Mutter wrote:And Titan Forge have some cool Nurgle beasts and a great Nurgle daemon prince.
+1 for
Titan Forge for heralds, beasts and drones 'counts as' models. As for your
GUO, you have a ton of options, given all the companies that have made straight up Great Plague Demon models to sub in, and then all the other generic big plague demons from Reaper, Heresy, and all those other
RPG fantasy mini lines.
When it comes to actual plague bearers, I think you're best off grabbing a load of plastic plague bearers at a discount somewhere - great models, and the price isn't
that bad compared to other options, when you consider you need a lot of them, with some amount of variation being preferable.
Korinov wrote:For proxies you can actually use anything you may want
Worth pointing out. "Proxy" means you're just using whatever to temporarily stand in for a unit's rules - the famous example is using a Coke can as a Carnifex in
40k. In Fantasy, the base is really the only important thing (and to some extent the height / volume of the 'legitimate' model), so you could just use blank bases of the same size if you had to, or anything attached to those bases to tell apart.
"Counts As" on the other hand suggests you've chosen models that you like / can afford with the intent of better representing the units on the table. Hence what you're asking about here, looking for models that look like or approximate the feel of the official models, at a lower price - or ideally that you like the look of better. Counts As armies are most often built to be cooler / more unique than armies with standard models. I know I have Counts As armies that cost quite a bit more than the GeeDub version!
A way you can save money on regiments in Fantasy, while making them look cooler as well, is to use unit fillers, which involve replacing a number of rank and file models with a larger base with something thematic on it. Many use terrain - like a tree poking up in a wood elf unit - some have dioramas - orcs squabbling in the rear ranks - and others use 'big guys' stomping along with the normal unit dudes - a chaos ogre in a unit of marauders. These models have no effect on the game at all, they simply take up the space of how ever many bases of normal dudes would have been there - hence why you'll want to use unit fillers that fit on a space that is a multiple of your standard base size. In the case of plaguebearers, you'd be looking at like a 50x50 in each unit, saving you 4 legit bearer models per unit, while breaking them up and adding some flavor in the process.
Of course unit fillers can go too far, like when you've got a 100x150 base with a smattering of 25mm troopers around it. These do save a ton of money ... but it can also become hard to remove casualties, as well as look pretty cheap
You can find a lot of examples by Googling "warhammer unit filler."
- Salvage
