Warcry: The Ferocious Gnarlwood (Feb 2024) - Tournament Report

I was back at Warhammer World last weekend (for the second time in 3 weeks!)

Three tournaments in, and the "competitive" Warcry community has been really awesome - it's always been a pleasure to join these events as everyone has been friendly and welcoming.

At five rounds, this one felt like a much longer day that the last one. But it was totally worth it to play lots of Warcry with lovely people.

Warcry: The Ferocious Gnarlwood (Feb 2024) - Event Prep

I'm heading back down to Warhammer World next weekend for my third Warcry tournament - The Ferocious Gnarlwood.

This time I'm going to be running a new warband - The Plunderblades. They are still Ironjawz, but with a very different selection of fighters. More Ardboys, fewer Brutes and completely different types of heroes. I have not practiced with them so I don't know how well its going to go at all!

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This will be my list for the event:

Ironjawz - The Plunderblades

DAGGER

Kaptain Borgoth - Megaboss [225]

Drabbler - Ardboy with Ardboy Choppas [80]

Mr Flea - Ardboy with Ardboy Choppas [80]

HAMMER

Docker Goff - Ardboy Boss with Ardboy Choppas [135]

Mizzen Grom - Ardboy with Ardboy Choppas [80]

Skarlud - Ardboy with Ardboy Choppas [80]

SHIELD

Hurdygurdy - Brute with Pair of Brute Choppas, Divine Blessing of Fortitude (+4 Wounds) [140+15]

Hogline - Ardboy with Ardboy Choppas [80]

Gundeck - Ardboy with Ardboy Choppas [80]

9 Fighters

995 points

The Ironfang Pirate Fleet - The Plunderblades and the Portwreckas, part 4

I have completed the greenstuff work on 9 more new Ardboys (the previous batch of 7 are here). Since I took these photos they have all been undercoated black and zenithal primed grey and I have started painting the first few. I'm really pleased with these lads and, when added to the pair of Mega-Kaptains I finished a couple of weeks ago, they will add 720 points (for AoS) to my pirate fleet!

I have my first game of AoS 3d edition arranged this week, and while these Ardboyz and the Mega-Kaptains won't see action in that game, they may be getting to stretch their legs a bit soon!

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The Ironfang Pirate Fleet - The Plunderblades and the Portwreckas, part 3

I got hold of the new Ardboys kit a few weeks ago but I have only just got round to building them. I replaced all of their heads with heads from a mix of Ironjawz Brutes, old orks even older orcs, and Bonesplitterz Savage Orruks. Brute heads fitted pretty well and the join will be reinforced by the greenstuff hats - I probably should have added tongues to more of the ones with open mouths though.

I left off their shields (and saved them to armour the prow of a ship at some point!) and replaced their left hands with hands holding weapons (mostly from Brutes, but also some from Orks and Orcs!)

To mix up their look a bit I made 6 Ork Beast Snagga Boyz into extra Ardboys, by adding Brute forearms and shoulder armour plates (and a boot, from a Freebooterz banner, to replace a bionic foot in one case!).

I will make up the numbers for two units of 10 by adding four of my existing models - two Ardboy Bosses (made from Ork Nobz) and two Glyph Bearers (also made from Ork Nobz - probably a drummer and a standard-bearer).

This was taken before I started work on greenstuff hats, but you can see that the 6 Beast Snagga Boyz blend in pretty well.

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As well as giving them all impressive hats, I am adding additional nautical gear to all of them. Things like pistols, powder and shot pouches, ropes, maps, and trophies.

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This one has a Bonesplitterz Savage Orruk head:

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So far I have 7 ready for undercoating. I usually work in smaller batches, so this might feel like a bit of a slog, but I think I will try to complete the build and greenstuff of the other 9 before I move on to painting.

I might paint them in small groups though!