Death Guard: The Death Guard are a faction of Chaos Space Marines with a decayed and rotting appearance. Skeleton Horde can be used as a base color to represent the exposed bone and skeletal structures of their armor and weaponry. It's possible you will prefer one of these other systems to the one proposed in this article. That's fine. What works well for you and your group is the one that matters. The end of this article describes the advantages and disadvantages of these alternate systems. The Basics of Running Hordes Undying Soul. If a creature under the effect of this boon is reduced to 0 hit points, it immediately makes a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If it succeeds, it is instead reduced to 1 hit point. Once it has done so, it can't use this ability again until it finishes a short or long rest. Mix hordes with normal creatures. While running multiple types hordes can be difficult, a single horde can work well when mixed with normal single creatures. A horde of fifty orcs might be led by an orc war chief and four armored ogres. You can run the war chief and the ogres as individual creatures like normal and the horde using the guidelines above. It will make for a complicated fight but it isn't out of the question. If monsters in the horde are incapacitated, separate them from the main horde and remove them from play.

One way to describe it is that Wraithbone tends to make the Contrast colors look slightly "warmer", while Grey Seer makes them slightly "cooler." Corax White simply makes the Contrasts slightly lighter than Grey Seer does.

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Starting NPC: Commander Ashlam Valorfist. This quest will have you Kill 10 Skeletal Flayers and 10 Slavering Ghouls in Sorrow Hill. Sorrow Hill is a graveyard just northeast of Chillwind Camp. Proceed there and kill the required number of ghouls and skellies and return to Commander Valorfist for your reward. (lvl 52/ obtained lvl 50) The Tamiya gray spray primer is so light that it practically qualifies as being white. It's actually whiter than GW's Corax White even though its labeled as a gray primer, lol.

Examples of such creatures include the orc war chief, hobgoblin captain, hobgoblin warlord, and knight, among many others. These creatures typically possess the Leadership action, or otherwise have some method of inspiring or rallying a horde. Commander Features My experience building the Skeleton Horde box is undoubtedly coloured by the high expectations set by the Start Collecting! Stormcast Eternals Thunderstrike Brotherhood box (which, in a previous article, I argued might possibly be one of the best things to buy as a new hobbyist). I envisaged a single, glossy booklet with clearly numbered and labelled diagrams, walking me step-by step from the most basic unit up to the most advanced. Citadel Colour’s Skeleton Horde paint is a versatile and reliable acrylic paint for miniature painting. This base coat has a matte finish and is formulated with high-quality pigments to provide excellent coverage and a smooth, even finish. As a foundational color in the Citadel Colour palette, Skeleton Horde is perfect for beginners and experienced painters alike, allowing for easy highlighting and shading of undead armies, bones, and other skeletal details. It’s a bone-colored paint with a slightly beige hue that provides a realistic bone-like finish and can be used as the foundation for many other colors and techniques. What armies to paint with Skeleton HordeThe "Commanders" section of this book presents mechanics that can be attached to regular monsters that do not fit into hordes, but that the DM still wishes to influence the horde in some way. These mechanics are simple and generally universal, and can be made to function with a variety of different monsters. Each horde in the "Hordes" section also suggests a few creatures that typically serve as commanders for such hordes. But any white, off-white, tan, light or medium gray primers will work. In the end all it really does is slightly to moderately affect the final shade of the Contrast color. Like for example, putting Guilliman Flesh over a tan primer might give you slightly darker flesh than using say Wraithbone. On the other hand using Guilliman Flesh over a pure white primer will create lighter flesh. When the damage tally takes enough to kill one or more monsters in the horde, remove those monsters, reset the tally to zero, and carry over extra damage.