I am attending a tournament in a couple of weeks. The empire has been my favourite army for a long time, and it's the only army where i have enough models to field a 2250 point army. So i will play the empire. I've been thinking a lot about the tournament, and whether to play a fun army or a more competitive army. In the end i decided to field this army, which i consider to be a fun army. It's got very little shooting, little magic and only one warmachine... the steam tank. The gryphon is something i've never seen used in a game, so i'm sure that will shock some of my opponents!
I had some other units i wanted to add to the army for strategic reasons, like a unit of handgunners, but in the end i decided against it and went for esthetic choices all the way - just picking the most interesting models and best painted models i have in my collection.
The entire army in all it's empirical glory. It's hard to take a photo of so many models at once.. What you see here is what's in the actual 2250 point army: the gryphon general, the steam tank, 20 flagellants, 19 greatswords with 9 halberdiers detachment and a BSB on foot, 25 free company, 2x5 knights with full command, 2 wizards, 10 crossbowmen and 10 huntsmen!
The general on gryphon. Truly weak in the game but a truly great model! I've tried to match his shield design and helmet design throughout the army to tie the army together a little bit.
2 battle wizards of fire.
19 greatswords with full command and a BSB on foot, 9 halberdiers detachment. The unit consists mostly of old metal models, and even a gnome and a ninja!
20 flagellants with a prophet of doom, all metal models from the 6th edition.
My favourite unit in the army... There are 25 models in the unit, the flagellant in the front row is the standard bearer, next to the rogue champion, next to the cannon crew singer (musician). Most of these models are old citadel models, a prophet from talisman, rogues from talisman, johann the knife from mordheim, some flagellants from mordheim etcetera, etcetera.
5 knights with full command (i know it's weird to give 5 regular knights command, but it looks good and feels cool, and gives them a little extra punch...)
5 more knights with Luthor as the champion.
10 crossbowmen with full command... Same thing here, i know it's weird to give them a command group, but it looks cool. The models are all metal, some marksmen of margliano (dogs of war) and some other, very old citadel models.
10 skirmishing huntsmen with a tiny, tiny halfling leading them, backed up by Legolas from the old LotR range and a samurai archer... though my favourite model is probably the bearded guy with the crossbow.
The old metal 6th edition steam tank, for throwing at my opponent if everything else goes wrong...
I hope you like it!
I'm thinking about removing the Gryphon lord and the BSB from the list and exchanging them for a War Altar and a captain on pegasus, and make the knights inner circle. It would make the list a LOT more powerful i think... any thoughts?
