All along the Watchtower

For the 1250pt Escalation league, I had to have a themed Watchtower built and painted. Since I have never made any terrain in my life, or used greenstuff, I decided to jump right in at the deep end and combine both. I went with the normal GW Watchtower, and wanted to make it look like Nurgle had moved in.

I greenstuffed weeping pustules growing from the walls, and tentacles writhing from windows and doors. I also used spares from my Chaos sprues to add chaos stars and other ornamentation. I think it came out alright for a first attempt.

Escalation Month 4

This will be a short update. My opponents at 1500pt were to be Dark Elves and Ogre Kingdoms. I decided that at 1500pt I would Mark all my units, and add in a BSB. However, there was a lot of grumblings about the league, one person pulled out and nobody seemed all that enthusiastic about it. It had almost become a chore, and with another 3 months to go after this, I think it had just ran out of steam. Due to time constraints with myself and my opponents, none of our games got played, in fact I believe no games were played across the league at all.

Escalation Month 3

This was the month I had to increase my force to 1250pt while also painting a Watchtower that was to be themed as much as possible for the army being used. I have never made a piece of terrain in my life (assembling Necromunda card terrain doesn't count) so this was going to be interesting. At time of writing I don't have pictures of the piece since it's down at KOA, but I will add these as soon as possible.
I decided to use the standard GW watchtower, and attempt some greenstuff sculpting (something I have also never tried) to make it all Nurgley and just look wierd. It seemed to work, and overall I was happy how my first attempt came out. Maybe this converting/sculpting malarkey is fun after all.

Escalation Month 2

And so the second month of the Escalation league loomed. With 3 wins under my belt, I was in the lead. The next stage was upping the army to 1000pts.
I decided to give my Sorcerer the Mark of Tzeentch, since all the armies I was going up against had the possibility of good magic, and Pandemonium puts the crappers on that. I also gave him a 5+ ward (become 4+ due to mark) and a cheap 5pt magic weapon just in case he gets into combat with ethereal models.
Along with him, I added in 10 more Chaos Warriors, forming a second unit. This time I decided to paint them as Tzeentch, and I actually like these more than the Nurgle ones I did.

Escalation League Month One Results.

My first three matches in the KOA Escalation League were to be my trial by fire. I had never played Warriors of Chaos before, and I had never played 8th Edition yet. So I knew it would be interesting. You pick your army before the first game, you then use that list for the rest of the month, meaning you can't tailor armies to suit opponents, which I agree with. Makes player have to think of a balanced list.

Escalation League

The main reason I started this blog was to record my adventures in the Escalation League ran by Kingdom of Adventure. The idea behind the league is that you start with a 750pt fully painted army, play a set amount of games, and then the points rise by 250pt each month. I got interested in this because a) I can build an army up over time thereby spreading cost. and b) Since I struggle to paint at the best of times, this will give me a deadline to get stuff done in.
I decided to go with a Warriors of Chaos army, mainly due to the fact they have some really good mini's, and I have never played an "evil" army before.