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GeekDad Paints! Warcry Chaotic Beasts

GeekDad
5 min readMar 2, 2021

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Lockdown has done strange things to me. I crave cheap take-away coffees, long for the touch of another human being brushing past on a busy high street, and fantasize about small armies fighting each other in a land of magic and chaos.

Thankfully my fabulous new espresso machine helps me deal with the first of these, while expanding my Warhammer Warcry model collection helps with the latter. The less said about the second issue the better.

With my current Warcry campaign put on temporary hiatus, I find myself with a weekly gap in my schedule which recently has been filled with building and painting warbands that likely may not ever see the light of day in an actual Warcry battle. So far I have completed my Splintered Fang fighters, a second as yet untested warband of Stormcast Eternals, and some allies to bolster the ranks of these two groups. This week I picked up the set of Chaotic Beasts and attempted to paint these so that it didn’t look my two-year-old had spilled paints and play dough all over them.

Chaotic Beasts

For those in the dark, Warcry is a two-person tabletop skirmish game where two factions of fighters battle it out to see who will be victorious. There are numerous set-ups for a Warcry skirmish, and there are four types of cards which determine the parameters for each battle…

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