Nathan’s intro post - army of Khorne OWAC VIII

The new year beckons, as does another OWAC. This time I’ve chosen to do a khorne army; funnily enough I looked at doing a khorne army for the second OWAC but dropped it because heaps of people were doing chaos for that one. Since then I’ve purchased a couple of war machines that I couldn’t have done in that challenge anyway. Here are the pics of the figures I hope to paint up this time around with most being arranged into units of 8 as required in the Slaves to Darkness army list.

The full army

Thugs and beastmen 

Chaos dwarves including the rare arse cannon

Daemons, cultists and champions 

The chaos altar and whirlwind

A chaos dwarf juggernaut with crew 

I’ve actually painted a handful of figures for this army that I will slot in as I go along as they help ensure my units meet the 8 figure (or divisable by 8) requirement in the army list. If I paint all the figures in the pic the list will look something like this:

- 8 thugs with light armor and two hand weapons                                             78 points

- 16 beastmen with light armor, shields and hand weapons                               230 points

- 8 chaos dwarves with heavy armor, shields and double handed weapons       122 points

- 8 chaos dwarf berserkers with double handed weapons                                  128 points

- 1 chaos dwarf bazuka with heavy armor                                                            67 points    

- War altar on a wagon with 8 chaos cultists guards                                            180 points 

- Chaos dwarf whirlwind                                                                                       50 points

I must admit I have no idea what the arse cannon or juggernaut are worth but I’m sure I can figure out something. The bloodthirster itself is worth more than a thousand points and the champions point values are determined by the rewards they get - I will roll up the champs when I’ve painted them just to see what rewards and followers they get as that is all part of the fun of doing a StD army!

I’m going to have to paint the juggernaut in stages as it would be extremely difficult to paint fully assembled - so with that in mind I will add the towers once the base is painted. I might even magnetise the second tower so it is easier to add and remove figures from it. The optional war machine (unpictured) is an armorcast cannon of khorne that I bought last year; whilst it is technically for 40K it fits into this army quite well so if time permits I will paint it as it has been cleaned and undercoated. I’ll add pics of my painted daemons of khorne if I manage to complete the challenge…