Age of Sigmar: Grandfather Nurgle

New year, New Army! That's the tagline isn't it hehe.

I've signed up for the AoS Essex GT again this year held at Wayland Games in July so i was looking at my options to prepare for it... I've sold my Flesheaters and Stormbros, and didn't think my Pigsplitterz would be up to task so it was time for a new force:

Nurgle! I knew i would need a force that didn't rely on its spells given that Nagash and Tzeentch will be everywhere, i needed some tough troops that could do the hurt even on 3+ save Petrifex Bonereapers... and most importantly it had to have some cool models that would be interesting and quick to paint.

Nurgle ticks all these boxes, and they recently had some new subfactions come out in the wrath of the everchosen book to bring them up to the same level as the other chaos books.

I already had the FW Great Unclean One in a box from a long ago moved on project, probably some 40k army about 10 years ago haha, so it was an obvious starting point for my legions and takes up nearly 1/5th of my points already.

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.

Godtear: Morrigan and Mournblade

I went for something a little different for my Undead models in Godtear, i wanted a simple yet unifying scheme for them so settled on an evil spirit effort of grey with a fleshshade wash and then a terminartus stone drybrush:

Morrigan - Slayer Champion

Cold Bones - Followers of Morrigan

Mournblade - Defender Champion

Knightshades - Followers of Mournblade

Luckily for me the best way to identify different models in Godtear is by painting the base rims to match the class type, so the face that they are all painted the same wont be an issue on the board.

Godtear: Blackjaw!

These have been sat on the painting desk for a month half finished so i finally got round to finishing them:

Blackjaw - Maelstrom Champion

Unburnt Reavers - Followers of Blackjaw

A second maelstrom champ for me, Blackjaw, murderer of enemy followers haha... seriously his ultimate will swing a game turn 8-10pts in your favour so use it wisely. The reavers are a fast moving horde unit but they have an interesting special rule that lets them -1 dice from enemy follower skill rolls unless they have 3 models in the hex doing the roll... spread the reavers out to really hamper enemy followers, which will force them to bunch up and become easy prey for the boss orc!

Bolt Action: Hungarian Weapon Teams

Two more teams for my force today:

Flame Thrower Team

Panzerschrek Team

Im a few bits away from completing this force i think; another truck, another flamethrower team, a Nimrod and the Rocket Laucher Artillery piece should do me :-D

Lord of the Rings: King of the Dead and Shelob

I've been meaning to pick up the plastic King and Heralds pack since it was released hehe, but only finally got round to it this weekend! Shelob too is a new addition... hateful model to build!

I have a couple of LoTR events booked in now for march and June, the Dead of Dunharrow / Return of the King Legion will be my good army for these for sure.

Lord of the Rings: Shagrat and Gorbag

Added a couple of new heroes to my Cirith Ungol force today:

Shagrat, Captain of Cirith Ungol and Gorbag, Orc Captain

Shagrat will be leading my Mordor Uruk Hai themed Cirith Ungol force soon, a friend of mine picked up Shelob for me at warhammer world and i have another warband of uruks on the way to paint and complete the force.