The Dwarf Tavern

My brother wanted me to create a section on my blog dedicated to his army, the Dwarves. After lots of pestering I finally gave in and made him a section. I decided to call it the Dwarf Tavern and I will update it every once and a while just to tell you how its going.

The army is lead by a daemon slayer who is possessed by the fire spirit, his loyal group of slayers, who witnessed him being possessed have followed him everywhere and slowly other dwarves started following him until they formed a reasonably sized army. Right now they are fighting against Ulthuan to settle the grudge against the high elves.

The Slayer he will be using is this one, I think he fits as a fire possessed dwarf, don't you?












Here are some models he has painted up from Battle for Skull Pass.













Right now he has the Battle for Skull Pass Dwarves(minus a few of them) and the Dwarf army book(he got it for Christmas)

Pictures, Hooray!

Ok, I have found my camera and I have taken some photos, so without further ado, here they are.

My Dark Riders, Guess where all the parts are from

My Dark Rider Musician

My Corsair Crossbowman(his cloak counts as a shield) I will make 9 more of them to make 10

Here is a sample of how I will do my bases

P.S. I also got the new Dark Elf Dreadlord for Christmas!

P.P.S. I also found some spare shield spruces in the bottom of my bitz box so now I don't need to get any more!

New Things on Kasumi's Fortress

I was originally going to post all this in my last post, but then decided that it was too long, so I made a separate post for it, hooray!

I haven't been painting much lately(too distracted), so to get me motivated I have added a 'Painted Model Count' This will show how many models I have painted, half painted and how many I need to paint. Beneath It I also have a list of Models that I need for 1000pts, look for these on the right side of the page.

P.S. I have made some Dark Riders out of Marauder Horseman, Cold One Knights and Normal warriors, I have also made a Dark Elf Corsair Repeater Crossbowman. I have found some shades that I like better than Mengils Manslayers (which I still might get after all), they are made out of warrir bodies and arms, High Elf archer bodies and Wood Elf heads. I will post pictures of these on this blog as soon as I find my camera (It is long overdue for a picture update).

P.P.S.After the picture update I will also be posting a revised 2000pts list, with a hydra, but less magic!(coming soon)

The second army list-1000pts

Heroes
Master
with Sword of Might,Ring of Hotek, shield, sea dragon cloak and heavy armour
=130pts

Core
15 spearmen
with command and shields
=120pts
10 repeater crossbowman
with shields
=110pts
10 corsairs
with reaver
=110pts
x2 units of 5 harpies
55x2=110pts
5 dark riders
with musician
=92pts


Special
6 shades
with great weapons and bloodshade
=126pts
Cold One Chariot
=100pts

Rare
Reaper Bolt Thrower
=100pts

=998pts

A new list

Today I have a new Dark Elf Warhammer Army list, a 500pt list.
I also have a 1000pt list coming very soon.

The first is a 500pt Border Patrol list, it is as follows

Master
with hand weapon, shield and heavy armour
=86pts

14 spearmen
with command and shields
=113pts

10 repeater crossbowman
with shields
=110pts

10 corsairs
with reaver
=110pts

5 shades
=80pts

=499pts

I think this is a pretty reasonable list with a unit of shades to capture those important objectives early on.

Picture Update

Well this is my cold one paint scheme on the new cold one(without any extra details)

New














Old










This paint scheme is a bit darker compared to my last one, mainly because the body is painted shadow grey&chaos black instead of just shadow grey.

So what do you think, what one do you like better? I would like to know so please send in your comments!

P.S. I have also got a boxed set of five shades from Games Workshop, so now I have eight! I plan to get Mengil Manhides Manslayers(Dogs of War unit) and use them as Great weapon wielding shades. Some of the shades that I've already got will be converted so they have two hand weapons.

Kasumi

My army list

Lords
Dreadlord
with Sea Dragon Cloak, Shield, Heartseeker, Armour of Eternal Servitude and Lifetaker
=249pts
Heroes
Sorceress
lvl2, Dispell Scroll and Focus Familiar
=185pts
Sorceress
Dispell scroll and Tome of Furion
=140pts
Core
Assassin
with additional hand weapon, Rending Stars and Manbane
=151pts
x2 units of 15 spearmen
with full command and shields
120x2=240pts
10 repeater crossbowman
with Shields
=110pts
10 corsairs
with champion
=110pts
x2 units of 5 dark riders
with musician
92x2=184pts
x2 units of 5 harpies
55x2=110pts
Special
6 shades
with bloodshade, light armour and great weapon
=132pts
shades
with additional hand weapon
=86pts
Cold one chariot
=100pts
Rare
2 reaper Bolt throwers
=200pts

=1997pts

I played a game against my Brother, he was using the Chaos Mortals list in White dwarf issue 342(the Mordor one). I didn't do that well, infact I lost pretty badly, I think the problem was I couldn't break the chaos knights 0+ armour save, my conclusion is that I need more hammer units(units to smash into the enemy line, or flank and kill it), all I have right now are my shade with great weapons. So next game I will include a War Hydra, I will also give my assassin Rune of Khaine(+D3 attacks) instead of rending stars.

Until next time

Kasumi

Yet another Update

Two weeks since I have got my battalion and done my last post and I have assembled: my Cold One Knight command, the two that I will be using for my chariot, 10 corsairs and I have split my warrior unit into two and I have completed one 15 strong unit. The other 10 corsairs that I got in my battalion will be used with some glade rider units that I will be getting soon to make a unit of cool looking Dark Riders

I was looking through Druchii.net (dark elf forum) and I saw these pictures, they are cheaper tahtn the normal Dark Riders and I think they look better as well!

My friend gave me a Cauldron of Blood FREE because he was given it from his friend but he didn't need need it anymore! Thanks Shane!

I think it is time I posted the list I have made for Kasumi, So I will post it in a soon in a new post

Kasumi

Battalion

Hooray! Today I got my Dark elf battalion!
I have provided a few pictures of the models that I have assembled

Dark Elf Cold one Knight Dreadknight (champion) without a shield



















Dark elf Corsair













Again, sorry for the bad pictures

Now with the battalion I can have a possible 46 warrior, 20 corairs, 5 cold one knights, a chariot and three characters. See I told you it would grow soon.

But unfortunatly I am not going to assemble all the models straight out like they are, so it is unlikely that I will have that many...in the meantime

Kasumi

Picture updates

Ok, time for more Picture

Snowy, with my Cold one's paint scheme










It is done with a shadow grey basecoat, with the scales being space wolves grey with a skull white highlight. The claws and teeth are done skull white to tie in with the rest of the model and I used blood red on the tongue for contrast. I will also be using this colour scheme for my sea dragon cloaks and my hydra(if I get one).

Another picture of my spearmen



















Kasumi

Yay Pictures!

Finally I have a picture of a finished Dark Elf Spearmen
(or Spearelf).

Sorry about the bad picture, I will have a better one up soon.

What do you think, comments, criticism welcome!

Next time(hopefully), better pictures and my Cold One's colour scheme(on snowy, an old cold one)

Kasumi

ooooooh, fluffy

Ok, now for my army's fluff.

For people who don't know, fluff is the background/story behind your army and it can dictate what you include in it. Some people like to create fluff for their army and some people don't. I am one of those people who like to create fluff for my army.

My Dark Elf Dreadlord (lord level character) is called Kasumi, Dreadlord Kasumi.
Kasumi's army is a garrison army that guards the Blackspine mountains (dark inhospitable mountains south of Naggaroth) from enemy invasions(mainly lizardmen) even though it is very unlikely that there is going to be an invasion along that root it still has to be patrolled.

Because my army has to navigate through mountains I am going to have small units, 15 max. First I will start with Shades, Shades live in the Blackspine mountains making them the perfect choice for my army, because of this I am going to field 2 units of them. My mainstay will be 2 units of spearmen, it will also have harpies (kept in cages and released to track down enemies) and dark riders for scouts. It will have a cold one chariot for a baggage train and that will all be backed up by some firepower(2 reaper bolt throwers, 10 crossbowman and 2 sorceresses). Last but not least it will have the ever handy assassin(in a spearmen or shade unit).

Well that's a general idea of my fluff!(while also accidentally giving away my whole army)

Until next time!
Kasumi

Paint Scheme

Now, for the general paint scheme of my army.
I have chosen the standard 'invasion force paint scheme'(you know, the purple on) as my paint scheme except for the following exceptions, Instead of having liche purple as the cloth colour I will have midnight blue(yes I know it's discontinued but I have 2 and a half pots of it), I will use gold trimming on the chain mail and to pick out the detail on the armour, I will give the armour a coat of Badab Black to make the armour darker and finally, My shields will be different to the normal warrior ones (I don't like any of the icons that you can put on them).

Hopefully I will have some pictures up soon.

Well, that's all for this week, until next week where I talk about the fluff! dun dun dun!

Update

Hello Everyone out there! Just an update of the information about my army. Right now I have:

• 7th edition Dark Elf book
  
• 18 Dark Elf Warriors with Command
• 10 Dark Elf Crossbowman
  
• a half assembled Cold One chariot
• Master(hero choice)
• Sorceress
• half converted assassin
• 3 shades
• 3 executioners

As you can see, there is not a lot there, Hopefully this will change sometime soon.

Starting Out

Hello everyone!

This is my website to post pictures and ect. of my Warhammer Fantasy Dark Elf.
I have always wanted to start a blog and the new Dark Elf book has given me a perfect excuse to start one. I hope you keep on checking on this blog to see what I have added over time.