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So the Seeker Chariot kit winds up giving you two spare deamonette riders without a mount to sit upon. Get a couple of those seeker chariots and suddenly that's a decent number of seeker riders without mounts. So I'm wondering if anyone here has found good alternate mounts for them. Not that seekers are bad in anyway, but that they don't appear all that often second hand without their riders, so its not all that easy to just get more seekers.

I used them as foot Heralds



EDIT - My bad, I clearly misread you.

If you got another two of the Chariot Steeds, from, say, www.letthedicedecide.com or www.bitsandkits.com, they'd be perfectly acceptable Heralds on Steeds. I already had Heralds on Steeds, so I used them as part of a 'statue garden' terrain piece,

Excommunicatus wrote:

If you got another two of the Chariot Steeds, from, say, www.letthedicedecide.com or www.bitsandkits.com, they'd be perfectly acceptable Heralds on Steeds. I already had Heralds on Steeds, so I used them as part of a 'statue garden' terrain piece,

Not sure what you play, but in AoS they lost the ability to take steeds

Ah. In 40K, Heralds on Steeds still exist, but they're Index only.

In my Slaaneshi Warriors of Chaos army I had a couple of Daemonettes mixed into Warrior regiments for visual flavor. You could do something like that with Marauder Horsemen or Chaos Knights. Steeds might be easier to come by because the Chaos chariot has an alternate critter to pull it, so spare horses should be out in the wild.

Or you could try to have them ride the Daughters of Khaine snakes and use them as Fiends. No idea how much conversion that entails, though.

Hmm interesting idea to have some deamonettes riding alongside chaos warriors/mauraders. Does anyone know if the deamonettes can fit those mounts? The seeker hasn't got a very broad back where the deamonette sits so the worry would be the horse might have a broader saddle region.

While I can't specifically help with that, if you need an alternative there's always Dark Elf horses. Dark Elves have a combi chariot too. Also, Cold Ones are cooler than horses, so that's a consideration as well.

Little bump - especially interested in if anyone has mounted seeker riders into other mounts in the GW range and what does and doesn't work.

After an epic archeological dig which, I might add, I undertook at great risk to my own health and the structural integrity of my pile of unbuilt stuff, I can add least offer something on Daemonettes on Chaos Knight horses. With the caveat that I only have Daemonettes from the Seeker kit and not the chariot, so if there's any difference, I won't be able to help with that.

First off, Chaos Knight horses are a bit too wide to mount an unmodified Daemonette. I'm confident it can be done to look properly, but it'll involve a little conversion work.

The way the horses are sculpted, a Daemonette with her legs position forward can make use of the narrower part of the horse's ribcage for an easier fit, but then the Daemonette's torso will lean to the back. If you want an upright torso or fix the horrid riding pose of the Daemonettes by making her lean forward, you'll inevitably have to position the legs around the widest part of the horse's ribcage. You could shave down the saddle just a little, but you're not going to get around cutting into the hip joints to spread the Daemonettes legs a little. It's not much and I think with a careful cut you will only have two small gaps to fill, without risk of destroying any detail or need to resculpt anything.

Another thing of note is that the saddle isn't just wide, it's also long. If you put a Daemonette on there you'll have a bit of space in front and behind her. While good for more dynamic posing, her tabard is nothing more than a stub and she's missing parts of her backside and the insides of her thighs, which might show and which you'll likely have to do something about.

Hope that helps. I'm not a cavalry man, so I don't really have a lot of GW horses to compare.

Thanks for risking life and limb Geifer!

I did wonder if the thickness of the saddle would be an issue as that's the potentially biggest problem since one can only make the legs wider by a little before things end up looking very bow-legged and abnormal (even by demonic standards).

you'd think getting a daemonette to spread their legs wider wouldn't be the most difficult thing in the world.

craggy wrote:
you'd think getting a daemonette to spread their legs wider wouldn't be the most difficult thing in the world.

If I recall the fluff correctly, the daemonettes don't actually have sex with their victims, just use sex appeal and seduction to lure them in for an easy kill.

 Vulcan wrote:

craggy wrote:
you'd think getting a daemonette to spread their legs wider wouldn't be the most difficult thing in the world.

If I recall the fluff correctly, the daemonettes don't actually have sex with their victims, just use sex appeal and seduction to lure them in for an easy kill.

Deamonettes entertain every pleasure into excess. Nothing is beyond their pleasure. Gold, food, beauty, dance, sex , cutting, killing, torture; they will entertain them all and far more.
Now on the battlefield they are more likely to entertain their brutal warlike and dancing focuses. Dancing through the battlefield like its a party only to slice and dice and cut and stab at their opponents; often favouring tormenting them before death with lots of smaller slicing cuts rather than efficient single stabs.
Yet you can be sure there are some who derive such pleasures too, who will cut to the marrow of the bone to suckle it out fresh. Others that will rip their talons into the enemies chest to tear out their hearts, in a perverse kind of bloodlust like a Witch Aelf, yet with none of the blood magic connections.

And yes if you were to enter a palace of slaanesh chances are you could find yourself concubine deamonettes. Those who would lay with man or woman to drive themselves and their prey to insane heights of excess.

 Overread wrote:
Thanks for risking life and limb Geifer!

I did wonder if the thickness of the saddle would be an issue as that's the potentially biggest problem since one can only make the legs wider by a little before things end up looking very bow-legged and abnormal (even by demonic standards).

Indeed, although at least thighs are somewhat forgiving if you cut the underside between the body and the leg. The crack that forms is easy enough to fill, has the saddle to obscure detail so you don't need to put in too much work, and the thigh and hip joint are pretty friendly to repositioning because they don't deform much, unlike for instance the upper arm when you bend the elbow.

I reckon Marauder or elven horses might be a little friendlier to Daemonettes (totally going off of very hazy memory here, of course). The steeds of Chaos Knights are pretty beefy, after all.

Agreed, I was just hoping most of the Chaos knights bulk was the thick armour on the horses more than thickness of mount and saddle.

Elven horses are likely the most suitable but they are fragile things and there aren't any generic elven horses left on the GW store. The only ones are dragonblades and dark riders, both of which have the legs of the rider modelled onto the side of the horse body. The only ones that don't are those made for chariots and the stags. Stags are very tempting and I've seen others convert them before