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A WIP blog of the Shrikeborn, a mercenary force of Night Lords that are working for/with my Word Bearers force the Ebon Word. Lore, WIP, and unit progress shots a-coming.

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Making Chosen, plus bits for the Headsman

The Chosen are a simple group to put together, just a Nemesis Claw box with a couple of changes to loadouts from the suggested version. I'm going to be running them as two identical Chosen squads with the following loadout- champion w/plasma pistol, powerfist, and icon, chosen w/twin accursed weapon and plasma pistol, 2x Chosen with combi-weapon, accursed weapon, and bolt pistol, Chosen w/bolter, accursed weapon, and bolt pistol. Since I love the chainglaives that all good Night Lords carry, thi
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Mortals- The Howlbrood and the Still Order

For along the stars they travel, in ships of night and blood Screaming rage and silent death Mortal in flesh, in purpose bound to the more-than-mortal Clad in dusk, armed in fear They are the Howlbrood and the Still Order Twin brotherhoods of the damned Know their mark and beware For if they are near, so are their Masters - Poem found at Unil VI, Bondri Subsector Raidings      Howlbrood “Terror is the only truth.”   The
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Butterfly moment - Cultists and Guardsmen idea, Xmas stuffs

So a couple of days ago I had a hobby butterfly moment and decided to go with it. I was looking over the Necromunda book Tribes of the Wastelands and saw the Sha'dar Hunters models from the Ash Wastes Nomads. I have always liked the Nomads, but didn't really think that I would be playing an Ash Wastes Necro game anytime soon so had no large desire to get them. Something about the Sha'dar Hunters clicked for me though and I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole- looking up the rules for the CSM
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The Dirgebound

Stab-lights strobed in the dark. A score of men moved quietly, lasguns held ready and sweeping the darkened street, flicking their gunlights on and off in a trained manner, giving an enemy no steady light to target. Imperial Guard, Mordians even, veterans of that world's ever-night. They were comfortable in the gloom but wary. Their parade-ground uniforms blended into the night as they advanced towards the local power depot. The enemy had come to Javan and the Mordian 990th Iron Guard would not
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Making Warp Talons

Ah, the Warp Talons. They don't quite fit the non-daemonic aspect that I'm going for with the Shrikeborn, but some judicious use of shame/warning/pragmaticism make it alright (i.e.- I really wanted lightning claw jumpy boys for the Night Lords and am ok with them being slightly daemonic if need be).    Anyway. These guys I had a plan from the very beginning. I like the MkVI Assault Marine sculpts as they convey movement without having all the weird one-legged jumpy poses that assault s
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Building Carrow and Kordesh

Started on the characters of the Shrikeborn, the Stained Lord himself and his Headsman. Fairly easy to make them.   Carrow is basically just the HH Traitor Overseer Consul with a jumppack, new head, chainglaive for his right arm, lightning claw for the left arm, and some chain wrapped around his left leg. Actually, writing that out makes it seem much more complicated than he is. All of the parts worked without too many issues and he fit together nicely. Only thing you won't see in the
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Making Raptors, Part II

Part 2 of the Raptors was basically building 5 mkII Assault marines. The models themselves are great- easy to put together, nice solid kit. Only issue was me stupidly snaping one of the two-handed axes near the lower fist, making it look...off. But it'll work out in the end, I've got a plan to make it look not as dumb. Using the chain and GW's skulls worked really well, the chain was perfectly sized and I think looks pretty natural on the models. Next up for these guys is getting my worbla therm
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Making Raptors, Part I

So, got most of the stuff I had on order, so time to start building! My favorite part of the hobby, aside from playing. I decided to start with the Night Raptors component of my Raptors squad, as I figured that a five man, mostly stock group would be an easy intro. I was wrong.    The Horus Heresy Night Raptors are pretty clearly old FW design- mostly in the fact that the leg/torso/pauldrons are all one piece and the shoulder/arm connections are all different (both in where the connect
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Sarran Narvok

Slash-slash-thrust-sweep-return. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.   The soft, guttural grunts of exertion arose from the pale-skinned Astartes. Stripped to the waist, he wove a discipline kata of strikes with a chainglaive. Deep breaths powered the massive figure's strikes against the training-daemons. Mindless, gibbering Neverborn beasts that were summoned and bound into servitor bodies, the training-daemons were foes not to take lightly, even for full armed warriors.   This Astartes
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Navir Xikas

Night has fallen on the city of Uld-Town. The capital of the agri-world of Therema-IV, it boasts a modest population of only twenty million citizens, those that are required to oversee the tithes of the massive grain-fields that cover the planet.    The Dreadclaw drops from the sky, landing struts outstretched and engine furiously braking. The droppod slams into the earth as a small mushroom-cloud of dust rises from the impact. At the slum-edge of the city few notice the noise or the f
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Flaymaster Amathys

Click....click....click....   The metallic noise was repetitive and quiet, a sound barely heard but irritatingly present at the same time. It echoed softly from the upper hanger of the Umbral Vos, from the Aerie of the Lost.    Chains hung from the ceiling of the former hanger, strung about with skin-trophies and tally-skulls from noted kills. The pervasive smells of blood and fear-sweat were muted and overpowered by a harsh tang, a burnt ozone that lingered on the mind as mu
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Headsman Kordesh

The steps approach, steady and unhurried. Members of the Chosen squad flit from shadow to shadow, their weapons drawn and bloodied, their heads twisting to pierce the gloom surrounding them.   A fallen chapel; marble and gold thrown down in a flurry of battle and devastation. The grandiose space once lit by massive promethium-fueled chandeliers now had only flickering flames dancing from burning tapestries and broken pews. The Night Lords moved to surround the altar and the sobbing man
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Stained Lord Tovach Carrow

"Greetings Lord Carrow."   The cultured voice of his "ally", the First Acolyte of the Ebon Word, grated in Carrow's ears. Not because the voice was unpleasant; if anything the voice of Vor Skral of the Word Bearers legion was too pleasant. A voice meant to cajole and seduce, to lead sermons and turn the will of entire planets. No, the voice annoyed Carrow because of what it represented, the slow corruption of an Astartes into the pawns of the Chaos Gods. For that is what the Ebon Word
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A hobby outline

Ok... I don't normally do the whole WIP thing, so this will be a learning opportunity for me. Anyway.   This is my current plan for the Shrikeborn as far as gaming goes. This is definitely more of a theme/narrative/fun army, so I'm not going to be looking at any sort of meta list, just make my fluffy guys in-game legal without too much fuss.   The List - Pactbound Zealots Detachment (all Night Lords will be Marked Undivided) Stained Lord Tovach Carraw Chaos Lord w/J
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A blog starts

Hey all, Ikka here. I'm starting up a little project that I've been thinking about foe a while- a small portion of Night Lords that will narratively be mercenaries working with my Ebon Word WB force. This blog will document their lore and the WIP process that I'll be going through to make them. It won't, hopefully, distract me from my Votann army/blog, as this is going to be a more hobby/painting intensive project than the Votann, whom I will be speedpainting.   As a note, I'm using/us
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The Shrikeborn

The Shrikeborn Warband of the Night Lords Legion Commander: Stained Lord Tovach Carrow Doctrine: Precision terror strikes, aerial decapitation raids, psychological warfare   “We are not monsters. We are the memory of justice, sharpened into a talon.” — Stained Lord Tovach Carrow, before the Fall of Virex Spire   The Shrikeborn are a feared Night Lords warband known for their surgical terror strikes and Raptor-led aerial assaults, but unlike many of their k
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