So this is a kind of weird themed army I am slowly assembling (I am only on step 1 of assembling the base models for the warp spiders). I will post the army list first then describe the theme. I would appreciate comments about interesting unit ideas, fluff ideas, modelling ideas, or tactical ideas. Please keep in mind the theme though as I already have a waveserpent army so any such suggestions are done and gone.
I am 100% forgeworld friendly, so feel free to suggest things from there.
HQ
Farseer (120pts)
Singing spear, Eldar Jetbike
Farseer (135pts)
Singing spear, The Spirit Stone of Anath'lan, Eldar Jetbike
Modelling: I am making these from the new plastic farseer kit. They both will be suspended on a disk of blue and gold with little "energy" arcs spreading out to the ground (40mm base) and up their bodies. I am still in the air about the coloring for the model itself but I am thinking metallic purple, gold, and with metallic black for most of the armour surface. I am unsure how I want to incorporate the shuriken catapults but was thinking of using some of the vehicles ones to fit them either on the forearms or shoulders.
Warlocks (275pts)
5x Warlock: Singing spear, Eldar Jetbike
Modelling: These will be made from the guardian bodies with the helmet less heads. They will be similar to the farseers in coloring and execution but I am afforded more dynamic posing due to the jointing of the guardian bodies. They will have their spears represented by twisted "energy" done more gold than blue where the floating energy will be primarily blue. I am still in the air about the coloring for the model itself but I am thinking metallic purple, silver, and with metallic black for most of the armour surface. I am unsure how I want to incorporate the shuriken catapults but was thinking of using some of the vehicles ones to fit them either on the forearms or shoulders.
Troops
7x Windrider Jetbike Squadron (139pts), 2x Shuriken Cannons
6x Windrider Jetbike Squadron (122pts), 2x Shuriken Cannons
6x Windrider Jetbike Squadron (122pts), 2x Shuriken Cannons
6x Windrider Jetbike Squadron (122pts), 2x Shuriken Cannons
6x Windrider Jetbike Squadron (122pts), 2x Shuriken Cannons
6x Windrider Jetbike Squadron (122pts), 2x Shuriken Cannons
Modelling: These will be made from the guardian bodies with the helmeted heads. They will be similar to the jetbike warlocks in execution but instead of having a spear they will carry shuriken catapults in their hands (both of them). I am still in the air about the coloring for the model itself but I am thinking metallic purple and with metallic black for most of the armour surface.
Fast Attack
10x Warp Spider (190pts)
10x Warp Spider (190pts)
10x Warp Spider (190pts)
Modelling: These will be guardians again with helmets on. These are actually where this all started because I wanted to make spiders that look fast and like they just stepped out of the warp. This is why I am doing arcs of red and black energy coming off their bodies and going into the ground. Their spinnerets are the handle and tubing of the shuriken catapult with energy arcing from the top where the weapon would be out to their cupped hand (most of these have their hand suspended in some way rather than at waist level). The cupped hand then has an "energy ball" in it with tiny arcs off it. The energy here is mostly red with tiny flecks of black in it. The model will be red undercoat with metallic black dry brushed so that the edges are mostly metallic black.
I am also going to have an overall theme of the army in that the faceplates where there are plates will be a white like ulthwe. The models without faceplate will have an either blue white or pure white used for under eye cheek markings (which ever contrasts with the flesh better)
The overall idea for the army is an ulthwe strike force which is composed entirely of psykers using their abilities on the battlefield. I know it is ironic that I am not using maximum warlocks for this but I actually do not think the warlock rules lend themselves very well the a species that is supposed to have used psychic abilities for everything at one point. From their swords to their shuriken catapults the army was supposed to use some form of psychic energy.
All of the "jetbike" models will be suspended to the same height as an actual jetbike model.
I was also thinking about making vaul's support batteries using several models gathering "energy" into a central location on a 60mm base. This seemed to confusing as to what weapon this would actually represent however and I wasn't sure how to handle the crew.
Another idea was warwalkers where the weapons would be energy lances (bright lances...yep) above the model's hands and the "walker" would be coalescing energy going down the sides of the guardian body. Again though I think it might be a little much of a stretch.
Finally if I want to torture myself I could try to make a farseer model standing on an "energy" "world tree" gathering two large energy lances and two large energy balls to represent a crimson hunter. The sheer size of this one and getting it to stay together when traveling put me off on it. I am also not entirely confident I could actually manage even a halfway decent job with that size of "energy arcs".
Please let me know if you have any ideas or thoughts to share. Thanks for reading.
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