It should be
mentioned I don't usually care for Chaos Daemons as an army unto
themselves. They're a bit hard to root for, frankly. Now, I'm no
stranger to being the bad guy but I usually find a motivation that I
can at least invest in: my Traitor Guard want to live free of
Imperial shackles; my Orks and Dark Elves are both pirates out for
profit; and, at least in their own embalmed minds, my Tomb Kings are
genuinely moral and upstanding members of the greatest civilisation
the Old Worlde has ever known.
Daemons are
just plain evil. That's all they've got, it just comes down to
flavour: violent evil, despairing evil, scheming evil or depressed
evil. For the most part I find Daemons more useful and interesting as
tools for a mortal army rather than characters in their own right.
Aside from
Nurgle. I actually quite dig the idea, which I'm not sure how or when
it started, that Nurgle's daemons are the bored filing clerks of the
daemon world. There's also some whimsy to them, I remember reading
this little five minute fiction years ago about how Nurglings like
fighting alongside Noise Marines because they enjoy dancing to the
“music” of Slaaneshi weapons.
And that
sense of whimsy has birthed this fantastic little character.
This is
Horticulous Slimux (I think I have that spelt right) “Nurgle's
first creation”. He is, essentially, Nurgle head gardener. He is
riding a snail that is dragging a plow behind itself. There seems to
be a tree growing out of the snail and there's a Nurgling tied in
front of its face in place of a carrot. I think his weapon is meant
to be a litterpicker. He's just so silly and yet so horrid looking.
I'll definitely be trawling eBay for this guy since I he's being
included in a bundle so he won't be available on his own for a while,
I should think and I don't want the Stormcast Vanguards, though I do
see some potential in the Stormcast character who I think would make
a good Chaos Lord with some modifications but, again, eBay exists and
I just don't like those Vanguard guys.
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