If you assemble it as presented on the box, you will get: 80, 120 and 380 for a total of 580 points. A horde of creatures retains most of the abilities of its individual creatures, and gains the following abilities:

Adjudicate areas of effect by assuming lots of members of the horde are caught in the area. Small areas hit four, medium areas like thunder wave or burning hands hit eight, large areas like fireball or turn undead hit sixteen. Huge areas like circle of death hit thirty two. If the damage done by an area of effect is close to a single monster's hit points, remove the monsters if they fail the saving throw. Bloodbath. Each creature of the horde's choice in the horde's space must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 52 (8d12) slashing damage, or 26 (4d12) slashing damage if the horde has half its hit points or fewer. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage. Because Razarak the Dread Abyssal is so large, you can get away with big, bold moves like heavy drybrushing and slap-it-on shading, and even his details – such as his claws, teeth, and eyes – aren’t so minutely small as to be impossible for the novice painter. If anything, the beast might be a good place for a beginner to get some practice in with their techniques on a relatively forgiving model. Now let's take a brief look at some alternate systems for running monster hordes. Alternate System: The Dungeon Master's Guide Mob Rules

Tracking Damage: Tallying Damage Against the Whole Horde

Adeptus Mechanicus: The Adeptus Mechanicus are a faction of human cyborgs who have augmented their bodies with robotic components. Skeleton Horde can be used as a base color for the mechanical skeletons and bones that make up their cybernetic enhancements. As I said above, once Razarak was in one piece and Arkhan was fully assembled, I kept the two of them separate to paint, though hindsight has left me wondering if this was the correct choice to make. Given the difficulty I had mounting a painted Arkhan to a painted mount, and the damage I did to some of my finished painted areas as a result, I can’t help but wonder if I might have been better off assembling him entirely first. It’s a decision one should make based on their confidence and painting ability. But any white, off-white, tan, light or medium gray primers will work. In the end all it really does is slightly to moderately affect the final shade of the Contrast color. Like for example, putting Guilliman Flesh over a tan primer might give you slightly darker flesh than using say Wraithbone. On the other hand using Guilliman Flesh over a pure white primer will create lighter flesh. Weathering Banner. While you are holding the banner, creatures of your choice within 30 feet from you do not suffer the effects of extreme weather, and ignore nonmagical difficult terrain.

With careful consideration, this rule can be lifted, so long as the mechanical simplicity of the horde is maintained. Mindset In combat, hordes are often accompanied by powerful individuals which serve to direct and empower the horde by serving as a commmander. These creatures should roll initiative as individuals. Commander Eligibility Runefang Steel: Silver and metallic colors can be used to highlight and add details to a miniature, and Runefang Steel is an excellent option for this. Used sparingly, Runefang Steel can help highlight specific areas and add visual interest to the miniature. That covers the basics of running monster hordes. Here are a few tips to make running huge battles easy and memorable.

Arkhan is a powerful wizard: he can cast up to 4 spells per round when at full health and can power-up nearby Death mages. First off, these little fellows are little. Before this, my experience of minis this size had come from the Chainrasp Horde from issue one of Mortal Realms, who were each made from two or three reasonably well-sized parts that could be push-fitted and went onto their bases without so much as a creak of protest. The Skeleton Warriors, though, are a far-cry from this. Each figure is broken into at least seven parts: the base, legs and pelvis, the torso, the right arm with a weapon, the left arm, a shield, and finally the head. Given the size of each component, this is challenging. Citadel Colour’s Skeleton Horde paint is a versatile and reliable acrylic paint for miniature painting. This base coat has a matte finish and is formulated with high-quality pigments to provide excellent coverage and a smooth, even finish. As a foundational color in the Citadel Colour palette, Skeleton Horde is perfect for beginners and experienced painters alike, allowing for easy highlighting and shading of undead armies, bones, and other skeletal details. It’s a bone-colored paint with a slightly beige hue that provides a realistic bone-like finish and can be used as the foundation for many other colors and techniques. What armies to paint with Skeleton Horde These armies were chosen based on their aesthetic themes and the presence of bone-like or skeletal elements in their design. Skeleton Horde Colour Schemes & Combinations

My army will have quite a lot of colours, so I'd like to have the most uniform look which is possible under the circumstances by setting the same colour tone. After you finish that, you'll be given two quests, though honestly, you only need one for the key quest. Take the one marked Scholomance, which takes you about two feet away to his friend Apothacary Dithers. Skeletons are also a great way for beginners to practice some highlighting techniques. When I painted my first batch of Stormcast Eternals and started edge-highlighting in light gold, I found the process to be really unrewarding and dull, as gold on gold still looks like gold, so the effect isn’t obvious to a more unskilled painter. I only started noticing a real difference when it came to spot highlighting. But with skeletons, I find the difference is clear from the get-go.

This section details some optional rules that DMs can use with hordes. They cover a variety of situations, from interactions with effects that can affect many creatures to individual creatures that survive the destruction of a horde. Area of Effects and Many Targets I've talked here at length about the flaws of D&D's encounter building rules and offered numerous solutions. Many times when facing huge hordes of monsters, the encounter is very likely deadly. This goes up significantly if the challenge rating of the monsters in the horde are higher than CR 1/4 or 1/2. Skeletons are super fun, super easy, and can actually look really good with surprisingly little effort. The nice thing about the Skeleton Horde box is that all the skeletons in it have the option to be unique: different helmets, different weapons, different shields and scraps of cloth on banners and pennants. There’s a lot of fun to be had here with rust and weathering as well. Marching ahead. Horde. The horde can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and the horde can move through any opening large enough for a Medium infantryman. Additionally, the horde is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form. Examples of spells that would interact with this rule include fireball, fear, mass suggestion, weird, and mass polymorph, among others. Powerful Commanders

I was really taken with the deep-sea, almost luminous look of the cape on the box, so I decided t go with the recommended mix of an Incubi Darkness base, a Coelia Greenshade wash, and then a Kabalite Green drybrush and Sybarite Green highlight. i think the effect is spectacular. Vallejo Desert Tan is interesting because I thought it would darken the Contrast colors more, but it actually didn't. Same goes for another Vallejo primer I didn't mention, Skeleton Bone. Our heroes stand atop the ruins of an elven watchtower, blades and spells ready as forty orcs charge in. The stout warrior cleaves into them, slicing off four heads in two vicious cuts. However, the GW Mechanicus Standard Grey, the Testors Gray and the Rustoleum/Krylon gray primers are quite a bit darker. They are kind of rogues on this list. I wouldn't use them as first choices to use with the Contrasts. Put it this way. The Contrasts weren't TECHNICALLY designed to be put over a gray that dark, but to a certain point you can use gray and it will work. But there's a cutoff point. The three I have on the list are about as dark as you can go with a gray primer and still have the Contrasts actually still be able to be show up on them. Anything darker and it would probably cancel out many if not most of the Contrast colors in the range.Creatures that are Large or larger are difficult to fit into hordes, and should be treated as individual combatants. Groups of Tiny creatures should be treated as swarms, not hordes. Examples of such swarms include swarm of rats, swarm of quippers, and swarm of insects, among others. Spellcasting This tally idea seems complicated but it scales well for any number of monsters. You can run a dozen orcs this way, or one hundred skeletons, or five hundred goblins and the same system applies.