Every game I’ve played against Morituri have included Thoth. His ability to activate all the death powers is just a huge multiplier.
As a model, I’m all in on the golden collar. He carries his staff and sword with supreme confidence.
I don’t play nearly enough Arena Rex, but at least I get to paint it. Here I’m starting up yet another faction, the Morituri.
There are quite a few of these nets in Arena Rex. I usually don’t like how they turn out, but this one is pretty good. Probably because it’s a fine enough mesh that the dark recesses works well with a simple wash.
Mago is just so cuddly. As long as he doesn’t swing that giant blade at you.
Zahra also rides a giant scorpion, but not in the faction starter. Fortunately, her spear and whip come in both metal and resin. I chose metal, so I could keep it straight, and it would bend instead of snap.
The Underworlds Creepers are nearly the perfect Blitz Bowl box. It’s got two different six-model teams, the skaven and goblins. There’s just one problem: the goblin Blitz Bowl team is special and has eight models. I considered filling in the numbers with third party models, or even some of the Forgeworld options. In the end, I kept things simple and bought the four-man goblin expansion GW prime sells. That leaves with two spares.
To make the team fit in with the skaven, while still being distinct when played as separate teams, I cycled the colors. The skaven had green cloth and purple armor. Goblins have green flesh, purple cloth, and mostly black/metal armor.
The goblin balls are perhaps the best of the bunch. I especially like the squiq in a ball costume.
The coin and marker got my standard treatment. No-frills, but still clearly team-associated.
When the Underworlds Creepers box was announced, it seemed nearly perfect for Blitz Bowl. Two half-sized Blood Bowl teams in one box. Thus skaven and goblins became my first expansion Blitz Bowl teams.
I knew I wanted them to work as a combined team, should I ever actually go the Blood Bowl route (or use some of the community rules for the Creepers). Since the goblins would have green skin, I decided on green for the primary cloth color on the skaven.
It was fun to blend the skin tones with fur. I’ve struggled with that in the past, but these show some progress.
One nice thing about the Blood Bowl boxes are the decals. It makes the models less useful as generic fantasy, but the numbers help emphasize up the sports ball aspect of the game.
Skaven get some fun thematic balls, full of warpstone glowiness.
I continue to not be excited about properly painting up the coin and marker. So they just get a simple wash over a color that matches the team.
