armor? I'd like to see some styles, but I don't know what its called in real life.

QUICK UPDATE:

No pics at the moment, but I hope to have some tonight. We're going out to dinner tonight, I'm swamped with real life all day and night tomorrow, so hopefully I can get some work done on Sunday!

can you post a pic of the centigor lord i cant see it!

Ok, here are some little updates, I added some armor to Beastlord and Centigor Lord, and I changed the gut armor of the Doombull slightly.

The right shoulder pad of the Centigor chipped on me...but I think I will use it like this. I was going to damage it anyway, LOL.

Doombull:


Centigor Lord, with shot of spear:




Beastlord. I put one leg pad on, figuring much like the Spartans his shield will protect his left side.

The doombul's really coming along, but the large armoured gut plate looks a little bare at the moment. that can, of course change with painting but I'd consider adding some device or detail to it. The centigor lord still looks fantastic, more so with every update. And the beast lord's really come along. the additions to the legs realy balance the model out, it's going to look awesome

thanks
Corai

Oh yes....the gut plate gets more detail, I'm just not sure what I want yet. I changed it for the shape, now I want to think about what to put on it for detail. Maybe I'll hang a corpse off of it or something, LOL

Thanks for the comments! I'm pretty happy with the models so far!

They look fantastic

OK two more small pics. One highlights the shield I built for the Centigor, the other his spear. If you recall, I'm using the rules for Gorthor the Beastlord to represent this model, so I built the spear, Impaler (set with barbed rings, causes more damage) and I worked the Skull of (cant remember the name) into the model as a shield. The Skull gives Gorthor protection against any hit higher than S5, so to show that I made a shield using a Bull Standard skull sans horns, and some other races shields. I cut the horns off awhile ago, and decided it may still work (Gorthor b*tch-slapped the horns off the guy, stuck his head on his shield to be uber bad-@$$!).

I'm not sure if I want to keep that skull on without horns or not...what does everyone think?

The last definite item I need is a cloak of some sort, to represent the Cloak Gorthor wears (gives ward save equal to strength of attack). I will probably make it a huge flowing ordeal, LOL.

For the skull, I'd take the horns all the way off and round over the edges. At the moment it does look a little like they've just beein snipped off. Alternatively you could bore tham out (horns are hollow IIRC).

Loving the model, but I'd be wary of a cape. the back of the centigor and horse flow realy well and it would be a shame to coverthis up with a cloack, but it would look very nice if it was flowing off the model somehow

Thakns
Corai

/agree Corai

You could make the cape very short so it only covers the, uhm, upper body.
Or if you're making it longer, it could fall next to the lower (horse) body.

well i'm not a big fan of that shield but the spear looks fantastic as does the entire guy.

cheers,gorg

The work to the horns sounds like a good idea. I think if they looked like they were ripped off, that would get the effect across better. Come to think of it, I actually think most horns are solid, or mostly solid. I'll check into that though, thanks for the idea Corai.

I'm not 100% sold on the shield either...still thinking about that one.

As for the cloak, I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do. If I do one, I think I would prefer it flow around him somehow, maybe similar to Archaon's, however I wouldn't want to directly copy it. I will test it out with Sculpey, it won't harden unless I bake it so I can experiment. I'll try and get some pics up tomorrow night.

Man! How can I have missed this thread? Tour conversions are rockin awsome!

Thanks

 - Kyte

Here are some WIP shots of my Doombull's gut plate. I decided on the Maw symbol, because of the Reapers, the Doombull is starting to "see the light" about the Maw, moreso than the Bray Shamans.....

Wow, the maw symbol looks great! the whole model looks geat! Is this guy ready for paint now or is there more you want to do to it?

thanks
Corai

Wow. He looks sweet. Sorry if you already said but what is on his base?

cheers,Gorg

Looks like an plastic Empire Knights standard arm to me

Thanks
Corai

@ Corai: Not sure, I need to touch up the gut plate some more, then we'll see about finishing it for paint!

@ Gorg and Corai: Yes, that's an Empire Knight standard arm. One of my friends has been really working on getting his Empire army together...

Always the best diea for adding grisly trophies to your models I'm working on a whole Fallen angel force just to irk my friend and long time dark angel player

QUICK UPDATE:

I filed down the teeth on my Doombull's gut plate, and I'm going to add a beard to the Centigor Lord. I also just got 10 more Centigors through a trade, so I will be putting them together and adding some things here and there.

Oh and I also added an Ironfist to the Centigor Lord's left arm. I wasn't sold on that shield, and I figured this will tie them in with the Ogres more. I still want to add some trophies, as in corpses, to him.

i really like the models you have made so far

I loved the Doombull when I first saw it, and now it looks even better. The minotaur head fits really well on the Tyrant body, eh? The maw symbol looks great, it really resembles some fearsome mouth. I liked the plain version as well, especially for freehand opportunities, but it looks great.

Gotta compliment you on the Centigor Lord - looks sweet, though obviously still WIP on the chest area. Have you considered sculpting some abs?

Vincenti

@ khorgoth: Thanks!

@ Vincenti: Thanks! I think I'm going to go with a gut plate of sorts on the Centigor Lord. Besides flailing hooves, I think it would be best to have an armored front so the body can "Bull Charge" so to speak. Yeah I like the Minotaur head better than the Doombull, plus it was a nice fit! I'm not using a Tyrant for my Ogres anyway, but if I do this model can stand in (fluff-wise for me) as a Doombull, or as a Tyrant who wears a Minotaur's head for a helmet, LOL.

we really need more chaos themed ogres  chaos is slowly taking over........

I like the idea of an armored front - just don't make it too big, I wouldn't want it to take over the rest of that awesome model.

And it looks like the minotaur head fit perfectly, just like you said. Not many troubles GSing a neck, so to speak?

Vincenti

Yeah I considered adding horns, or even the entire Tyrant gut plate, to the Centigor. Only real problem there is the legs are right there, and theres not a lot of room. Kind of a situation where it would look awesome, and yet be too much, you know?

Yeah the Minotaur head i just added a big blob of GS, then went around it with sculpey to bulk out the neck/shoulders area and make him a little bigger.

   
I can't see the pictures!!!
it all sounds fantastic tho keep it up..

@ RezaKk: Sorry! The thumbnails are actually links to larger shots, hopefully you can see future pics!

QUICK UPDATE:

I received 10 Centigors from a trade, and assembled them last night. I will be adding armor and things to them, bits, etc.

Interesting note though, my Centigor Lord should be pretty convincing....don't know why I didn't think of this before, but I placed him next to a Centigor, and holy crap he's enormous! Truly heroic proportions! So that should work nicely as a leader, or if I use him as Gorthor (stated earlier in blog for those of you joining late!)

I have off until Tuesday, but we;re really busy doing things so hopefully I can get a game in and maybe get some work done. I should be playing my nephew''s Orcs and Goblins tomorrow, 2500 points. I'll try to post the list and some highlights!

I will be playing against my nephews Orcs and Goblins in a few hours, so I'm testing out this list. I will be using it against a VC army next Friday, so I'm trying it out here first. I went for large numbersd Ambush, to tie up enemy units until my heavy hitters can get there. The heaviest hitter? A huge block of Chosen Knights of Khorne  I like to try out different things, things people don't always use, such as my 5 man LB DoW unit...I've always had good luck with LB's, and I wanted some kind of wildcard. It can decimate Goblin hordes, or thin out Skeletons next week (I hope).

The Centigors will flank, and have throwing axes just in case theyre charged first, or if I can throw them first, either way is good. The Dragon Ogres can flank one of the SuperHerds, with the LB's on the other Herds flank. I think the Knights will charge straight down the center 

BEASTLORD Ghul-Dagkh
235 pts
Axes of Khorgor
Pelt of the Dark Young
Chaos Armor
M of Khorne
6 Attacks with rerolls to hit, 4+ armor save, MR 1, frenzy, +1DD, goes with first SuperHerd

WARGOR
110 pts
Battle Standard
Gore Banner
Goes with second SuperHerd

SUPERHERD 1
145 pts
10 Gors/10 Ungors, Full Command

SUPERHERD 2
145 pts
10 Gors/10 Ungors, Full Command

AMBUSH HERD x 4, 97 pts each
388 pts
7 Gors/7 Ungors, Foe-Render

WARHOUNDS x 2, 60 pts each
120 pts

KHORNE'S WILL
515 pts
10 Knights, Standard Bearer
M of Khorne

CENTIGORS x 3, 110 pts each
330 pts
Throwing Axes
Shields

DRAGON OGRES 3
237 pts
Great Weapons
Light Armor

LEADBELCHERS 5
275

And here's a pic of my entire army, except for two shameful models...a Mage Knight Giant (which I of course would use as a Giant) and a Mage Knight Dragon with a Slaanesh Chaos Lord on it. I don't normally mix models like that, but I like the Dragon enough to not pay for a GW one. As for the Giant, I probably won't use one anyway, much as I like the new model, so this will do for now.

Reapers of the Maw!

That's a nice looking horde. I'm looking forward to seeing some of it painted. I've not got enougb ebasts experience to comment on the list, so good luck against the greenskins, and let us know how it goes

Thanks
corai

Thats a good looking army you have there is there a list of everything that you have?

@ Khorgoth: First off, I LOVE your screen name. I gotta start thinking for names for my characters. And yes I have a full list of everything I can play, some things would be proxies but I have quite a bit. The list is posted on the first page I think. I eventually want to do an all-Mortal Chaos army, so I will be adding more...

So I played my nephew this morning. I'm going to give you the abbreviated report, because, well, he gave up at the end of the second turn! He's not childish or anything about it, he really and truly was screwed, LOL.

First Turn:
My army went first. Everything marched full speed ahead. His first turn saw some units moving forward, some shooting left a few Ungors and a few Warhounds dead but otherwise I was unscathed. Particularly nice was his Rock Lobba hitting but missing some of my Chosen of Khorne.

Second Turn:
I brought the hate. I got charges off all over the place. Dragon Ogres, Warhounds on both sides, two units of Centigors (others went stupid), LB's fired and did nothing (a first for me! Still love them) Chosen Knights STUPIDLY charged a Giant...lesson learned for me, only charge a Giant with something I don't care about. I thought the Knights could plow him over, but his Yell and Bawl sent them running...damn. Every unit that charged did some serious killing. Both Centigor units caught fleeing Goblins and ran them down, hitting other units. The Knights did do three wounds, but of course not quite enough. The Dragon Ogres charged a Shaman riding a Wyvern, and DESTROYED IT. And then my Ambushing units arrived, right behind the rest of his army. After he finished his part of the turn, he looked with despair as I had his entire army surrounded. We discussed options (we're always friendly in our games!) and he decided that he was screwed. He truly was, I almost felt bad...but then Khorne assured me I did the right thing by bringing smite to my own nephew.

End result? Massive massacre for me.

This was my first huge victory, the entire army worked just as I had hoped, I learned some lessons, and I'm make just a few tweaks for my battle against VC next week!

Wow, that sounds like a damn hard army to beat. Be interesting to see what opponents come up with to beat it.

Yeah I'm pretty happy with it. I think it's pretty balanced, I don't have anything thats insane, except maybe the Khorne Chosen. Against the VC player though I will have one glaring weakness, magic. I have no offense, but thats fine, I will need some more dispel dice. I'm going to work on those details this week, hopefully later tonight. I think I'm going to add a Bull Rhinox Rider, to hit on a flank and cause some terror. I'll also need some magic weapons to take care of Banshees I know he will play, plus some other Ethereal things. I may put some Bray Shamans in the herds, with the Lore of Fire, to Ambush and cast some fiery doom up some Skeleton ass, LOL.

Does anyone know, does fire attacks harm magic creatures? Can't remember!

Can u use Rhinox Riders as mercs?

Yeah, Chaos can have DoW, so I'm good to go there.

Oh dear. How old are those Gors (?) on the right? third edition or something?

@ Onraj: Yeah...they're old. I'm not sure from which edition, but I actually like the models. I love the newer Gors, but these old one stand out so much they will make nice Bloodletters, or I can use them to fill ranks for my Bestigors.

we should combine armies ally up with corai and go get the nemesis crown.........lol

@ Khorgoth: That would be awesome...except I have to cross the Atlantic, LOL. You and Corai could come over my way though, LOL.

i might do one day how many points is your army? add that to the 16,000+ points that my army is and well kick ass!! lol

I think when I added it up once it was around 8-9,000

is the guo actually useable in a game? is the base right? cant wait for more painted pics

Yeah the base is 100x100, you can have that size base with I think Tomb Kings Chariots, but regardless normal GD models are on 50x50, so if anything you can still line up against it easily in combat.

nice i bet he gets shot to s&%t cos of his intimidating size

Yes he does, good thing he has 10 Wounds!

Well...it appears my horde of Khorne has grown again...but The Blood God will NOT be pleased, as I just acquired 2k worth of a TZEENTCH Daemonic Legion army!

Good thing I'll be taking some Wood Elf skulls this weekend, playing my nephews first time out with WE, against an all mounted (or all fast at least) Khorne army.

I'll try to post a batrep when we get home Sunday!

i hate tzeentch lol nurgle and khorne are the true way of chaos........

I actually love Tzeentch AND magic..I despise the "color scheme" (aside from Corai's..brilliant!) and the mutation thing. But the magic/spellcasting pwn. I'm on both sides of the same coin, I love fantasy equally because of magic AND warriors. I'm so torn...

However I am sticking to my guns, Khorne will dominate all!

But the other gods will be there too, LOL.

Any pics of this Demonic Legion coming up? Are you gonna repaint them, or are they even painted?

About the GUO - I can understand why some people wouldn't get it. He does look rather pleased with himself, but you have to realize it's the pleasure that comes from being evil. It's a total 'Nurgling Smile'.

Vincenti

i llove the guo expression hes got character as for tzeentch they are my least favourite god but i do agree corai did the models justice!
An defo stick with khorne khorgoth doesnt want no namby pamby spell dudes he wants axe wielding mental allies!

the real beauty of Tzeentch is that he's running the whole show, even if the other gods haven't realised it yet

I really think the face is coming into it's own with the paint on the model. I can't wait to see it finished

thanks
Corai

Wow...been some time since I've posted in here. Trust me, not my choice. I lost my job about 6 weeks ago, and about 3 weeks ago I separated from my wife of 10 years.

Needless to say my work on my army has stalled completely. I did manage to add more paint to the GUO, and want to get that finished ASAP. Despite the HUGE life changes I'm going to try to keep working on my Chaos army. I need the release more than ever.

So, here's my return, I hope to be posting again soon!

hey mate hope things pick up our armies will kick ass in the old world 

Sorry to hear that man. You alright?

Thanks Ghworg! Yeah I will be ok. The job was hard enough, but then some things happened in my marriage that caused us to separate about 3 weeks after I was fired. So this has been a bad couple of weeks for me.

Now I have to sell my house and look to a new future. Fortunately I just today accepted a job that should prove very fruitful for me, and some other things are starting to look up elsewhere.

So in my spare time my army should receive some Khornate love, LOL.

Thanks for asking, I appreciate that very much.

glad to hear it picking up for you mate!!

That´s alright. I´m happy to know you´re back on your feet. Hope Warhammer wasn´t the thing to come between you and your ex-spouse?

Thanks man, it will eventually all work out I think.

Of course I want to trade. Sent you a PM

sorted any more fluff?

I'm back! Here is the opening of the story of my army, the Harvesters of Khorne! Let me know what you think!

Pain gripped Gorgaroth as he struggled to rise. His muscles were torn, battered and bruised. New stabs of agony ripped through his left arm and wouldn't support his weight. A shaft of light peering through a moldy crack lanced into his one good eye; How many days had it been since he had seen sunlight? Sinking to the floor without a sound Gorgaroth cursed himself for a fool. The enemy had swarmed him, tens, maybe hundreds had come to stop him. All had fallen beneath his axe blades. Heaping mangled corspes about him, Gorgaroth made a human wall of the dead, their bodies cast aside as children's rag dolls. He fought bravely, he fought as one blessed. Still the enemy came, still they fell. Stalking amidst the howling masses was a lone wizard, his eyes and hands aglow with a faint, blue tinge. Gorgaroth hurled an axe dropped by one of his victims full force at the skulking wizard. And no mortal could've dodged the missle, for in truth Gorgaroth was an expert in fighting with all manner of weaponry. He favored the axe of course, but this cast of his weapon saw itself buried in an unfortunate fool, blundering in the path between wizard and warrior. The wizard was unmoved, a faint smile twisting his cruel lips. He called out, words long forgotten to most civilizations, and pointed a bony finger at Gorgaroth. For all his gesturing, the wizard's spell was invisible, but those in attendance would later say that the bloodied fighter fell as though struck dumb. Those around Gorgaroth leapt on their chance, pummeling the now-helpless man into the bloodsoaked earth. He awoke, shackled and beaten. Rage swelled deep inside him, rage and fury at having been beaten on the battlefield. His warrior's honor was stained, although he knew fate to be a fickle mistress he raged against the luck that cast that knave into the path of his axe. Had he struck his intended target...Gorgaroth felt a deep growl growing in his chest. He sounded his battlecry, his rasping voice going hoarse at the strain.
 
"Eh! Quiet yerself back there! We'll have ye on the choppin' block soon enough!" A heavy footfall clambered down the dank hallway to Gorgaroth's cell. The chamber itself was unique, for it was larger than the rest of the cells. Chains held Gorgaroth so that his hands and feet were manacled together to the center of the chamber. Hefting both of his massive arms, Gorgaroth tried in vain to snap the thick iron links. "Ye won't break those my boy, not 'a one of the hundreds who've been in these cesspits has ever broken those bonds. Ye won't be different than the rest, ya lout!" The jailer leered through the bars at Gorgaroth, baiting him in his rage.
 
"Take a step into this cage, peasant, and I'll leave you here to rot."
 
The huge jailer was stupid, and trusted to his girth and the iron bars of his jail to protect him. "I'll send ye to hell before I take that guff from any the likes of you!" With a groan the cell door flung open. The jailer had to turn sideways to squeeze his considerable bulk through the rusted doorway. Standing at his full height, the jailer was indeed an imposing figure. His enormous gut was covered in muscle over prodigious fat. Flexing trunk-like arms he stood in Gorgaroth's face, being sure to stay just outside of his reach. "Care to repeat yerself, swine?" Pungent breath, reeking of garlic and cheap ale blasted into Gorgaroth's face. Gorgaroth lowered his head, so low that his eyes could not be seen. Leaning in closer the jailer laughed, spittle covering Gorgaroth's head. "I thought not, ye dog! No one talks to me in here without my say-so, and let me--"
 
Gorgaroth's voice croaked out a quiet noise, just loud enough for the jailer to hear. "What was that? What did you say?" The jailer didn't wait for an answer before slamming a sledge-like fist into the side of Gorgaroth's head. For all his power, the jailer barely moved the stoic prisoner. Enraged at this display of defiance, the jailer rocketed another punch at Gorgaroth, thudding into the other side of Gorgaroth's head. Gorgaroth barely registered the hit, murmuring yet another thing beneath his breath. The jailer leaned ever so slightly closer, opening his mouth to speak. As a cobra strikes, Gorgaroth launched upward, slamming the crown of his head into the open jaw of the jailer. The jailer was easily three times the size of Gorgaroth, but for all his bulk he could not save himself against Gorgaroth's desperate move. Rocking back on his heels, the jailer reeled. Gorgaroth moved panther-like, swinging the short chains around the flabby neck of his tormentor. A fat tongue lolled out of the jailer's mouth, thick fingers clawing desperately to pull Gorgaroth away. Gorgaroth wrenched the heavy chains with inhuman strength and the jailer's neck snapped like rotted branches. For the first time in many long months Gorgaroth smiled, a savage and daemonic grin. With a volcanic twist Gorgaroth tightened the rusted chains and ripped in opposite directions. As easily as a child pulls the petals of a flower Gorgaroth tore the heavily-jowled head from its shoulders. Blood spurted thickly onto Gorgaroth and the floor around him. Ignoring the slumping form of the beheaded jailer Gorgaroth took up the gory prize and held it aloft, dark crimson dripping from the ragged head. "For you my Lord, let this be a sacrifice in your name, and let your power fill my limbs!"

BIG CHANGES ON THE HORIZON...

My army is about to grow considerably....by THOUSANDS of points...stay tuned for more details

Nice story. Do you watch Venture Bros? Reminds me alot of the Brock Sampson in the David Bowie episode.

Thanks!

I've seen a few minutes here and there, is that the huge blond guy?

Yeah. In the episode I'm speaking of he got strip searched by some pirates and crushed a pirate's hand with his... backside. And then proceeded to use him as a bludgeon against the other pirates.

Having not seen too much on Hordes before, this pic caught my eye! A Titan Bronzeback...looks like it would make a PERFECT Juggernaut. I hate mixing companies, but that is one cool mini!

Can't see the picture on my side. But those are great minis. I'm also convinced to take up Hordes just to get my hands on those elephant men.

QUICK UPDATE:

Having settled into my new apartment, I began setting up my War Room. I have a walk in closet, with plenty of space in it for all my WH stuff. In fact, its funny how things work out because I needed room for all of this stuff and this closet is perfect!

I began setting my entire army out on some shelving. I separated everything into units and grouped together by Core, Special, etc. This will make for quick inventory, and also be easy to see at a glance what is done and what needs done. Now I can work on things unit by unit, everything is at hand and I'm very happy!

Plus unfortunately I'm not playing much at the moment, so having my entire army spread out is nto really an issue. A bonus to this is that I can easily pick and choose my units should I get a game in, placing them in my case as needed!

I just finished the Beast Core choices, next up tonight is Mortal Core, than the rest.

So far I have:
seven 20-man Beast Herds, with FC
seven 10-man Beast Herds, with FC
one 23-man Bestigor unit
one 25-daemon Bloodletter unit

plus I have 30 extra Gors, to use as I see fit. I'm thinking I may make an entire Mortal army, made of Beasts! In other words, I want to be able to use all my Mortal units as Mortal units, but I love Beasts so much that I want to have them double as Mortal units when I feel like playing Mortal armies. Make sense?

So I will have a "Mortal" army led by a Centigor (lord on horse) with "Knights" (my converted Beast Knights) and "Marauder Horsemen" (centigors)...etc...

And so on. I have a lot of work ahead of me!

I have decided to base the entire army as though they were in a snowy, bleak forest, so lots of snow and dead branches and mud! I will be painting the entire army in "natural" colors, although of course they are dedicated to Khorne. Instead of using a ton of red, I will instead use blood to help convey the theme. I want it to look "tasteful" if that makes sense, not just red splashed everywhere! I'll see what I can do.

Lastly I'm going to try to use tattoos to mark out each unit for easy recognition, and on the bases I'm going to use red stripes to denote where each model is from.

Thats it for now!

UPDATE: 11.21.07

I've just counted up the base points for my army so far, NOT including characters yet, its totaled at:

12,676 points! Of EVIL!!

I'm going to be sitting down and listing out all of my characters, base and with items, and I'll post the full list of the Harvesters very soon!

I'm not sure how much you've played the BoC list, but from the few WFO games I've played, I've learned that maxing out your GW wielding Khornate wargors and transporting them in herds is absolutely lethal.

I haven't played it nearly enough yet, but I have used the Khornate beastlord in big herds and SLAUGHTERED. Khorne was very pleased with me, LOL.

I gotta get on WFO,it sounds so awesome! Is it the Age of Reckoning game? Or something different?

I haven't played it nearly enough yet, but I have used the Khornate beastlord in big herds and SLAUGHTERED. Khorne was very pleased with me, LOL.

I gotta get on WFO,it sounds so awesome! Is it the Age of Reckoning game? Or something different?

Its the online gaiming using microsoft paint -  check out the forum for it here in the tales of conquest section

Thanks Wildcard! Looks confusing as hell,LOL.

Its actually not so bad once you get used to it   If you want, we can arrange a friendly little game to get you used to it

No Blugh don't, it's a trick! He'll use his chariot army of death!

No Blugh don't, it's a trick! He'll use his chariot army of death!

Hmm...I thought there were too many smilies in his reply...

Cool maybe I'll take you up on that someday!

Hows this army going? Been claiming plenty of skulls since i last visited?

Hey! Actually the Harvesters are spending the winter in warm and sunny Lustria, while I work on my Tzeentch Lizardmen! Actually I'm in the process of sorting out the characters, I've only gotten through five or six of 30, but once I've done that I will have the full count!

So far my army is up to 12,676 points!

nice how big you taking the army too? i want to take my imperial guard planetary police force to about 15k points

Well this should be over 15k after characters, I hope. Plus I will eventually count my Lizardmen in that number, easy enough to play them as Chaos Beasts of Tzeentch!

yay for big armies!