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[Dr. The Viking]

Yes,

Just like everyone else in the entire Universe I'm quite taken by old school miniatures.

I now want to make a small hamlet for my Chaos Warband... but I'm kind of stuck regarding how they would lodge themselves?

I was thinking thatched roof huts or something similar flimsy... like the old picts or something. But then again the round curves and all aren't really chaotic.

A keep is not really fit for a small warband either.

So who has an idea?

[gamer Mac]

Steel, brass and rivets on wigwams

[YPU]

If its a marauder tribe then they might live in yurts.

Else you might consider doing a raided village taken over by the raiders for the night.

[OSHIROmodels]

How about those cracking Norwegian churches with a few more spikes and a bit more ramshackle

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=Norwegian%20church&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1295&bih=717

Not the white ones but the old wood ones.

cheers

James

[Red Orc]

Yeah, I'm thinking Viking-style, for Chaos Marauders. A long hall of the kind beloved of 'The Vikings' and such like.

Warriors of Chaos would be more likely to live in a big temple and never sleep anyway.

[Delaney]

I picture tents anchored at eight corners with iron, arrow tipped spears.

Though GW would probably make a skull shaped tent and whack skulls all over it.

[Plynkes]

Spikey war wagons! Pulled by...


...things.

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Interesting one.

Well, technically, they are norse, just, evil. SO perhaps longhouses and stuff, but evil.

With pits for their hounds, lots of chained up prisoners, spawn and a sacrificial stone surrounded by stones.

Chaos Warriors, yeah, I don't reckon they sleep.

[phreedh]

If it's for beastmen, I could imagine them living in caves in a barren hill side, surrounded by hovels, sacrifice altar and so forth.

Cause you know... goats burrow. 

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

Go all Tim Burton on some fantasy architecture.

[vikotnik]

Go all Tim Burton on some fantasy architecture.

Yes, and Monoliths are important! And, as Rob mentioned, an altar!

[P_Clapham]

Are we talking about unaligned / plain vanilla Chaos Marauders?  I like rob_alderman's suggestion of going with a Norse encampment, with an evil twist.  If your warband is dedicated to one of the Chaos gods, I've got a few other suggestions.

Nurgle - A huge decaying chaos beast of some sort. Either a mostly intact one, or just the ribs and a few leftover bits.
Khorn - Smaller version of Castle Greyskull.
Slanesh - Series of tens made from silk and flayed skins.  Arabian Nights meets Ed Gain.
Tzeentch - A tower, or fortress with legs.  Cross between Baba Yaga's hut and a wizard's tower.

[Commander Vyper]

I'd go for simply a ruined norsca settlement, but maybe with a monument to the dark gods, or even a portal to allow the non mortal elements of the warband to be summoned.

Bodies impaled on spikes, skullz... more spikez, SKULLZZZZ etc.....

[Muskie]

Mongolian Urt or however it is spelled.  Chaos Wastes are North they are the Steppe barbarians at least many of them are...  Isn't Kislev the Slavs or Russians or something.  I know the Imperial is the Germans...

[Thantsants]

What about a few bones and furs knocked together?



Skullz and flayed skin would set it off nicely too!