500 Points of Renegade Crowns: Border Knights Gone Rogue
We love those hobby moments when an army idea appears almost by accident and suddenly turns into a proper project. This time Michał dropped a very specific plan into the chat: this is going to become 500 points of Renegade Crowns.
And honestly, that was enough to get us interested immediately.
The plan
The core idea is not just to put together a small force, but to rework it into a band of rebellious border knights. So this is not a case of “build, prime, done”. There are two important jobs on the list first:
- repainting the models,
- rebasing them.
Wilini’s immediate feedback was, let’s say, direct: they definitely need a repaint because the current look is… painful to the eyes. Fair enough. Sometimes a project starts with inspiration, and sometimes it starts with admitting that the old paint job has to go.
A different look for The Old World
What really sold us on the idea was the color scheme Michał mentioned: black armour with purple details.
That sounds great already, but the best part is that it should make the force stand out nicely in Warhammer: The Old World. We do not usually associate the setting with that combination, so there is a lot of room here to make the army feel unusual without losing that grim, martial character.
Black armour gives the whole force a heavy, severe look, while purple can push them toward something more proud, decadent, or just slightly wrong in exactly the right way. For a unit of border knights who have gone rogue, that feels very fitting.
Why we like this project
There is something very satisfying about a compact force with a clear identity. 500 points is a great size for that. It is enough to make the army feel real, but still small enough that a repaint and rebase project does not immediately become overwhelming.
And the theme does a lot of heavy lifting here:
- border knights,
- rebels,
- darker palette,
- a scheme that should be rare on Old World tables.
That is the kind of concept we always like to see, because it gives the army a story before it even hits the battlefield.
What’s next
Right now, the project is still at the “we know what it wants to be” stage, but that is already a very fun place to be. The direction is clear:
- strip away the old look,
- rebase the force,
- repaint them into black and purple,
- turn them into a proper Renegade Crowns warband.
We are very curious how this will look once the first finished miniatures start coming together. If the final result lands somewhere between grim frontier nobility and full-on treacherous knightly weirdness, we are absolutely on board.
For now, we are just happy that another accidental army idea has escaped containment.