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"Nightstalkers: An odd list in that there aren't really any major miniature lines to represent it. Spooky and strange creatures that resemble Eldrazi and pumpkin monsters in the art."
"Nightstalkers: An odd list in that there aren't really any major miniature lines to represent it. Spooky and strange creatures that resemble Eldrazi and pumpkin monsters in the art."
Aaannnd now my head is picturing an army based on Nightmare Before Christmas....
The Auld Grump - Boys and girls of very age, wouldn't you like to see something strange....
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
RAFM makes scarecrows and ghosts, as well as other odd monsters in their Call of Cthulhu line. No doubt Reaper has something, because Reaper has everything.
Painting total as of 3429/2024: 56 plus a Deva King statue
Painting total as of 12/31/2024: 107 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain and two walkers and a quad mech and five giants
nullBolt wrote: "Nightstalkers: An odd list in that there aren't really any major miniature lines to represent it. Spooky and strange creatures that resemble Eldrazi and pumpkin monsters in the art."
Man, I'm all about some pumpkin-headed monstrosities
To that end, Anvil Industry makes a sprue of Pumpkin Heads, and Reaper has a pretty well-loved pack of Jack O'Lanterns & Pumpkins, as well as Rotpatch, maybe the coolest golem ever. While searching for those Anvil heads I stumbled across Blood Beast's various Halloween one-offs, and damn they're awesome: http://bloodybeast.com/tag/halloween/
Addendum: I am even more excited for Uncharted Empires now
- Salvage
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After hearing about the "Dopplegangers" unit on the 4-ft-snake Podcast today I immediately started prepping some translucent gelatinous cubes from DnD on multi-bases. :-p
There's a Mythos expansion pack and a certain black goat coming with Bones 3 that would fit this army.
A demonic army based around, say, a dark god who says "just as planned" a lot, would also work well, probably better than trying to wedge the same demons into the more burn and stab Abyssal list.
So, the book is out... what are the Nightstalkers like?
The Auld Grump, waiting on his order in the mail....
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
From my reading of the background, they are manifestations of fear and other negative emotions, so they can really look like just about anything. The outlines in the book look a little 'nid-ish but with horror elements like hoods and cleavers, though it could just be the Cthulhu influence.
One art piece shows an ambulatory scarecrow with a pumpkin head though, and that is an entire unit (scarecrows). So it's pretty wide open.
Cool army concept though. And nicely distinct from the Abyssals.
Having now got my book and read up on the night-stalkers I have a very definite use lined up for all the stuff that will eventually be coming my way from the 7 Sins kickstarter
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't
'Are those... clowns?'
'Hey, clowns are scary! '... And the My Little Pony figures?'
'Scaaarrryyy!'
The Auld Grump
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
Painting total as of 3429/2024: 56 plus a Deva King statue
Painting total as of 12/31/2024: 107 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain and two walkers and a quad mech and five giants
Got my copy of Uncharted Empires yesterday. My Undead are begging for some of these guys as allies. If I can get to a point where I can add and all-conversion force to my pile of miniatures projects, that is...
I like the spider-demon thing, can certainly get behind that. I've also been digging up quasi-formless / energy-based minis for a third take on 'Stalkers.
But back on the pumpkin-headed track, here's another one:
I haven't had time to look into that list yet, but I had my Cthulhu Wars models finally turn up the other day. Any idea how well those would work? There's a heavy proportion of medium to large-sized beasties there in the Cthulhu stuff rather than trooper-sized models, but thematically they seem like they'd be a good match.
Going to be watching closely as this is one I really like the look of, Just got the books and never had a game yet, not even got any models, but of all the armies listed this one really got me, I need to do this.
And surely Cthulhu must fit in, some of those mini's are amazing.
Oh yeah, they will. I just haven't gotten around to even trying to think about it in detail yet. Or even open up my CW stuff. Too busy with too much else. :(
There are some Reaper Bones that are nicely nasty -
And of course -
The Auld Grump
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
I can't decide which profile to use for Mashaaf, but she's definitely on my list of gribblies.
I want to find something useful for the "blood worms". I've got some reaper giant ticks but not enough. Probably something that could be done with greenstuff/hobby materials.
Considering taking some of my genestealers for use as... something. They'd need different faces. Maybe tattered robes greenstuffed on, use them for reapers or one of those similar units.
There's some kind of ogre sized snake-ish unit too right? The bathalians and tyranid raveners would work for that probably.
Its on the back-burner, but I would definitely like to make a small force of Nightstalkers in the future.
Warboss of da Blood Vipers!! We'z gonna crush ya good!! 
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