“A mystery you say? Whatever could it be?”
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About the Project
After spending a lot of time mucking about with KOW Champions last year I have decided to go all in and give 4th edition a go. Now, the dilemma is I have no idea which army to choose. Ideally I’d like to start with Dwarves as I sold a sizeable WH Fantasy one a long time ago and i always regretted it. Equally though i keep toying with the idea of going outside my comfort zone and potentially going Elf, Undead or even as mad as Abyssal Dwarves! This is probably due to how much I enjoyed painting the varied forces in Champions! So with no decision made and our annual geek weekend coming up in 2 months and an opponent already nearing completion I received an intriguing email from Mantic regarding ‘mystery battalions’. Basically a mystery 1000 point force for a low low price. After looking at the possible forces I decided f**k it I’m in and let’s let fate decide the army. Apparently they are planning to ship around the 2nd week of March which would leave me about a month to get the painted a ready for Geekend 26!
Related Game: Kings of War
Related Company: Mantic Games
Related Genre: Fantasy
This Project is Active
A sh*tload of Dwarves!
After the completion of a section troop section my first Regiment is completed. Now onto the second!Bases
Thinking about how to base these guys I was going to just glue and flock the to hide the round circles on the feet of the models but really didn’t like the idea so in a moment of madness I decided to clip the bases off and go for a flag stone effect
My potential minions….
So, I will receive one of the eight potential armies from the offer are.
Tier 1 ( ideal candidates! Would be more than happy with any one of these)
- Dwarves
- Abysall Dwarves
- Undead
Tier 2 (Still happy but a little outside my comfort zone)
- Dry Undead
- Orcs
- Nightstalkers
Tier 3 (The universe hates me and wants to ruin my life) These would present a proper challenge as historically goblins and Rats have never really been on my radar!
- Goblins
- Ratkin
The countdown is on!!!
So the day had finally arrived, were the gods kindly or did the universe hate me!! With some trepidation I cracked the box and it was….
DWARVES!!!!!!
All is fine with the universe! As I mentioned these were my no1 choice so very happy the gamble paid off!
So the mission is now to get a 1K army painted and ready in time for our annual Geeekend trip in May. That gives me 8 weeks to paint and base them all. Thankfully the army is pretty specialised consisting of a core of 2 regiments of Ironclad and 1 regiment of Ironwatch. There are two heroes, a troop of Earth Elementals and to my absolute delight, a Steel Behemoth!
66 models in 56 days….
The task begins!
