120 Clanrats

The reason for the lack of blog posts in the past month is that I had to think of it like this: “If I have time to write a blog post, I have time to paint some clanrats.”

The mentality that I had to be in for the past couple of weeks was insane. In the last post I made on the subject I showed my doomwheel and had just started work on my Stormfiends. So since that post I still had literally one hundred clanrats to paint, a warp lightning cannon, an abomination and 3 stormfiends. I simply had to give up on all of my other free time activities in order to finish it all in time.

In this post though, I’m glad to announce that I did it. Despite having to replace the abomination with 6 jezzails and having to stay up until 3 am the night before the tournament, I managed to paint every single model to a nice tabletop standard.

Here’s some WIP shots of the stormfiends and a picture from the army display at the event itself:

As for the event itself, it was a lot of fun to see so many well painted AoS armies at a Dutch tournament. With 21 players (if I remember correctly) it was the biggest AoS event in the Netherlands so far.

The first game I played was a bye against an amazing Stormcast Eternal army that had been painted to look like weathered statues. It was great fun and because it was a bye game, we both threw competition out the window and focussed on having a fun game with lots of combat.

The second game was against a good friend who also brought his Stormcasts along. This game started out extremely epic with two classic battlelines staring eachother down, but quickly turned into a slaughter. As it appeared I had made some tactical errors with my brand new force, which were compounded by being on the recieving end of a double-turn. The game was still pretty fun despite the one sided result and it gave me some much needed experience.

The third game was against sylvaneth. This game was a lot more balanced casualty-wise as I applied some lessons from the second game and used some pretty effective screening tactics. The scenario and the mobility of the sylvaneth put me at a severe disadvantage however and I lost the game at 2 against 6 vp’s. My opponent was a chill guy though and it was a really fun game. He also obviously put a lot of effort in his painting which was also cool to see.

Once again I can’t overstate how happy I am to have finished my Skaven army finally and being able to use it at the event was the cherry on top. Next post might have some heresy or 40k in it again or perhaps even an abomination?

Glory to The Horned Rat!