Danthe and her Dead Friends
This army began after
Games Workshop released a part work collection around their Age of Sigmar range.
GW may not be the most popular of entities with the 'thinking gamer', but they do produce some nice models. The first figures on this magazine thing, which was available through my local supermarket for about a third the price of what they would be in a
GW storem, are
very pretty. they're full of character and nicely made models. They came with some human figures which I was not impressed with but hey! Those would do as statues.
My mate Dave, got very excited and kept on at me to do a 28mm army for
Dragon Rampant, so after a week or so I caved in, bought a copy (or two) and got to work.
So at the time I was just getting into Nordic Shamanic band
Heilung and their album Lifa (to live or be alive) and there was a video floating round for the game Hellblade 2 -
https://youtu.be/2TR0gaG01do. The music for it is from the album Lifa, but more inportantly it gave me a start on the army.
Danthe is a woman who has made some poor choices in her life, or rather her un-life. She is a necromancer and she has a grudge. She is inspired by Senua from the game video. Figure is a GW Dark Elf sorcerous that I had lying around and I did some small surgeries on so that she looks like she is dragging the dead up from their graves by eldritch means.
Somewhere along the line Danthe ended up with some ghosts/wraiths/things
These figures were the ones offered in the magazines, I bought a second copy because
Dragon Rampant uses units of twelve figures and
GW offer them in tens. A couple of small alterations and I based them on 25mm discs with a movement tray. Thinned out colours, using lots of supporting media
The second issue of the magazine contained some more, bigger, wraith jobs.
There were four of these in the pack but I only used 3 (a reduced model unit making it a much tougher unit - dead creatues need to be tougher).
The next up on the list were some skeletons. An undead army without skeletons, just isn't an undead army.
Warlord Games Warriors of Erewhon, enough figures in a box for 12 warriors with spears and 12 with bows. Pesky little buggers to put together but well worth the effort.
Lastly - apart from the Dead Knights, the army needed a bit of muscle, something that wouldn't crumble to dust as soon as someone looked at it. So I took a set of Frostgrave Barbarians from
North Star/Osprey, and there were enough in that set to do 6 Elite (tough ass) Vampire Warriors, and 12 Vampre Thrall Warriors. Nothing clever here, just straight up barbarians but with a nod to the Hell Blade video and a bit of warpaint.
Lords
Thralls
Danthe lets the boys loose on the enemy
I hope you found this useful, thank you for looking in. Regards Steve.
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