The Shrine to Lost Armies

You know its really funny that you mention that, because the very first piece of Lizardmen fan fiction was actually called "Pirates of the Dragon Isles." It was story #4 in the April/May 2016 Short Story contest over in the fluff section of the forum. It actually got some votes !

I never had any beastmen myself, but my brother collected them as his first army before he started collecting Wood Elves too. I have some experience warhammering against both (6th-8th ed rules), but I always felt that GW never did them justice. Especially the Beastmen, they always seemed auxilliaries at best within the overarching "Chaos" faction instead of a strong, independent force in their own right.

I liked the combined "forest spirit" and "wood elves" armies better than having them as two seperate forces, they had some good synergy on the tabletop and looked nice as a group together. I am not a big fan of the undead-tree-spirit-things that came about recently, if they had stuck with the treeman and dryad aesthetic that would have been better.

 

as to the sylvaneth thing, its mainly my dislike of GW splitting durthu into fragments of his self to sell more models

 

The Beastmen never really had the spotlight on them in WFB era, no, and it's been ages since I last saw Beastmen focused on as the main antagonists in any official Warhammer literature, and I don't think there's been any in AoS period. Do see them sometimes, but it's always in support of other Chaos armies. I guess it's their way of slowly choking out the armies they don't have any interest in producing new AoS models for in favour of the Stormcast and the main Chaos forces. Poor Halflings ceased to exist and no one even noticed, since they simply stopped mentioning them.

 

Pretty much!

 

Dwarfs and Skaven, as well as being in charge of my dad's High Elves and Greenskins. I'm also REALLY tempted to start Tomb Kings with the new Mantic Empire of Dust range, but at the moment am still building up the Skaven and High Elves.

Start Tyranids, not Tau! I implore you as a cerebrate follower of the Hive Mind to choose Tyranids over Tau. Tyranids are more fun as you can devour EVERYTHING!!!!!!!

Agreed about the Revenants and Drycha - I think they look horrible. The Kurnoth Hunters aren't so bad as they are more similar to the Treeman which was originally designed for Wood Elves.

Top tip for Wood Elf players: if you're looking for some Tree Kin, try using some Kurnoth Hunters with close combat weapons on square bases - they'll look great, I guarantee you that.

My main grudge against Alarielle is of all the characters, why on earth did GW choose to resurrect her over so many other characters who were so much better?

I was thinking of getting the Empire of Dust starter army as a starter TK force, but was wondering about the Mummies that are included - they don't look very Egyptian, yet Tomb Guard are more mummies than elite skeletons. Are Mummies or Revenants the equivalent of Tomb Guard?

 

My issue with Tyranids is the amount of things you end up painting... So many of the same little things. It's like an IG army without the tanks.

 

Painting something totally different was interesting, my first foray into it was re-doing the Fabius Bile and that was a fun experience. Definitely worth doing, you learn a lot quickly by jumping in at the deep end.

 

But then Tau are the same - all those Fire Warriors to paint...

In any case, Tyranid swarm creatures are cheap but their monsters are pretty expensive in points - I always use a good few monsters with my Tyranids so my army is often much smaller bu also a lot better. Painting massive great alien monsters is fun because you can spend loads of time on them to make them brilliant centrepieces to your force.

In fact Tyranids are probably one of the most versatile forces in 40K - they can have hordes of expendable gribblies, medium-sized Warriors and Genestealers that are formidable in combat against even Terminators and huge monsters that can squish anything they touch.

Why don't you try Necrons or Adeptus Mechanicus instead? Certainly Necrons are far tougher and don't need to rely upon an especially weak unit to give the rest of the army decent performance (Pathfinders). Also Adeptus Mechanicus are a more creepy and unnerving side to the Imperium that deserves to have more of a following. They're more original and interesting than Space Marines...

This is why I dislike Alarielle @Aginor - they could have had Thorgrim be resurrected in a new plastic throne of power, or Ungrim Ironfist on a massive fire-lizard, but no, they resurrect the Everqueen who does virtually nothing in 8th Edition. In fact she is a pretty bad, minor character in Warhammer Fantasy who really deserved to be forgotten.

 

Sort of a middle ground here.

Revenants are armored infantry.

Mummies are mummies

Tomb guard are armored skeletons, but so could conceivably any armored skeleton warrior.

Hence my using old metal STYLE tomb guard as revenants and the new ones with the wacky halo helmets/skullcaps as mummies

The army set is good otherwise. And mantics mummies, while not the greatest nor the best themed, do have charm and a use.

 

Why are we talking current 40k armies in a lost armies of fantasy thread?

 

Because we didn't get the "free for all talk about other armies" forum, so this will do

In other news, I wouldn't mind a TK army, they've got some cool looking models for sure. It's sad they're lost to the ages...

 

They are not truly lost, if you know where to look

 

You can get them easily from a recaster, but the few recasts I've got my hands on are far below GW quality.

 

Depends on the caster. The stuff I've gotten is middle ground to good. Which for being OOP,I'll take.

 

I agree.

So about the dwarf thing, I quite like the magmadroth, if only for conversion potential.

I agree not seeing true dwarves (dispossessed?) Is disheartening, as the longbeard kit is wicked awesome