Baron Kraust's Band of Lost Souls

Well I seem to be turning procrastination into a higher art form! Here's hnother army list instead of some painted minis. This one, however, has had a bit of fleshing out and a back story thought out for it - I'll be lavishing the same treatment on my Orc and Elf armies when I get round to it.

The Baron's army came about as a result of the smattering of chaos minis I had bought on a whim and the remnants of the old Skeleton army box set that were still knocking around in my collection. The Chaos warrior in bone armour (seen posing on the ridge in the pic to the left!) inspired me to join the two forces together - and hopefully save me a bit of money by getting 2 armies for the price of one!

If you missed the Baron first time round here's a little reminder -http://teasgettingcold.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/disdain-sanity-and-scholarship-loftiest.html

So on with the list - this time I have gone to town a bit with the magic items as it seems to fit in more with the character of the army.

Major Characters and Rank and File

Baron Kraust
Level 25 Necromancer
2 handed weapon (Parasitic blade) and chaos armour
400 points





Undead

3 units of 10 Death Riders
Each unit includes a Level 15 Skeleton hero and standard bearer
Shields, lances and hand weapons
Total points - 328

Undead Chariot with wheel scythes
Crew have handweapons, shields and include a level 10 skeleton hero
167 points

20 Skeleton Warriors
Handweapons and shields
Level Hero and standard bearer
278 points



10 Grim Reapers
Scythes
 Level 10 champion
120 points

12 Skeleton WarriorsHand weapons and shields
Level 10 hero and standard
187 points







16 Skeleton Archers
Bows and light armour
224 points

20 Zombies (1 bought so far!)
Level 10 Undead hero
Handweapons
138 points

Undead Giant
Haven't seen any 3rs ed. stats or points value for this so have used regular Giant's stats.
250 points

2 Screaming Skull Catapults
170 points





Ethereal Host

3 Wraiths
450 points

Spectre
200 points




Chaos Allies

Chaos Knight Contingent Leader
Chaos steed, barding
Heavy armour, shield, hand weapon and lance
289 points

4 Mounted Chaos Warriors (2 to source)
Warhorses, barding
Heavy armour, shields, lances and hand weapons
Magic Standard
657 points

Level 10 Chaos Sorcerer
85 points

5 Chaos Centaurs
Double handed weapons and light armour
Level 10 Champion
324 points

10 Beastmen
Hand weapons, shields and standard
Level 10 Beastman champion
Heavy armour and two handed weapon
242 points

2 Minotaurs
Hand weapons

80 points

11 Thug Archers

Light armour, bows, hand weapons

Musician and standard

Marauder Champion - light armour, pistol and two handed weapon

171 points

 

 

10 Thugs

Light armour, shields and hand weapons

Chaos Warrior champion - heavy armour, shield and hand weapon

176

13 Monks of the Red Redemption

Hand weapons and shields

Champion, Standard bearer and musician

170 points

14 Chaos Dwarfs

Heavy armour, shields and hand weapons

Level 10 hero, standard and musician

409 points

Beastmaster and 3 Chaos Hounds

86 points

Chaotic Host -

Jabberwock

200 points

Manticore

 200 points

Hippogriff

200 points 

Basilisk - I have the mini but can't find any mention of it in the 3rd ed. bestiary or Army book. May be being a bit blind so if anyone knows any stats for this beastie let me know - otherwise I'll just make my own up.

2 mutant Ogres
Hand weapons/flail
84 points




Dark Elf Allies

Dark Elf Sorceror
Level 10 - Contingent commander
118 points

5 Dark Elf Doomdrakes (2 to source)
Light armour, shields, hand weapons, lances and repeating crossbows
Level 10 champion and standard bearer
347 points





The Dark Elves may turn into their own little skirmishing force - been quite tempted by the marauder Dark and Witch Elves for a while now...


Total Points value -  (quite fittingly almost!) 6600 points

Two legends collide

As if there wasn't enough Lustrian goodness packed into The Magnificent Sven, I thought I'd shoehorn in a little more! The next scenario I have planned will see Sven and the surviving members of his party happening across Kremlo and the remnants of the Stoutback Clan's punitive warband.

Elven Warhost of the Woods

Another Army List for your delectation - this time my Wood Elves, which I started hunting for on ebay when I first got back into the hobby a few years back. Having a fair few Orcs in my possession I felt I needed some opponents and had always liked the Skarloc's Elf archers minis, so mind made up I set about hoovering up lots of lovely old Jes Goodwin Elves. Then I got a bit distracted by other things and most of them ended up sitting in a box for a long while...

Until now, when I got them out counted them up to remind myself of what I had and put them back again for a rainy day!

Anyway here's the list, done the old fashioned way as the wife would have killed me if I forked any more money out for the Army builder program after having a bit of a splurge on several Goblin chariots and a load of Fighting Fantasy game books I just had to have over the weekend...

Again, I've gone light on the magic weapons and standards as this is really to catalogue what I've got, focus myself on what else I want and give me a rough idea of points values.

Characters and Rank and File

Wood Elf General - Level 25 Hero
Mounted on barded Warhorse
Light armour, bow, hand weapon
224 points







Army Standard Bearer - Level 10 hero
Mounted on barded Warhorse
Light armour, shield, lance and handweapon
153 points








5 Elven Lords
Mounted on barded Warhorses
Light armour, shields, lances and hand weapons
195 points









5 (3 to buy) Wood riders
Spear, hand weapon, shield and longbow
230 points

 Level 20 Elf Wizard

Mounted on Warhorse
hand weapon
315 points


Level 10 Sorceress
on foot
118 points

Level 15 Hero
Mounted on Giant Eagle
Light armour, lance, handweapon and bow
210 points

Zoat Level 15 Wizard
275 points

Zoat Warrior
Double-handed weapon
60 points

20 Wood Elf Guards
Light armour, shield, long bow and hand weapons
Including standard, musician and Level 15 champion
- Light armour, shield and hand weapon
440 points

15 Lord's Bowmen
Light armour, long bows and handweapons
Including standard, musician and Level 5 champion
- Light armour and double-handed weapon
248 points

20 Warrior Kinband
Light armour, spears and hand weapons
Including standard, musician and Level 10 champion
268 points








22 Warrior Kinband
Light armour, shields, spears and hand weapons
Including standard, musician and Level 10 champion
344 points

15 Warrior Kinband - 3 to buy

Swords, shields and light armour
Including standard, musician and champ
277 points


Skarloc's Wood Elf Archers

13 Wood Elf Gladerunners
Shields, Longbows and handweapons
Musician - Arafane Warskald
 Level 15 Sorceress and standard bearer - Kaia Stormwitch
Glam - Wardancer
Skarloc - Level 15 Hero
614 points

12 Archers
Long bows, shields and handweapons
144 points

10 Wardancers
Double-handed weapons and light armour








Monsters and beasts

Giant Eagle
75 points

2 Treemen
560 points

6 Beast Handlers
6 wild cats, 11 hunting dogs,
3 wild boar, 1 bear




Warmachines


1 Heavy Chariot crewed by 4 Wainlords
1500 points








Total Points 4296

Other significant wants:
Dragon Masters
Oreon's Wood Elf Archers
Shape changers - any suitable citadel minis will do for this
Marauder Treemen


Only a skirmishing force I know - but its a start!

Wishful thinking...

Having enjoyed reading Orlygg's wish list of his 10 most desired citadel miniatures (and smiling a little smugly because I own a few of them like the Marauder Giant, Wyvern and Ambull - gnashing my teeth at selling my Nurgle palanquin a few years back...) I thought I'd flesh out the list I posted as a comment here.

So here is my absolute Top 10 Citadel miniatures I'd sell a kidney (perhaps not mine) to own:

10 - The Dragon Masters

I think this box set was on the same shelf as the Orc War Wyvern I picked up many years ago in the little model shop somewhere in Manchester, where I went very occasionally with some saved up pocket money. I always intended picking this set up as adversaries for my Orcs but alas it was never to be. I always liked the fact that you got a second character mounted on a horse - great set!





9 - Elven Attack Chariot

Surprisingly this is the second Elf entry in my list as I've always been more of an Orc and Goblin fan. However, having just run an inventory on the Wood Elf Warhost I've been slowly putting together for some years, this fantastic mini is very conspicuous in its absence.

8 - Goblobber

Can't remember which year's Golden Demon it was, but one of my favourite ever entries was a converted version of this Dwarf warmachine. It was entitled Revenge and involved the Dwarf crew getting their much deserved come-uppance by being turned into ammunition for their own catapult by some rather pissed off Orcs - oh yeah and its a really cool mini as well!

7 - The Citadel Giant

A whole load of lovely lead. As it says on the Stuff of Legends site - One of the two most sought after citadel pieces - 'nough said.



6 - Fimir

Ever since playing Heroquest these evil cyclopean monsters have captured my imagination. How I would love to have a small skirmishing force but alas the high prices they command will probably keep them just out of reach. I'll just have to live vicariously through Mr Saturdays afore-mentioned fimir army project.

5 - Villagers and townsfolk

Quite a big one this as there's loads of them and they don't often seem to come cheap. Why do I like them even though they're fairly useless in terms of gsming? Because they're fairly usesless in terms of gaming! I suppose it was Orc's Drift that turned me onto them as they lend such flavour to the Linden Way scenario. Not to mention the minis are all full of character. One of my vague ideas is to build the inn that was featured in one of the old White Dwarfs at the time and populate it with drunks, staff and various other hangers on.



Whilst browsing around on Stuff of Legends I came across the section on WFRP character minis. As I'm currently participating in a play by post version of The Oldenhaller Contract as a warmup for The Enemy Within (link if I haven't mentioned it before -  http://theernywithin.blogspot.co.uk/) I was most excited to find miniature versions of the characters our group are playing - Kirsten, Malmir, Harbull, Wanda, Werner and my character, Johann, are all pictured here - Seems they've all been moonlighting in the Death on the Reik scenario!http://www.solegends.com/citc46/c46whfrpscenarios/index.htm 

Handsome devil 'aint he! 

4 - The Zombie Dragon

This is another favourite that was inspired by White Dwarf. Again, I can't remember which issue it was, but there was an undead army featured. Among the many fine and fetid offerings was this fabulous miniature, which if I remember correctly had been slightly converted to have a marauder skeleton armed with a two-handed sword as a rider. If I get my hands on this it will definitely go nicely with my plastic skeletons from the old Skeleton Army boxed set that have survived years of storage surprisingly well...

3 - Orc's Drift Character

 I'm going to blame this one on Gaj, of Warhammer for Adults fame, who is currently nearing Citadel scenario pack nirvana in that he nearly has all the scenario character models to play Terror of the Lichemaster. His dedication to the task has humbled me and I now feel the need to plug the gaps in my own collection of Orc's Drift characters - most notably Ozrim Chardz and Hagar Sheol to go for ourageously high prices. I mean we're talking about hundreds of pounds!

I fear these little lead men will probably become my Moby Dick - forever dooming me to rummage fruitlessly through Bring and Buy's and ebay for that seller who doesn't know what he's got and has priced them at 99p each...

What I'm still after:

Osrim Chardz

Ferndale Snart

Mayor Leofwine - only ever seen one on sale

Hagar Sheol

All the villagers except the baker and busker

King Fy'ar and his wyvern

2 - Slann Wizard with Bearers

As I'm currently putting together a Slann force this is a bit of a no-brainer, although having read the entry on Slann wizards in the Armies book there is now a practical reason as well. Apparently, as Slann wizards are extrememely spiritual creatures, they believe that touching the floor with their  feet leads to spiritual pollution and the destruction of their magical abilities. So basically unless I get a palanquin my Slann magic users will be limited to Level 1 spells only!



1 - Hobgoblin mounted on Temple Dog

This would make the perfect General for my growing force of Hobgoblin mercenaries. I've seen Temple dogs with Samurai riders go for a fair whack on ebay before and there was the first and only Hobgoblin rider I've ever seen, which was by itself and still sold at a high price. Not seen one since so they must be rather rare...



So there we have it - my wishlist. I'll be a happy man if I ever get round to ticking them all off!

There were a few also-rans who didn't quite make the top ten -

Huscarl - the last mini I need to complete the Kremlo scenario set.

C29 Hydra

 Dragon Ogre

Tom Meier's Troglogytes

 The Nightmare Legion

Reptile Round-up!

Gurgyll Greenwake surveyed the scene, his tongue flickering out to moisten his eyeballs which had become dry with rage. His once proud army, if a renegade band of bandits, orphans and desperadoes could be said to be proud, lay in tatters around him. Pitiful croaks issued from the wounded and those who probably wouldn't see another spawning.

Where had it all gone wrong - the dryskin settlement had always been a soft target - as soft as the repulsive creatures' skin that parted so satisfyingly beneath his blade. There had been defensive walls and traps dug and, as identical in their hairy ugliness as the apes were, there had also been newcomers amongst the usually spineless beasts.

Latest mini received and Return of the Magnificent Sven

Goblinoids, sir, thousands of 'em...

Oh the lengths I am going to to avoid picking up a paintbrush at the moment! I think I am definitely suffering from a bit of a painting hangover from the binge that was the LPL.

So what better tonic - fiddle about with the hundreds of unpainted minis I have squirrelled away for future/ongoing/never-ending projects. Inspired by Orlygg's "No Grand Plan", as featured on his marvellous blog - http://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/no-grand-plan-warhammer-armies.html, I thought it was about time to see what I'd actually got, which in no way will further fuel my forrays into ebay to complete and add to the units I've started...

So without further ado here is my Goblinoid horde list. Hopefully this won't come across too much as a "look what I've got!" post as, for me, it'll be a good reference and something I might do for the other armies I've got building up. The entries in red are those I still need to get my hands on.