Spring cleaning: Zacharias the Everliving
Introduction
Back in the early 2000’s I went to University and started playing Warhammer Fantasy Battles with the Vampire Counts. Back then Games Workshop had the Collector’s Guide series of books. These books listed (and had photos) of every model Games Workshop produced for a given faction. The Undead book was the biggest one in the range because the undead had been around for so long. I was on a mission to own one of every Vampire Count model in that book. Without digging the book out of my loft, I’m fairly sure I ended up getting them all into my army except for Zacharias the Everliving.
Back then Zacharias was the big centre piece model of the Vampire Counts range. Every time I was about to buy the model I didn’t for two reasons. One was that for the cost of Zacharias I could buy another unit that I knew I would use a lot more of (e.g. 20 Graveguard or a large unit of Skeletons). The other was that at the time the idea of fielding a very powerful model that would have cost about half my points felt too gamey. In the end the model went out of production before I ever bought it.
Over a decade later Games Workshop started doing their small made to order runs of older models. When Zacharias was made available I decided to buy the model straight away.
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