faeg nad teli
06-27-2010, 03:59 AM
Hi all,
At our LGS we are starting a tale of x gamers campaign in July and I'm toying with the idea to start playing with daemons. For me this project will at the first place be focused at converting/painting and in second place I'd like to have a playable list for local pickup games. (therefor I do not need a complete min/maxed list). I have played 40k mainly with my SoB and wanted to have a list with more close combat orientation.
There are already several ideas growing in my mind so in random order some thoughts I'm working with:
- I really like the Blood slaughterers from forgeworld 1 (http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/DefaultFW/xlarge/bslaughterer.jpg),2 (http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/DefaultFW/xlarge/bsimpaler.jpg), but I realize this model has two issues if I want to use it as a soulgrinder: Size and deepstrike footprint. I think I can overcome both if I put the little beast on a scenic base (for instance tearing a leman russ apart). On the other hand, I could also play it as a daemon prince.
- Since there's quite a bit of metal in the available kits (which just doesn't work that well with converting) and I don't care much for the bloodletters. I was considering to sort of make a possessed army. (I do admit to adapting the idea after seeing some beautifully converted orc zombies)
I consider the following, but still remain highly open to additional suggestions:
* Nurgle: Orc/kroot (plague bearers)
* Tzeench: Grots and night goblin hybrids with the metal kits or imperial/traitor guard psykers (horrors/flamers)
* Khorne: something to fit with the blood slaughterers and add some punch to the list as crushers/letters
* Slaanesh: will for now probably be put on the side line and might be added when I expand the list.
- I could theme it as a single army being possessed or choose a different one for each god, both have there advantages, currently I'm leaning to the first option.
- I haven't figured out the big beasties yet, although I could just stick with heralds. I would like to throw in a blood thirster or some daemon prince to really catch the eye. Model wise this might be the hard one to fit in the possessed army theme due to the size, but I could also go for the more regular kits.
- The final list at the end of the campaign should be somewhere around 1000 pts but in the future I might expanded it to the 1500-1700 pts range. We'll also have a 750 pts battle at 2/3 of the campaign, so I should first work to that. I thought to start with some plague bearers, would you already add icons to the unit in 750/1000 pts? And would you already add both blood slaughterers in 750/1000pts.
- In the sense of an army list I haven't looked at any point values yet, but I was thinking of some plaguebearers to stake out objectives, some flamers to quickly kill critical units and then die horribly, the blood slaughterers to tear open tanks and finally letters/crushers/big beasties to punch holes in everything.
So that's it for now, any thoughts and advice on modeling or army list/tactics are always appreciated.
At our LGS we are starting a tale of x gamers campaign in July and I'm toying with the idea to start playing with daemons. For me this project will at the first place be focused at converting/painting and in second place I'd like to have a playable list for local pickup games. (therefor I do not need a complete min/maxed list). I have played 40k mainly with my SoB and wanted to have a list with more close combat orientation.
There are already several ideas growing in my mind so in random order some thoughts I'm working with:
- I really like the Blood slaughterers from forgeworld 1 (http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/DefaultFW/xlarge/bslaughterer.jpg),2 (http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/DefaultFW/xlarge/bsimpaler.jpg), but I realize this model has two issues if I want to use it as a soulgrinder: Size and deepstrike footprint. I think I can overcome both if I put the little beast on a scenic base (for instance tearing a leman russ apart). On the other hand, I could also play it as a daemon prince.
- Since there's quite a bit of metal in the available kits (which just doesn't work that well with converting) and I don't care much for the bloodletters. I was considering to sort of make a possessed army. (I do admit to adapting the idea after seeing some beautifully converted orc zombies)
I consider the following, but still remain highly open to additional suggestions:
* Nurgle: Orc/kroot (plague bearers)
* Tzeench: Grots and night goblin hybrids with the metal kits or imperial/traitor guard psykers (horrors/flamers)
* Khorne: something to fit with the blood slaughterers and add some punch to the list as crushers/letters
* Slaanesh: will for now probably be put on the side line and might be added when I expand the list.
- I could theme it as a single army being possessed or choose a different one for each god, both have there advantages, currently I'm leaning to the first option.
- I haven't figured out the big beasties yet, although I could just stick with heralds. I would like to throw in a blood thirster or some daemon prince to really catch the eye. Model wise this might be the hard one to fit in the possessed army theme due to the size, but I could also go for the more regular kits.
- The final list at the end of the campaign should be somewhere around 1000 pts but in the future I might expanded it to the 1500-1700 pts range. We'll also have a 750 pts battle at 2/3 of the campaign, so I should first work to that. I thought to start with some plague bearers, would you already add icons to the unit in 750/1000 pts? And would you already add both blood slaughterers in 750/1000pts.
- In the sense of an army list I haven't looked at any point values yet, but I was thinking of some plaguebearers to stake out objectives, some flamers to quickly kill critical units and then die horribly, the blood slaughterers to tear open tanks and finally letters/crushers/big beasties to punch holes in everything.
So that's it for now, any thoughts and advice on modeling or army list/tactics are always appreciated.