Red Harvest, what about Realm Harvest?

It seems like the next Warcry box is going to continue being underground or at least in some sort of chaosy center of industry.

That combined with the Necromunda oil pump terrain piece led me down a rabbit hole of chaos smiths/miners? It didn’t help that over at the Mortal Realms discord we have been scrying various chaos dwarf related things, further pushing me in this direction. 

So, if I’m going to make some sort of Chaos smiths with dwarves thrown in, where do we start?

Well the Necromunda oil rig as the basis for a terrain piece of course!

Slap it on top of the Shrine Luminor where the temple currently sits and all of a sudden we have some demonic thing pumping out realm essence or molten metal. 

Take the Iron Golems Chaos dwarf figure and you’ve got a great Chaos Smith to go along with the terrain centerpiece.

Since we have used the Iron Golem dwarf, we might as well use the rest of them, maybe some weapon swaps for some axes or something different but they look pretty chaos smithy as is.

We might need some bigger beefier bodyguards for our chaos dwarf smith so why not take the Golaith Stimmers, put some ogre heads on them and give them some ogre weapons to reflect the crude industrial vibe we are going for?

As this is Chaos an they are digging down in the earth, they are probably going to find some weird beasties and modify them or have some weird beasties in their ranks already.

Let’s start what a shaggoth, that thing is proper chaosy, and with a conversion just screams chaos mine/smith/down in the earth to me. There are a lot of kitbashes knocking around the web for this one but I think a magmadroth and mancrusher gargant slammed together are a great idea. Turns out TJ Atwell over on Bloods of Kittens has already done this. I’d straight up copy this great conversion.

With a Shaggoth we need some regular dragon ogres to back him up. I’m not sure if there is a great fit for this one. Really shines a light on the need for some monstrous cav sized magmadroths for the Fyreslayers! I’d probably go with Dracolines and then Irongut torsos, heads, and weapons for this unit.

While we are on big models, why not add some giants? No not Mega-gargants! But what about some Mancrusher gargants that have been given some augmented weapons by the Chaos smiths in place of their hands? Thanquol weapon bits should do the trick here. 

Let’s wrap this thing up with another infantry unit. WIth a dwarf smith we need some regular dwarf infantry as well. The community has this one covered as well. Captain of Blood over on Twitter has some great test models for some chaos dwarfs using Hammerer’s bodies, chaos (marauder horsemen?) helmets and Tzeentch weapons and shields. Perfect! Or, iron golem weapons could be used instead.