Our Furry Friends

Looking at my pile of to be completed painting this week I realised that my Twilight Kin army is well on the way to completion. I have been cracking on with another Regiment of Crossbows so I have a Hordes worth and then after that I want to do two Troops of Reaper Guards, one more Bolt Thrower and that should be the army pretty much done apart from the mounted Priestess.
So this week I have completed a Troop of Shadows and almost completed another and half the Crossbow Regiment.

I have had also been thinking about adding some allies into the mix. The rules allow 25% of your list to be made up of Allies with a few restrictions such as they cannot take magical items and cannot be the target of spells from your main race. The rules also restrict what forces you can ally with so my evil Kin can only ally with other evil races or neutral ones. Allies can be used to either cover a gap in the main armies list or add to the flavor of the army, I went with adding to the fluff. As I already have a pretty fast infantry based force I thought it would be good to add some large infantry preferably of the fast moving variety so a look through the lists turned up the Lycan in the Herd list. As my Kin are living in Twilight Forest then it is only natural that they should bend the weaker willed and more animalistic Herd forces to do their bidding.

These are very fast and being nimble they should be able to get around the flanks pretty well, I'd also seen some rather nice models that could be used for them.

The figures are from the Wrath of Kings Goritsi faction and one box of Skorza being eight figures is enough for two Hordes, bargain ! I also picked up a box of specialists to use one as an Alpha if needed. These really are very nice models and having put four together today they are much easier to build than the Privateer Press models I have used earlier on.

They stand head and shoulders above my other infantry so certainly fit the large bill and I was pleased to see that the box comes with an extra sculpt ( the chap with the spear ) that isn't on the cover. So that gives me some more painting to do and the option possibly to expand to a larger Herd force in the future.