It’s been a while since my last post, but that is not to say
that I haven’t been hobbying.
To be fair
I’ve done quite a lot of painting recently and this article will simply be a
showcase of the Khador stuff I’ve recently completed.
For some unknown reason I found a burning desire to get back
into the Khador after quite some time without fielding the my red army. I knew that I had a couple of small coming up,
the recent Bridgeford Bloodshed 2 and the imminent Frontlines 3. I intended to get the armies fully painted
for both of these events, but fell short of the painting mark for the former,
so took the Menoth to that. I actually
did quite well at BB2, coming fourth – which was exactly where I came at the
last one! I went 3-1 on the day, the
second through to fifth places (possibly beyond) were sorted via SoS, so not a lot I
could do to better myself, other than to have won all four! Superb event and looking forward to the next one :-)
So, the Khador; I decided to build a new list and went for
Irusk2, I had played him a bit acouple of years back but decided to try him out again with
the following list:
Irusk2
*Spriggan (bonded)
10 Iron Fang Pikemen
with Black Dragon UA
5 Man-O-War Shocktroopers
10 Nyss Hunters with Valachev
Winter Guard Mortar Crew
Great Bears of Gallowswood
Man-O-War Drakhun
Iron Fang Kovnik
The second list was a copy of my 35 point Irusk1 list with
the addition of the Iron Fang Kovnik and Saxon Orrik. It isn't exactly the best pairing with Irusk2 as they both answer and pose the same questions, but it does let me field the mighty Konquest, which is all good. I’ll focus on the Irusk2 list as this was
what the project was all about to be honest.
The list has changed a bit, initially there were two mortars with the
idea of cycling the Fire for Effect
spell, having two fully boosted mortar shots per turn, I had Widowmakers and
Kell Bailoch too, but the Drakhun and Great Bears found their way in, the Drakhun for speed and the Bears because, well they're great! It is fairly balanced with some decent melee output as well as ranged threat, I do however think the lists will get raped by the current meta power casters such as Haley2, Morvanah2, Vayl2 and Lich2, the less powerful ones will probably bone these lists too!
I will be fielding the two fully painted lists in a week or
so at Frontlines 3, I’ve been drawn against Jamie P, who is arguably the best
player in the UK and winning Templecon Masters with Khador, so my chances aren’t
that great to be honest!!! But what the
hell, I’m looking forwards to pushing my models around the table and having a
bit of a laugh – considering the field of players and the army lists that have
been submitted mine look like the worst there, practically friendly, so
anything other than last place will be a bonus ;-)
Below are the photos of the recently painted Khador stuff for the two lists (mainly the Irusk2 list):
As I noted above the basing was a key element in the project
and I wanted to do a blasted urban scheme, like in the faction book artwork; I
wanted to incorporate rusted metal girders, broken pipes, razor wire and
standing dirty water. I wanted to give
my models some height too so I envisaged the bases being considerably higher
than other models I’ve previously based.
Below are a couple of snaps of the work in progress large bases, I used
various off cut plasticard girders, some GW bitzbox bits and slate for the
interesting elements of the base. For
the rubble itself I used a coarse-grade railway ballast mixed into a thick
paste with PVA, this made the ‘clumps’ I was after.
