The Shrine to Lost Armies

Tomb kings are awesome.

#first

 

Well, this ought to be fun. Out of curiosity, what do you guys play, outside of our glorious Reptilian Overlords? I have sizeable Brayherd and Warherd forces (Along with Centigors and Harpies. The basic Beastman lineup before they split us all up), as well as a fairly large Gutbuster Wartribe, so most of my forces outside of my lizards have been left by the wayside. Feels bad man.

 

In all seriousness, I simply to use this thread and eventual subforum to talk about tomb kings and document the eventual reawakening of my old tomb kings character, King Ahmenphakth of the first dynasty of quatar.

City of marble, city of statues, guardian of the valley.

And it's King, the lion of the valley, King of the palace of pillars, Lord of the crimson host, Sentry of usurians grand temple, he who holds Gehebs fury.

 

Currently rocking the Nurgles. I have a Fyreslayers army I need to paint at some point, and two Hurricanums I need to decide what to do with...

Considering a ghostly freeguild army, or a ghostly death army... or both. Counts as both?

 

Very cool. I'm using my models to play kings of war, but I keep an eye on AoS for news of new models

 

Why not do both and be able to use them separately too

 

I played against some... beast things of some variety... Forgeworld models. They messed my day up.

 

I don't hate sylvaneth, but I think thier background is contrived

 

Warriors of Chaos and Tomb Kings!

 

We are kings

 

When I get a chance to play, I tend to rotate between Seraphon and Free Peoples supplemented by Ironweld Arsenal and a couple other Order models for support. I also play Tyranids in 40k. I have a couple other armies I want to experiment with, but really don't have time.

 

We do not serve...

 

We rule.

So, first things first:

Current plan:

Tomb kings are on order, should have a box in the mail soon. Friend is going to play against me with elves of the highest variety.

1 horde revenants (aka tomb guard)

A king

And some heralds.

I plan to expand with ushabti and other constructs next. Maybe a couple of SSC. They are marginally more useful then flinging my army list, but they look cool.

For basic levy skellies, I have a few options. I have some models already that I'm going to dig out of storage.

I'm also going to purchase metals from various sources.

My main bulk however, for this rebirth at least, will most likely be triumph of Death skellies with TK shields.

In the meantime, I have more trident realms and salamanders to paint.

 

Will see if I can dig them out of storage later, though I've stopped playing them much lately so I'm rather unsure as to where I'm keeping them. As things stand, yes, Beastmen are rather subpar as a force. Can tell that GW is pushing pretty hard to turn us into an auxiliary force for other Chaos armies. We used to be in a pretty decent spot, with our legacy characters and new allegiances on the way, but then the legacy nerf happened, which hit us exceedingly hard, and we lost a bunch of our best models, like Gorthor (Going to miss that bubble of +1 to hit and charge), Khazrak, our standard bearer (Going to miss that bubble of +1 to wound to), and some of our fun models, like Morghur. As of now, I can't in good conscience suggest to anyone that they start a Beastman force. On the plus side though, Bray Shamans are considered Chaos Sorcerers now, so they can summon demons, which helps out a bit with our versatility I guess. To little to late though tbh.

 

Glad to know there is enough interest in the "lost" armies to have garnered this much attention. It is definately not just me over at the Round Table, I am but a painting novice when it comes to the legendary Bretonnian painters that have graced those pages (though photobucket dropped numerous photos, there are still plenty in the site gallery ).

That being said, Lustria is the home for both my main Warhammer armies.

• Lizardmen were always my first army, as I always loved their look, the dinosaurs, and their Mayan/Aztec/Mesoamerican influences.
• My Bretonnians are a close second, mostly because they are waaay more difficult for me to paint, but since I love heraldry it has been more of a labor of love .

Aside from these, I have always dreamed of creating a pirate dwarf army, but that particular warhammer project is a long way off.

 

What about pirate lizardmen? See mantic salamanders army list