KIngs of War: Mutant Rat Fiends

Whilst working on my Ratkin army i've always wanted to keep it pure Mantic; supports the company and makes it legal for their big events should i ever decide to go hehe.... but there are a few entries in the list that have had me perplexed over what and how to add them.

One of these is the Mutant Rat Fiend, a fantastic monster and one of the armies big hitters... I asked on the main facebook group and got some great ideas, and settled on these:

Plague Aberrations from the Deadzone/Warpath ranges form the base model then i've added heads & tails from the Veermyn Night Terrors with a little conversion work and i think they do the job nicely.

Kings of War: Ratkin Scurriers and Heroes

Last bits that i currently have for these:

Warlock and Master Scurrier

Two Scurrier Toops

My army now sits at about 2300pts, i have a few more bits i want to add to the force for more options but these can wait for now... the backlog must be punished!

Kings of War: Ratkin Clawshots

A second unit of Clawshots for my force:

These are proper good in the game, and with two units of them i can really start to hammer the enemy on the approach... Too bad you can only field them as troops hehe

Kings of War: Ratkin reinforcements

As we travel through the pile of shame we have reached the level of my Kings of War Ratkin army... started early February with haste to attend a tourney hehe. Now i can get the last few bits that i didn't have time to get done then:

Ratkin Warriors Regiment

Night Terrors - Monster Heroes

These aren't painted well, the army was a rush job as i had about a week to do it first time round, i just want these done and out the way now. One of the many redeeming features of Kings of War is that even a badly painted army like these look OK when the army is deployed on mass haha!

Kings of War: Ratkin Shock Troops

A small change around for my list for the Jack of Herts event; im going to take a regiment of Shock Troops instead of the second Warlock for some more hitting power and also to better capture objectives:

Gives me a more rounded force and hopefully will be a stronger list.

Kings of War: Ratkin Clawshots and Warlock

I've not had masses of time spare today but still got another couple of units finished for my growing swarm:

Clawshots Troop

Warlock

The Clawshots are the equivalent of Jezzails from the wfb Skaven range, i made mine with veer-myn infantry using only the larger guns from the sprues then added a front rank of shields in the form of some upturned warpath bases haha.

The Warlock is the Piper model that came with the Vermintides from last week, i have another two of him that i may at some point paint up into more warlocks or convert into other characters.

Kings of War: Ratkin Tunnel Runners and Vermintides

Next up for the army is my favourite unit in the book and a couple of chaff screens hehe:

2no Vermintide Regiments

Tunnel Runners Regiment

Army is really coming together now, and will look good on the table when done.

Kings of War: Ratkin Brood Mother and Nightmares

Yesterday was the first solid day of painting i've had in weeks!


I managed to get a large portion of the force completed to a rough and ready level, nothing to be proud of but its enough for now:

I will flock all the bases at the end of the project to save glue! I have also ordered a few packs of the Veermyn Piper to make up some swarms and some warlocks so i may well drop one of these Nightmare hordes for more bodies as it were.

Kings of War: Ratkin Army Project

Hello 2020!

These last few weeks i have been busily building up a usable force for a Kings of War tourney in early February... and now im ready to start painting at last.

A rather elite army with a Brood Mother and Warlock as my heroes, two hordes of Nightmares, a Tunnel Runner regiment and a troop of Clawshots.

I dont expect to do massively well but it will be nice to get some games in with an old favourite like kings of war again hehe.

Kings of War: Ratkin Lord of Blights

A mate of mine signed up for a 1000pt Kings of War tourney in February which gave me the impetus to jump back into the system after quite a hiatus!

I was umming and arring over what faction to pick having previously used Undead, Abyssal Dwarves, Herd and Varangur, when i spied a pick showing official Mantic conversions of Warpath Veer-Myn models with orc or goblin weapons to make som very cool Ratkin models and i was sold.

Im starting off with this, a Lord of Blights:

Based on a special character Veer-Myn from Deadzone but given a fantasy combat arm i think it looks pretty cool to be fair.

I have quite a lot of Veer-Myn coming for Xmas from the family so will really be able to crack on in the new year!