Part 9 - The Great Muster
So it was that the challengers agreed that whichever of them was to amass the most power, the most wealth and the most victories within a year’s span would come to rule. And they signed this pact in blood below the shadow of the Great Bull God’s statue, then to disperse, their retinues in tow, each to their respective quarters of the tower-city, and they began preparations for their great conquest.
If spoils of war were to decide which of them was to be leader of the Dumang, then all the forces at their disposal would have to be amassed at once. And so, the Great Muster began in earnest.
So, a little real-life update for this army project and things to come.
The challenge proposed within this story is actually one I plan to follow up on myself. I’ve got a lot of unfinished stuff for the Dumang lying around, and I’ve got three distinctive army lists I want to be able to field. They focus on the three things I find most iconic about the Drath’Zharr: Demonic Warmachines 
, endless tides of slaves 
and bull-worshipping fanaticism 
.
To get real for a moment, I stopped posting last year because I lost a lot of motivation for playing AOS. I have a lot of time constraints in my personal life and just got tired of new GHBs popping up every couple of months to drain me of 40 € AGAIN and present me with brand new rules to keep track of and build armies around when I’m already struggling with the basic ones due to lack of practice and time. It kinda made sense that I escaped into a skirmish game like Mordheim for a while and didn’t look back.
Fortunately, our local gaming community has a rather active Path to Glory group and I plan to simultaneously participate there with my three armies. This should give me ample time to build up each force unit by unit, and come up with interesting stories about the battles that take place. FortunatelY, PtG does not only start off on a smaller scale, but is also agnostic to the ever-changing “Realm Rules” that each new GHB brings, saving me both money and headache!
That being said, I’d like to give a couple of tastes of what I’m currently working on:
- a unit of counts-as-Chaos-Knights Bull Centaurs -
- a Chaos Lord on Karkadrak (or rhino gholem)
- counts-as-Marauders mixed slave unit -
- counts-as-Spire-Tyrants Orruk Slaves -
I’m quite happy to have found new motivation to pursue this project again, as it has grown quite dear to me. There is much more that I haven’t even begun to build, like another enthralled Daemon Prince, my Gorebeast Chariots or Chaos Spawns of Hashut. There’s also four warmachines in the working that I won’t post anything about atm because I actually want to participate in the current Golden Hat competition.
So, stay tuned, I guess. May Hashut bless y’all 
