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Bubonic army; my future army :)
Topic Started: 30th April 2008 - 09:03 AM (419 Views)
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Here is a certain 2000pts army of mine that I'm planning to build, based on the bubonic court, and I'm going to talk about its background such, the army list, and the colour shemes. Hope you guys appreciate it, and give me advice.

The general is a plague pontifex, named "Blakk Skin-Gnawer" :censor:

Here is his story:
One of the few skaven that managed to survive the expedition in Lustria, and one the followers of Nurglitch, Blakk sees Nurglitch as his saviour, and seems to show loyalty towards him beyond the skaven nature. A highly talented mage, he shows high interest in all types of maladies, and therefore explored many areas in the old (and new) world to discover new diseases to write down in his many scrolls and books. This fanatism towards plagues shows itself by his entourage.......and himself. Indeed after continous testing Blakk needs to mask his entire face so hideous it is, and his army fields countless amounts of pusbags. Worst of all is to look upon his cauldron of thousand poxes, for it is not a cauldron that he posseses, but a mass amount of human and skaven slaves fallen victim to Blakk's "hobby".
Each one of them carries a different diseases, and their endless groans and cries makes Blakk ever more delightfull, registering the symptoms of his new maladies in his paperwork. This habit of his gives him the title of "plague libarian".


I hope the story isn't too far-fetched and matches well with skaven history and logic. Unfortunately for me I lost my skaven rulebook, so i can't remember the points of each unit, but basically here is what my army would look like:

Lords: Plague Pontifex on Cauldron
Heroes: Two level two feestering chantors and a plague priest with big banner.
Core: 3x20 Plague monks and one unit of 30 PM, as followers for the Cauldron.
3x30 Pusbags.
Special: 2x10 Censor-Bearers, I however wish I could have another unit of three, but not really sure if I'd have enough points.
Rare: 2 ratspawns

Finally for the colour shemes, I was thinking of a hierachy of colours in this order White/green/red
Therefore, slaves will be white, PM green, and Heroes red.
In terms of conversions, I was thinking of making a combination of rat ogres and the new chaos spawns to make the ratspawns.
For the cauldron, the new vampire corpse cart is literally brilliant, and looks really skavenish
Hope you have some advice to give out. :censor:

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Rusty Tincanne
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...you can still call me Rusty Tincanne if you want, though.

I really like your idea for your cauldron, and the plague cart would do well, but your description makes me think of a mass of herded infectious pussbags chained to a rolling statue/other object and herderd forward. (The rolling statue would be a magic item that can harness their energies. to explaing the casting of plague.) The palaquin of Nurgle (a new/rereleased model for the daemons of chaos lists) would be great to convert so Blakk is set a higher than the rest of the models.

As to your list, I'd say it would be worth dropping one unit of pussbags so you can buy more PCB's. If you separate your units into 7's (or 8's if the points allow) they will be more effective (less gas hits on your own units) and more versatile. That'll give 3x7 units of PCBs.

For one of my rat spawns I used the fen beast. Worked great.

FYI, this should probably be put into the army lists section. And you could always start an army diary, too!

Good to see another pestilens person on the boards!
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Mormeguil
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baby nurgle
I have actually built my cauldron with the corpse cart. THe only challenge is to find another set of wheels.

It his a great and easy conversion.
I have a few bare metal dark elf model for sale, if interested pm me.
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