What's that coming over the hill?

 

This is definitely a *proper* monster!

Saint Sickolas

If you have one primarch, you have a centrepiece model. If you have two primarchs, you have an incomplete collection...

So I guess this was always going to happen.

Plaguebearers: Here They Grow Again

 If you'd asked me what daemons were next to paint, I wouldn't have thought Plaguebearers...

Foul Spray

I enjoy painting Death Guard so much, I really must try it when I don't have a deadline looming over me.

The Blob

 

My Nurgle Daemon army has always been something of a sideshow to my other Nurgle-based lists. But now it's got a proper leader...

A Deep Scythe of Resignation

I've been remiss with updates since the start of the year, but rest assured, the paint train never stops rolling!

It just doesn't go very fast.

A New Term At Woffwarts

 Don't bother with the Sorting Hat: they're all wrong 'uns!

Black Death

The Plague Marines join my Black Legion!

You can blame Aaron Dembski-Bowden for this.

Tactorkal Objectives: Orks vs Death Guard

The Evil Sunz Waaagh! hit the immovable object of a Death Guard armoured patrol.

Who will survive this maelstrom of war?

Oh Come All Ye Unfaithful: The Purge vs The Scourged

More civil war among the heretics - this time, the forces of Nurgle take on the might of Tzeentch.

The Purge vs The Scourged!

Wots Dat Smell: 9th Edition - Orks vs Nurgle Daemons

Ninth Ed!

As the new era dawns, Orks are attempting to get a foothold in the ruins of an imperial refinery. Plenty of good scrap there, but something has already infested the septic tanks. Have the greenskins bitten into a rotten apple?

Quit your Jibber Jabberslythe

In my first Skype battle I fielded Nurgle daemons against Kraken's Tyrannids. I experimented with a Giant Chaos Spawn as I loved the look of all the random rolls and it was indeed great fun to use.

Escape to Reality: Thousand Sons vs Chaos Daemons

The Hunt for Ahriman campaign concludes tonight! Does that slippery little Exile have one more trick up his sleeve?

Free!

Ahriman fell into a spiralling hell of colour and noise as he fell through the warp rift. For several seconds, neither time nor space had meaning. Everything was mutable - distance, physics, his own identity, the eventual destiny of the galaxy, everything. 

But he had been here before. Giving into this malleability would make everything that came before meaningless. A few hastily spoken wards stabilised him as he needed himself, and allowed a moment of reflection. 

Merely by having a will to express, he was already shaping the warpstuff around him. Whatever its true form, it was focussing itself into locations, physical places that his mind could understand. Fragments of a broken empire, hanging in space. Much like the reality he knew lay beyond, and also like that, his for the taking. No, that temptation wasn't worth giving in to. He had too much staked in reality. Hurriedly, he moved on.

As he moved, he searched. And before long, he found what he was looking for - a way out. A hanging oval, spinning around a point disconcertingly off-centre, with a hazy vista of broken rock and asphalt barely visible. Whatever benighted planet it was on, it would be safer than here. 

Moving towards it, he could hear the hoots and shrieks that justified his haste. He was not alone. Perhaps some of the denizens of the warp would serve him, for a time. But not all would be aligned with his goals, nor his expressed allegiance. 

Time to escape. 

A Fistful of Buboes

I said that last battle report had inspired me to paint some Death Guard!

Cryptics have a Cross Word with Guardians: Death Guard vs Chaos Space Marines

The Second Law vs the Crypt Angels

Once again I arranged a 2,000 point non-Skype battle but have been denied by Force Majeure. Last time it was Storm Ciara; now it's Covid-19. Neither Kasfunatu nor I have symptoms, but we both agreed it's sensible to fight remotely given that we can.

Nurgle's diseases keep people away
Not to be beaten, it's all-Skype fight day!

Blood On The Snow: Space Wolves vs The Purge

The Vlka Fenrika are back! 

And this time, they've got a proper Wolf Lord to lead them.

The Green Zone: Mantis Warriors vs Purge and Nurgle Daemons

Time for a fight! Pootle has a new table to show off, and I'm happy to oblige by attempting to wipe him off it!

Unusual battle cries #17: "You don't stand a chance: I've got two different base colours on me; neither of you are even undercoated!"

Three colours? Not quite!
But it's still Skype Fight Night!

Nameless vs Soulless: Chaos Daemons vs Necrons

Release the Neverborn!

It's new army time all round - I finally get to take my Chaos Daemons for a spin, and they'll be pitted against local opponent Rapid's shiny new Necrons (only sixty million years on the clock).

The Lost and the Damned: Death Guard vs Thousand Sons

We've had this in the calendar for months. We had a table booked at Bristol Independent Gaming. But then Storm Ciara arrived and disrupted our travel plans.

Not to be beaten by mere weather, Stylus volunteered to host a Skype battle, so the forces of Pootle's Nurgle Warband, The Second Law, could fight Stylus's Thousand Sons: the Court of Miracles.

The storm shan't stop our play: it's all-Skype fight day!

Purge and Unpurify

One gap for the Death Guard is a lack of long-range firepower. So the obvious solution was to sort out a supporting detachment of Havocs and, when Shadowspear dropped, Obliterators and a Venomcrawler seemed like a good way to complete a Spearhead Detachment.

I wanted to keep an entirely Nurgle-aligned army so, despite the temptation of Slaaneshi shooting-twice stratagems, I chose to paint these guys up as The Purge (partly because their trait of rerolling hits once a target has been wounded is pretty good too).