Lissanne's Undead- It's a Dead Man's Party

'It's a Dead Man's Party, who could ask for more?'

After saying I would never do undead, here I am doing undead.  I am not much of a WF player, but I find myself with a bunch of Warhammer Quest, Zombies of Karr-keel, and gifts from friends that need painting, and lo and behold I have a undead army.  Throw in a couple of old figs (like that undead war rhino) that need re-painting, and it is a pretty good-looking army.  Oh, and did I mention I have hundreds of sprue skeletons given to me to do painting demos? (only 15 yrs old, but what the hey? Everything else is old or oldschool) I already primed the ones I will use in this force.

The main reason I chose undead was to FINALLY do my WQ Catacomb of Terror figurines after lo, many decades.  And I based everything on NPC's in our D&D game, because, double duty.  So the lich Dirge and her retinue will be the command. A lich 20, two level 15 undead heros, and a level 10 Necromancer.  These match the levels of the D&D NPC's they are patterned after.  Oh, there's a zombie in that set too, and I'm adding Dirge's undead dog courtesy of Karr-kell.

This will be a 3rd edition force, but I am not going to paint graveguard.  I already have a lot of Heroquest grave guard if I ever get the urge to field an 3rd edition undead WHF army.  They are seen here with the 60 skeletons I will be painting.  I can only have 30 spearmen, so I will only count the spear points for 30. But they all have shields, and each group of 20 has matching ones!

 I also have way too many mummies from Heroquest, etc.  So none of them either. But...

There will be an ethereal host of 3 Reaper Wraiths. This is my Zombie Helper.  Wraiths are not difficult to do a killer paint job on, and are worth 150 pts a pop.  Zombies of Karr-kell, which I love and want to do bang up jobs on, are more difficult, and worth, well, nothing much (4pts, I think)  So Zombie Helper.

the Wraiths

And the Zombies

I have a carrion I want to paint to match one I already did, stripped and primed.

And the Karr-kell death riders

I have an undead Grenadier rhino I have stripped (it was started) and will be calling a plague cart, as it is carrying people inside it.  I also have a half completed Grenadier skeletal dragon, but will strip and post that if I get to it.

So the Legion of Dirge, destroyer of temples

Command unit:
Dirge the temple builder and temple destroyer. 
 (that WQ chair will probably be carried on a Palanquin of Skeletons (removable) as befits a powerful lich)
Carden ex-high priest Undead Hero
Charlotte- ex ranger  Undead Hero
Dirge's Undead dog, Blonde blue eyed rotweiller

She builds a temple, than she leaves and builds a new one and goes to war with the old.

Dirge- Lich 20                     345pt
Carden- Hero 15                   85pt (with skeleton unit)
Charlotte-Hero 15                 85pts (with skeleton unit)
Leopold-Necromancer 10       85 pt  (with skeleton unit)
total 600 pts characters

Troops:
60 Skeleton Warriors- 30 w/spear, 60 w/shield    690pts
Carrion                                                             45pt
5 Death Riders                                                   105pt
Undead Rhino (plague cart)                                 100pt
Zombies as get painted                                  (4pts each, I'll add the points later)
total 940+ rank and file

Ethereal Host (the former high priests of the temples she destroyed)
3 Wraiths                                                  450pt
Oh yeah, I also have some Warhammer Quest bats that need painting ....            

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Total 1990, a good year for figurines!

and maybe
And a troupe of allied beastmen (10) that was a present

and that skeletal dragon figure.  Who knows?

This is my pool to choose from- if all goes well, a lot of extra will get painted, if not, they won't.  I will post unpainted pics of any add ons here as I do them like I usually do.  We'll see how it goes.  But it's not my first time around the block, so I know what is easy and what is hard.  I expect to show a unit of skeletons plus something else in the first month, probably WQ figures.  And good luck to everyone!