To participate, I'm going to need an army. I went through all the various starter sets for all the main factions and none of them jumped out at me. To properly enjoy the game, I need to like the models. After all, I'm going to be spending a lot of time assembling, painting and playing with them.
Given that none of the factions caught my eye, I was beginning to get a little mopey about the prospect of enjoying Warmahordes. And then...
...I noticed that there are actually a number of pretty well fleshed out Mercenary/Minions sub-factions. I took a look through the gallery of models on PrivateerPress.com and ultimately decided on the Rhulic Mercenaries sub-Faction. They're a sort of steampunk dwarf faction. I think I'm going to enjoy them. I ran out to my local shop and picked up the only Rhulic dude they had in stock... Thor Steinhammer. I then literally headed straight home and assembled and primed. I had forgotten what putting metal models together is like. It's been awhile since I've had to file off metal mold lines or pin anything in place. It was a weirdly nostalgic process.
I picked this faction partly because it'll give me an opportunity to paint some things I don't normally paint. The Thor Steinhammer model I picked up has this cool flame effect that will give me a chance to practice a little object source lighting.
General Ossrum is probably going to be the Warcaster, or main leader dude, for my army. Here he is, plus a small assortment of other units from the Rhulic crew...
