Shadespire: Spiteclaw's Swarm

In the midst of another commission i have completed the Skaven Warband for Shadespire:

Skritch Spiteclaw and Krrk the Almost-Trusted

Hungering Skaven, Lurking Skaven and Festering Skaven

I've not used them yet but they seem a pretty handy warband being a mix of Bloodreaver speed and Undead reanimation, a potent mix!

Shadespire: The Sepulchral Guard

I started these guys last night and finished them off this afternoon:

Petitioners

Harvester and Sepulchral Warden

Prince of Dust and The Champion

These are absolutely cracking models, hopefully a taste of what GW has in store for future AoS Death releases! At the moment im not sure how much actual game time i will get with the skellies as they seem to use a lot of faffing about rather than axe to face like the Ironjawz do haha.

Shadespire: Ironskull's Boyz

I feel like i've returned home after a long but fruitful journey with painting this warband... Ironjawz were the first army for Age of Sigmar that i really clicked with, and i has been great fun painting some of them up again now for Shadespire:

Gurzag Ironskull and Bonekutta

Basha and Hacka

I went for a war torn version of Zedek's Weird Mob from the Ironjawz book rather than my old Incubi darkness scheme... see too many of them on the web recently haha ;-D

Shadespire: Core Set Painted

Bit of a delay on these as the shop i ordered it from closed for a week to go on holiday when Shadespire was released doh!

Still, i got both the Stormcast and Khorne warbands painted up yesterday:

Garrek's Reavers

Steelheart's Champions

For the Bloodreavers i decided to tie them in to my existing Khorne army for AoS nice and simple, but the Stormcast i wanted to do a little different! I settled on the Sons of Horus scheme from the Warhammer TV tutorial with a rakarth flesh drybrush rather than dawnstone edging to warm them up a bit and also the bases have a lot of grey already.

I hope to have my Ironskull's Boyz and the Sepulchral Guard this week... that order too was messed up with the shop holiday!

Shadespire: So hyped for this!

So the release date for Shadespire has finally been given, 21st October with preorder from the 14th! I cant describe how hyped i am for this it looks an amazing concept and game!

For me its been the play through videos that truly hint at the potential for the game, rather than something like the picture above, seeing the combos and strategies unfold on screen has got me wishing for a time machine haha.

Also announced are the release of the first two expansion warbands for the game, both released on the 4th November with preorder the week before:

These will provide not only new decking building options for the Blood Reaver and Stormcast forces but also whole new playstyles themselves with the Ironjawz being more aggressive versions of Sigmars boys and the Sepulcral Guard offering swarm tactics and recursion to overwhelm the enemy. GW also released this handy chart to give a rough break down on initial four factions:

We know that there are eight forces coming very soon, they are all mentioned in the rulebook and are previewed here:

Fyreslayers and Skaven are completely new, and the 7th/8th warbands are further Khorne and Stormcast forces with a box of Blood warriors and a Flesh Hound along with a box of Vanguard Hunters.

I will be going balls deep into this so expect painting and battle reports over the coming months!