Funny
thing about Warhammer is that once your hobbyist friends hear you're
starting a new army its only a matter of time before someone tries to
offload their abandoned projects on you. I started my Lizardmen army
less than a week ago, I've only just finished building one small unit
(12 Skink Skirmishers, as it happens) and a Skink Priest, I have
nothing painted and already my friends are lining up to sell me their
Lizardmen at dirt cheap prices.
I
don't mind. Absolutely, I do not mind. I even got a nice compliment
out of the exchange, as my friend Matt told me he liked the Lizardmen
but he'd never got the colour scheme to work but I'm “better with
bright colour palettes” so he thought I'd do better with them.
So
in addition to my Battalion and Skink Priest I now have 26 additional
Saurus Warriors; 3 unbuilt Terradon Riders; 3 Kroxigor and one broken
Kroxigor; the old metal Saurus Oldblood (a model I hate but it was
chucked in for free); the 2003 Army Deal limited edition Battle
Standard Bearer; and most of a Slann-Mage Priest.
Its
the “most of a Slann-Mage Priest” that I'm most enthusiastic
about. Its just the Slaan, Matt's lost the Palanquin he's meant to
sit on and there's only one thing you can do with an unmounted Slann:
Convert
Lord Mazdamundi!
What
I like the most about Mazdamundi, in all honesty, is the visual.
Where most Mage-Priests glide serenely along on their Palanquins,
Mazdamundi rides into battle on top of an Ancient Stegadon. He has
some nice rules but to be honest I'll likely only be making him for
fun more than for use in-game. He's a 780 points Lords choice so not
terribly practical, especially considering my massive bias towards
having legions of infantry about the place and spending as little as
possible on character classes.
Still,
it will be fun taking a Stegadon and making it as ornate as possible,
as befits the chosen mount of the one of the holy Mage-Priests.
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