I’ve once again opted for the top table matchup over the matchup of the eventual winner. I figured you would rather not look at William’s game, which was a Legion of Night mirror with a total of 260 Deadwalker Zombies in it. You’re welcome. There’s nothing like the classic concept of the walking dead. Zombies run the gamut from completely harmless to extraordinarily dangerous, depending on the storytelling involved. Often times they are a grim reminder of death, the slow growth of an ideology within a society (which is always topical), and/or a tragic and cautionary tale. Other times they sing in musicals, but we don’t talk about those here. My zombie starts with a solid undercoat of VGC Elfic Flesh. I’d advise a coat more than I put on, as the unevenness I left in bits has to be patched up later. This is a very pale, slightly green/yellow tinged flesh tone that I don’t often use for actual flesh, but paints a mean zombie. Any similar cool off white such as Pallid Wych flesh will do admirably, or you can easily mix your own with very little paint. These Age of Sigmar Deadwalker Zombies are for my Hyshian Gravelords. I wanted to go with a look of dried out leathery zombies, reminiscent of Moorliechen or bog bodies.

Finally, to brighten the zombies up and bring all the colors together, I did a light drybrushing of Screaming Skull. You will want a large soft brush for this – a cheap round makeup brush will do well. Do it very lightly and avoid staying in one spot too long. Drybrish this over the whole model, though I would go a little lighter near the tips of the horns. I am not very skilled at drybrushing and I overbrushed in a few spots, but at the end of the day you can’t cry over zombies too much. Like TheChirugen, I wanted to showcase a brighter method of painting zombies. Probably my biggest joy in painting them is that you can toss pretty much whatever colors that you like in there and they’ll look great. Green, Blue, Purple, Yellow, Orange, Pink? Any color will look great as an undertone for zombie skin. For this tutorial I’m using a mantic plague zombie model. REC and its inferior-but-still good US remake Quarantine are both solid, following a reporter and her cameraman as they’re trapped in a building following an incident where residents are infected with a disease that turns them into zombies. Get creative and paint detailed Zombies with horrific wounds using the Citadel Colour System. There’s a huge range of water-based paints designed for all your Warhammer painting needs in the colours of your choice. Prepare your new incredible new army using different paint methods and begin battles of Warhammer Age of Sigmar! Painting zombies is mostly about painting rotting flesh, tattered clothing, and gore effects. Because they frequently feature loose skin sloughing off the body and lots of folds and wrinkles, they take very well to washes and contrast-heavy methods of painting. Mugginns’ Method – American Civil War Zombies for Dracula’s AmericaThis set contains the components to assemble 20 Zombies and the option for a Standard Bearer or Musician. All miniatures come supplied with a Citadel 25mm Round Base. Deadwalker Zombies Components I think what doesn’t help matters here is Spring the Trap, which is going to reward blobbing in the middle, and with only 3 objectives along the central line, Adam will have to come out of his deployment zone and that plays right into Bob’s hands. Result Bob has given up a significant amount of board control in skipping over a mass of zombies, but even still, 30 Skeletons and 20 Zombies is enough to be a headache for many armies, especially as said units can be recycled into half-size units (provided Bob can roll a 4+ in a timely fashion). Despite the Soul Wars coming to an end, the vampiric conquerors of the Soulblight Gravelords are setting out on the warpath to bring more of the Mortal Realms under their despotic control. Nagash’s body may be broken,* but his drive to conquer the lands of the living burns on, and these Vampire Lords will see his will done. Steve: The Mortarch of Night can cast multiple spells, and a combination of the Heroic Recovery ability with The Hunger shared by all Vampires lets him heal up to 2D3 Wounds a turn, so he can stay alive and keep disrupting the enemy. If the enemy gets too close, he can disappear into the shadows using the Mortarch of Night ability to protect himself, then make the most of the Monster keyword by using Roar to stop enemies using command abilities in the following combat phase.

Days Later is also a good movie to watch while we’re at it. The second half doesn’t hold up nearly as well but the first half of the movie is great, particularly with the shots of a deserted, desolate London . Turns out zombies still shamble the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, albeit in a more colorful, cheerful form. Specifically, I’m talking about the Death Guard’s Plague Zombies, who tend to allow for a lot of brig combinations of greens and yellows while also having lots of tentacly appendages. You can get as bright and colorful as you want with them, or keep them more subdued and realistic. I chose the former. On the more comedic side, Shaun of the Dead is an all-timer for the way it blends comedy and pathos, effortlessly switching between taking the piss out of zombies and exploring the drama around difficult decisions that have to be made in the name of survival. So far, we’ve covered the Stormcast Eternals, Orruk Warclans, and Slaves to Darkness, but today, it’s time to cover our first Death faction. In the days and weeks to come, we’ll be bringing you more of these overviews, designed to be informative for both newer and experienced players alike. On that note, let’s learn a little bit more about these deathless servants of Nagash. Who Are the Soulblight Gravelords?While vampires often deign to fight on their own, at the head of a horde of skeletal minions, some come together to form dark knightly brotherhoods and take to the field mounted atop fearless undead steeds. These Blood Knights charge headlong into enemy formations with an arrogant disregard for danger, trampling their way across entire units of soldiers and skewering what few remain on the end of their lances. player, 5-round Grand Tournament in Mesa, AZ, US on September 09 2023. All the lists for this event can be found in Best Coast Pairings. The Showdown

Be’lakor in Khorne feels wrong, you just got to figure the lord of skulls himself was just kind of sighing and going “fine, if that’s what it takes to spill more blood” when Nathan put forth this idea to him. Anyway, in a metagame that is all about controlling the midboard with hordes and/or powerful elite units (hello SBGL and OBR respectively), 30 Blood Warriors are a very useful and powerful tool that can outlast and grind out attrition victories in most matchups that call for a good old fashioned brawl. In a metagame that’s so combat heavy right now, it was a good call by Nathan. It’s a powerful list that is doing something a little bit different than Be’lakor + Blissbarb spam, skipping even the Epitome in favour of the cheaper Enrapturess for spell disruption. I love it. The Best of the Rest Hear ye, hear ye. I’m the Cursed City crier, and I’m here to tell you about the macabre beings that haunt the streets. If you hear the rasp of dull steel in dry soil and the rattle of bone dragging across the cobbles – run. The Gravekeeper can’t be reasoned with – neither can his minions. And if you hear me slurring my words on the way home from the tavern – don’t worry about it. It’s just allergies.”Now that you know a bit more about the Soulblight Gravelords, we’ll hand you over to Warhammer Age of Sigmar playtester and Nagash’s Mortarch of Tournaments, Steve Curtis, to tell us more about how they play in the new edition. Dead Island is a pretty solid entry into the video game canon, having players fight off zombies as they attempt to escape a resort island. A Duke Nukem Forever-esque sequel to it was announced like 8 years ago. Telltale’s The Walking Dead series is another critically-acclaimed series with lots of interesting decisions to be made.

As a Death Guard player, I am positively swimming in Poxwalkers–I have around 60 painted, not that I almost ever play close to that many. I may as well offer some examples of my zombie horde, powered by the magic of contrast and washes: Cursed City will see you and your party fight through hordes of undead beasties and vampiric lords in a series of modular scenarios across the fallen city of Ulfenkarn, before facing off against vampiric lord Radukar the Rat, who cursed the city. This baffling creature buries victims alive in the corpse-gardens and unleashes them later at his vampiric masters’ bidding. His massive Gravekeeper’s spade is just as good at creating corpses as exhuming them, and his bone mask and accoutrements of death leave little doubt as to his general disposition. Gotrek is an interesting inclusion over the Incarnate, as he gives the army some serious punch against elite combat armies that rely on multi-damage hammers like Immortis Guard, Stalkers, Kurnoth etc. He’s subsequently quite fragile against armies that just want to throw a billion dice at you, like Soulblight summonable armies, but this calculated risk in list construction has paid off handsomely for Joel here. As it stands, the only horde army he faced all weekend was Steven Nuttall’s, who didn’t have any reinforced Zombie units (his best dice option being 20 Grave Guard), and thus probably struggled to drown Gotrek under enough dice to kill him easily.These guys are Age of Sigmar Bladegiests and Ghouls with various Genestealer, Hormagaunt and GSC acolyte bits crudely welded on with big messy blobs of greenstuff. Everything is given a spray of wraithbone to start, and then a heavy wash of druchii violet. Before that dries, take a sponge and randomly dab bits off – not just off the top, but getting the corner of the sponge into the crevices as well, letting it go where it will to really pull the wash unevenly.