Nurgle Army

The Forces of Decay

I play for fun rather than enter competitive gaming so I am not that bothered about codex legality provided both players have a fun game.

One way to play something different is to mix and match from different codices provided, and this is the key bit, one does not power play, i.e. cheat.

I have a Nurgle themed army that is drawn from the Chaos Space Marine and Daemon codices.

HQ’s
1. Lord Swyneflue the Mephitic: Nurgle Daemon Prince.
2. Gangrenic: Great Unclean One.

Elite
1. The Dreadnought Slimecutter: Chaos Dreadnought.
2. Beast of Nurgle.

Troops
1. The Putridity: Champion and Plague Marines.
2. Plaguebearers

Fast Attack :
1. Oh come on; did you expect any?

Heavy Support
1. Spitpuss: Plaguereaper (Nurgle Baneblade).

This makes up an approximately 1500 point army. The Plaguereaper is just there for laughs. I use a house rule that says that apocalypse templates are not used on normal-sized tables. The daemons must arrive from reserve using deep strike.

This army is brittle and unstable. Results vary wildly from game to game.

Nurgle Prince on Micro Art Bases - Review

I recently bought some Micro Art Studio bases from All Sorts Emporium. I wanted something swampy and gurgly and Micro Art was the only manufacturer that I could find.

http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/swamp-bases-c-3_49.html

The quality is superb and there is an amazing range. The only feature that I have added to these are the two heads.

The only problem is that they are not cheap - about E1 per 25mm base and E5 for the 50mm base under the Daemon Prince. That is a bit too steep for me, I am afraid, for all but special models - as it works out at about £8.50 of our debased Pounds for a ten man squad.

Still, if you have the cash to flash, I recommend them.

John

Soul Grinder

It has taken me a year but I have finally finished my Soul Grinder. It's pretty much straight out of the box except for the addition of some chaos and Khorne icons.

I decided to use multiple layers rather than detail to get the impression of a living machine slowly morphing into a Khorne daemon.

I only have a Tzeentch chariot to do and my army is finished. I intend to have it pulled by giant seahorses.

Resin Bases - Foundation of War - Review

I was doing a trawl through eBay.co.uk for any deals on resin bases, when I came upon the Foundation of War shop. They also have their own webshop here:


https://sslrelay.com/www.foundationsofwar.co.uk/sess/utn;jsessionid=154a5b7f2531dfa/shopdata/index.shopscript

They have a large range of square, rectangular and circular bases in various themes. What astonished me was the price, eg. £2 for ten 25mm or three square 50mm or one round 60mm base.

I purchased a few of their lava bases and was so impressed that I bought their ruined temple bases for my Slaaneshi forces.

They are really good and paint up well with well defined shapes that give depth to what is, actually, a flat base.

The pic shows a few bases, there are quite a range of different sculpts so things don't look too samey.

The only criticism I would make is that it is obviously a small outfit and can be a bit slow to deliver - up to eight days - but I can wait.

The price-quality ratio is excellent - they don't overcharge on postage either.

John

Pink & Blue Horrors - the Source

I now know where I lifted the idea of using dryads for Pink Horrors. It was a post by Big D on the the Hogs of War site:

http://www.thehogsofwar.com/2009/05/pink-horrors-conversion.html

The picture is taken from a very good group site to which he belongs. As you can see, he did rather a better job than me.

Big D comes from Arkansas - I have it on good authority that this is pronounced Arkansaw - which is a long way from Southern England.

Happy gaming, chaps!


John

Planet Strike - Thoughts about daemons

I have reread the Daemon Codex carefully and I think I klnow what went wrong (see previous post). Daemons have a Daemonic Assault, which is treated using the Deep Strike rules. However, no daemons are listed in the OOB as Deep Strike but as Daemons (hence daemonic assault). If you assume that Daemonic Assault is Not Deep Strike then no daemonic units can assault on first turn, indeed, many have to land off table.

That severely restricts the daemon army in Planet Strike and stops it running wild on turn one.

Problem solved.

John

Planet Strike - First Game

I played my first game of Planetstrike last weekend. I was the attacker with a Daemon Army and my friend Shaun deployed his IG and three Bastions as the defenders. Both armies were around 2,000 points.

I started with the Firestorm and rolled nine attacks. We agreed that Guard units targetted could take cover in their lines. Ducking and covering gave them a 2+ save so few were killed but most units were 'gone to ground'.

All the daemons can deep-strike by definition so the bulk of my army arrived on turn one in the midst of the defenses and could assault straight from deep strike (Planet Strike rule). We agreed a house rule that the Guard would still get the 2+ save on the first turn of combat but that only delayed matters a little. By the end of turn three the Guard were mincemeet and it was all over.

The Bations Interceptor guns had little impact on the game, performing better as normal guns.

The Planet Strike Rules combine to make a daemon attacker damn near unstoppable; there was nothing Shaun could do.

One could remove the firestorm from daemons as that would leave the defender up and shooting on turn one.

Anyone else played a game yet?

John

Juggar of Khorne

Two suns, three moons and a partridge in a pear tree have been seen in the sky over Vrak.

By the pricking of my thumbs, something evil this way comes.

Cue Vincent Price.

Substitute Pink Horrors

I am slowly putting together a daemon army for 40K, which I fit in around working on my IG, Blood Pact, Ork, Chaos marines, and Vrak armies.

I am of course, as mad as a mad thing.


Anyway, I don't like metal models because of their weight, cost, storage problems, and my superglue allergy and I don't much like the Pink Horror models in particular. One of the other bloggers suggested looking at substitute models, notably Dryads.


So I did.

The Wabbit Daemon likes them as well.

John

PS I have it on reliable authority that they are purple - pink, purple, what's the difference. It all looks the same to me.

Skulltaker

I have been collecting a Daemon army for 40K when it occured to me that I could also use it for Warhammer Fantasy. Unfortunately, I had used the round bases! So I have been rebasing the whole %$$%£$ lot on square bases. Sigh.

Memo to self: Base your daemons on square bases and you can use them in both warhammer games; base them on round bases and you are limited to 40K only.

Duh.

Anyway, here is the rebased Skulltaker, Herald of Korne.