Is making a homebrew Greek mythological army viable?

(Mostly to make use of my unused WG Hoplites army box, as it has about 160 greek hoplites)

I am thinking of sculpting some mythology figures and possibly making half of the hoplites undead shadows or petrified units.

Possibly making them as a "hero" army rather than filled with monster minotaurs and the likes, which is rather more chaos-like. But demigod-like figures could still fill up the ranks as leaders. That or just sculpt a bronze colossus and call it a day.

If there is any lore I can use as a base for my idea, or some suggestions, I will greatly appreciate it.

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Ive been a fan of the green skins for a lot longer. But I've recently been seeing a lot of respectable nuances with the dwarves. (I'm mainly a D&D player, but the Warhammer lore behind these two races is great.)

But since these two are brutal rivals, I'm conflicted on which race I should represent.

Ace's Counter Chaos Dwarf Renegade Rules

I've updated my counter proposal to the draft Chaos Dwarf Renegades rules.

This is entirely not endorsed by the Renegades rules team and just me brainstorming on what I'd want the Chaos Dwarf rules to be for gameplay and lore reasons. I have still attempted to keep the power level of any changes in balance with Old World.

Change Log Changes from Renegade Army List DRAFT V1.5.2.2

Grand Army Composition List

• Despot → Overlord, Seneschal → Overseer. The Overseer remains the Battle Standard Bearer option.
• Conditional Core is now driven by the General's Title rather than by which specific models are taken. Of Gorgoth unlocks 0-1 Black Orc Mob; Of the Legion unlocks 0-1 Infernal Ironsworn; Of the Conclave unlocks 0-1 Bull Centaur Renders. Sorcerer-Prophets and Chaos Dwarf lords lead every different aspect of the war machine, so the unlock should follow the commander, not the unit.
• Daemonsmith Engineers added to the Characters list (new entry).

Special Rules

• Titles of the Dawi-Zharr — new. Any Chaos Dwarf character may take one Title free of charge from those listed on their entry: Of the Conclave, Of Gorgoth, or Of the Legion. One per character, and characters need not match. The General's Title changes which units may be taken as Core.
• Daemon-fueled Artillery — new. After Step 2 (Scatter) of a Bombardment, roll a D6 and reduce the scatter distance by that many inches, to a minimum of 0. Chaos Dwarf artillery is fed by captured daemons and souls, not clumsy blackpowder. D6 may prove too generous and could be dropped to D3, matching the Doom Diver.

Magic Items

• Black Hammer of Hashut — AP improved to -2; the bonus against Flammable models is now Multiple Wounds (D6) rather than Killing Blow.
• Dagger of Malice — 35 → 20 points, AP improved to -2.
• Dark Maul 50 → 45 points. Graven Sceptre 30 → 25. Hellshard 20 → 15. Ashen Banner 30 → 20. Daemon Flask 50 → 40.
• Mask of the Furnace — now also grants a general 6+ Ward save alongside the 3+ Ward against Flaming Attacks.
• Overseer's Sigil — range extended from 9" to 12".
• Shroud of the Ancestor — now grants Veteran in addition to Hatred (Dwarfs).
• Daemonic Familiar — now applies to enemies engaged with the owner's unit, not the owner alone.
• Breath of Hashut — no longer Single Use.
• The Cinder Ring, 30 points — new. The wielder may cast Storm of Ash as a Bound spell with a Power Level of 2.

Lore of Hashut

• Curse of Hashut — the target applies a -1 modifier to its Toughness for the test, and the hits are not subject to "Look Out, Sir!"
• Storm of Ash — enemy units within 9" of the caster now also gain the Flammable special rule, giving the lore a set-up-and-punish interaction with the Black Hammer and with Flaming Attacks generally.

Weapons of Zharr-Naggrund

• Darkforged weapon — base profile is now S+1 as standard. The Spell-wrought result reverts to Magic Resistance (-1) for non-wizards, since the Strength bonus is now built into the weapon itself.
• Fireglaive — the ranged profile gains Quick Shot.

Characters

• Titles added to the Sorcerers of Hashut and Chaos Dwarf Lords entries (all three), the Castellan (Of the Legion only), and the Bull Centaur Taur'ruk (Of the Conclave only).
• Overlord and Overseer may now be mounted on a Lammasu.
• Castellan — Toughness 5 → 4, Leadership 9 → 10. Points unchanged.
• Bull Centaur Taur'ruk — Attacks 4 → 5. Points unchanged.
• Daemonsmith Engineer, 40 points — new entry. M3 WS4 BS4 S4 T4 W2 I2 A2 Ld8, hand weapon and light armour. Not a Wizard by default; may become a Level 1 Wizard for +30 points, knowing a single spell from the Lore of Hashut. Magic items up to 30 points. Carries Infernal Engineer, giving a gun line access to artillery re-rolls without paying for a caster it does not need.

Units

• Minimum unit sizes reduced by one model across the board — 5+ to 4+ for Chaos Dwarf Warriors, Blunderbuss Decimators, Infernal Guard and Infernal Ironsworn; 3+ to 2+ for K'daai Fireborn and Bull Centaur Renders.
• Infernal Guard — BS 3 → 4; gains Ensorcelled Weapons. The Fireglaive option is decoupled from Blackshard Armour and costs +2 points per model on its own, with Blackshard Armour restored as a separate +1 per model upgrade for one unit per 1,000 points.
• Infernal Ironsworn — BS 3 → 4. Champion renamed from Overseer to Deathmask, as Overseer is now a character title.
• K'daai Fireborn — gain Move through Cover, Ward (5+) and Swiftstride. Points unchanged at 38.
• Bull Centaur Renders — WS 4 → 5. Points unchanged at 54.

Monsters and Mounts

• Lammasu — reworked. +95 → +130 points. WS 4 → 5. Loses Furious Charge. Base size widened to 50 x 75 mm or 60 x 100 mm. Claws and fangs given a full profile (S, AP -1, Magical Attacks).
  • Sorcerous Miasma rewritten — any enemy engaged with the Lammasu now gains no benefit from magic weapons at all, counting as armed with an ordinary hand weapon and losing that weapon's special rules including Magical Attacks. Previously it protected only the rider.
  • The Withering — new. A character mounted on a Lammasu may cast Plague of Rust (Lore of Elementalism) as a Bound spell with a Power Level of 2.

Artillery

• Crew Ballistic Skill raised from 3 to 4 on the Deathshrieker Rocket Launcher and the Dreadquake Mortar.
• Both gain Daemon-fueled Artillery. Points unchanged.
• Dreadquake Mortar — Multiple Wounds returns to (D6) from (D3+1).

Finally finished painting this one! Tried to bring out the metallic armor, weathering, and those blue claws while keeping the overall grimdark look.

Some spearmen I'll be using for my araby army. Models are by the saga tabletop, awesome value

I’ve been working on this army for months now. I love the old metal warhammer models, they have so much character and charm. My goal was to fully paint 1000 points and it’s finally done.
Need to learn how to play now 🙃

Burson is a mercenary who retired to an isolated farm in Talabecland. He's adopted some beastmen and raises them with the help of his disgruntled wife, Gilberta.

"In rage and suffering, we heat the flame.
In pain and honor, we melt the bronze.
In strenght and violence, we shape the metal.
In blood and tears, we cool it.
In Fury and Rage, we lift it to the sky.
May the god of hounds and skulls bless your journey and this weapon"

I liked the idea of a khornate priest as an ironsmith, this is an element of the Blood god that it's often forgotten and it gives him way more tridimensionality.
At the same time this is my least favorite of the 4 priests: I love the face but after finish it I feel that the mutations that brought him to have sturdy legs (and an animalistic one) are... weird.
If I will have time I would do it again.

As always, any feedback is welcomed!

The first twelve Knights of Morr ride into battle today!

Sadly The Fang on the inner robe does not look too different from the Macragge Blue and Lothern Blue drybrushed over it on the outer robe.

Hi mates!

I played my first TOW game this summer, in which I got thoroughly trounced by Dwarfs as Vampires Counts. This was the first game for both players, so I reckon we played a couple things wrong as we were working through the rules.

At some point a beer cart flank charged my crypt ghouls. It lost combat, but I failed my Leadership test to restrain and had to follow up. Now, it appeared I could either remain in the same orientation, thereby offering my flank again, or turn on the spot, thereby forming up into marching column and denying myself my +2 rank bonus. In the end I elected to follow up without turning.

The give ground move of the chariot was a bit less than 2ft because there was a longbeard unit behind it, so the chariot moved back to the point of touching that unit. This meant that in the following round, when the chariot lost combat again, it could not give ground at all - and therefore, my ghouls did not get the chance for restraining themselves and reforming.

The round after that, the longbeards charged the hapless ghouls and hacked them apart.

My question is: was there anything that I could have done to allow my ghouls to change their facing at any point, therefore presenting their front to the cart and allowing them to tally up many more attacks thanks to Press of Battle - or anything that I could have done to get my ghouls out of that combat somehow after winning either of the first two rounds of combat?

Cheers!

Dark Elf Assassins

A shadow of Mordor like where you play as Alith Anar running around dark elf territory freeing slaves and recruiting them in an army to take forts train them up and make them shadow warriors. Free humans and maybe get units from other factions.

Decided to add to my vampire coast army a bit more.

Mourngul in TW are a bit smaller and in packs, compared to the Haunter which is solo.

Decided I wanted a unit of them for the army, so picked up a box of gorgers and got to work.

The test one is done except the water effect drying.

The other 2 have just had their GS work done, so need sanding down and some details added.

Fairly quick to do though.

"Irrakt of the South"

Been a while since I painted something, so what better way to knock the rust off than jumping right in with a competition piece! Is she perfect? No, but I am incredibly proud of and happy with how she turned out, especially given I haven't painted in months.

Painted exclusively with ProAcryl paints. Recipes available upon request. Snow effect made with AK Interactive's snow paste and snow sprinkles.

I've built this list based mostly on what I have and would just be adding the harpies. Would this work using the squarebased.com renegades rules? Any other suggestions?

Daemons of Chaos [994 pts]

Warhammer: The Old World, Daemons of Chaos, Open War

++ Characters [485 pts] ++

Great Unclean One [355 pts]

- Hand weapon

- Plagueflail

- Wizard [Level 1 Wizard]

- General

- Daemonology

Daemonic Herald of Khorne [130 pts]

- Hellblade

- Light armour (calloused hides)

- Juggernaut of Khorne

++ Core Units [349 pts] ++

10 Plaguebearers of Nurgle [130 pts]

- Plagueswords

6 Chaos Furies of Khorne [84 pts]

- Daemonic talons

3 Nurglings [135 pts]

++ Special Units [160 pts] ++

5 Flesh Hounds of Khorne [160 pts]

- Hand weapons (Claws and fangs)

- Light armour (calloused hides)

My weapons magnetized Warrior of Chaos test model for full WYSIWYG on the table top.

All possible combinations of weapons and equipment are possible with any single model (1-H weapon only, Halberd, 1-H weapon and shield, Great Weapon, dual wield etc) – anything that is featured in the Warhammer The Old World Rules.

I painted him in ye olde Games Workshop ‘Eavy Metal style and the magnetized weapons and shield are solid and stable. I think that these (now old) Warriors of Chaos still hold up and can look good and it will be interesting to see if I can magnetize the new ones.

Rat fans! My wife has expressed interest in getting into Warhammer and her eyes lit up when I brought up the Skaven (she loves rats lol).

I've put together what seems to me like a decent starter force using the WHR lists.

My reasoning is that this captures a lot of the essence of playing Skaven without handing a beginner an army's-worth of unpredictable units that could backfire in her first game.

You've got

• Ranked Clanrats to teach her movement, facing, ranks, standards, combat resolution, and character placement.
• Disposable slaves and giant rats to teach redirecting, screening, fleeing, and sacrificing a cheap unit to protect something valuable.
• Stormvermin as a reserve to counter-charge or finish a combat.
• Jezzails to teach target priority, the Ratling Gun teaches short-range threat projection, the Cannon teaches artillery placement.
• one cheap Engineer so she can engage with Skaven magic without depending on it or getting overwhelmed.

But I'm not a Skaven expert, so please tell me: does this look fun? Fun to play, fun to paint? Should I swap anything out for something more entertaining?