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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

2500 points of Tomb Kings at Pack Rat Open

I went to Pack Rat Open last weekend and took the Tomb Kings I was working on. The list looked like this:

Lords

  • Liche High Priest
    Lore of Death, Wizard Level 4
    •   Dispel Scroll, Ironcurse Icon, Talisman of Preservation
       
  • Liche High Priest
    Hierophant, Lore of Nehekhara, Wizard Level 4
    •  Earthing Rod, Talisman of Endurance

Heroes

  • Necrotect
    • -Obsidian Amulet 
  • Tomb Prince
    Great Weapon
    • Armour of Destiny

Core

  • 19 Skeleton Archers 
    Champion, Musician
  • 12 Skeleton Archers 
    Musician
  • 5 Skeleton Horse Archers 
  • 5 Skeleton Horse Archers
  • 48 Skeleton Warriors 
    Champion, Musician, Standard Beare
    • Light Armour 

Special

  • Khemrian Warsphinx 
    Fiery Roar
  • 5 Necropolis Knights 
    Champion, Musician, Standard Bearer

Rare (490pts)

  • Casket of Souls 
  • Hierotitan 
  • Screaming Skull Catapult 
  • Screaming Skull Catapult 


I used a bone giant and a scratch built bone giant as the catapults, both have skulls in their hands that they are throwing. I used Titan-Forge crocodiles for the Necroknight mounts. I also converted up an old metal giant for the Hierotitan. 






It was also the first display board I had made. It was simply a cork wall board/bulletin board that  I glued a bunch of sand too and used cork pieces to create the hills or rocks in the back. One thing I learned from making the display board is that it is much easier to spray paint the sand on a display board than to try and use a brush to paint it. 

In the picture below you can see the Necroknights. 





In the next pictures you can see the converted catapults and the Hierotitans. 





All in all, I am pretty happy with the army. I ended up getting best painted at the event (out of 24 people). I don't think I am a great painted but there are some things that I think helped me take home that prize. 

1. There is a clear color theme throughout the army. 

2. Everything is painted and based. 
3. The board and bases have paint, flock, and on the board and bigger/important models either extra bits or more than one type of basing. 
4. I used a color that stands out. Some armies are really well painted but look really dark and dull from fair away. This one doesn't.