The Gaming Kingdom

Hello all,

Yes that?s right another blog entry, and you thought I had forgotten about you.

Well it wasn't that I had forgotten about the blog commitment that I had set out to do for the site more that I couldn't think of anything interesting to write about.

Now that hasn't changed but I thought I would push on and write something anyway.

Now as some of you will know, in December I set myself the goal of painting up a Warriors of Chaos army to take with me to the RAF War gaming Championships on March the 13th-15th.  As I had spent a lot of time working on the tactica article for them I thought I would be able to do well with a list that was not considered to be a top tier list.  Also as I have some big plans for later on in the year (that?s for another time) I wanted to get some practice in with my green stuffing skills so I decided that the entire army would need to be converted.

The list I decided on was the Fast Monogod Slaanesh list from the Warriors of Chaos Tactica part 2 that I wrote as I thought it would be a nice compact force that would show off my sculpting and give me lots of cool stuff to draw the attention (that and if I am honest I had a Slannesh Daemon Prince already converted and painted and I didn't want it to go to waste).

So after rummaging through my collection I found that I had a Shaggoth (That I think I bought to paint but as it was not even undercoated I can't be sure), Some Dragon Ogars (That were so badly painted I can only assume that I was challenged to make them look worse than they already do), Slaanesh Champion on Daemonic Steed with extra parts to make almost a second boobworm (Now these I got to put in to my Daemonic legion army but when the new Daemon book came out I could not bring myself to play Daemons as they are just far too good) and lots of random bits. 

So after that first rummage around that left me short of 18 Marauder cav and 5 Chaos Knights and a Sorcerer on Chariot.

For a change though, rather than just going out and buying what I needed I took a second look in my collection of random unopened boxes, half built armies and unstated conversions. 

I found that I had 3 High Elf chariots that I had intended to put in to a Dark Elf army that had not been built and a unit of Cold One Knights that I got in the Dark Elf spearhead.  Now if I ever got around to building my Dark Elf army I knew I would have been using the Cold ones to pull the High Elf Chariots so the riders and the lions would be going spare so that was a tick in the box for the Chaos Knights. 

Realistically I would only use two chariots in a Dark Elf army anyway which left me with one spare and an extra cold one, combine that with the bits for my second boobwom and there is my chariot.  Leaving me with only the Marauder Cav to buy.  Luckily I found some boxes of Sisters of Battle stuff that I had never opened that I had no immediate use for and so off to the local Games Workshop I went and 4 boxes of Marauder Cav and a Champion of Slaanesh later I had all the ingredients to start building the list and had cleared out some crap from the house.

After a few test games though I knew all was not well with the list, it worked how I knew it would but I needed something cheap and expendable so after a bit of reworking I managed to fit in 10 war hounds but again rather than buying them I decided to see if I could trade them for something.  So off to the internet I went and although I did not get a direct trade for the war hounds I managed to make the money I needed to buy some and some extra to get some Ogar Ironguts to convert the Dragon Ogars so it was job done really.

So there you have it that?s the story of how I managed to get a 2250 point fantasy army by trying to clear out some of my collection of stuff.

Kris