Hiya. I'm a rookie WarFan general who's never cast a Necro spell in anger... yet. Since I played D&D for decades, mostly DM'ing, I've always taken a serious liking to the vampires and undead beasties. At one place where I wrote fiction, one of the editors there was real good at Warhammer and helped me figure out what to get. So I started collecting the miniatures a few years ago and have painted some, but not nearly all. Never battled; always had something else to do: deal with life, work, lovely wife, video games, board games, card games. Painting the minis is a daunting project and I get on a roll for a week or so but then something happens and I end up doing other things. But I feel the urge now, and wife has always wanted me to paint not only all my stuff but some daemons for her too (!!!)
So I happily find this little nook of undeath, with lists, tactics, battle reports, interesting denizens and complete with a wonderful fluffy section of prose. Minis and cyber-dramas, hell yeah. I had my own story going at one time for a few years. You can either google my name in quotes or hop to this link to see the first chapter ( http://necromancergames.yuku.com/topic/8948/t/A-Gathering-of-Victims-The-Justiciars.html ) Once I drink in the totality of TVC I prolly will dive in there as well.
Let's see, here's what I have as my army so far:
completed: 20 skellies, 40 zombies, 20 ghouls, 20 dire wolves, 3 bat swarms, 3 ethereal hosts
in-process: 40 skellies, 20 grave guard, 2 o-f-vampire heroes
in-the-casket: 8 grave guard, 4 o-f-wight command, 3 m-wight command, 8 m-black knights, 1 m-black knight command, 10 fell bats, 2 banshees, 2 wraiths, m/o-f necromancers, m/o-f necrarchs, m/o-f von Carsteins, m/o-f blood dragons, o-f-Vlad, o-f-Izzy, m-Mannfred, varghulf, Corpse Cart, Black Coach, Blood Dragon on Winged Nightmare, Zach on Zombie Dragon, tomb king's Skull Catapult (yea I know it's a different squad, but it's soooo cool...) m=mounted, o-f=on-foot. Not totally sure what else I'd need, but the game seems to change every so often so ya never know.
If I can get the digi-camera to work I'll post a painting log too.
Looking forward to enjoying eternal carnage during this new everlasting (un)life