Up now are some more Draugr for the Varangur!
Hobby-wise, the minis are the same as the earlier regiments, kit-bashing Celts from Warlord Games with Ghouls and Zombies from Mantic. As-before, the most time-consuming and difficult part was removing all the stands from the legs (first using clippers, and then some skimming knifework for shaving off the remains around the feet), and this was done so that I could get the army’s nice snow effect going for the base and just stick the minis atop a finished base.
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| The new regiment. |
The older regiments were jam-packed with minis, and a handful of minis have popped off during games over the last few years. I used them for painting reference, and then took the opportunity to reshuffle things around slightly, so that each regiment had roughly the same number of models. The units are a bit more sparse, but that’s ok in the grand scheme of things, and they still look fine.
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| Base blending could be better. I think I did some unusually heavy dry brushes originally. |
The 4th regiment is probably too much for typical games, but now that I mention it, I am now curious to try that out too! Alas, I have probably a dozen untested list ideas for the Varangur going back at least a year. I need to organize those thoughts and get to work. The goal here was to hobby this unit up in order to run two hordes of Draugr. The Varangur come off as a very elite force, and two cheap, and cheap unlocking hordes should provide some neat list-building opportunities for me and an unusual way to run the army.
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| An horde of old Draugr. |
One thing I want to try and explore more in 2025 is Master / Theme lists. I’ve run into no shortage of Northern Alliance lists and players, but the Varangur don’t seem anywhere near as popular, despite drawing inspiration from the once-popular Warhammer Chaos Warriors and showing up in the setting first, back in 2nd Edition.