From JohnS: The Poet, The Pavlovas and the KGB (49 points + 15 skullz)

The World of Valon is really an interesting place. "May you live in interesting times" kind of interesting. It's easy to get killed but you needn't worry, there are plenty of necromancers and liches to bring you back. At best, you'll be mostly dead.

Lord Byrorc and Frank, his home-made standard bearer

Frank is cheap to run as long as you have some electrickery at hand

Lord Byrorc WAS Albion's greatest living poet. He is now the Witchlands greatest unliving poet.

 

First up today we have Lord Byrorc, a gad about town in old Londinium, whose poetry had all the ladies swooning until he made the poor choice of joining the Albion Expeditionary Force to the Witchlands. Sent to aid the Dark Czar against the Ferarch invasion, all they really succeeded in doing was provide more material for the re-animators.

Now animated by spite and doggerel, Byrorc is little more than a skeleton in a powdered wig but he still maintains a private passion for the works of young Mury Shrilley. So much so that he built his own standard bearer following the instructions in Shrilley's novel. Young Frank runs on "electrickery" fed to him via the large bolts in his neck.

Pavlova Grenadiers

I must admit, they normally have more strawberries

Or passionfruit

I bet when they left the green shores of Guinalea they didn't expect this

 

Speaking of the Albion Expeditionary Force, part of that was made up of the hulking Bog Orcs of Guinalea, that green and pleasant part of Albion. Unfortunately the AEF was fed into the meat grinder of battles against the Ferach Emperor Mordred. The Dark Czar didn't care, as their corpses provided fresh building blocks for his liche necromancers to raise.

The  Dark Czar was so impressed by the size of the re-animated Bog Orcs that he immediately summoned them to serve as his Star Wraith Imperial Guard as they stood a head taller than their enemies.

The first KGB brute was a werewolf but he's alright noooooooow!

Order must be maintained!

Enemies and spies are everywhere!

 

The Star Wraith Aleksander, also known as the Dark Czar, uses a vast network of liches and savant undead (such as werewolves) to keep control of the seething masses of undead at his command. Known as Kommisariat Graviski Bureov, or KGB, they are everywhere in The Witchlands rooting out traitors and commanding troops through their psychic link to the Star Wraith. They are often seen on the battlefield "encouraging" the performance of the Undead Army.

Points:

5 x 25mm figures @ 5 = 25 points

1 x Mounted 28mm figure @ 10 = 10 points

2 x 40mm Infantry @ 7 points = 14

Total Points Claimed  = 49 points

Skullz for the Skull Duel = 15

Skull total so far is 78

From Millsy:

I never imagined there was anything cooler and a Pavlov's grenadier mitre cap. I stand corrected. Had I been thinking clearly I would have realised almost everything can be improved by the addition of moar skullz.

Cracking stuff all around John, especially the guards and Lord Byrorc who made me properly laugh out loud. Does his poetry stink as bad as his rotting corpse? Let's hope so.

49 pointaroos for you!

Cheers,
Millsy