What's that coming over the hill?

 

This is definitely a *proper* monster!

NAIS-DAKKA 100: Nurgle Daemons vs Orks

It's been a while since we've published a 40k batrep on the blog, but Kraken and I (Pootle) are back to write up the story of a game we've just played: Nurgle Daemons taking on Orks.

Plaguebearers: Here They Grow Again

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

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me: Nurgle Daemons vs Chaos Space Marines

Pootle here, with an encounter between my Nurgle Daemons and Chaos Space Marines, remotely piloted tonight by Stylus (hello!)

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...

Here There Be Daemons

Reader, I've been neglectful of you, but that ends here.

Here comes a cavalcade of painting updates!

Armies on parade

Pootle here! Stylus has been gently suggesting I update my army pages, partly so that when I host a game over Skype my opposing general can see what models he can choose from, but mostly so he can get a look at what I've been up to as I'm not at all as assiduous in posting pics of all the miniatures I paint as he and Kraken are. So here's a quick summary and links to each of my armies where I’ve got pics of (almost) everything I’ve painted.

Death & Decay in the Wild West: Nurgle Daemons vs Ad Mech and Astra Militarum

Pootle here, reporting on two games I played at the DZTV Wild West event at Firestorm Games in Cardiff last weekend. 

Daemons - they're Grrreat!: Crypt Saints vs Chaos Daemons

Their past catches up with them, as the Crypt Saints need to conquer their daemons once again...

A Little Fight Music: Chaos Daemons vs Adeptus Mechanicus

The sluice-gates of the Immaterium burst open, but will reality bite back?

Chaos Daemons vs Adeptus Mechanicus!

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. 

Skypehammer Round 9: Unto The Breach

This is the penultimate battle of the campaign, and in the tradition of building to a crescendo, we're going to be playing doubles!

The Purge & Nurgle Daemons vs Thousand Sons & The Scourged!

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!

Poxy Music: the rest of the Second Law warband

I bought the Start Collecting Nurgle Daemons set shortly after playing Kraken on Skype last summer, but I've not got round to painting them apart from this Poxbringer however, who I've used a couple of times to lead an Outrider detachment of Furies. His skin is Zandri Dust with washes of Nuln Oil, Agrax Earthshade and Seraphim Sepia (because that works so well on my Plague Marines). Horns, claws and innards are Rakarth Flesh with the same washes (the insides then get Carroburg Crimson). I then dabbed on small amounts of Red Ink to show open wounds.