Hello everyone! Thought I might start a little blog about my army progress with the chaos dwarfs. The project started when a couple of gaming friends surprised me last december by giving me a chaos dwarf army set from Norba miniatures as a birthday present. Since then, I’ve been slowly building up my collection and - by the way of trial and error - defining the visuality for the army.
My mid-term goal is to have a fully painted 2000 pts army to with which to attend the annual Finnish TOW Grand Tournament in march 2026. Miniatures-wise I have almost everything I need, save for the hordes of hobgolin cutthroats I want to include in the list. I have to acquire 2-4 boxes of the new hobgolins for AoS as soon as they hit the shelves
Anyway, enough with the rambling. Behold some of the units I’ve completed thus far:
The kit bashed iron daemon acts as the backbone in pretty much all my lists. The model is an unholy amalgamation of various GW, 3rd party and 3d printed bits. An absolute unit if I do say so myself.
On the left a dreadquake mortar, made of parts looted from the filthy imperials. A group of blunderbuss blokes on the right, these are some of the first models I painted and I was still looking for the right colour scheme at the time of painting these. Ideally I’d like to have them repainted in the same scheme as the warriors above, but that’s not a top priority at the moment
Lastly, some projects I have in the pipeline. The tank wagon on the mid right will act as my baggage train and is obviously inspired by that video from Xander.
I hope some you find interest in my ramblings, and I’ll try to keep you posted as soon as I have something new to show!
I’ve been playing a lot of games lately and leaning heavily into using a lot of cutthroats, usually two blobs of ~35 supported by hobgoblin khans for that sweet additional leadership. This has prompted me to making some unit fillers to fill those ranks!
The other one has an old forgeworld daemonsmith on top of a crate. I have the whole set of three and figured I won’t ever be using so many foot sorcerers, so I figured why not use one for the unit filler.
Played some games last weekend against High elves and (inferior) Dwarfs last weekend, and won both my games 12-8 I’m GM’ing a narrative escalation campaign where the players began with lots more core and less fancier stuff, but have now made their way to the 4th and final round with normal army composition.
The players can also use gold to hire 0-250 points worth of core and special units, as well as choose a “feat” to receive a randomly chosen allied contingent. Against the high elves I had a stupendously under achieving Giant as an ally that didn’t manage to kill a 2-man bolt thrower crew during two turns of combat
It was indeed a combat with high comedic value, although less so for the elf player most likely
After the Iron daemon flank charged the elves butchering a fair number, the daemon itself was flank charged by some elven spearmen who didn’t do much else than provide some combat resolution, which actually made me lose the combat and give ground. Both of the highly diminished elven units restrained and reformed into a marching column heading straight back to Ulthuan I chased them for the last couple of rounds but was sadly unable to catch the curs!
I successively failed to cast Steed of shadows on my big brick of Ironsworn so they didn’t manage to provide support for the locomotive.
Glad you like my goofy idea not sure how lore accurate oil extraction is in the old world but if someone’s doing to it, it’s got to be the chaos dwarfs.
Yes! I like the idea of dieselpunk-themed chorfs, however my army is still stuck in the coal age. I have acquired a few oil barrels but I haven’t figured out what to do with them.
I’m GM’ing a narrative escalation campaign where the players began with lots more core and less fancier stuff, but have now made their way to the 4th and final round with normal army composition.
I chased them for the last couple of rounds but was sadly unable to catch the curs!
