Witch hunters

 

To take a break from all the late chaos stuff I painted a couple of witch hunters for my Mordheim warband: Gerhart of Reikdorf and his daughter Cecilia. Done in blacks and browns to give them a rural and sinister feel

First is this witch hunter captain released in 8th edition, a model that I've always loved

nd to give the band a bit of ranged support I went with something newer, a Doralia van Denst miniature armed with sword and crossbow

Empire captain

 

Painted an old 4th ed imperial captain to led my halberdiers in battle

Slaughter at Breder

After the fall of Hergig the defenders counterratacked at the small village of Breder, which had been ransacked by hordes of the vile ratmen

Deployed hugging the board's edge the dwarves started to fire away at the foe, only for a storm of lighnting bolts to fall amongst them with great casualties

Their fire however managed to rout the rat ogres

And the jezzails deployed on top of the hill

On the second turn the skaven scurried quickly towards the foe

Only to be surprised by a mining squad emerging on their right flank

Undaunted the rat general answered with ratling fire

While another warp lightning blew away a regiment of miners

Turn three was reached and the first ratman units slammed into the foe

Anihilating what remained of the dwarf left

The dwarves tried to regain the initiative with some charges

But then the skaven slammed into their warmachines and carnage ensued

And with the explosion of the runic anvil who nuked itself, the battle came to a close. Having defended the skaven Breder with a decisive victory

 

Chaos army

After two months and a half my chaos army is finally complete. Three units ow warriors (one of them chosen) for the core of the army, with fadt hitting chariots, knights and furies supported by paladins and sorcerers plus a big hellcannon to destroy both walls and the enemy

Hergig besieged

 

While the torn of chaos engulfs the Empire, the hordes of chaos march against the capital of Hochland, pushing massive siege towers against the walls while a formidable hellcannon opens fire. Behind the ramparts await the crazed slayers of Karak Kadrin, decided to either defend the city or die in the attempt

Battle begins with an artillery exchange, the mercenary cannon firing from a tower only for the fortification to be torn down by the chaos hellcannon

Meanwhile the dwarf general and doomseekers have come out to play, hindering the advance of the siege towers and slaughtering some furies on the way

The chaos lord commanding the assault kills one of the crazed dervishes and urges his men on

And at last the first tower reaches the wall and the followers of the dark gods clash with the trollsalyer garrison

Three doomseekers meanwhile hold the rest of the chaos horde at bay

But while his men are slaughtered the chaos lord rushes into the tower breach

Defended by the second trollslayer unit

After a grueling fight  it is the warriors of chaos who are victorious in the wall 

While the chaos lord is bogged down in the breach by the doomseekers and pinned down outside

And with the fall of the last defender the battle ends in a close run chaos victory

Hergig has fallen to the horde of Archaon

Khorne spawn

 

After assembling my chaos cariots I had the two gorebeasts left over from the kit, so I saved them to make a couple of chaos spawn armoured in the red and brass of Khorne