A group Challenge to Paint a NEW Army for Warhammer Fantasy Battle or Rogue Trader
Ah the finish line is in sight. This month I did my army leader and finished off the rest of the witch elves. A pretty meagre haul to be honest so in June I’m going to paint up the remaining cold one cavalry plus my cold one chariot. Anyway here is the points value of my May figures:
- 1 Witherwitch (Level 20 wizard) on cold one with hand weapon - 325 points
- 5 witch elves with light armor with two hand weapons and poisoned attacks - 70 points
Here they are:
"Cold Ones are ancient reptiles that live in the dark caves and tunnels in the mountains underneath Hag Graef. They are extremely stubborn beasts, and not at all intelligent ... "
Hello everyone. Two years ago I've prepared 4th edition High Elves army - painted in bright vibrant colours. Full of joy and happiness. This year I will prepare their dark brothers from far north - druchii. Picture from Battle Book (5ed) and cover from DE army book is the best that we may found in fantasy - girls, dinosaurs and lasers lightnings - whatever is important for teenager (I had 15 years old when I saw it). Let's realise that dream - Let's release lust, and bring pain, malice and blood to the enemies!
I've prepared quite big army - over 100 miniatures (still waiting for some occassion ;) ), and I similar to OWAC V I plan to split it on primary and secondary objectives for each month. If there will be occassion to paint them all - it would be great. If only primary will be painted, it would be solid base for dark elves army.
List of miniatures:
It shall be about 3600pts (without magic items). I create army list during challenge.
The Plan:
Rank & File 1 (Witches!!)
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Rank & File 2 (City guards)
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Rank & File 3 (Heavy cavalry)
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Rank & File 4 (artillery & scouts)
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Monster
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Greetings folks! and welcome to my version of OWAC VI. This year's slave sent to the overlord is the one that would have gone last year if I could have just managed to paint him in time for the start of OWAC V. Anyway, I give you Mox Mon on a Cold One, whose brother Mox Mox, from OWAC IV, got him volun-told to go to the land of chill and serve the witch king. Mox Mon has even painted the overlord's colors on his shield.
This year, the overlord said we could do GW side projects, which included Warhammer Ancient Battles. I have had an unpainted Romano-British Civitate, Twilight of Britannia army for the "The Age of Arthur" supplement sitting around for a long time and so, since I'm taking a break from Dark Elves for a while, here we go. The army will be around 1500 points as that is what is called for in the supplement. I'm breaking it down into submissions as I plan to paint the prepared figs first and scramble later when trying to assemble the figs for later submissions. In order of planned submission, here goes:
31 x Pedyt led by a Decurio, with full command, and large shields: 255 points total
23 x Geoguth led by an Atheling with full command and throwing spears: 298 points total
17 x Milites led by a Tribune with full command, javelins, large shields and light armor: 345 points total
The next two units and the command figures are located in this pile of Late Roman cavalry.
Command:
1 x Dux, Army Commander, mounted with shield, light armor, javelins and throwing spear - 204 points
1 x Tribune, Army Standard Bearer, mounted with shield, light armor, javelins - 160 points
10 x Commanipulares guard cavalry, with full command - 265 points
11 x Equites light cavalry, with full command - 202 points
There you have it, my planned insanity for the next six months or so...
Off to find some Jack to get this shindig rolling!
Ratwig out
This is my Command submission for OWAC IV. Mox Mox is a level 20 Hero mounted on a cold one. He has been modified by cutting off his head, removing the face from the helmet and re-attaching the helmet so that it is now in the fully forward position instead of the pushed back so you can see his face position. I like how it turned out. Mox Mox is carrying a Gripping Beast shield. The cold one also received a replacement head with the mouth open instead of the closed mouth one originally on the fig.
1 x Level 20 Dark Elf Hero - (168 points base)- Total: 194 Equipment: Hand weapon, Heavy armor (+3), Shield (+1), Cold One (+22)
Mox Mox was promoted to contingent commander after I realized that I would not be able to complete the troops I was painting for my last rank and file submission due to work insanity. The only way I could avoid ending up in the field of bones!
I need a Jack or six now...
Ratwig out.
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| Ioth Ssissith |
The brood king looks down from his throne of gold and velvet upon the throng of lizards amassed before him on this day,
“I want to tell you 'bout Chaos Waste radio and the big beat
Comes out of the Lustrian swamps
Cool and slow with plenty of precision
With a back beat narrow and hard to master. Some call it heavenly in its brilliance
Others, mean and rueful of the Western dream.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft
We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping
This is the land where the Pharaoh died.”
With the inspiring words of the brood king resonating in the earholes of every lizard they marched triumphantly on, carving their path of destruction, led by the Holy Ruler of Umbraxakar’s army, Ioth Ssissith.
This month I decided to take a break from my rank & file and work on a larger model. The mount for my general is another Tom Meier sculpt from Ral Partha. I was able to clip the rider up a bit to make his pose work, and I think it turned out well! Since I’ve got quite a bit of this month remaining I’m planning on using my “free” time to convert some extra lizards into musicians & standard bearers.
Point Values:
Ioth Ssissith the level 25 Warbiter on cold one (292)
Rank & File Entry #1
For my first rank and file entry for this challenge, I present a unit of six Helldrakes with standard and musician, led by a Level 5 Hero. Yeah, I know, I changed out the leader from my initial post, as I felt the Level 5 leader better represented a Dark Elf from a unit of Helldrakes. Specifics:
6 x Helldrakes with Level 5 hero with hand weapon, light armor and shield: 313 points total
Since Helldrakes are supposed to be inexperienced Cold One operators with a reduced (I) initiative, I used a preslotta Cold One leader as they tend to be smaller, representing a youngster whose family ties got him the job as unit leader. I also assumed the Cold Ones were young and made their tails blue which is a trait of young skinks from the US south east that I used to chase as a youngster. Their tails turn black or dark gray as they get older. I went with a greenish gray main color and a yellowish tan color for their bellies in addition to their blue tails.
The standard was made from brass rod with copper wire wrapping at the top, a plastic skull on top and a heavy art paper flag. I tried to paint folds in the flag like ones I have seen on another person's work, but not sure if I'll do that again as it isn't as pretty as his. This figure was chosen for conversion as he was my only duplicate model in the unit.
The remaining troops were made stock. It took me a while to settle on a shield pattern and finally settled on the spade outlined in white, which was on a shield in the Dark Elf section of the Warhammer Armies book.
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And that is my entry for January 2021.
Off to locate that bottle of Jack to self medicate against the zombie plague…
Ratwig out!
