Wild Card month
The dire avenger exarch watched the holomap with the last line of defense surrounding the webway portal and the entrance to the halls fo the House Delgari.
-We've lost contact with several corsair crews. Hopefully the will be with the other warrios that had withdraw. The line is ready for the last stand...
Suddenly he pointed to the flank
-However, we have reports that several swarms are trying to break through differnt points. The troops are mustering near the portal as you ordered. But we need to counterattack if we want to redirect the swarms to the center point. What shall we do now?
The farseer didn't speak, he simply turned to the webway portal.
In a blast of light, a new reinforcement moved from the webway. A group of warriors in bright clothes riding dragons.
-My name is Calsaar Firebreath, and we're the heirs of Haranshemash. We come to pay our debt in blood and wrath to our allies.
The farseer pointed to the map and commanded.
-The swarm must be herd to our trap there.
The exarch added.
-We could to assist your warriors if needed.
But Calsaar simply checked the equipment of his men and draw the sword.
-You won't have to break formation exarch. We will break the tide and crush those who dare to get to the flanks. The storm rides after us.
The exiled dragon knights charged across the plains between the webway portal and the forests. Farseer Ylshor saw the dragon knights riding towards the swarm and remarked a simple "Indeed" while moving the runes in the air. A psychic storm started to take shape behind the wild riders...
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This unit has seated in pieces waaaay to much. The wild card month was the perfect opportunity for the wildest riders.
It is a shame that the exiled dragons never had miniatures, neither they got love in more recent editions. A running gag in some novels or fluff, but nothing more. They're an interesting part of the eldar lore. First, imagining a society of eldars that had rejected most of the traditions and became something like the space amish...but with a more advanced technology than humans.
Heck, according to the old Titanicus they even have knights and titans...
And the second reason, because dinosaurs. Who can resist to a Dino-Riders army.
So here we go
4x Exiled knights - 152 points
For this unit I took inspiration from Moebius amazing illustrations, with pastel and bright colours. That would add something interesting and different to the usual wood elves in space vibe that you'll expect from the eldar exodites. That's before watching the amazing pastel exodite riders from Lyssane! Truely amazing and inspiring as always. So I went for the original idea of the pastel colours which I do not usually paint.
The dinosaur skins are also different to the usual lizard-like greens or brown/yellow. The inspiration came from a child book I was working with a friend of mine who made the illustration. While the anatomy was right the editors wanted that the colours where... something more radical. I loved some designs and tried to replicate a particular skin into the dark elf cold ones.
Fun to paint in this kind of colours as I usually work with a more saturated or darker palettes.
1x Exiled knight veteran - 50 points
It was pretty fun to convert and paint, so who knows. Probably I will expand the exiled dragons in the future.
This unit lacks a lot of gemstones in comparison to the previous months but I think that 72 gemstones will please the public.
#GoTeamEldar
Adrian's out.
