The road of Power : Know your Enemy.

I share with you a pic of minis I painted recently for my Chaos Warband and for my meeting with The French Scrib : Patatovich !! One of my enemy during the campaing.

Who's that men? An enthusiast collecter, painter, gamer AND writer... He place story and background before the rest of the hobby, like me he loves gameboard heavily decorated, play with big big charts and Obviously with full painted armies.
With his band they translated in French many old GW books like Slave to Darkness, Waaargh ! The Orks... He travel easily between the two worlds, always in search of texts to translate.

Visite his websites : Verrah Rubicon (WFB)  Taran (RT)
Check his extraordinary painted Armies : Patatovich Armies

The road of Power : Warband progress

By Ian Miller

Following the last three adventures, the champions and the band strongly evolved, an updating is imperative!
The reputation of the Blacksmith of Gods is not usurped, his gods give to him a Metallic body, the Dark Metal and him are one.
His champions in rewards for theirs acts recive, strange and unknown metals which Darn transforms into Dreadly Chaos helmets .
The harmful aura of the Champion attract the presence of a mythical monster, a dragon Ogre is now a member of his suite.

Darn rewards : Metallic body
Mordar, Thugs champions reward : 2nd Chaos armor (Add 1 to saving throw)
Guldnot, Orc champion reward : 2nd Chaos armor with fusion (Add 1 to saving throw and T+1)
Followers reward : Fire breathe
Deads : 4 thugs, 5 beastmen and 2 hounds.
Additionnal follower :
1 Dragon Ogre (Ventouse attribute)
14 Thugs
3 Hounds

Darn Warband summary :

Darn The Blacksmith of Gods : Chaos warrior Champion, 11 Victory points.
4 Gifts : Magic Object , Magic Weapon, 2 Chaos Armors (2nd To Followers)
5 Attributes : Bestial head(Goat), Black skin, Hoofs, Hideous appearance and Metallic body. 
2 Equipements : Magic Armor, magic Object.

Mordar : Thugs champions, 11 Victory points.
1 Gift : Augment carac. S+1 & T+1
0 Attribute :
2 Equipements : 2 chaos armors

Guldnot : Orc champion, 11 Victory points.
1 Gift : Augment carac, S+1 & T+1
2 Attributes : Atrophied extremity and limb transference.
2 Equipements : 2 Chaos armors

Warband :
2 Beastmen

8 Beastmen (2 dominants attributes : Frenzy and One-legged )

18 Thugs
5 Chaos hounds (2 dominants attributes : Regenaration and Magic resistance)

1 Ogre (1 personnal Attibute : Fire breathe)

1 Dragon Ogre (1 Dominante Attribute : Suction cups )

The road of Power : The beasts hunt.

To increase my band, I need to hunting beast of chaos, I will be able to keep someone in my band and to resell the skin of most wild.  (Beasts are consider as Fanatic Gobbo)
I succeeded without difficulties that enables me to draw new rewards for my champions and also to draw new followers.

Initial deployment

The trap closes on beasts

Beast are clamped

The road of Power : The Norsc village.

Call of blood... Darn must slain and burn to erase his last failure. Destruction of human village will be perfect for his redemption. Village is keep by ten guard, the rest  is composed by villagers. 

Darn encircle the village and brings closer gently, some berserks succumb quickly and guards flees… The massacre of the villagers can start. But  a drakar arrives, that gives courage to guards in rout. A long boarding begins and ends with the massacre of Norsc.

The vistory isn't total because I still lost too much followers in this attack. I gain some victory points and I stealing Drakar. These spoils enable me to buy services of additional thugs.

The Village

The battle begin

The Norsc are ready to defend their territory

The second part of the battle : The boarding.

The last Norsc.

The road of Power : Confontation with Chaos Pleasur.

In this adventure, I am confronted to a beastmen Warband carried by a Shaman of Slaanesh. The first band which reaches 33% of loss must test at the beginning of each turn or leave in rout.

The Minotaur dismembed 4 Thugs in one round.. My Ogre was KO against Slaangors... Hounds flee... In spite of some daring actions, Darn Warband rout against the magic power of  Slaanesh. The shaman becomes a personal enemy.

For the next adventure, I have the choice to  fight once again this Slaanesh followers or  attack a Norsc village, pics soon...

Initial deployment

The Slaanshie Master and his band

The rest of the Slaanshie Warband

The Blacksmith advance with his followers

Rout of the Beastmen and Centaurs

Last moment of my Ogre

The road of Power.

I recently meet a Citadel collector who like me enjoy to play old painting miniatures and draw dices on heavy charts, some e-mails to select a date to play and it is the beginning of my new Chaos Champion and his warband : Darn The Blacksmith of Gods. (Narrative campaign without confrontation on board game.)

By John Blanche.

 Let me tell you the saga of Darn… The quiet life of this blacksmiths rocked since the attack of his village at the borders of the empire. The Doom Riders struck the villagers as the hammer on the anvil… Many villagers died, the others were chained  and taken along through the snow-covered lands, their destination, black mines of Norsca.


Now, Darn forges weapons and armours for its dark masters, those all are encrusted with black stones with greenish reflects. These stones are extract from the mine and as time passes in contact with these stones, Darn notes that other slaves, his companions in misfortune change awfully. But  Darn is blessed by the gods of Chaos, his body is more resistant but its mind sinks gradually in a chaotic dementia.

Its destiny toggled once again when its Masters were attacked by an invisible enemy coming from the depths of the mines. The confusion of this nocturnal attack made it possible Darn to run away with his companions. They succeeded in seizing weapons and armors to be equipped. Darn has only one idea in mind, massacre its Dark Masters.

Darn : Humain profil with chaos armor
Darn Reward : Bestial head(Goat) and chaos armor
His acolytes: 11 Beastmen: (Dominant Attribute: 0)

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The tracking begins and leads Darn and his band more to North. They massacre without pity the runaways of the mines. The mutations become increasingly current but their corrupt minds don’t remarks them. Darn becomes naturally the leader of the group, his companions sense in him a capacity, a black force. They start to pray  gods of which they dont know their names but for which they are ready to pour blood. In reward, the divinities give to Darn  armors with dark and mysterious ornaments. 

Darn Reward : Armour of chaos (to a follower).                      

Followers Reward : Quadruped

Deads : 1 beastman    

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Darn finally found the last survivors from the mines, these Dark Masters taken into an  Orcs ambush. To their heads a dark wizard who had just time to chant some words against one follower of Darn who massacred it in return… Some minutes later the beastman transformed into slobbery spawn. Darn paid an homage to his gods and they rewarded him  by a weapon bewitched with the dark capacity.

Darn Reward : Magic weapon.     
Followers Reward : Spawn of Chaos, stupid & Fear irrational of the wizards.  

Additional follower :

1 Orc (Snorta)

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His wandering brings it him and warband to return towards the old world, wood are their new den. They tighten many ambushes there, Darn makes run blood with flood and its gods thank it by filling it for many times him and its disciples. Darn can now forge armors by the prayer, his chaotic aura cross  the edges of woods and attracts new disciples.


Darn Rewards : Black skin, hoofs, Magic Object and armour of Chaos (To Snorta).          
Followers Reward : Atrophied extremity, Augment. Of carac., magic Weapon and limb transference.

Deads:  3 Beastmen and the spawn.

  
Additional followers :  

4 Dogs of Chaos. (Dominant Attributes: RM (1), Regeneration 6.)              
10 Thugs (Attribute dominating: 0)         

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The armors forged by Darn become objects of cult, they are venerated by these disciples who see in them the evidence of his any power. The reputation of Darn  grow, it becomes “the Blacksmiths of the Gods” Champion of the Great Chaos. Its appearance becomes insupportable, its integral armour is able to accompany his mutations and its malformations, the ornaments of its armour change at sight of eye and reflect the horrible corruption of the Champion.      

Darn Rewards :    Hideous appearance and Armour of chaos (To a thugs)                                    
Followers Reward :  Coward and Augment. Of carac.     

Deads : 1 beastmen and 2 Thugs.

Additional followers:  

9 beastmen (dominant Attributes: Frenzy and one-legged people.)

1 Ogre  

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Darn Warband summary :

Darn The Blacksmith of Gods : Chaos warriors (4 Gifts, 4 Attributes, magic weapon and object)

6 Beastmen

9 beastmen (2 dominants attributes)

8 Thugs (1 champion with chaos armor and augment carac)

4 Chaos hounds (2 dominants attributes)

1 Ogre

1 Orc Snorta’s (1 champion with chaos armor and augment carac)

By John Blanche