I've been a Warhammer Fantasy player for years (picked up my first two army books at the same time in 1996: Undead and Skaven), and I've played numerous numerous armies in that time. I've had and sold so many of the armies, and played almost all of them (High Elves and Wood Elves remain the only ones I've never built, fielded, or painted). Recently moving, I decided it was time to sell down my collection and focus on depth with a few armies rather than breadth of multiple forces. At the time, I had Beastmen, Lizardmen, Dwarfs, Vampire Counts, Empire, Skaven, Dark Elves, Chaos Daemons, Warriors of Chaos, and Orcs and Goblins (of the savage variety). I decided I would keep two or three armies, and work on building a central theme with them. And my mind returned to some of the best moments I've had playing Warhammer--and my love of the cursed city of Mousillon. The idea of a ruined city still struggling to survive, with embattled heroes trudging the streets while horrible Undead lurk outside and vicious Skaven skitter below, is just a cool setting.
Map of the dread city itself
I decided to focus upon armies that fit with the Mousillon setting. I'm focusing on forces that conceptually might want to claim the city. First off is my Skaven, which will be busily burrowing through the underway into the sunken city. They're one of my favorite conceptual armies, and the army I've played the longest. I even still have one of the very first Warhammer models I ever purchased--a Skaven Plague Monk from a blister. I've sold away two whole Skaven armies in the nearly 18 years I've been a fan of this hobby. But I'm back now and determined to make this Skaven force my own. Second are my Dwarfs. I'm thinking of them as an expedition sent up the coast from the seahold Barak Varr to try and aid the Bretonnians in their dogged renovation of the crumbling metropolis. My Dwarfs are a highly personalized army, so I'll give some thoughts on a force using a wide range of models across all editions (and my folly of deciding to make sure every single model is different and has his or her own persona).
My dream for a beautiful, prosperous, and flourishing Mousillon
This blog will track the progress of my Warhammer armies, as well as the games that I play and the return of the Mousillon campaign to our local play group. I'll update with photos of the armies and more.
