Add 1 to hits for the Lord Executioner and -1 to hit him. This would be…fine if the Lord Executioner wasn’t the focus as the Spirit Hosts are and will remain the star of the show. Death Stalkers The box also has “Vandus Hammerhand” the “Lord-Celestant on Dracoth” who isn’t present in this collection Crimson Peak, a 2015 film from Guillermo Del Toro, is perfectly in this vein of Victorian horror themes, combining the time period with romance, mystery, and gothic horror. It’s a visually striking film with some great performances. Step8- The final step was a light drybrushing of Burnt Orange mix 1:2 with Hyek Yellow and a small bit of Sun Yellow. This was done mostly in the higher light areas.

They also have a single ability, but it’s a doozy. If your enemy successfully casts a spell that targets a unit within 12″ of the banshee’s you can roll 2D6 and add 1 to the roll if you have more than 3 models left. If the roll is greater than the casting value, the spell is unbound. To make it even better, this happens each time an enemy spell is successfully cast. Final ThoughtsSlitter –Before piling in, nominate a model within 1″ of the bearer and roll a die. If it is higher than the unit’s wound characteristic then it is slain. Good for a guaranteed extra killed model, and might occasionally tap a Hero too. B+ Outside of those collections, you will surely want a box of Grimghast Reapersthat allows you to assemble 9 Grimghasts and one Extoller and the unit is also extremely useful in any Death army for Age of Sigmar.

Updating these models was a nice little palette cleanser and it made me like the models even more, I feel that especially the reddish-brown vines and jade ruins make the bases pop even more. The original paint job can be found here. If you're a Warhammer Underworlds player, or you just want some interesting sculpts, then the Champions of Dreadfane has the same Banshees as the Nighthaunt box and the Warhammer Underworlds Nightvault core set has the Briar Queen and some Chainrasps that could be used as alternative miniatures. Nighthaunt General Tactics Step 3 – Temple Guard Blue on a tighter edge highlight of the ectoplasm This was also used for short slashes and a bit of stippling in the same orientation as the previous streaking. Tighter highlight of skin and skull.

Most are created by Nagash or his followers, using the necromantic magics he has perfected and which the Collegiate Arcane believe he created. All such spirits suffer an ironic punishment, as the god of the dead inflicts a penance for crimes either real or perceived. So a criminal seeking escape through death may find himself in undeath still bound by spiritual chains. [3a] The Chainrasps box lets you build a Dreadwarden, and the Spirit Hosts box contains 3 Spirit Hosts. Between those 2 boxes and the Nighthaunt box, you will have all the miniatures you'll ever need for a Nighthaunt warband, regardless of the combination of forces you're looking to build. The TechRaptor Nighthaunt Warcry Warband, the Unrelanting Harvest. Out of the 18 balanced missions, 6 are combat based, requiring removing either the leader or different deployment groups. 9 are objective-based and 3 are mixed, movement/survival-based. Hammer appears in Round 2 onwards 10 out of 18 times and Dagger 8 out of 18 times. You can fill out Hammer and Dagger with either the rest of the swarm or some of the faster units. Even if they come on later, you will still be able to position them to take objectives or hunt down enemies. WarCry Victory Cards. Nighthaunt Mission Tactics Spectral tether –Casting Value 6. Heal a friendly Hero within 12″ for D3 wounds. You have access to a better healing spell through the Guardian of Souls, while this spell isn’t atrocious you do have better ways to heal. C+

There’s supposed to be another Chainrasp Horde on the way - you can see the not-blue ones in the promotional art. So, when this article refers to an ability being a Double, a Triple or a Quad, it refers to this system. It might sound a bit confusing, but takes no time to get used to when you start playing What changed in the new edition for the Nighthaunt Warband?Reaped Like Corn(Quad, Grimghast Reaper and Cairn Wraith): Up to 6 damage to all enemy fighters within range. The curse of the Nighthaunt cannot be easily broken. Even though the necromantic forces holding together the spectral bodies can be broken by sorcery or violence driven by sufficient willpower, over time their shattered essence reforms in the underworlds. Few weapons or spells in the mortal realms can destroy a Nighthaunt once and for all. [3a] History Age of Myth Phantasmal Discorporation (Triple, Dreadblade Harrow): If the unit is not within 3″ of an enemy, reposition it anywhere outside of 5″ from any enemy. No one believes me, but, this particular sculpt was only available in the Warcry Catacombs Core Box. Low. Nighthaunts have been through an interesting up and down. They used to do reasonably well, then faced a decline that they haven’t really recovered from. You’ll see the occasional list appear on tournaments but not as often as one would like. It suffers from early battletome syndrome and it’s just very hard for them to make up the lost ground of having inferior army traits to newer, fresher books. Nighthaunts vs. Legion of Grief

Note: if you haven’t read the basic rules for Warcry before reading this article, it might be helpful to know that the game’s abilities are activated by using 6 dice that you roll at the start of your turn. Shroudguard are a host of Nighthaunt Malignants, usually Bladegheist Revenants guarding a Knight of Shrouds, who are bound to their master or mistress by magical oaths. [3e] The oaths reinforce their spectral forms and allow them to absorb blows that would otherwise dissipate them. [3f] Five Crossboos won’t really have any impact on the game, but bumping them up to ten will take up one of your precious reinforcement points and cost 190 points, more expensive than the excellent Namarti Reavers or even the continually problematic Lumineth Sentinels. This, dear reader, is not a good unit. If you were desperate for ranged firepower, consider Chainghasts. Or, better yet, consider another army. Immune to Rend –All of your units ignore modifiers to saves, positive or negative making high rend opposition useless. A niche utility unit that doesn’t see much play. They can attempt to unbind a spell as a wizard does, gaining +1 to the unbind roll for every 4 models. And that’s it. You likely won’t have enough models to get more than +1 to unbinding without paying more points than they’re really worth. While they can also eat an endless spell, it comes at the cost of the unit taking D3 mortal wounds, something you cannot afford on a unit of one wound models. You have plenty of casters, let them do the heavy lifting. Dreadscythe HarridansFeasters of magic, consumers of energy, Myrmourn Banshees are the vain of any spell caster. Equipped with swift daggers that chill the spine of any enemy, no mortal is safe from their reach. Lightshard of the Harvest Moon –Pop this once per game. Once you do every unit within 12″ can reroll failed hits. Crazy good with the right timing, but you need to manage the aura around the Guardian of Souls. B+ I found it much simpler than the Jailor and Chaingasts but I did end up with a large and noticable seam. When I did these I was experimenting with using a single common colour to lighten the original base coat colour into a highlight, this would be Flayed One Flesh for everything but the metals. The vines were Death World Forest washed Athonian Camoshade, with the flowers being Wild Rider Red washed Carroburg and extreme recesses of Druchii Violet. They are drawn to magic as carrion are drawn to the dead, and such is their bitterness towards life that any mortal creature in their way is likely to receive a swift jab from their cursed chill daggers. [1a]