The second of the Horsemen to be completed is War and his followers. Having painted a fair few more muted models for my other KoW armies and having a whole section only in grey scale for this army I wanted to add a real splash of colour with these chaps.
War is noted for carrying a sword so I grafted on a large sword I had left over from the Gnolls I used in my Herd army to give him a suitably impressive weapon. War is joined by the Lykanis who is a large infantry hero who under the current rules has the advantage of being able to claim objectives and carry tokens. Having a tough, nimble unit to be a ball carrier opens up some good options for keeping tokens safe and being a reliable dealer of wounds means he can also be used to lock down fliers and ranged units.
The rest of this section is made up of Revenant Cavalry who currently come in Troop and Regiment sizes, it has been leaked that a Horde unit is being introduced in v3, so that would make a hell of a frontage of unit. Cavalry Horde units are not common in v2 but those that are present seem to pack 32 attacks which isn't shabby.
The current plan is to use the Revenant Cavalry in Troops as chaff as they are fast, cheap and durable at Def 5+. Being Fearless also means that you will never get stuck behind a wavering unit of chaff and having Surge means they could be kept behind another unit and then moved through that unit and surged into the enemy.
The models themselves are made of restic which does not stick together with plastic glue so it took a fair bit of time and sticking of fingers to superglue them together. The do come with plenty of detail, especially on the horses who have bone, skin and exposed flesh so they where good to paint up.
For the painting I again used the GW contrast paints this time making use of the Gryph-Hound Orange as a wash over my normal Army Painter Bronze, this gave a really nice deep colour which jumps out from the table.
As I was working on these I also painted up some Revenant Infantry to fill out the ranks of the Undead Vanguard Warband. These are from Mierce and come mostly with spears so I converted some over to have hand weapons instead.
The Revenant's are a step up from the normal Grunt Skeleton warriors and are harder to kill, but are still only 10 points each so they can be taken en-mass to fill out a horde still army.
The other models completed for the Vanguard force are a couple of Soul Reavers who I completed with Death's contingent but had not based up.
These are Support troops and don't come with any fancy power using rules but do have three solid special rules to help them do lots of damage. At 20 points they look good value for the potential damage output.
The last model who has been completed is the Werewolf (Lykanis) who offers a fast tough Large troop choice who again is geared up to dishing out the pain.
Next on the army list is Pestilence with his crown and I am heading into the swamp lands for this Horseman, well nearly a Horseman any way.
Nice to see some colour on display. Are the grubs to go with zombies?
ReplyDeletethat is the current plan, need to see how they look in situ though.
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