Sylvaneth Warcry Warband

Few months ago, I have tried Warcry for the first time. As someone who liked (and played) Mordheim and who generally enjoys small-scale games, I was very interested in trying out Warcry ruleset. I built a small Tzeentch Arcanites warband (made entirely out of Tzaangors and Skyfires) and really enjoyed all of my games (espically my opponents complaining about the Skyfires :D). Since I have several armies for Age of Sigmar, I am really looking forward to building different warbands, especially now that new battletomes for each of the grand alliances have been published and each army got some (or many) new options.

So, yesterday I bought Sylvaneth Warcry set. I already have a big Sylvaneth army, but I wanted to create Sylvaneth warband with an alternative colour scheme (something I was considering fo some time now) and I also wanted another 3 Kurnoth Hunters with bows for my regular games of Age of Sigmar, so this box was perfect.

I like this set because it provides a lot of options for whatever you want to use it for - your regular army, or for your Warcry warband. Here's what you get inside:

• 3 Kurnoth Hunters (with all available options - bows, swords, scythes)
• 5 Tree-Revenants (that you can also build as Spite-Revenants)
• Warcry unit and ability cards (not including new units and abilities available in the Warcry Order  Battletome)
• Bases, tokens and assembly instructions
  

This box is a great choice both for expanding your existing Sylvaneth army, or for building an interesting Warcry warband. I'll start assembling the models week and during the holidays I will play a bit with the ideas for the new colour scheme. 

Painting Varanguard

This year was pretty bad for me when it comes to painting. Due to lockdown, job change and much less spare time available (I became dad last year), I did not manage to paint as much as before. Spare time that I had, I spent mostly on working out (to stay in shape) and reading. The only model I have painted was Archaon (but I am very satisfied with how it turned out). Recently, I've manged to squeeze in some more time for painting, so I started slowly working on my Varanguard. The plan is to have two units of Varanguard for the 1500 point Everchosen list (with some Chaos Marauders horsemen as well). On the pictures below, you can see the leader of the first Varanguard unit. 

I was worried about the colour scheme that I have chosen, because I was not sure about the combination of the red skin on the mount and the black armour with gold trim/details. In general, I don't like paiting black armour, but I definitely wanted to try that for this unit. I tried to separate all of the important details, as well as create contrast with the miniature base, to make miniature stand out. I really like the end result and cannot wait to finish the second model from the unit.