Adrian April's Rank and File month - Brommedir's Bows (306 points)

Rank and File month #3

Brommedir is the elf leader of the small garrison stationed at Orc's Drift. Their elves are in charge of guarding the supplies of the Grand League army as well as the gold chest for the payment of the soldiers.

Normally it would have been a dull and boring task, far from the real fight against the goblin armies. Patrolling the river while the dwarves fix the bridges. Escort the wounded until they can be sent back to Palesandre. Everything changed when news of a second army of orcs approaching from the mountains.

The return of King F'yar from the mountain pass was a surprise, but the elves will barricade and fight in the crossroad. Every step towards Palesandre will cost them blood.

Time for the elf garrison that will make the last stand against the orc hordes at Orc's Drift. I changed a little bit my starting plan and got a proper old school Brommedir proxy for the garrison. Recently an original Brommedir popped up in Europe, if you're the buyer that brought it from Sweden reading this, lucky you!

Lahaven Ramjewe, the champion of the classic Regiments of Renown Lothern City Guard will do the job.

Brommedir is not armed with a magic sword but I wanted to make it pop a little bit over the normal metals.

He is commanding 14 armoured archers with shields. I coverted them to have a different kind of helmet that align more with me (yet unpainted) elf kindred warriors or militia. Also, they will have a different appearance from the other armored archers with the typical pinty helmet.

I used the medieval japanese style for the clothes and bows following my previous OWAC high elf army. This time mixing a white and dark blue with the magenta. I plan to freehand some shields with the griffon design as well as feathers.

I could have posted this image and said that it is only an example of the shields. But, unfortunately, the shields are my Achille's heel on every OWAC and I couldn't finnish all the freehand. At least this time I did not lose a bag of shields, or worse, a box of shields already painted like in previous editions. One of the dwarf shields exploded nonetheless. Literally. Next time I will not clone bits with purely white milliput, it breaks easily if the part is pretty thin.

Did I say dwarves? Ah, yes, I painted some additional miniatures too.

The miners of Ashak Rise guard the baggage just before travelling back to Palesandre.

I finnished my Ashak Rise dwarves. I used several dwarves that were left unpainted from my Dragon Company. This was the perfect opportunity to complete the unit at 20 dwarves.

And lets not forget about the baggage train used in the campaign. They will be also useful for ttrpg or baggage trains for any of my armies. I think that they come from Foundry Miniatures but I am not entirely sure. The Orc's Drift campaign was again the excuse to paint them, as they were sitting in my desk for years!

That makes:

Brommedir + 14 elf archers with shield = 246 points

4 dwarf sappers = 60 points

For the next entry, the Kwae Karr orcs and let's hope for some surprise I got in the mail.

Until then,
Adrian’s out