Spring Cleaning - Warhammer Fantasy Slaanesh

So there I was quietly minding my own business and mentally running through the last game of 6th ed Warhammer Fantasy that I had played – 2,500 points of beastman vs orcs & goblins, and realised how poor leadership rolls at critical moments had been my downfall (game was still awesome fun so I don’t actually care that I lost BTW 🙂 ). And that took me back to another similar musing I had had about 18 years ago where my Empire army had failed multiple leadership tests and been taken apart piecemeal by a block of skaven rat ogres at a con. Following that game I had wandered around the convention considering an undead army (as they were immune to psychology and could avoid such dice related failings, although they looked a little bit dull to play…) when I saw a retailer with a rack of blisters from a company that I had never heard of, called Rackham, for a game called Confrontation, and immediately fell in love with the sculpts and aesthetic. One of the blisters was for a mini named ‘Gwenlaen the Everproud’. I took one look at the mini and remembered that Chaos models with the mark of Slaanesh were also immune to psychology. I bought Gwenlean to lead my new force and went stalking off for more minis to add to her warband. The next few years I ran the army with limited success, but it was great fun. The Daemon cohort of my army never expanded beyond one block of mounted daemonettes (which I stripped back last year) but I had always meant to add to it and had been picking up cheap minis when they became available (apparently they weren’t a viable/winning army a few years ago and ebay was awash with them…).

So fast forward to today and I had determined that getting my daemonettes painted up to tabletop might be a nice little diversionary project. Also it will give me a bit more practice with the airbrush, which is always nice.

Quick inventory yields the below:

So, minis I have:

• 6th ed Keeper of Secrets (may not be complete…)
• Maybe 66 current edition plastic daemonettes in varying states/conditions ranging between still on the sprue in shrink wrapped plastic through to literally smashed into component parts. I should have enough spares on hand to get by but if not can always kitbash or get creative.
• 20 (i think…) complete current edition plastic mounted daemonettes. Again, won’t really know how things are travelling until I start to repair and restore.
• One metal fiend of Slaanesh
• 13 of the old 6th ed metal daemonettes
• 18 of the old 6th ed metal mounted daemonettes, mostly in need of a fair bit of restoration
• Two chariots
• A command pack of 5 ‘Mantis Warriors’ from Raging Heroes who will act as proxy command for the 6th ed foot daemonettes or get mixed through the other units.
• A large scale ‘Sophie’ metal mini from Reaper who will make a nice proxy Daemon Prince(ss)

So I had a quick flick through the Daemons of Chaos Book on the 9th Edition/Warhammer armies project and with the addition of a few characters and maybe some more proxy fiends this could be a viable (although admittedly slightly one dimensional) list.

I should have enough extra minis on hand from other companies to proxy for character models, which just leaves me short some chaos furies to round the force out. back when I was playing and the minis were somewhat available, I had proxied the Confrontation ‘Undead of Acheron’ minis when they were available and I have managed to procure a couple more in the intervening decades, so I might strip and redo the old ones and even break open some Confrontation blisters (hey, for the price the 6th edition daemonettes are going for second hand nowadays I may as well go the whole way on this one 😉 )

Paint scheme will be easy to sort as I did up a unit of 20 daemonettes last year so will work to tie the theme in with them. refer below. Yeah, still need to work out how to make the bases interesting. And speaking of bases, I will also need to pry the current minis off of those strange one sided bases that the previous owners seem to have affixed them to and make sure I have enough perfectly proportioned right angled bases to use instead #squarebases4life

Broad plan for the army will be to use the 18 old metal mounted daemonettes aas three blocks of 6 fast cavalry to race around and generally annoy. I’m not looking at converting command bits on to these minis so that should work OK. The 20 plastic mounted daemonettes will get fielded as two blocks of 10 with a command group to hopefully give them some punch. And for the infantry I was initially thinking of 5 blocks of 20, but 4 blocks of 25 might be more resilient. Then add characters for buffs, spells and damage dealing and see where we land 🙂