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So, just a question to gauge opinion. One thing I've seen made is armies designed to represent what the Court sees, the delusion in their minds. What is y'all's opinion on using Napleonics for an army like that? I feel like they capture that "noble" warfare ideal just as well as knights on horseback. The general idea would be: Line infantry of various sorts and nations as crypt ghouls, cavalry as Flayers and Horrers, and artillery batteries, or "His Majesty's Dragon"-style cannons on dragons, to represent dragons and terrorgeists, with officers to represent Varghulfs, Kings, and Archregents. Paint job, unusual amounts of bones and gore, mish-mash of uniforms, and oddities such as unusal amount of desire to attack with bayonets or artillery moving at high speeds indicating they're not what they seem.

Lore on the very basic level being that they used salvaged dwarven and empire armaments during the age of chaos, however they were caught up in the delusions of a ghoul king and began seeing themselves as mighty armies, fighting for kin and country.

What are your thoughts on this? Neat? too odd? Hard to justify? Stick to official models/medieval models?

They are your figures, do with them as you please. You've certainly paid enough for them!

That said, if you plan on playing in tournaments, I don't know what is "tournament legal" these days. Back in WHFB 5th, the local store allowed conversions that the local GW store would have banned from their tournaments. So that is a possible consideration. However, if you are just playing casually, or just modelling for yourself, it should not be a problem.

Good luck with the kit-bashing! Please post pictures.

Vive l'Empereur!

 Ancestral Hamster wrote:
They are your figures, do with them as you please. You've certainly paid enough for them!

That said, if you plan on playing in tournaments, I don't know what is "tournament legal" these days. Back in WHFB 5th, the local store allowed conversions that the local GW store would have banned from their tournaments. So that is a possible consideration. However, if you are just playing casually, or just modelling for yourself, it should not be a problem.

Good luck with the kit-bashing! Please post pictures.

Vive l'Empereur!

Trust me, i know I won't be let near a GW store, even if there was one near me. I have a 30k militia army that's entirely proxy beyond some bits to represent carapace armor, and most of my models have some level of third party bits.

Main problem would be lack of shooting to me without shooting it just wouldn't feel like a napoleonic army so maybe ossiarch rules would work better?

 Llamahead wrote:
Main problem would be lack of shooting to me without shooting it just wouldn't feel like a napoleonic army so maybe ossiarch rules would work better?

Hrm, Might be interesting, at least in regards to boney napoleonic soldiers, but modeling the multi-armed models, and coming up with fluff explanations might be harder. Ideas, if you have any? (for the fluff, I mean) Not to mention I don't think any of the Death armies possess any form of shooting, aside from the occasional artillery.

An idea I am willing to share for my FEC.

I wanted to make a few ghouls who are in the midst of transforming from humans to ghouls. I don't see the change from human to ghoul, and more, as clean cut as just waking up one day and you're a ghoul. It's a slow transformation that takes place as you slowly start to believe the lie.

So I bought Tribesmen of Germania (Hail Ceaser) and some Goblins (Oathmark).
I plan to mix them with the ghoul miniatures for FEC to make a army with followers who are beginning to believe the illusion.

There have been some good recent short stories from FEC point of view and yeah both the main characters underwent a horrifying ordeal to become ghoul - starvation, torture and finally conuming the flesh of their own people but they don't recall it that way - very much the opposite.

I like your idea personally - you could do units that consited of gory, bone strewn bases, broken weapons but otherwise "normal" models but also true ghouls etc as part of the unit to show what they truely look like?

If you make the cannons obviously unusable that might help?

Mr Morden wrote:There have been some good recent short stories from FEC point of view and yeah both the main characters underwent a horrifying ordeal to become ghoul - starvation, torture and finally conuming the flesh of their own people but they don't recall it that way - very much the opposite.

I like your idea personally - you could do units that consited of gory, bone strewn bases, broken weapons but otherwise "normal" models but also true ghouls etc as part of the unit to show what they truely look like?

If you make the cannons obviously unusable that might help?

ProtoClone wrote:An idea I am willing to share for my FEC.

I wanted to make a few ghouls who are in the midst of transforming from humans to ghouls. I don't see the change from human to ghoul, and more, as clean cut as just waking up one day and you're a ghoul. It's a slow transformation that takes place as you slowly start to believe the lie.

So I bought Tribesmen of Germania (Hail Ceaser) and some Goblins (Oathmark).
I plan to mix them with the ghoul miniatures for FEC to make a army with followers who are beginning to believe the illusion.

You know what, this is brilliant. I like this alot. Maybe grab some mantic zombies or a few Crypt Ghoul boxes? That should be enough bits. I'd appreciate any ghoul or zombie kit recommendations though.

 ProfSrlojohn wrote:

Mr Morden wrote:There have been some good recent short stories from FEC point of view and yeah both the main characters underwent a horrifying ordeal to become ghoul - starvation, torture and finally conuming the flesh of their own people but they don't recall it that way - very much the opposite.

I like your idea personally - you could do units that consited of gory, bone strewn bases, broken weapons but otherwise "normal" models but also true ghouls etc as part of the unit to show what they truely look like?

If you make the cannons obviously unusable that might help?

ProtoClone wrote:An idea I am willing to share for my FEC.

I wanted to make a few ghouls who are in the midst of transforming from humans to ghouls. I don't see the change from human to ghoul, and more, as clean cut as just waking up one day and you're a ghoul. It's a slow transformation that takes place as you slowly start to believe the lie.

So I bought Tribesmen of Germania (Hail Ceaser) and some Goblins (Oathmark).
I plan to mix them with the ghoul miniatures for FEC to make a army with followers who are beginning to believe the illusion.

You know what, this is brilliant. I like this alot. Maybe grab some mantic zombies or a few Crypt Ghoul boxes? That should be enough bits. I'd appreciate any ghoul or zombie kit recommendations though.

I tried to find some normal, assembly required, human minis that fit the location of my FEC (Ghur). The goblins from Oathmark work well for that mid transform stage you would see them in.

When I say I mix them, I mean I am going to put goblin arms on Germania minis. Human heads on goblin bodies. Really mix that up because in my head cannon this is as of an unstable of a process as they are.

If you want to convert some cool grimdark napoleonics come to Turnip28, just saying

 lord_blackfang wrote:
If you want to convert some cool grimdark napoleonics come to Turnip28, just saying

Oh trust me, and I love seeing it, the main thing is I live in a drought for this sort of thing as it is. Finding someone who plays 40k/AOS is hard enough, let alone finding someone who plays turnip or Sludge. Maybe when I have the time to build two armies for one or the other, then maybe, but my current timeframe doesn't really allow that, in addition to trying to organize people to play.

 ProtoClone wrote:

 ProfSrlojohn wrote:

Mr Morden wrote:There have been some good recent short stories from FEC point of view and yeah both the main characters underwent a horrifying ordeal to become ghoul - starvation, torture and finally conuming the flesh of their own people but they don't recall it that way - very much the opposite.

I like your idea personally - you could do units that consited of gory, bone strewn bases, broken weapons but otherwise "normal" models but also true ghouls etc as part of the unit to show what they truely look like?

If you make the cannons obviously unusable that might help?

ProtoClone wrote:An idea I am willing to share for my FEC.

I wanted to make a few ghouls who are in the midst of transforming from humans to ghouls. I don't see the change from human to ghoul, and more, as clean cut as just waking up one day and you're a ghoul. It's a slow transformation that takes place as you slowly start to believe the lie.

So I bought Tribesmen of Germania (Hail Ceaser) and some Goblins (Oathmark).
I plan to mix them with the ghoul miniatures for FEC to make a army with followers who are beginning to believe the illusion.

You know what, this is brilliant. I like this alot. Maybe grab some mantic zombies or a few Crypt Ghoul boxes? That should be enough bits. I'd appreciate any ghoul or zombie kit recommendations though.

I tried to find some normal, assembly required, human minis that fit the location of my FEC (Ghur). The goblins from Oathmark work well for that mid transform stage you would them in.

When I say I mix them, I mean I am going to put goblin arms on Germania minis. Human heads on goblin bodies. Really mix that up because in my head cannon this is as of an unstable of a process as they are.

Got it, thanks for the names and idea, I'll take a look into those. Should be a fun process.