Sam's Savage Orcs - Da Horde is Complete

So when I started out on this journey two years ago following a nostalgia rush, the point was to get myself a fully painted army of old. An army like the ones I used to pore over in WD and spend time daydreaming about (when I should've likely been concentrating on schoolwork, meh). And with two consecutive years of the challenge I have finally done it. For the first time ever a 2000+pt army fully painted and based. Its done, woohoo!

I'm not going to lie this years 1000pts was tough at times though, the shear weight of painting the same scheme on broadly similar models really started to demotivate me. It wasn't helped by one of the other miniature projects I have going on learning how to walk, both terrorizing the household and severely reducing painting time and effort as I had to thoroughly put everything away after each session lest it get lost, eaten or otherwise incapacitated somehow. Honestly, I was only saved by a good dose of OWAC style shaming and the joy of painting the iconic 90s stone trolls.

Anyway, enough natter, on to the good stuff. The List:

OWAC III:

124pts - "Zogrod Mindmasha" - Savage Orc Shaman Champion, DHW

100pts - "Da Bull" - Savage Orc Big Boss, DHW

100pts - "Urgul 'Da Hammer' 'Eadbasha" - Savage Orc Big Boss, DHW

99pts - "Mad Krug Teefsmasha" - Savage Orc Big Boss, additional HW

171pts - "Da Immortalz" - 16 Savage Orc's, spears, shields, standard bearer & musician

190pts - "Da Crazy Huntaz" - 20 Savage Orc's, bows

390pts - "Da Rock 'Ard Bruvvaz" - 6 x Stone Trolls

30pts - "Summink still underfoot" - 2 x Snotling bases

Total 1204

plus last years list from OWAC II:

158pts - "Ugg Bonekrakka" - Savage Orc Warlord, War Boar (Snorka)

130pts - "Grog Mindbenda" - Savage Orc Shaman Champion, War Boar

59pts - "Wazz DaNoggin" - Savage Orc Shaman

46pts - "Dagob Moufsmasha" - Savage Orc Boss, shield

250pts - "Da Beastie Boyz" - 8 x Savage Orc Boar Boys, Standard, Musician

170pts - "Da Boyz" - 18 x Savage Orc Boyz, Standard, Musician, shields 

200pts - "Da Big 'Un" - 1 x Giant 

15pts - "Sommink Undafoot" - 1 x Snotling base

Total 1028pts

Grand Total 2232pts

On to the pics:

And now for the shot you've all been waiting for, the washed up guy, whose just put on a t-shirt for the first time in months and is barely conscious

Plus the hired help insisted we take this one too

So that's that, with magic items I can field up to 2500pts, which is very likely the largest size 4/5th edition you would want to play in order to retain any form of sanity anyway. Once the plague subsides, I'll hopefully be taking them for a spin against a certain skaven force...

For next year, of course I am definitely coming back, and with the changes I will be dipping into some 2nd ed. 40K, likely with IG junglist mastas (somehow I realized I like painting green and Perry twin sculpts).

Anyway congratulations to all who completed the challenge, was a great bunch again this year. Looking forwards to perusing through all the final blog posts and the hype train into next year.

Peace out

Samuel