Gray Matter No More: War against the gray 2025

Fellow lords of the dark forges,

The fires of industry burn eternal, but alas, the Gray Curse lingers in our workshops! For too long have the unpainted legions languished, their potential wasted, their bases bare. It is time to stoke the flames, summon forth the Daemons of Completion, and hammer the gray tide into submission!

Join us in this year’s grim campaign: “Gray Matter No More: War against the gray 2025!” This endeavor, as darkly ambitious as a Chaos Dwarf sorcerer ascending to stonehood, calls upon you to rise against your unpainted hordes and claim glory in the name of the Father of Darkness!

The Plan of Forgecraft:

  • Starting Point: As the bell tolls midnight on January 1, 2025, your net score is reset to a resounding 0. No skulking, no excuses—every unpainted soul counts!
  • Acquisitions: Each new thrall conscripted to your collection adds +1 to your score. (Yes, even the Hobgoblins.)
  • Completions: Each model forged, painted, and imbued with life subtracts -1 from your score. Strike hard and true!
  • Consistency: Maintain a strict tally—no cutting corners or shaving points. The Dawi Zharr do not abide sloppiness!
  • Documentation: Record your victories and setbacks alike in the Daemonforge Spreadsheet, updated and ready for your dark machinations.
  • Showcase: Chronicle your conquests in a dedicated BATG thread, complete with tales of triumph and images of your enslaved (painted) minions.

Rewards of the Forge:
No great endeavor is without reward! Prove your might, and these badges of infernal honor could be yours:

Badges of Chaos Glory

Gray Badge Gray Forge: Paint just one model more than you acquire, and you’ve taken the first step on the dark path (-1 score).

Bronze Badge Bronze Forge: Achieve the mighty feat of forging 25 more than you recruit (-25 score).

Silver Badge Silver Forge: Double the toil, double the reward! Forge 50 beyond what you muster (-50 score).

Gold Badge Golden Anvil: Paint 100 models more than you acquire—an achievement worthy of Zharr Naggrund itself (-100 score).

Blackshard Badge Blackshard Forge: The ultimate accolade. Forge 200 models into painted perfection, leaving mere mortals in awe (-200 score).

Why Join the Daemonforge Initiative?
Because unpainted models serve no purpose in the great schemes of Chaos! They clutter your workspace and shame your infernal dynasty. Only by painting them can you truly unleash their destructive potential upon the Mortal Realms!

Gather your paints, sharpen your brushes, and summon forth your daemonic will. The unpainted hordes will kneel before your mastery—or be banished to the void!

May Hashut’s flames guide your hand and your brushes never falter!

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This year’s participants:

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I’m in!

Be prepared for insidious memeing.

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Can’t get much worse than 2024*, count me in!

*someone remind me of this when the time comes

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@Jasko we all will, no worries :heart:

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I’m in!!! Hopefully I’ll fare better this year!

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Anything has to be better than last year. I seriously lacked anything resembling a purpose

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I`m in! :hatoff:

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Count me in once again!

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You guys know the drill, if the blog is up and i havent linked it yet, post a reply here!

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We’ll see how I do, other than buy the odd model here and there in 2024 I was WAAAAAY behind on my painting so the score was still close to zero by year-end. Here’s hoping 2025 is better, but I’ve got a bunch of stuff held up by Canada Post after the strike so I’ll be adding to the 2025 pile VERY soon. My new 3D printer that’s been added to the mix isn’t going to help with my score either, LOL!

~N

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Hashuts speed to all of you. looking forward to seeing the paint jobs!

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I’ll join up, probably will take some time to talley everything though!

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Oh, Im in as well of course! :slight_smile:

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Happy to have you join!

Tally what mate? You only start counting from January 1st. Everything you buy/print/get gifted/whathaveyou gets added to your score, everything you paint is subtracted. Net score should be negative.

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Sometimes my inability to read really takes effect. I’m about to get hit with some grey bodies here shortly though!

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You are of course welcome to voluntarily disclose your existing shame as @Jasko has done exquisitely, at risk of being turned into a meme.


note this meme was created before high elf TOW release and is subject to change

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There’s always room down here in the meme-trenches… :face_in_clouds: but you’re guaranteed some laughs on the way towards the inevitable death beneath a mountain of grey plastic, so there’s that.

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