Fimm McCool
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I'll be blogging more thoroughly about this in due course, but since I have just finished the first figure for the army (a Marauder Liche complements of Mr Harry, thanks Harry!) I thought I should start the thread and announce my intentions...
As we all know, Heinrich Kemler was victorious at the battle of La Maisontaal. The vile ratmen were routed and the abbey raised to the ground. The former monastery is now a fortress of the unquiet dead and in the catacombs below the Lichemaster hatches his plots against the rest of humanity. Resting high up in the Grey Mountains the abbey is highly defensible, especially with its guard of horrifying apparitions!
Sadly Gnawdoom escaped the battle of La Maisontaal with the warpstone key and so the black arc remains shut tight. Kemler unearthed the arc in his exploration of the catacombs of the monastery, recognising it as an object of great power, but all his attempts to open it have been thwarted. It now resides inside a great coffin the Lichemaster's army drag along with them, the bones of countless Skaven packed in tight around it. Kemler calls this the 'Ossuary of La Maisontaal'.
The monks of La Maisontaal have, of course, been granted resurrection, into the Lichemaster's host. Bagrian the hierophant leads the remnants of his brothers as they dance to Kemler's foul corpse music. He is joined by the 16 prior masters of the monastery including Rene de Muscadet (whose epitaph must surely read "I told you so") and Jean Louis Dintrans whose attempt to slay Kemler has earned him a place in the front rank.
So that's the plan. Create an army based around Kemler and how his mighty army of undeath would look having successfully destroyed La Maisontaal and been able to rise to full strength. I now have a sizable force of skeletons to work with (more in due course) and have split them into representative groups portraying Kemler's fallen foes. Next thing to work on is creating skeletal versions of the inhabitants of Frugelhofen, Bogel's Farm and the dwarf mine...
As we all know, Heinrich Kemler was victorious at the battle of La Maisontaal. The vile ratmen were routed and the abbey raised to the ground. The former monastery is now a fortress of the unquiet dead and in the catacombs below the Lichemaster hatches his plots against the rest of humanity. Resting high up in the Grey Mountains the abbey is highly defensible, especially with its guard of horrifying apparitions!
Sadly Gnawdoom escaped the battle of La Maisontaal with the warpstone key and so the black arc remains shut tight. Kemler unearthed the arc in his exploration of the catacombs of the monastery, recognising it as an object of great power, but all his attempts to open it have been thwarted. It now resides inside a great coffin the Lichemaster's army drag along with them, the bones of countless Skaven packed in tight around it. Kemler calls this the 'Ossuary of La Maisontaal'.
The monks of La Maisontaal have, of course, been granted resurrection, into the Lichemaster's host. Bagrian the hierophant leads the remnants of his brothers as they dance to Kemler's foul corpse music. He is joined by the 16 prior masters of the monastery including Rene de Muscadet (whose epitaph must surely read "I told you so") and Jean Louis Dintrans whose attempt to slay Kemler has earned him a place in the front rank.
So that's the plan. Create an army based around Kemler and how his mighty army of undeath would look having successfully destroyed La Maisontaal and been able to rise to full strength. I now have a sizable force of skeletons to work with (more in due course) and have split them into representative groups portraying Kemler's fallen foes. Next thing to work on is creating skeletal versions of the inhabitants of Frugelhofen, Bogel's Farm and the dwarf mine...