I’ve never been that into zombies. I never thought 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us was quite as good as everyone made out, the only good (read: not sc𒈔ary) zombie film is Shaun of the Dead, and in Warhammer, they’re just such a pain.
Nurgle has a 𝓰monopoly on Warhammer video game enemies. Darktide wanted zombies, so it looked to Nurgle. Rot and infestation? Nurgle. Even 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters, one of my favourite recent 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer games, was a little too reliant on Nurgl𒉰e’s pustuled minions, zombies⛦ by any other name, for my liking.
On the tabletop, why would I want to paint a horde of identical zombie models when I could paint a Dreadnought or a dragon? Okay, I’ll grant you that🦹 the Zombie Dragon is excellent, but I don’t want to have to paint up 100 shambling corpses in order to field it. However, the Flesh-eater Courts c🌃hange everything.
Age of Sigmar’s realm of Death has done wonders for the game’s ecosystem, at the very least in terms of aesthetics. The Flesh-eater Courts think they’re the kings of old. In their mind, they look like the Bretonnians sat around the round table, sipping wine and feasting on wild boar, when in fact they’re stacks of rotting meat hanging off reanimated bones, drinking the blood of their victims and gorging on foul beasts well past their sell-by. It helps that, instead of generic skeletons or Walking Dead-style zombies, we get 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:creatures right out of Elden Ring.
However, it was another kit from the Flesh-eater Courts’ new range refresh that caught my eye. A👍mong the plastic Varghulfs and zombie lawyers (it is a court, after all), the Abhorrant Gorewarden looks straight off the pages o𝔉f Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game. Specifically, it looks like Gûlavhar, Terror of Arnor.
Gûlavhar is an iconic miniature in the Middle-e🗹arth range, a part of the Arnor range. One of Games Workshop’s own creations, like the named Ringwraiths other than the Witch King ꦅand Khamûl, Gûlavhar had great potential in ravaging Fornost that was ruined by the Finecast resin. Now, the model is completely absent from the Warhammer website, and players have to turn to eBay in order to get their hands on the foul creature.
Now, Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game players, who suffer from so few releases despite loyally p꧙laying the best game system Games Workshop has ever produced, have a chance to add Gûlavhar to their armies, in the form of a converted Abhorrant.
A couple of things need changing – the bone collar and weird bunch of keys for a start ꦇ– but the base model is perfect for a Gûlavhar conversion. A head swap and black/grey paintjob a🎐nd, hey, Morgoth’s your uncle.
Middle-earth hobbyists have a love-hate relationship with character conversions. The scale is the first issue, as Middle-earth miniatures are on more of a 25mm scale to 40K and Age of Sigmar’s heroic 28mm. But also, the Lumineth are nothing like 💛Tolkien’s Elves, and players like to keep it that way.
For models which are out of production, that you can only buy from eBay for exorbi♏tant prices, and those that Games Workshop seems to have forgotten about, conversions might be the only way. And when the design inspiration is so strikingly similar, you’d be silly not to look to the Flesh-eater Courts for your Angm⛄ar force.
