Warcry – The Unmade and The Cypher Lords

19/09/201901/01/2026 ~ Iron Jarl ~ Leave a comment

So as I so kindly put it in our first Warcry blog post – Warcry – The Iron Golem… Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few months you will have heard of Games Workshop’s latest offering for your tabletop…

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Warcry is a new skirmish game set in the world of Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Choose your warband, and fight thrilling, fast paced tactical skirmishes in one-off battles or across epic narrative campaigns where your warriors grow and develop.

Our Studio Team has been lucky enough to be given a commission by Hoist the Colours – Models & Games for 2 more warbands for Warcry, the first four is to complete was The Cypher Lords…

The Cypher Lords are a cunning Chaos Cult who make your average Tzeentch Arcanite look like a forthright pillar of honesty. Hailing from the city of Nochseed in the Realm of Light, the Cypher Lords worship Chaos in secret, combining the precision and agility common to inhabitants of Hysh with all manner of dark gifts.

Next up was the scariest of the Warcry Warbands to day, the Unmade…

Once upon a time, the Unmade were benevolent philosopher-kings renowned across the Realm of Death for their wisdom and nobility. Desperate to fight back the hordes of undead, the inhabitants of this land (a place known as Tzlid) were driven to worship the Chaos Gods – who promptly rewarded them by turning them into maniacal cultists obsessed with pain and mutilation.

These are Advanced Level Commissions completed at 𝕴𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖐𝖚𝖑𝖑 𝕲𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕳𝕼 by our talented Studio Team. If you are interested in getting something painted by our team please drop us a message!

You will be able to see these on display at Hoist the Colours – Models & Games and they are your best local hobby store for all your hobby needs, contact them to find out about their awesome discounts!

Warcry – The Denizens of the Ruins pt. 2

28/07/201901/01/2026 ~ Iron Jarl ~ Leave a comment

Carrying on with the Warcry blog week in conjunction with Hoist the Colours Models and Games (our FLGS) we will look at the Denizens of the Ruins! But first… What is Warcry I hear some of you cry!?

Our Studio Team has been lucky enough to be given a commission by Hoist the Colours – Models & Games for the 2 warbands in the new Warcry Starter Set plus the random beasts/monsters found in the core set, the second of these Denizens of the Ruins/Chaotic Beasts that we have tackled are the Raptoryx!

To represent the Eightpoint’s varied (and violent) wildlife, many Warcry battleplan twist cards bring chaotic beasts into your battles. At launch, there are two types of chaotic beast that show up in your games – the airborne daemons known as Furies (more about these in our last blog post), and mutant avians called Raptoryx.

This is an Advanced Level Commission completed at 𝕴𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖐𝖚𝖑𝖑 𝕲𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕳𝕼 by our talented Studio Team. If you are interested in getting something painted by our team please drop us a message!

You will be able to see these on display at Hoist the Colours – Models & Games and they are your best local hobby store for the Warcry release, contact them to find out about their awesome discounts!

Warcry – Denizens of the Ruins pt. 1

27/07/201901/01/2026 ~ Iron Jarl ~ Leave a comment

Carrying on with the Warcry blog week in conjunction with Hoist the Colours Models and Games (our FLGS) we will look at the Denizens of the Ruins! beasts, but first… What is Warcry I hear some of you cry!?

Our Studio Team has been lucky enough to be given a commission by Hoist the Colours – Models & Games for the 2 warbands in the new Warcry Starter Set plus the random beasts/monsters found in the core set, the first of these Denizens of the Ruins/Chaotic Beasts that we have tackled are the Furies

To represent the Eightpoint’s varied (and violent) wildlife, many Warcry battleplan twist cards bring chaotic beasts into your battles. At launch, there are two types of chaotic beast that show up in your games – the airborne daemons known as Furies, and mutant avians called Raptoryx (more about the Raptoryx in the next blog post).

Warcry – Untamed Beasts

25/07/201901/01/2026 ~ Iron Jarl ~ Leave a comment

Our Studio Team has been lucky enough to be given a commission by Hoist the Colours – Models & Games for the 2 warbands in the new Warcry Starter Set, the second to be completed by our team is the Untamed Beasts…

Hailing from the Jagged Savannah in Ghur, the Realm of Beasts, the Untamed Beasts are brutal warriors who eschew the trappings of civilisation. Capable of binding the spirits of beasts to their own through dark rituals, they possess preternatural strength and speed. Those warriors in the Eightpoints venerate Archaon as the Eater of Worlds, and long to join him in his great hunt. To them, Chaos is the Devourer of Existence – a rampaging apex predator from which there is no escape.

Riders of the Apocalypse 40k

11/07/201901/01/2026 ~ Iron Jarl ~ Leave a comment

Apocalypse Unleashed – Hoist the Colours

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Hi, I’m the Iron Jarl at Ironskull Gaming. I was asked to join in a fun little Tale of 4 Gamers activity at my FLGS where we all would delve into a bit of Apocalypse fun with the launch of the new rule set by Games Workshop.

An avid fan of Warhammer 40,000 (40k) I usually do the loyalist forces so decided that I would go heretic and do a Chaos force.

Picking up a Chaos Detachment set from Hoist the Colours Games I just needed to decide what Legion I would do. I decided on Iron Warriors, firstly to pay homage to a project my Brother did in the early to mid 90’s which I thought was super cool, inspirational work by Christian Byrne in his Will of Iron series of White Dwarf articles and because of a good friend and ex-colleague Matt’s stunning 30k Iron Warriors army.

I will be posting lots of updates as this project progresses! Don’t forget to check out the latest deals on models for your army from:

Iron Jarl – out for now!

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SQUIGS IN THE DICE TRAY!!!

28/01/201901/01/2026 ~ Iron Jarl ~ Leave a comment

Welcome one and all to the first blog post in a very long time and the first of many I hope! So without further ado lets hand you over to Head Skull Dave…

Squigs they are everywhere!! As a Night Goblin fan for many moons (pun intended) I have successfully transferred my Night Goblins over to Age of Sigmar (and those round bases) and played loads of games with the Moonclan!

Fast Forward a few months and BOOM!! we have stunning release bringing these gitz further into the mortal realms…. all hail the Gloomspite Gitz!!
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So after two weeks of back to back releases for the Gitz I finally secured a set of the most destructive and random of Squigs… The Squig Dice!

These bundles of joy are just as random as you’d imagine seeing as they are six sided dice but be warned these are destructive, bouncy and elusive little monsters who refuse to remain in the dice tray!

An absolute must for the collector who wants all the cool things but sadly when it comes to dice these are just too crazy and i can see them boinging around the gaming halls all over the world

HOBBY ADVENTURES – 2018 SO FAR!

02/05/201801/01/2026 ~ Iron Jarl ~ 1 Comment

Ironskull HQ is a buzz of hobby excitement as both Bex and I have decided on new Age of Sigmar projects (more on that in the next post).

Today I’d like to do a bit of a hobby roundup, a state of our hobby nation if you like…

As the Calendars were replaced and 2018 truly began so did the discussion on what we’d like to do in our hobby this year. We made some loose plans as we, like all hobbyists, are too much like magpies to make solid plans! We wanted to try out Malifaux, SAGA, Age of Sigmar.

Bex decided on The Dreamer for the Neverborn Faction and I Decided on Reva for the Resurrectionists Faction. We decided to work on these in between our larger projects.

Having done a Viking Warband for the first edition of the game I decided I’d do something a little different and go with a Byzantines Warband, Bex however decided on Vikings. We are looking forward to tackling these Armies later in the year, I however have assembled my warband…

We have also bought ourselves a new Magic the Gathering Deck each…

And have been playing a couple of great card & dice games…

In our next post we’ll show you which Age of Sigmar forces we chose and our progress so far, so until the next post… HAPPY GAMING! – Iron Jarl