Slave to Darkness: Part 7a

by | Feb 3, 2015

Hey all,

CHAOS IS BEGIN TO GROW

Nah, just kidding. It's been growing for some time now. Gotta seriously think about selling off the orcs and gobbos as this army is basically three armies now and I can't really get into WHFB orcs now. I've sold a fair bit to fund this, so I suppose freeing up an army I have little to no motivation for is alright. Moving on...

Finally got my hellcannon in the mail today (metal, no crew but under 50% retail of the finecrap one) along with five older version bloodletters of Khorne. I'm unsure if one of the five is a unit champion but he's er, hornier than his brethren (not that way, they hate Slaanesh remember?) but this boosts my bloodletters to a nice 30, so 3 units of 10. That will round off the Khornate portion of my daemons nicely.

Moving on, paints for the Floaty Skulls arrived, but with the hellcannon here, the flames of chaos are kindled and much fun will be had. One needs to repurpose some old dwarves into service as crew lest the cannon runs away to join the circus (or Abaddon and nobody wants that).

Apart from one/two box/es left to get (plague bearers and maybe, just maybe a manticore or dragon kit), the Legion is now complete which now means I can tackle the Great Chaos Legion until End Times V: That Dude Who Does Stuff comes out.


Doing a rough total here, the daemonic side of my Legion is now standing at:

  • 3x 10 bloodletters K
  • 10 daemonettes S
  • 5 seekers S
  • 13 horrors T
  • 5 screamers T
  • 7 bases of nurglings N
  • 10 plague bearers N
  • 3 Plague toads N (will use as toads of beasts of nurgle, depending on game)
Which is a decent sized army by itself (I want to do a lot of siege games lol probs 10,000pts total chaos). A little light on Slaanesh and Tzeentch, the Legion is complete apart from a box of plague bearers (firstly to bolster the Nurgle side of things and also to rank out the nurglings to 9 bases).

Moving to the beastmen side of things (haven't counted how many chaos warriors I have) there's

  • 5 and 6 pestigors so far (essentially 2x command plus a few pestigors and metal bestigors)
  • 16 ungor
  • 24 gor (will pinch a few of these to make legal pestigor units)
  • 20 gor
  • 10 bestigors (remaining intact so I can mark them with MoK/MoCU)
  • 10 ungors
Obviously an army by itself (being about 6 units) this third of the Legion is the chaff side of things being 2 regiments of beastmen (old 20 guy box) and a battalion plus some pestigors, with the legion rules I may give some loving to the regular gors. Unsure what to do with the 10 ungor- do I add them to the 16 with spears/shield or run them as raiders with short bows?

Anyway, the last third of my army is the heavy hitting warriors which I know to contain:
  • 5 khornate ogres
  • 6 regular ogres
  • 12 chosen (painted to represent the Fifth of Four)
  • 5 blightkings
  • About 4-5 sorcerers
  • A bunch of metal characters
  • 20 marauders
  • 10 chaos knights
  • #? chaos warriors
  • Hellcannon
Whilst there's no big creatures or centre pieces (barring maybe the hellcannon) the Legion at a glance appears to be quite a few thousand points (maybe a 3:1:2 split with WoC : BoC : DoC) I'll do a proper tally once everything is assembled....*sigh* Ah well, at least there's plasticard and extra banners to make markers and so on.

Until the next time,

The Warlock