Ben’s Chaos Gnomes - The Wrap-Up

OWAC VIII - THE END

"We did it with a Bang"

Another OWAC under the belt! Congratulations to each of you for all your hard work! 

Now that the Six Maddening Months were over, I took some time to reflect. The army was done, clocking in at over 3K in 4th/5th edition points, and I was feeling pretty respectable about the whole thing when it hit me that I still had minis tucked away for this army.

Wow, look at those odds and ends! Some leftover bighats, a bunch of HQ options, a half finished K'daii Destroyer conversion, and some other rabble! I couldn't finish all of it, so I made the bold decision to not bite off more than I could chew.

First I started off with a death shrieker and crew, who could rain terror down upon the enemy with primary yellows and reds! I used some alpine gnome bits for the chassis and an old empire mortar for the barrel, and voila! It's another big bad thing what goes boom!

+75 Pts

Then I added a pair of sorcerers, because you can never have too many. Actually, with the pair of schemes I used when doing this army, I sort of built two smaller Chaos Gnome armies that could then battle eachother if no one else was around to scuffle. This is in part thanks to the lore I'd somewhat cobbled, as well as a growing understanding of Nigel Stillman's ethos, thanks to a well done Dana Howl video. 

+118 pts

Actually thought, there's no reason for them to fight each other, especially when I realized I didn't just have spare chaos gnomes floating around.

I also had leftover Alpine Gnomes taking up space. You remember these friends, from the Battle of Tinyfoot Pass, and also last year's OWAC 7? I'm a wee bit tricky, and so I figured I'd paint some of these chums up for the grand finale as well. A hero is only as good as his villains after all, and so making sure there are plenty of villains hopefully shores up any concern for our stoic smashers.

What I managed to (mostly) paint up from this pile was a tidy little force in its own right and could now be added to last year's force for the culmination of these two OWAC (O-whacks? Owaxen?) worth of effort. On a Sunburnt Saturday in late July, my friend Stephen came by for a match to help discover the results of the rematch at Tinyfoot Pass.

And now for a very small battle report for your reading pleasure.

The Battle of Tinyfoot Pass (Rematch) 

*Deployment*

As is tradition, we broke out the whippy sticks and placed some symmetricalish terrain. Stephen played as the Chaos Gnomes, and organized his line like a champ, making sure to give himself plenty of firing lanes for his war machines. I wanted to give myself room to advance all of my units, and thus put foxes in front of infantry so they could soften the enemy for my pike hordes.

The Chaos Gnomes jn all their glory

*Front Half*

I took the first turn and moved up my battle line solidly. Knowing dwarfs to be a reserved castling force (from two games in 2005,) I had to get my gnomes to his gnomes. As I do this, my opponent softens my lines with his battery of bolt throwers (the most effective of which is crewed by the hounds Vinegar and Salt,) and the one death rocket. Stephen's deft sense of approximation withers my second unit of pikemen (he's very at woodworking, but also games.)

I use Lotti's strategem to remove the swamp from the board's center, and lumber my giant up to his blocks of warriors, and...

The giant falls on its butt, tries to scurry away, and gets trampled by a wall of chaos gnomes. The line advances on the heels of failed panic. In a lucky turn of events, the crossbowgnomes do a phenomenal job of bolting half his bolt throwers back to hell.

*Back Half*

I try desperately to recover, pushing my second unit of pikes up to charge the third anvil of warriors, only to be driven back, and have the firing lane of blunderbusses unleashed up on me. Many units flee in chained panics as the bull centaurs maintain pressure on my left flank, and what's left of my forces promptly collapse. The hobgoblins and alpine artillery crews applaud.

 

*Game End* 

To make matters worse, a giant cat decides the game is over. A Major Victory was earned by Stephen, and by association me, who got to see both of my OWAC armies storm across the table in glorious battle. Truly, it was a masterful stroke of generalship that I would have the better player field the featured army, so that it can have won on its first outing (never mind that this is the first outing for both these gnomish armies.) Hurrah!

Lore Wrap

The chaos gnomes did in fact get their bloody vengeance. They also got shawarma, but that was later.

SO, AFTER ALL THAT FUFFING ABOUT

The Spoils of Time Well Spent

THE LIST 

 Chaos Dwarf  Gnomes 4ed - Unnamed list - [3002 pts]

# ++ Warhammer Fantasy 4th Edition ++ [3002 pts]
## Regiments [1704 pts]
Bull Centaurs [357 pts]: Double Handed Axe, Light Armour, Shield, Musician, Standard Bearer
• 5x Bull Centaurs [41 pts]
  Champion (Double Handed Axe, Light Armour, Shield)
Chaos Dwarf Gnome Blunderbusses [140 pts]: Blunderbuss, Hand Weapon, Heavy Armour
• 10x Chaos Dwarf  Gnome Blunderbusses [14 pts]
Chaos Dwarf Gnome Warriors [348 pts]: Double Handed Axe, Heavy Armour, Shield, Musician, Standard Bearer
• 20x Chaos Dwarf  GnomeWarriors [14 pts]
  Champion (Double Handed Axe, Heavy Armour, Shield)
Chaos Dwarf Gnome Warriors [348 pts]: Double Handed Axe, Heavy Armour, Shield, Musician, Standard Bearer
• 20x Chaos Dwarf Gnome Warriors [14 pts]
  Champion (Double Handed Axe, Heavy Armour, Shield)
Chaos Dwarf Gnome Warriors [348 pts]: Double Handed Axe, Heavy Armour, Shield, Musician, Standard Bearer
• 20x Chaos Dwarf  Gnome Warriors [14 pts]
  Champion (Double Handed Axe, Heavy Armour, Shield)
Hobgoblin Archers [55 pts]: Hand Weapon
• 10x Hobgoblin Archers [5.5 pts]
Hobgoblin Warriors [108 pts]: Hand Weapon, Shield, Musician, Standard Bearer
• 15x Hobgoblin Warriors [5 pts]
  Boss (Hand Weapon, Shield)

## Characters [1055 pts]
Chaos Dwarf Gnome General [360 pts]: Lord (Monster (Lammasu))Hand Weapon)
Chaos Dwarf  Gnome Sorcerer [59 pts]: Sorcerer (Hand Weapon)
Chaos Dwarf  Gnome Sorcerer [59 pts]: Sorcerer (Hand Weapon)
Chaos Dwarf  Gnome Sorcerer [369 pts]: Master Sorcerer (Monster (Cockatrice))Hand Weapon)
Hero [104 pts]: Chaos Dwarf  Gnome Hero (Hand Weapon)
Hero [104 pts]: Chaos Dwarf  Gnome Hero (Hand Weapon)

## War Machines [243 pts]
Death Rocket [75 pts]: Hand weapon, Heavy Armour
Hobgoblin Bolt Thrower [42 pts]: Hand weapon
Hobgoblin Bolt Thrower [42 pts]: Hand weapon
Hobgoblin Bolt Thrower [42 pts]: Hand weapon
Hobgoblin Bolt Thrower [42 pts]: Hand weapon

There's probably more possible points than the list implies, but just nudging over 3k is better tv.

AND NOW, REFLECTION

Its not every day that you bring a project to completion. I'm terrible at it, but find myself able to rise to the occasion a little better when its in the company of such good souls. I had a lot of fun sourcing this army, planning it out, and getting stomped by it. I think most of all, it reminds me that I'm still capable of making cool things when I color mostly within the lines. Its an official(ish) army, that's mostly bang on for representation, that I can bring to most places and not get the dreaded side-eye flung at me.

Moments Before Disaster 

As they say in the biz, "no army is ever finished," and having now gotten in a match, I've got some ideas for where I might take things next time I put brush to chome. For now though, I'm just happy to arrange them on the coffee table until my pals de-mothball their models. 

 

Have a great summer everyone, and see you next time! 

Everything has an end : Slaaneshchild's wrap up post !

 So everything has an end apparently, even the OWAC !

As I am planning to go on holidays soon, I do my last post as soon as I can. But first of all, the wrap-up picture, behold your dear grim reaper with his minions ! 

As you can see on the picture, my power is so strong that I can bend reality to my will ! Even the background is disturbed. Mouahah.

This year was pretty exciting, this minotaur warband was pretty fun to paint, I think I never felt too bored about it. They are not on the picture but I already have 9 minotaurs, so, as I painted 15 minotaurs this year, I can now make 4 units of 6 minotaurs each. Impressive, isn't ?

I also painted beastmen in a previous challenge, so I have now 2 units of "gors" and one unit of "bestigors" (remember the vicious snakemen ?), plus hounds, ungors, harpies, and other stuff. It's a big horde !

Here are so details, but you already know all of them : 

I also finished those standards I started 3 years ago. They are clearly oversized for the dark elves, but, why not ? They are led by Slaanesh and their kinky mind.

And, last but not least, I played today with my army of minotaurs, it was a pretty interesting game, versus Orcs and Goblins. The minions of Slaanesh have won !

Some pictures of the battle : 

the deploiement

here come the minions of the Dark Prince

the approach...

Chaaaaaaarge !!!! The clash of the armies

MOuahah they are weak !!

Gasp !! The dragon is flanking my beastmen !! 

Kill them all !!! 

Et voilà ! 

Next year I will be painting undead I think... OR an army of dark elves full of creatures and dragons, to illustrate the artworks of my childhood.

This Ocho was so great !! Can't wait for the next one ! See you on the battlefield !

Slaaneshchild.

Tom's Orcs and Goblins - Wrap Up

The last squig hopper I could find, got some paint...👇

I also saw that I had neglected to paint the eyelids on one of the previous hoppers, so I corrected that. Here's a pic of them all together 👇

That kinda wraps up the extra paintwork I have done this month. I had really envisioned that I'd be able to complete the black orc unit as a minimum, but as predicted - motivation has completely left 😭

Here's a quick pic to see the state of the army at the end of February - two months into the challenge.👇

As you can see, it's pretty much the original army list completed and just the extras to paint (archers, black orcs, wyvern and hoppers). Thankfully I held back on posting as a lot of real life happened which meant no painting, and then the unenviable loss of mojo :( 

Nevertheless, I still think this O&G army is my best work and I'm really proud of it. I can really see myself adding to it in the future, which is nice. I have many more monopose O&G's in the grey pile!

Sooo, all that leaves is some pics of my Orcs and
Goblins of OWAC VIII!

Apologies for these, the light was super different and washed everything out a bit. The links back through the OWAC are at the bottom of the post, and there'll be better pics on the link

Ideally I'd have loved to have taken some set pics with all the terrain and some other armies but this month has still been a little hectic. Might well be some later on my Instagram (link)

Anyway...

Here's the resulting army list 🙂

(Italics denote previously painted, and therefor not counted for points or model count)

50...     1 x Goblin Warlord 

50...     + Gigantic Spider

54...     18 x Goblins with Spears

15...     + Champion

6...       + Standard

57...     18 x Night Goblins with Bows

6...       + Standard

6...       + Musician

90...     + 3 Fanatics

93.5...  17 x Orc Boys

33...     + Champion

11...     + Standard

11...     + Musician

200...   1 x Giant

120...   3 x Ogres

96.5...  1 x Large Rock Lobba with three crew

200...   2 x Doom Divers

EXTRAS

45...     5 x Black Orcs

75...     10 x Orc Archers

100...    4 x Squig Hoppers

60...      4 x Snotling Bases

57...      1 x Orc Shaman

57...      1 x Orc Shaman

180...    + Wyvern

1 x Orc Warlord

1 x Squig

Total: 1673

Model count: 115*

*monsters count as two models, snotling base counts as 2 models, war machine counts as 1 model+crew

Obligatory pic wiv da boyz 🙂

And rounding off with all the links back through this Challenge👇

Intro: link

January: Rank and File #1 - link

February: Rank and File #2 - link

March: Leaders - link

April: Rank and File #3 - link

May: Rank and File #4 - link

June: Wildcard - link

July: Wrap up

1 x Squig Hopper

All that remains is to congratulate all Challengers on completing their wonderful projects - such nostalgia and brilliant paint! Thank you to the founder Iannick, and the Board of Trustees (headed by Byron) who sail this fine ship - many thanks once again for all your hard work ✨