I got married recently, and as we decompressed from all that stress and excitement, I was able to sit down and chip away at some draft blog posts and hobby a bit more than usual. Over the last week or so I managed to do up a few more hero slots for the Kingdoms of Men.
Two are actual Heroes, mounted on horses. They seem like great choices, especially with Indomitable Will. They are quick and can disrupt shooters; they are cheap with good stats; and good anti-flyer defense being individuals. Toss on 5 pts of IW and yeah, they should even stick around an extra turn and continue to muck things up for my opponents.
These are built with the same kitbash ideas as the previous two minis I hobbied up recently. These newcomers bring me up to four of these picks. This is more than I could normally field, and so I might add a cape or something to make one a Mounted Captain or General something for some more options. We'll see. To get them on the horse for the kitbash, I needed to remove the back part of the saddle. I still need to do up a bedroll or something to hide this on each model, so some touchups are definitely in the future already. But I'd happily run any of them on the table, and yeah, we'll see if one gets a promotion down the line.
Still no space for the lightbox, but I am making due. |
Next up is an ASB with Lute of Insatiable Darkness, modeled appropriately! I tend to go my own way and explore things for myself, but this common ASB loadout is winning me over in all my theory crafting. Naked ASBs are pretty bad, as they don't do anything but Inspire, so seem inefficient for their points. So, access to Bane-Chant via the lute seems great.
This is a kitbash as well, using a Warlord Roman banner/ musician body, the brace and hands from the horn bit, with a head from Warlord's Celt/Dacian box. The lute is a blob of greenstuff with the horn brace to form the neck of the lute. I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out, and he reminds me a bit of old-school James Hetfield but with braids, so yeah, that's kinda fun. I've got probably a dozen more of these banner/ musician bodies around still, so it was good to find a use for one of them at least.
Second General. Same... almost everything, but painted up a little darker in case I give them magic items and need to differentiate them for my opponent. |
The last heroic addition here is another General on a Winged Beast, something I have been resisting adding in for a while now despite hobbying up multiples of just about everything else the Kingdoms of Men can possibly run.
- Multiple "Generals" in a single list seemed silly, fluff-wise.
- "Normal Humans" still appeals to me, and flying monsters kinda went against that.
- A strong multiple flier list has been floating around for a while for the Kingdoms of Men, and is largely what Randy Atchley has been working on. I'd rather run my own things.
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