The Armies Of Mordor

   One of my mates messaged me to ask me if I wanted a game, as he only plays Lord of the Rings I knew I was going to have to tidy up/add to one of my collections, however, when he told me the points limit, I knew I had a fair amount of work to do.

   I spent about a week trying to decide what direction to go in - mostly looking at my old Isengard force or my slightly newer but very unfinished Haradrim, but when he told me he was using a list based around the Grief of Eomer, which happens towards the end of Pelannor, I did a hard left into my to do pile and pulled out my sprues of Morannon Orcs.

I painted three warbands (a sprue each) of Morannon Orcs along with a Morannon Orc Captain for each - this would be the vast bulk of my army*.

*Although, I also proxied in a Isengard Troll as a Mordor Troll for some hitting power

It was at this point where I was posting photos on Istagram where he follows me, that I decided to use this as a chance to get more of the backlog painted and start to get inside his head pre game by painting models that I wasn't going to use, but that he might worry over.

The first model was a Mouth of Sauron, partly as it was an easy model to paint and partly as it's rules are quite good.

Then came Gothmog as he really helps Morannon Orcs out and he was only going to sit in the backlog if not.

I didn't stop there but that's enough for one post.

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Traitor Kasrkin

   Having lined up a couple of games in quick succession, I decided to use them to push myself into finishing more elements of a project that had fallen by the wayside - my traitor guard. I split the elements into NEED for a game and units I can proxy in the meantime but replace before the second game.

   The units I decided I needed were the Kasrkin and a Primaris Psyker. The Kasrkin were half painted, so that was a fairly easy thing to achieve with a few hours work, while the Primaris Psyker was a model from another project that was built and waiting for more models before I started the painting.

   I went with the traditional red unit for the Kasrkin, which was something I had avoided on purpose for my regular traitor guard. These guys it felt right for.

They have a painted unit icon of a bronze hand print - as I'm going to call these guys something like The Pacted.

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