Demonsub is Five Leagues From The Borderlands

I thought it was high time I looked at some of the different enemy tables and start to get and paint some miniatures that were missing in my collection for the game. I can do a lot of “counts as” and generally muddle through with a lot of enemies but it’s nice to grow a collection of minis that work for the game.

The Oldest Kin enemy list basically refers to lizardmen which I didn’t own a single model of so that’s where I looked first.

The easiest choice was the plastic Lizardmen box from Wargames Atlantic. It comes with 24 miniatures in a large choice of head type and weapons. 

Looking at the actual enemy lists from the book I reasoned that the boxed set would cover four choices. I would choose eight chameleon and young lizard type heads for the Spawned brood, the weakest enemy painted in a bright fresh colour to reflect their youthfulness. 

Then I would choose eight more lizardmen with more bony spiked heads, painted in a brown, more earthy tone to reflect age and experience, these would cover three different enemy types, the Warrior brood, the Raider brood, and the Ravager brood. All three of these broods are the main typical lizardman warrior, each one just a little more experienced than the last.

The next couple of enemies actually appear human in form. The Kin-Blooded are described as having unblinking eyes and scaly skin, while the Relic Brood are described as reeking with sorcery and crude human bodies. 

Finding suitable miniatures was difficult but then I thought about using the tribesmen box by North Star as part of their Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago range. They come with face masks so I would paint the masks to represent lizard faces. Who knows what their true faces look like behind those masks, but they’d certainly be human allies working with the lizardmen.

There were two beast options in the enemy lists, the Needle Fang Pack and the Hunter Beast Pack. After a bit of a browse I found these metal Jaglas from Diehard Miniature as part of their Eru-Kin range.

In part two I’ll cover the rest of the miniatures I got, including a full table of each enemy in the Oldest Kin list, along with their descriptions. I’ll also show off a few character models I picked up to use as enemy leaders and unique characters.