Boxes. Lots of boxes



I've been struck down with the flu and it's put a massive damper on hobby stuff. I do pretty much have all the figs I needed and between the Mega Force regular Army, 2 boxes of wyrm riders, a box of elementals and a box of thull i can now muster the following Mantic Models:

6 Wyrm Riders
20 Thull
100 Naiads
1 Thull Mythican
1 Leviathan's Bane
20 Riverguard
6 Water Elementals
1 Centrurian/Envoy
3 Gigas
1 Riverguard Capt

There are also a load of cool bits on the Naiad sprues like an otter and frog. It's great that they are paying that attention to detail and there's potential to use them as a Tidal Swarm as I have 20 of each now. 



In addition I've got a reaper minis model for an extra mythican and some board game minis from mythic battles for some knuckers.



All of this gives me plenty to play with for a 2k force and has a good enough backbone to be competitive. I'm lacking some bigger monsters hence the knuckers but I'll plan to add a Kraken when Mantic release it later this year for some clout. The only miniature I may not use is the riverguard captain. I love the model and the thought of him but he's just not worth the points in my option and if I have enough units to chose from, he'll cut the chop.

I'll take each box over the next few days and have a delve inside to show what they contain and my views on the quality of casting etc.



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