Warlord Kargir Warband

This is my first army project for Warlord. The army will consist of about 30 minis including Black Orcs, Night Goblins, Squigs (yes, Squigs) and Troll. I'm going to use mostly OOP GW models from 5th edition of Warhammer. I think they suit this warband the best, even better than original reaper models. Also I think that Warhammer 5ed line was best mini line ever!

Design

I want to make this warband a nasty, evil look. There would be no place for humor. Thats why I have to chose my goblin carefully as most of Night Goblins are just funny. Also I'll change squigs into something more nasty.

Troop 1: Black Orcs

This is my strongest unit. It would consist of the heaviest orc warriors in this warband. The leader of whole group would be Gologh the Vicious.

Troop 2: Tundra Stalkers

Masters of blade, tundra stalkers are masters at fighting 2 weapons. Torg is their leader. He has 2 tundra stalkerz that will follow his orders. This warband will be also accompanied by Warbringer, an elite warrior. This unit can give a great deal of blows. This will be good versus large quantities of low armored troopers.

Troop 3: Goblin Pack

Leadered by Orc called Hrodash the Painmaster goblin pack is a very important unit of this warband. While not so powerfull in fighting as other troops, this guys can literally swarm enemy units. Hrodash is a true goblin slaver. He wears Armor of Courage (which protects him from goblin bites) and allows to preform free inspire action that encourages goblins to fight with greater furry. Goblins are just goblins but occasionally Knax Madmaw, the goblin crazy shaman, joins this unit. Normally he spends most of his days eating mushrooms and experimenting his spells on other goblins, but when tribe is in need, he strikes at foe.

Troop 4: Mountain Troll

This army wouldn't be complete if there would be no troll in it. Mountain troll is awesome monster. I'll probably get second troll for bigger battles, but let's talk about first one. Mountain Trolls are very tough. My troll will be fighting with axe and shield. Warlord trolls are bit different than Warhammer trolls and no so stupid. Some of troll races have even a shaman which actually can cast incredible spells!

Troop 5: Squig Hyenas

I need some of those units to outmaneuver the enemy. Small units of squig hyenas will add extra initiative card and give mobility to this warband. They are just perfect to rush at enemy to give support to my orcs or to fight with swift attack tactics, slowing down the enemy.

Warlord Darkreach Warband

I'm about to buy and finish Darkreach Warlord Warbands. My first choice would be Darkreach Warband (as I already have some reaper minis from this fraction) but I would like to get also Black Orcs of Kargir Warband and icy Dwarf of Kragmarr Warband. I don't really get idea of ice themed Dwarfs but I would like to challenge this project.

Doctrines

Shadow Tactic is nice doctrine versus bigger enemies but since I play mostly against dwarf and gnomes I use Dark Reaches Doctrine. The best advantage is that you can swap minis to make incredible combos. This allows you to keep your best warriors always close to enemies, or to run away with weaker ones.

Miniatures

I like Darkreach theme very much. The best sculpts are: Leila, Avrix and Shiver Spike. Of course there are some worse sculpts too (for example the Shadow Demon or Darkrime Drake). Here's a set of minis I'm going to buy.



Leaders

► Majestrix Latissula, High Priestess

► Zeshin Nightcreaper

► Evshyvandra Duskwidow

► Tierdeleira, Priestess



Elites

► Avrix Dirthe, Champion

► Liela Mordollwen, Sorceress

► Erdolliel Saerwen

► Zalash, Assassin



Soldiers

► 3 Shadowstep Warriors

► 3 Nightshade Warriors

► 3 Shiver Spikes

► 2 Darkshade Raiders



Monsters

► 2 Phase Cats



I'm going to prox some minis (Phase Cats and Zeshin). It's quite likely that I'll buy those horrible Darkrime Drakes, just to boost up gaming, but they will be probably heavy converted. Hope to start this army project soon.

There will be one more Waaagh!

I'm going to make myself an army of Savage Orcs. So I've already decided what minis to buy. Not sure on quantity of units, but I'm thinking of about 1500 point army made of Savage Orcs only. So here's this army which would be my common use.







Savage Orc Great Shaman on War Boar

Savage Orc Shaman with Lucky Shrunken Head

Savage Orc BigBoss Battle Standard Bearer with Great Weapon



40 Savage Orc Big'Uns with Additional Hand Weapon

10 Savage Orc Boyz with Bows

10 Savage Orc Boar Boyz with Additional Hand Weapon



Giant with Warpaint







Designer's Note: Every unit will be slightly converted. But the main eye catcher would be Giant. I want him to have naked legs with tattoos on it. I have also an intesting concept on Savage Orc Battle Standard and for smaller Shaman too. After finishing this horde I'll make some more models using older minis (20 metal Savage Orcs with Shaman and 10 Savage Boar Boyz with Wurzag).

Mantic Dwarf Army

Here are my first Mantic Games minis. I've decided to paint them all in basic NMM technique and in standard color scheme for Mantic dwarves - red and bronze (mine is more like gold).



THIS ARMY CONSISTS OF:

- 1 Dwarf King with Two-handed Hammer.

- 1 Dwarf Warsmith with 2 Hammers. (He can be played as second King, Thane, Runesmith or even as a Berserker)

- 20 Dwarf Ironclads (Warriors) with Shields and full command group (Actually there are 18 Ironclads and 1 Drunken Dwarf - he takes 2 bases).

- 10 Dwarf Ironwatch (Thunderers) with Rifles.

- 10 Dwarf Ironwatch (Quarrellers) with Crossbows.

- 5 Dwarf Shield Breakers (Hammerers) with Two-handed Hammers.

- 1 Dwarf Cannon or Organgun (Can be fielded as one of those due to extra bitz) with 2 crew.

- 1 Mastiff (can be added to make one more crew or Ironclad or just to remind you an upgrade in unit)



TOTAL: 50 Miniatures







I used to play both Warhammer and Kings of War with this army. You can easily field over 1000 point army in Warhammer game with this army. I use Ironclads as Iron Breakers coz they are very hard to kill. I like this army because of one particular reason. The whole army look really stunning on a battle field. It has very consistent color scheme and also It has some details like mastiff or heroes on elevated bases or (my favorite part) a drunken dwarf. Hope to paint some more Mantic Dawrves in my life.



Here are some close ups:



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WARMACHINES

Chaos Warrior Battle Masters Army

Those are miniatures made by Citadel Miniatures for Milton Bradley game called Battle Masters. The game itself was based on hex table and was quite similar to Warmaster (but in 28mm scale).
I've bought this army some long time ago. I've painted all minis to make it feel like one army. Because those are clones this was easy to make. Hope you like the effect. The Army consists of:



Mounted Chaos Sorcerer
Chaos Sorceres on Foot
Another Chaos Sorceres on Foot
Chaos Sorcerer in Chariot
Chaos Battle Standard Bearer
Chaos Champion

10 Chaos Knights (Full Command)
20 Chaos Warriors (Full Command)
20 Chaos Warriors (Full Command)
Another Chaos Chariot

3 Chaos Ogres
Chaos Giant





Army was SOLD some years ago. Hope it wins a lot of games.