Byron's Introduction Post

I'm Back for my 2nd round of OWAC!

Like the first round I've sculpted some minis to paint, but unlike last time I have a handful already in my possession to start the challenge. 🤞Fingers crossed🤞 that the rest arrive in a timely fashion or I am SOL. 

Lately, I have put my gnome sculpting aside and aimed my Sauron-like eye at sculpting fairytale Germans. The range will include many staples of traditional fairytales as well as conventional troop types for wargaming. For this OWAC I plan to use them as proxies for a 4th ed Empire army.  I sculpted various standard tops so others can choose ones that are more thematic to their force. For my army though, I think I am going with a goose theme. All the banners will have gooses on top. 

My tentative armylist:

Characters

General with Light Armor, Lance, and Shield mounted on a Griffon                    225 pts

Hero                                                                                                                     65 pts

(maybe a few other characters for good measure)

Troops

Handgunners x12 w/ command                                                                           116 pts

Archers x 12                                                                                                         96 pts 

Spearmen w/ shield x 20 w/ command                                                                154 pts

Halberdiers w/ light armor x 20 w/ command                                                       198 pts

Greatswords w/ light armor x 16 w/ command                                                     162 pts

War Machines

Cannon                                                                                                                 100 pts

Total                                                                                                                      1142 pts

That's 87 models! That's going to be tough. It's doable but it will mean a constant output of minis. No chances for breaks. Starting to miss my slightly expensive dark elves already.

       

So! Now the models I have on hand.

At the top of the order I have some characters. These should fill my hero and spell caster roles.

Left to right: witch, wizard, prince and princess

Next, I have some archers. I have at least ten with a handful of extras. 

After them, I have halberdiers.

this pic shows their poses better.

Armed Women. Their role is a bit ambiguous at the moment - maybe flagellants? rank fillers in other regiments? baggage train attendants? armed citizens in scenarios? We'll see. 

 

Finally, I thought that I would share a bunch of pics of greens to tease what will hopefully be coming later. Many of these are WiP pics I took, so they don't represent how the minis looked when I crammed them in the mail last Wednesday.

A few handgunners and spearmen

Cannon crew

Huntsman

musician for handgunners

cannon crew

cannon crew

cannon

dog handler

Opinicus (Off-brand griffon)

zwiehanders

another dog handler

assassin

1 of 3 dog poses

Horses (still working on these, maybe they'll get knights or wagons)