Second entry for the old World Army Challenge : Chaos Warriors

Here I am ! 

Late as never, with one finger missing, but I succeeded to complete this month ! 

As I featured you I wanted to paint 12 chaos warriors, plus a champion/hero on foot.

I am sure you recognized the champion, It is the champion of Khorne with a fleshound head that I perverted to Slaanesh. A much more rejoicing cause. His head is of course a head from a beast of Slaanesh, which is truly oversized for him. He looks even more bizarre and vicious. 

Let me introduce you to Eidolon the Lustful.

For the other warriors I tried to make them different from each other but I also watched out to keep a kind of global scheme that work with my army.

I hope you like them !

12 Chaos warriors with two handed weapons and standard bearer 429 pts

Champion of Slaanesh with two handed weapon 93 pts

So it's 522 pts for me this month !

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.

Battle Report : Beneath the Howling Stars

 Hello folks !

I was invited last week by Julien to try his new table, with a strong chaotic theme.

The table is very beautiful and finely detailed but it is a bit complicated to play with it for Warhammer.

The story was simple: Malefica, the dark elf high Priestress of Slaanesh had clear sign from her patron, true power will come after defeating Urgull, the Chaos Lord and his horde.... in the realm of Chaos.

The background was set : dark elves will be raiding the chaos slaves in their own territory. We played Warhammer 5th Edition, as usual and I decided to play with the last miniatures I painted. The core of my army will be a strong sorcerer and her suite with some Slaaneshi Chaos allies... (slaves).

My list : 

Malefica, level 4 sorcerer, on foot

Kularis, dark elf general, with the cold one knights

18 dark elves witches

6 cold one knights

12 crossbowmen

2 bolt throwers

6 dark raiders

6 shades 

6 harpies

Allies : 

Shagass, level 1 sorcerer of Slaanesh on cocatrix

Shuguluss, champion fo chaos on chariot with 2 marauder chariots

The deployment was without surprise, I put the bolt throwers on the hill hidden by harpies and  protected by crossbowmen

The cold one knights were in the middle, supporting the witch elves

On my right, I decided to protect my flank with my chaos allies ("send them the Dark Prince' slaves, their blood is worthless...")

My saucy allies : 

And of course, dark raiders and shades used the forest to progress in front of enemy lines...

In front of me, Julien's beautifull Chaos Undivided Horde...

Chaos Knights and Chaos Lord...

Chaos Warriors : 

Chaos Trolls with a Chaos Champion (and Chaos Marauders with a level 3 Sorcerer in the back)

Two armies are facing to each other : 

I took turn 1, so I decided to advance with everyone and to put the sorcerer on cocatrix on the right, flanking his line sneakily...

He succeeded to petrify one chaos knight and I shot 2 of them at the shooting phase. The chaos lord, started to feel lonely.

At his turn, he advanced. too, but a too much and I counter charged him with my knights and chariots. The chariots literally erased the chaos knights, but not the chaos lord that destroyed 2 of them.

The knights charged the chaos warriors, but they were not motivated enough and the fight ended on an equality.... exposing the witches to the trolls... 

Trolls howled at the refined elves and killed 7 of them.... 

Fortunately, dark magic was stronger and I succeeded to break his lines on turn 3. Trolls and Chaos warriors were gone, leaving the marauders facing the entire dark elves army...

Malefica whine with pleasure watching see her enemies devoured by the Harnzipal's Horror... their screams will announce her enlightenment !

Summer 2020 : painting dairy

Ok, I gonna try to make it in English again :)

During this long and hot summer, I couldn't find any motivation to paint anything. Just some stuff that was on my board since a long time.

First I decided to finish those two buddies. A gladiator and a templar from the "citadel fighters box". Guest what, the gladiator has a comb for his helmet :D this is for this kind of lovely details I love Oldhammer miniatures. Painted with proper colors, they are now part of my Chaos Warriors regiment.

the comb !!!! 

In the same spirit, I decided to paint this amazing miniature, the GW Cocatrix. As I only play to the 5th edition of Warhammer, it allows you to have many characters with exotic mounts. I just put a rider converted from an old Slaanesh Champion, some green stuff, et voilà !

What do you think of it ? 

Next things on my desk are a squad of 6 Slaanesh Renegades for W40K and some eldars riders on mount of Slaanesh. After maybe I will paint Keggox and the Spinned Dragon, but I am not sure of that. Next Wednesday, I play W40k against Pestilus the greedy, so I might have more pictures to post ! Take care and have fun !

 

Ce week-end, c'était le Oldhammer v5 Day 2020 à Paris

Si vous avez bien suivi, ce week end, c'était le v5 day à Paris.

Après moult péripéties, nous avons finalement pu jouer à la boutique Games Workshop Paris 12. Un vrai rétro-gaming pour le coup :D
L'équipe de la boutique est très sympa et leurs tables sont très belles. Nous avons pu nous régaler !

Voici donc quelques photos de mes batailles...

Je commence bien la journée en défiant les hauts elfes de Yann. Je savais que ses figs étaient très belles et il me tardait de faire une rencontre au sommet "hauts elfes vs elfes noirs", c'est une partie classique de Warhammer...

Autour de nous, il n'y avait d'ailleurs que des antagonismes du même genre : Orques & Gobs vs Empire, Nains contre Nains du Chaos etc etc...

Pour cette rencontre je jouais :

1 Héroïne Furie, Hache du Bourreau, Amulette Noire
1 Champion Sorcier Elfe Noir, parchemin de pouvoir, familier de sort
1 Champion Cavalier Noir

5 Cavaliers Noirs, lances et arbalètes à répétition
12 Arbalétriers
18 Furies, bannière de puissance

1 Hydre de Combat
2 Balistes à Répétition

Voici les superbes Hauts Elfes de Yann :

Comme vous pouvez le constater, qualité de peinture et de modélisme étaient au rendez-vous...

La partie était très fun et assez serrée. Même si au final j'ai gagné, ses guerriers fantômes ont été une véritable plaie. Ma pire erreur a été de téléporter mon sorcier au contact de la baliste, il n'a pas été capable de se débarrasser des servants et s'est fait tuer à la place.... 

Grace à leur mouvement, les cavaliers noirs ont pu rapidement engager l'ennemi.

Run away !!! Chicken, chicken...

J'ai même eu beaucoup de chance en chargeant de flanc les haumes d'argent et à réussir à les faire fuir en tuant l'un d'entre eux grâce à une ruade de coursier noir !

Au final je gagne donc mais on s'est joyeusement étripé. Je n'avais presque plus de furies, mes balistes étaient HS et mes arbalétriers en fuite... Mais il ne pouvait pas en être autrement pour une lutte fratricide entre elfes...

Deuxième partie contre les affreux nains de Nico !

Nico, l'infâme propriétaire du blog Realms of Chaos en personne est donc venu jusqu'à Paris pour me défier :)

Partie de plaisir quand on connait ses figs, même si je déteste les nains. Admirez un peu... 

Qu'ils sont laids n'est ce pas ?

Heureusement que j'étais là pour corriger ces erreurs de la nature...

J'ai eu pas mal de chance sur mes sorts en tirant l'ignoble "Horreur Noire d'Arzipal", ce qui m'a permis d'engloutir ses régiments dans le Royaume du Chaos assez facilement.

Moment fort de la partie, duel entre nos deux généraux... ils ont fini par se tuer simultanément. Superbe !

Victoire des elfes noirs. Inutile de préciser que les survivants finirent rasés, imberbes de tout poil et offert à Slaanesh !

Troisième et dernière partie contre Pierre et ses Hommes Lézards.

Car en Lustrie, on ne peut plus chercher un objet magique peinard sans se faire emmerder par des hommes-sac à main maintenant !

Le Slaan avait eu la mauvaise idée de se cacher  dans un régiment de Skinks. Porté sur son palanquin, il faisait une cible de choix pour mes balistes !

J'ai donc saisi l'opportunité et concentré mes tirs sur lui. Au bout de deux tours, il n'était plus qu'un bulbe verdâtre sanguinolent.

La partie a été vite à sens unique du coup, bien que d'habitude, c'est Pierre qui a raison de mes légions :)

Quelques moments forts : 

là dessous ce cachent des skinks, oui oui, frouf les skinks

Paf les balistes, un gros rocher dans la gueule, elles ne sont plus là...

Et voilà !

Super week-end, super joueurs, de belles armées... La v5 est toujours bien vivante et ses joueurs sont tout aussi géniaux !

Merci à tous :)

Slaaneshchild