The Tears of Isha's campaign : Act III

As the lockdown was getting "softer" in France we decided with Patatovitch (the famous scribe of Taran and the Verra Rubicon) to continue our narrative campaign : Tears of Isha.

The third act is clearly inspired by the famous Battle of the Thermopyles that inspired the so-called movie "300" : the dark elves are launching a flanking attack and their are holding the Eagle Pass.

The high elves are outnumbered and doomed but if the dark elves take too much time to slain them, the hight elves will start the final battle (next battle, final act) with many advantages (first turn, one free firing phase...)

The players are allowed to use reinforcements but it will be subtracted for the final battle. Patatovitch decided to use 500 pts of reinforcement, leading his army to 1500 pts, and I decided to keep my reinforcements of the next battle, so I had "only" 2000 pts.

The high elves have walls (roll on 6 to hit) and have the first turn. In the narrative campaign, this assault is led by the Temple of Khaine (Slaanesh for me) so it involves witch elves and cauldron of blood :)

As I was expecting many bowmen I decided to use a big pack (12 ! ) of cold one knights. Their have a 2+ save, many attacks, they cause fear and they are FAST. I also had 2 pack of 6 dark riders and a big pack of 24 witches.

The deployment 

  

The brave defenders... 

My infamous hordes....

First turn: 

The high elves concentrated their shots on dark riders but as they are skirmishers, they were hard to hit. Ballistas were not in the right position to hit the cold one knights and missed their shots.

The dark elves started to move as fast as they can, firing on ballistas, then dark riders charged one war machine and killed its servants (dark riders have a free movement which allow them to be very close very fast).

 

the charge of the dark riders !!! 

Turn 2:

High elves didn't make any significant shot so the dark eves continued their irresistible advance. The cold one succeeded to charge the first regiment to lancers. Unfortunately for the hight elves, their fail their leadership test facing the cold ones with fear in their eyes.

Die weaklings !!!! 

The lancers hold their position but the cold ones started to flank them as they have won the fight. More than everything, they crossed the walls and barricades, allowing them to hit the Asurs freely.

Turn 3:

Witches charged, and the cold one knights slaughtered their foes.

Unfortunately for the daughters of Slaanesh, they missed all their attacks and many of them were killed by the infamous high elves. However, helped by their hatred for their cousins, they hold their position (LD 10 with no modifiers), allowing them to wait for the backup of the cold ones.

Scream for mercy Asurs !!

Turn 4:

Unsurprisingly, the cold ones knights flanked the elves and massacred them.

the last corner

Turn 5:

The dark riders were hunting the last archers and all the Asurs were killed or made prisoners.

Anyway, they stand for 5 turns giving them the opportunity the have the first turn in the next battle, which will be 3500 pts for me and only 3000 pts for him as he used reinforcements at this battle.

Next battle soon !!! 

 

Black Guards of Slaanesh

 The Dark Elves were my first army when I started Warhammer, 25 years ago. I was 13 years old, I already loved this army but I was very frustrated: they had absolutely no models compare to other armies.... and the one available were very expensive... or at least, very expensive for me at 13/15 years old.

Expensive indeed, for instance, the Black Guards were sold per 2 for 50 francs (8 euros), then they have been reduced at 1 per blister...

Now I can afford them, I have a full unit of 21 of them !! I have even found the time to paint them :)

They will be the personal guard of my general when she will be on foot, or simply the honor guard of one Slaaneshi Sorceress.

Some details... 

I wanted them to fit in the color scheme of my army, but also to look more rich and charismatic... what to you think ?

Behold true damnation: painting Azazel

 I had this miniature on my desk since a long time and I decided to finish it this week. I've alway loved this Daemon Prince. I couldn't buy it when I was a kid but I remember his background was pretty explicit and inspiring. More than ever it was one of the only character dedicated to Slaanesh.

The miniature was sculpted by Trish Carden (Morrisson) at the end of the 90's I think, for the 5th edition of Warhammer Battle.

As I putted him on a big round base, I felt he was a bit lonely on it, so I decided to add something more "slaaneshi" than skulls and grass. First I wanted to put slaves on it, but I finally decided to use this column with prisoner from Brother Vini range. I like the idea that he fights in an old temple of Slaanesh, in the middle of debauchery and blood sacrifices.

The light "erases" a bit the colors and details, but I loved to paint him !

Dark riders seeking victims & entertainment

 Long time no see !

I felt less motivated after finishing my Emperor's Children army, maybe I need to digest it before starting something new. As I was supposed to play with Patatovitch to complete the narrative campaign 'Tears of Isha", I decided to paint a second unit of dark elves dark riders.

Of course they will be 6, but I added a dark elf hero representing the leader in the ToI campaign. Usually I don't like dark elves of this time (3rd Ed), but this one is an exception. His steed is a cross-breeded with a drake and the miniature is pretty charismatic.

As I didn't want to spend too much time on them, I kept it simple with some beautiful details, as I am used to do.

Let the hunt begin !!

Some details on the character, the shield is from Knightmare Miniatures.

Emperor's Children : a complete army !!!

 Today is a sacred day in Slaaneshi calendar : I have finished to paint all my Emperor's Children !! And there is no surprise, we are on the 6th today !!

First ugly global picture : 

From right to left : 

And now, time for some close up :)

My Chaos Sorcerer with his pet :

The daemonic contingent : the All-mighty Thul-sodom and his Demoiselles

Thuld'Sodom, himself

Renegade Chaos Squad 1 : 

The lust riders, I will post more of my Eldars of Slaanesh soon : 

Noise Marines in Terminator armor with their possessed Land Raider in the background : 

Slaves with support weapon : 

MK1 Predator, the last miniature I painted : 

Renegade Chaos Squad 2 : 

Veterans squad with close combat weapons 1 : 

Veteran squad with close combat weapons 2 :

The infamous Lubrifist with his kindred : 

Noise Marines squad 1 : 

Noise Marines squad 2 : 

Possessed marines squad, lead by Lucius :

Devastator Chaos squad 1 : 

Gomorra, Daemon Princess of Slaanesh : 

The perverted sisters, with their Princess : 

my chaos sorcere on mount/lord on mount

Veteran squad with heavy weapons : 

My possessed techmarine : 

And the best at the end : Inquisitor Baala'Dur and his retinue...

Here we are... this is the end of two years of work. Now I will focus on Warhammer Battle and a small for of corrupted guardsmen. I have also a small eldars of slaanesh force that I need to rework to present it as a single army.

Which is your favorite unit from this army ?