Beyond the Wall, Trees Grow

Firstly an update on the Zombies from last week, I had been looking for some trees to add onto the bases for my Undead and some twisted wire ones arrived via Ebay yesterday. These proved to be just what I was after.

The basic tree is has plastic leaves and a clear twisted wire look so I used some modelling putty and flock to jazz them up along with the same GW contrast brown I have used on the other tree stumps on the base. At less than £1 per tree you can hardly go wrong, the only draw-back is the normal long delivery time from China.

I have also been working on some more models for my Vanguard company and this week painted up some command options. The Crypt Gouger is a new command model and comes with Scout which helps in most scenario's and a couple of anti-ranged defensive abilities. HI signature ability allows him to place grave markers on the table that he can use to summon Zombies.

These markers can also be used by the Necromancer to summon Skeletons (he can also do that without the marker but with a limited range) so the two command options work well together. The Necromancer also comes with a good range of spells including the ever useful heal.

I made up six grave markers though it is highly unlikely I would ever use that many but they where fun to make and better to over spec than not have enough.

The basic Skeleton comes in two varieties, with and without bows. The melee version is a mere 6 points meaning that Undead companies have the potential to field large numbers of models which can be added too throughout the battle by the Gouger & Necromancer. Opponents could find themselves unable to wade through the bodies quickly enough to get to objectives.

The Archer version is eight points and throws only one dice as a basic attack hitting on a 6+. They do have one big advantage over other shooting Grunts in that the Undead warband rule means that as long as they stay within 6" of a command model they go Down but not Out when 'killed' rather than being out-right killed, this means they should hang around much longer than normal Grunts unless the enemy can get in close to finish them off on the ground.

All these extra bodies does mean that the Undead Vanguard force is a large one if you want to model all the choices, so this is likely to be a very large company once completed.