I See Dead People

[CoffeeGrunt]

Well, the General's Handbook hath awoken in me a desire to play Age of Sigmar, and after perusing the various factions I settled on a good, honest Death force of the rotting, soulless, vengeful dead. I'm aiming to avoid any living character of any kind, or any particularly fancy stuff.

Across the many Mortal Realms, armies of brave soldiers fought and died for noble causes, which are now scattered like the ashes of their once-proud citadels and homesteads. Entire fields of corpses bear the banners of long-dead Kings or would-be tyrants, and none mark their graves now that all they fought for has passed beyond living memory. In the places where the bodies are thickest, where soldiers fought in their thousands to the last, some now stir from centuries of buried sleep. Rotting, skeletal hands drag them out of the snow once more. Emaciated, blue with cold, the Forgotten Dead rise again. History shall repeat itself, and the dead shall not lie forgotten again. Generals lead them to glory against the living, to reap a harvest and bolster their ranks. Behind them march armies of those embittered by the futility of their sacrifice. In their eyes, all life is meaningless, but death is perhaps not so. What few are struck down by the terrified defenders of beleaguered homesteads soon rise again, and the torn remains of many villages all join the ranks of the Forgotten Dead.

Thematically my hands are kinda tied by the dead people only thing. There will be no Vampires, Necromancers, or Ghouls. I've got Skeleton Warriors and Wight Kings with Zombies, and I'm aiming to grab some Grave Guard at some point. I've also got a Terrorgheist, reborn to fight alongside the heroes who died slaying it. I'm thinking I might get a Mortis Engine at some time, as it's a cool model with some utility. The Necromancer on it will be replaced by a Wight King, mind.

No Nagash either, (IMO he's like Sigmar or Khorne, a God who really shouldn't be stooping to participate personally in any particular battle.) His Mortarchs are also out. This will be no army of great endeavours, it merely exists as a cold mirror to the humans struggling to live across the Mortal Realms. I'm hoping Death get more good, honest Undead whenever they next update. Otherwise I'm gunna be a bit constrained by the theme, which is a shame because after a year of searching it's one I actually like.

Anyway, here are the first mob of zombies I got painted. Please forgive the awful, awful camera on my "new" replacement phone as it seems to like softening and darkening everything after taking the picture to eradicate any detail I'm pointing it at. (It'll actually look pretty great until it saves the picture as well. Windows Phones, *spit.*)






I gave them blue skin for a kind of Skyrim Draugr look, though I might tweak it as it's pretty far from flesh tone, (hard to make flesh look blue though.) Using the Mantic Zombies as IMO they're way better than the GW ones, and cheaper to boot. If only the rest of their range was as good...