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So with the Undead Legions breathing new life into Vampire Counts and most especially Tomb Kings, we should expect to see more undead gracing (haunting?) our tabletops.

Me, I've got about 3000pts of Tomb Kings in various stages of assembly, and I'm trying to think about the possibilities of getting some VC models in to supplement this force. Now obviously... it'd be cool if they could all look the same, and this got me thinking.


What are some conversion possibilities?
Taking VC units and making them look more Khemri. Or even taking some TK units and making them look more Sylvanian. Lets get some ideas going!



Here's one to start things off...

Corpse Cart: Liche Priest mounted on a chariot platform, being pulled or even borne aloft by an 'honor guard' of skeleton warriors.

Winged Utshabti for Vargheists.

Seeing as the Vampire from Lustria brought his fleet over to Khemri in service to Nagash, I'm using this opportunity to resurrect (no pun intended) my long sold off or cannabalized(again not intended) Zombie Pirate Army.

Skull Catapults will be cannons, archers will be musket carrying Zombies or Skellies, ushabti will be undead ogre crewman, and my mind is abuzz with a flying rowboat or some such to serve as the Coven Throne/Mortis engine, and undead sea creatures to serve as some monsters.

Hope to begin next weekend, until then I'll be raiding my bitz box to get prepped.

I have a 'Barrow Kings' Undead army I started putting together a few years ago; the intention, if I ever played with it, was to use TK rules to represent a force of Undead from the Border Kingdoms. However, it could work with this 'Undead Legion' list too.

I used a few models from other sources (e.g. Otherworld Miniatures, as well as Helldorado's Wormpile for Prince Apophas, and some Mirliton models for a Bone Giant and undead mammoth). I have Skeleton Archers using the VC skeletons with TK archer arms. I think it works well.

No pictures, I'm afraid.

 Magos Explorator wrote:
I have a 'Barrow Kings' Undead army I started putting together a few years ago; the intention, if I ever played with it, was to use TK rules to represent a force of Undead from the Border Kingdoms. However, it could work with this 'Undead Legion' list too.

I used a few models from other sources (e.g. Otherworld Miniatures, as well as Helldorado's Wormpile for Prince Apophas, and some Mirliton models for a Bone Giant and undead mammoth). I have Skeleton Archers using the VC skeletons with TK archer arms. I think it works well.

No pictures, I'm afraid.

I've wanted to do a Barrow Kings list for years and this is the perfect time to do it.

I'm currently doing some Bitz hunting to make a "Tomb King" on a chariot but I'm taking alot of inspiration from the new Arkhan The Black model as well as the Nagash model itself. I love the combination of VC and TK elements with even a little DE thrown in.

So far I'm planning on using one of the VC GG heads with the crest with a Black Knight yelling skull and the egyptian beard from the TG mask. The armored curiass from a VC skele with the TK neck guard and a collar from the Empire Wizard. He'll have GG shoulder guards and the twin capes from the chaos sorcerer lord on Manticore. His upper arms will be from a DE kabalite warrior with lower arms from a tomb guard. His upper legs will be from a skaven Stormvermin and his lower legs will be from a tomb guard.

For his chariot I'm thinking about using a TK chariot as the basis with some coven throne elements thrown in for the side railing and some spirits flying around. There will be 2 cauldron of blood braziers on the back of the chariot, I came up with an idea I really like of having 2 partial skeletons (from the coven throne) bound to the side of the chariot but instead of being decoration they're reanimated and can attack. For the horses I want to use TK steeds with Black Knight Barding.

I also am working ideas for a catapult that uses tomb stones as a counter weight, a black coach represented as some form of chariot with an imprisoned vampire (form of punishment created by Nagash) and a casket of souls represented as a sacrificial alter.

Also in the Nagash novels Nagash created giant construct scarabs from bone, wood and stone in an imitation of those created in Khemri. Could be a good alternate for a Tomb Scorpion.

Its an exciting time for undead players! Endless conversion opportunities have arisen.

zombies converted to be mummies, perhaps? Mummies ae basically zombies anyway.

crypt horror rules used for giant composite mummies, fused, mummified remains of various animals and people?

bat swarms for scarab or locust swarms? Yeah scarabs don't fly, but the bat swarm rules don't account for flying anyway, beyond speed iirc.

spirit hosts rules used for djinn or dust devils or malevolent, sentient sandstorms?