Spears and Impalers

 I have had bout 17 of these OOP Wizkids Horror Clix Vlad the Impaler 32mm figures sitting around since I bought them some years ago at the local Comic Book Store in a bin sale.   I had been planning to convert them to Impalers for a Vampire based fantasy army by replacing the end of the spear with just a point rather than an impaled victim, as a regiment of 16 would just look too weird, one victim as a standard is sufficient.

 

Wizkids HorrorClix Vlad the Impaler

Accordingly I cut off the victim on all but 1 figure and planned to put spear tips on the end of the poles.  After the figures sat around for a few years I finally got around to it yesterday. This was partly inspired by the new Fantastic Battles 1.2 rules that has a Night Stalker army list that will work perfectly for my Vampire War figures and these Impalers. They will be an elite Regiment called Vlad's Carpathian Impalers with 3 companies with the traits: Feast, Pikes, Highlanders and Doughty.

 Below are some of the various spear options I experimented with:

Petradon or Pterodactyl with Silurian rider

Conversion project for Doctor Who and the Dinosaurs / Petradon

I was looking at the "Somewhere The Tea is Getting Cold" (STTIGC) blog
https://teasgettingcold.blogspot.com/2010/01/skys-limit.html?showComment=1565825053069#c5791748624388354281

The author is / was working on a conversion to take a Ral Partha flying reptile (Petradon or Pterodactyl) and place a Silurian rider on it.  This would be useful for any number of scenarios with the Silurians using DWMG or other rules.

Painted Pterosaur with Silurian Rider STTIGC