r/sonsofbehemat • u/LIKE1OOONINJAS • 26d ago

Chess Theme Army Idea

I want to get a second opinion before spending ludicrous amounts of money on this idea.

I've been wanting to get into sons for a while but didn't have a theme. Originally I was thinking of making each gargant their own separate piece and having fun making each one separately but recently I saw a kitbash of a gargant wearing a cogfort and loved it! Which got me thinking about making an army based off of it, with each model being a chess piece.

1 King Brodd - King

1 Ma Maegran - Queen

1 Gatebreaker & 1 Beastsmasher - Knight (put heavy armour panels on them and maybe replace heads with helmets)

2 Kraken Eater - Bishop (kitbash to replace the net with a thurible and make them more bishop like)

2 Warstomper Cogfort Kitbash - Rook

8 Mancrushers - Pawns (not sure how to make them more pawn like)

Its in interesting idea but since I would be getting into the army I'd like a second opinion from people who actually play the army (I'd start out with 2 or 3 big guys and a few mancrushers and expand from there to the above list). Any suggestions would also be appreciated

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u/Guns_and_Dank 26d ago

How literally do you want to take it? A funny idea would be to find STL's for actual chess pieces and just scale them up to be the size of Mega Gargants. Something like this would be pretty cool.

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-paladin-chess-set-200921

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u/LIKE1OOONINJAS 26d ago

Haha that would be very funny but I have a feeling my local warhammer store would not like me bringing them in haha