My Year with Chaos is... slow.

 Well, here we are, valentines day 2014. My Year of Chaos is well into the second month. And what has happened?

Well, one unit is complete. And another is started. So, in my terms, the speed has been glacially slow.

Basically, I've stripped the paint from my old 6th edition plastic chaos warrior units, rebuilt and repainted them with a few additions. I had two units - one of 12 with halberds and shields, and one of 16 chosen with hand weapons and shields. By combining them with some extras gleaned from The Lot, I now have 33 old school chaos wasrriors with halberds and shields. Although I have not attached shields yet, and plan to free-hand them and the banner soon.

The full and glorious might of TWELVE WHOLE CHAOS WARRIORS! Ah, the heady days of four-to-a-rank...

And the huge and imposing bulk of SIXTEEN COMPLETE CHOSEN! Fear their might! Fear it I say! 

I picked up a free plague bearer at GW one day back around 2002 when I was building this unit, so his head ended up on the champion. His body is on a trooper. I used zombie and skeleton spares to make more warriors, expanding the twelve in the box to sixteen.

Gad! Other angles! Note the solid colours without even drybrushed highlighting.

Yes, those ARE Genestealer legs on the standard bearer. And he's happy to see you too.

A mighty claw! The champ has a claw from an old metal Tyranid Tyrant Guard figure. I wanted the shield for a lord, but it turned out to be far too big.

 And now...

The freshly repainted unit of THIRTY THREE CHAOS MEN! That's more warriors than my whole first army! That's almost more figures than my whole first army! (12 warriors, 16 chosen, 16 marauders, three characters, 5 knights, and a chariot as I recall... added some dogs later.)

The banner will come soon.

Fnaaarr! I am a large angry man with a plague bearer's head! Fnaaar!

Further painted pictures...

And these are the first ten of my new Ungor. The models are from Eureka Miniatures' awesome new Hawkmoon range. The shields will be free-handed. I have 27 of these guys...

2014: The Year of Chaos

You may recall in 2012, Greg 'The Hoodling' Johnson popped out of his hole, and said "I declare this the Year Of The Empire!" before seeing his shadow and popping back in, dooming us to six more weeks of winter (only he did this in Australia, so it was summer...) As a result of this dedicated YOTE, Greg's purple and white legions grew to enormous sizes and allowed for such moments of inspired madness as The Battle of Hel Fenn.
So I've decided to do the same thing, by declaring 2014 the Year Of Chaos!
What does this strange madness mean?

• I'm going to concentrate on painting things for my Chaos armies.
• By the end of the year, I will have armies painted for all four powers.
• By the end of the year, I will have built shrines to all four powers and Chaos Undivided.
• I will build more 'realms of chaos' style terrain.
• I will (finally!) get the Gates of Kislev done.

Okay, so I already have an extensive Chaos army (about 9000 points of raw figures without magic items, however, I have four different BSBs, so the actual army which can be made is smaller than that). The existing units are roughly split between Khorne and Nurgle. I started playing Nurgle when I first started playing 6th ed Warhammer, so I actually have some old units which don't really fit the army's more modern look. These are being refurbished. The Khorne stuff is more recent, but I have got roughly as many servants of the blood god as the plague brethren. 

This means I need to get units for Tzeentch and Slaanesh. I've already got some figures slated for Slaaneshi purposes. Because I don't think Slaaneshi units would wear the big, heavy, bulky style of chaos armour that the Chaos Warrior figures wear, I'm going to be using converted Dark Eldar heavily in the Slaaneshi army.

"Incubi - I Choose You!" - Slaanesh proves to be a Pokemon fan.

I've also got plans for the Tzeentch army. I like the idea of all the Tzeentch troops looking a bit wizardly, so I'm planning on using Mantic Basileans with some conversion work for this army.

Robes AND heavy armouor? How Tzeentchi can you get?

The Beastmen, who currently number only 1500 points, will be expanded upon. I have quite a few unpainted figures for them, which I will get to in due course.

One day my extra arms will come. And I will sprout a bull's head. And be a Ghorgon.

As to the terrain pledge; I already have the Palace of Forbidden Pleassures (Slaanesh) the Blighted Altar (Nurgle) and the Levitating Altar (Tzeentch), so I need to build a Bloody Shrine (Khorne) and an Undivided Temple. I also plan to make some terrain which will support these shrines.

This does not mean I will build nothing but Chaos terrain this year - I'll have commissions to do, and other projects will crop up. However, by the end of the year, I will have these shrines. And naturally, I will need to get the Gates of Kislev built for the mighty battle of the Gates of Kislev which Greg 'The Hoodling' Johnson keeps threatening - we're pretty sure we'll be running it around Easter this year! Huzzah!

This is the pic of the battle from the WFB rule book. Ours will be more awesome.

Also watch out for the possibility of rather... large battle reports involving Greg's Enourmous Empire and my Massed Hordes of Chaos. I only play two sizes of Warhammer - comically small (The World Series) and comically large (10,000 points anyone?)

Fig. 1: The Massed Hordes of Chaos (with Skaven guests)

Fig. 2: Greg's Enourmous Empire (aka: the enemy)