The Undead legions are amassing!

Hey all! Buckets Of Brains! is back and I've got really cool new toys to show you. I'm nearly at around 2000 points before any upgrades now and if all my units are taken at maximum size. I'll probably be getting 60 more zombies (40 zombies and 20 ghouls) as well as A horde of skeleton spears and then settle down for a bit and paint the undead masses.

First off, my Mounted vampire lord. This guy is from GW and his pretty incredible as well as being a solid staple in an Undead Armies List. His sword was bent way backwards but with some warm water he was able to be saved.

Next up my Liche King, again from the GW range. this is pretty perfect for what I imagined a Liche King to look like so I'm super happy with the model. 

Next up is my Cursed Pharoah, now with this guy I wasn't sure what I imagined. When i saw this model I just thought - Yes! This is what I want for him, adorned in armor and ready to smash through long ears or short legs.

I also managed to make up my 2 troops of Revenant Cavarly, these guys look really nice but sadly the spears are somewhat bendy, though with a little force they will bend back. The models are full of character however and the horses are great steeds.

And here it is all so far! I literally only have 10 skeleton archers left and that is it all made up! I now have..

Mounted Vampire Lord
Liche King
Necromancer
Cursed Pharoah
40 Zombies
40 Revenant Infantry
20 Skeleton Archers 
10 Soul Reaver Cavarly
10 Revenant Cavarly
6 Werewolves
2 Balefire Catapults

My next purchases will be 60 more zombies and a horde Skeleton Spear men, then I'm done for a long time and It's time to start painting my Skorne for the Welsh Nationals! I'm planning on running a KoW event Colchester, Essex UK at 4tk gaming in late April which should be really good. 

Thanks for tuning in, I'm going to try and get some 1500-2000 point battle reports in along the line.

What are you guys doing hobby wise, how's your collection going? Drop me a comment to let me know!

Brains (Or lack of them) over Braum! Undead Armies face off against the brutal Ogre Armies.

Hey guys Buckets Of Brains! Is back baby and I'm pretty excited to throw down my first battle report for you. Now, it's only around 900 points and this is my 7th game and my friends first. None the less, it was a great game and I'm loving the game more and more, I have a solid grasp of the rules and I'm so excited to play some larger 1500-2000 point games.

My Undead Armies for this battle was :

Zombies - Horde
Revenant Infantry - Horde
Werewolves - Regiment
Soul Reaver Cavarly - Troop 
Liche King - Hero
Balefire Catapult - War Engine

Ogre Armies brang:

Ogre Warriors - Horde
Siege Breakers - Regiment
Shooters - Regiment
Warlord /w Two handed weapon instead of shield - Hero
Captian /w Heavy Crossbow  - Hero
Warlock /w Fireball - Hero

I won't go into any great detail for lists as well, this is what I have built bar 5 more Soul Reaver Cavarly 1 more Balefire Catapult, 3 more Werewolves and 10 Skeleton Archers. I simply made my list to my opponent points and tried to bring a little of everything. My good friend chose what he did as it's simply what he had painted. We played the kill scenario with minimal scenery as we're getting our head around the rules.

Here is the deployment, Martyn won the roll, chose his side and put down his horde of Warriors in the center of the table. I knew that if I funneled all my forces into the middle of the board I would simply be out muscled. I decided to throw the two hordes in the middle and the fast movers out on the flank, with the Balefire Catapult behind the hordes. The Liche King sat behind the horde of zombies and was within inspiring range of both hordes. Martyns army from left to right is - Shooters, Captian /w Heavy crossbow, Ogre Warriors, Warlock, Siege Breakers and lastly the Warlord on the right to contest the Werewolves. Mine from left to right is Soul Reaver Cavarly, Revenant Infantry, Zombies, Liche king behind, Balefire Catapult behind, Werewolves on the far right flank.

Turn 1 for the ogres saw the Warriors / Siege breakers make there way for the middle, the Warlord took an advance and pivoted, and the Shooters / Captain stood still. The warlock advanced to be within 24" for some lightning bolt goodness. The Shooters / Captain shot the Soul Reavers, doing a combined damage of only 1 wound and no wavering result was rolled. The lightning bolt managed to miss all 3 times sadly.

Undead turn 1! The werewolves on the right flank went a straight on the double and took there pivot due to being nimble right at the end in which I was hoping to clear the arc of sight of the Warlord, which i did not by a big margin! The Soul Reavers took a on the double on the left flank, meaning any further shooting would either be hindered completely or at least claim cover from the those nasty shooting units. The main bulks advanced, I left both units within 12" of the Warriors, knowing if one didn't crack it would be sad times for the Warriors. The Liche King advanced to retain his Inspiring on both units. The Balefire Catapult took a shot into those darn Shooters and missed.




























Ogre Armies Turn 2, we talked the charge out between us. The warriors had 18 attacks at melee 3+ with CS1. Meaning with a spike of good rolls the zombies could reasonably be within rout range after the combat. The Warriors did take the charge into the zombies, the Siege breakers took a move to threaten the Zombies if not routed. The Shooter and Captain stood still and looked down there barrels at my Revenant Infantry. Martyn was hoping between the fireball from the Warlock, and combined arms shooting from both the Shooters and Captain a big dent would be made into the Revenant Infantry. I think in total the unit suffered 7 wounds, but being -/20 a roll could not be made.
 




The Warlord took the charge into the Werewolves and yes Martyn is a commission painter and his stuff is of  the highest caliber, here's a great action shot of the warlord smashing into the Werewolf regiment. The combats were rolled and Martyn did 10 damage to the zombie horde, his initial roll of 11 on the nerve would of routed, the re roll from inspiring was sadly not enough and the Zombie horde were steady. The Warlord fluffed his rolls and only did 2 damage to the Werewolf unit, with them being 12/14 they were also steady.





Here is the scene at the end of Undead Armies turn 2. The Werewolves counter charged the Warlord, the Soul Reavers couldn't quite make it into contact with the flank of the Shooter regiment with one pivot. They took a 4" advanced, pivoted and advanced 4" more to have a guaranteed flank on the Shooters unless they moved. The Zombie horde counter charged the Warriors and the Revenant Infantry charged the flank. The Liche King threw a Bane Chant on the Revenant Infantry and succeeded. The Balefire shot at the shooters and again missed.  In the melees the Werewolves did 3 damage, lifeleeched 1 back and did not waver / rout the Warlord. The warrior unit were routed with both my units getting 1 wound back via lifeleech. My Revenant Infantry took a change facing, and my Zombies moved D6 back rolling a 1.





Ogre Turn 3! The Siege Breakers slammed into the Zombie Regiment, The Warlord counter Charged the Werewolves and the Warlock, Shooters and Captian all opened up into the Revenant Infantry. The Revenants being DE5, paired with Ogres RA5 meant they only took 5 more damage putting them on 11. Being -/20 they stayed, the Warlord did 3 more to my Werewolves putting them on 4 damage. Needing a 8 to waver and a 10 to rout they were steady.





Undead Turn 3, The Soul Reavers got the flank into the Shooters. The Werewolves counter charged the Warlord and the Revenant Infantry received a change facing order. In the shooting phase my Liche King cast his Surge (12) onto the Revenants which pushed them into melee and this a successful charge into the Siege Breakers. The Werewolves did 4, Lifeleeched 1 and didn't rout or waver the Warlord. The shooters were routed and with some incredible rolling the Siege Breakers were routed. I'm sure the Balefire Catapult shot something, but missed.





Ogre turn 4, this picture is a little out of Sync, as Martyn forgot to move his Captain which we did after the photo was taken. The Captain was marched out of arc of sight of both my units, the Werewolves were finished by the Warlord and he changed his facing. The Warlock threw a fireball into the Revenant Infantry, looking for a 10 to rout them within my inspiring they were steady.





Undead Armies turn 4, with a surge into the Captains flank and my Soul Reavers going into the flank of the Warlock, both heroes were routed my turn 4 and only the Warlord was left. He made a last stand into the Soul Reavers but was ultimately cut down by the pack of Vampires.

In the end it was a victory for the Undead Armies! It was a great game as all games are against Martyn. We had a good laugh and he got a grasp on the rule set right off the bat.

Thank you for turning in guys, and I hope you enjoyed it. The blog will feature a 1500 point game against Ratkin very soon so stay tuned! 

The Ogres are coming!

Hey guys! Buckets Of Brains! Is back and showing off some progress from Harlow Games club slow grow league. We kick off at 750 and week by week grow to 2k, with a different scenario and increasing point limit each week. I've just finished 10 of my 20 skeleton archers, only leaving me 10 Revenant Cavalry, Cursed Pharoah, Liche king and Mounted vampire lord to make!

This post will be showing my good friends Martyn Foster progress on his ogres because boy, they're beautiful. He is a commission painter and all of his stuff looks amazing so he deserves the spotlight. Lets take a look!

First off his unit of shooters, I love the OSL lighting on the models and the rust effects on the the guns, I dislike being shot by them.

Next up his wizard, this was a butcher from the WFB range but we think it's appropriate for his wizard which again, looks the balls!

Next up I mean.. just wow look at these guys. The model in front center will be Martyns Warlord model and is breathtaking in detail, and behind are his ogre warriors which are equally stunning.

Last but by no means least, siege breakers and his captian. Again these models are full of detail, stunning basing and rich tones.

That's it for this installment, but coming up soon is battle reports, lots of them! I nearly have 3k of Undead Armies made up, so it's time to start putting brush to model as well cracking out some 2k games.

Thanks for reading guys and drop me a comment on what you're currently working on!

I got me some reinforcements!

Hey guys I hope you're all well! I'm back with some more undead ghoulies for my Undead Armies force.

Quick note, CanCon has hit us and it's over. With the recent discussion on the forums with Undead Armies and Elf Armies being under the spot light this is huge information for the rules comitte, and It's great to see big events being run for Kings of War. It's really exploding at the moment and I cannot wait to get my teeth into the tournament scene.

I got my second box of Soul Reaver Cavarly and was very eager to make them. This models are simply gorgeous, Ive made 5 with capes and 5 without for a few reasons. The main for me, is vampires are in my eyes beings of huge power. One vampire could cut down a hundred men, the idea of a "pack" or "group" of vampires hunting seems odd to me. I more like the idea of a pack of single vampires have joined together for a mass battle, so I'm hoping the non uniformity gets this across. Secondly, if I do want to run 2 troops rather then 1 regiment they will be easily distinguishable

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Next up are my Balefire Catapults, I've fallen for these guys pretty hard and I plan to get a third pretty soon. These guys destroy stuff when the hit and Indirect Fire is the rule to have for war-engines. I'm a big big fan of these guys and very glad to have got them made.

That's it for this installment and thank you very much for reading. Drop me a comment on what you're working, how's it going or are you attending any events soon?

Braaaainsssss!!

Hello guys welcome back to Buckets Of Brains!

I've made a little more progress on my army, I managed to make a dent in my 40 zombies before heading off to my local games club tonight.

Here they are, I really like these guys. I think with the mutli-posing opportunity they're a really great kit if you're looking for zombies as well as reasonably priced. I also took a group of my collection of ghoulish goodness so far.

Here we go, I'm collecting the rest of my 2000 point list tomorrow which I cannot wait for. Once the models are up and running I'm going to get some battle reports going down for sure.

Thanks for tuning in, please drop a comment on how your army is going so far and what's your plans for it!

Braaainsss.... no wait! Wrong unit, I'm back with some skeletons with armor!

Hey all Buckets Of Brains is back and I've made some more progress with my army, this time featuring some Revenant Infantry. My list will feature a horde of these guys and I'm waiting for my next 20 to arrive. I love these guys, they're full of character with a whole TON of options to customize what you want from them. Enough typing, here's the photos of the 20!



These guys are awesomeeeeee! What are you guys currently working on, what's your favorite unit?

Thank you for the read and drop a comment below!

A necromancer, some werewolves and soul reaver cavarly walk into a bar...

Hey guys! I'm back and I've managed to make some models, sadly I'm still waiting on half of my army to arrive, but I've got the first half and last night I managed to crack on and make some models so I thought I'd share with you what I made.



So first off is this guy, I ordered a regular necromancer through my local mantic crack, sorry model dealer and through a bit of confusion and mis-understanding I got this guy. He looks rad, so I just built him.



He looks awesome, he will be my necro mancer for my list. For my Liche King, I'm going to get my self a Sauron the Necromancer model from games workshop. I think he's fittingly evil, undead and has a great dynamic pose.


Next up I made 3 werewolves and here they are, fangs and all.


Well these guys, I'm not super sold on. There limbs are rather long for the body of the model and there posing leaves a lot be desired. In a box of 3 they pretty much have to made like this and even the joins on the arms to the body don't look as flush and as clean cut as they could be. I'm not super fussy however and with a lick of paint and a decent base they will be tearing up the table top in no time. In my list I'll be using a horde of these so I have 3 more to come, ready to hunt down any silly range unit that thinks shooting is the correct thing to do. They will meet a swift end, werewolf justice style.


Now onto some properly amazing models. The soul reaver cavarly




Not enough good things can be said about these models, full on beautiful. Full of detail, full of character and when put into context of blood knights (61.50 for 5 from GW) these are ridiculously good value. I'm fallen in love with these guys and cannot wait to paint them! Again in the list I'll be using a regiment of them so I have 5 more to come and my little undead self could not be happier with the product.

That's all I've made so far, but how are you doing with your hobby? What's your current project, what other ranges are you using apart from mantic or what's your plans / hobby goals for the year?

Thank you for reading and drop a comment below!