JohnR's Month 5 - Rank and File (573.5 points)

This month I wanted to finish off the minis that had made up the initial forces of the Axis of Evil, as presented waaay back at the beginning of OWAC V, and I’m happy to report mission accomplished. (Mostly*).

First up: wolf riders. The wolfboys are the eyes and ears of the Axis of Evil and their leader Zogrog takes his duties very seriously. He spends his days shouting and strutting about, drilling his troops to peak efficiency. Which for goblins means about as disciplined as a bunch of semi-feral five year olds.

Secondly: leadbelcher, very kindly donated to me, mint in box, about 10 years ago by my old friend Matt P. Matt, if you’re reading this, I finally got it painted buddy!

Aksys might be insane but even he can see that giving an organ gun to the most argumentative and chaotic group in a multi ethnic army is probably a bad idea. So in one of his more lucid moments Aksys introduced the goblins to the concept of civilised discourse and debate, in the hope that it would prevent them simply clubbing each other over the head at the first sign of disagreement.

Unfortunately, being goblins, the loudest and most obnoxious gobbo (who had an opinion about everything and never knew when to shut up) assumed that he was winning the debate by simply drowning out all opposition with an endless torrent of verbal diarrhoea, delivered at maximum volume.

At least, until his mates remembered they could just club the ignorant gobshite over the head. 

Debate over :D

Finally: the splendid Drew Day Williams cloud giant.

Known affectionately as ‘Tiny’ by the gobbos he just turned up at camp one day and began following the Axis of Evil on their raids. Everyone assumed that he was attracted by the mushroom beer the goblins were brewing and the cages of human prisoners available for lunch but in truth he’s avoiding his giant, nagging wife and just glad to be out of the house.

Bonus stuff: Zombies

Probably the most terrible, garbage unit in all of 3rd edition but as an evil sorcerer I want Aksys to be able to cast demonic and necromantic magic and that means being able to summon stuff. Besides I like the idea that these unfortunate wretches are the victims of raids carried out by the Axis of Evil and / or the remains of Axsys' depraved experiments.

Life in the Old World folks: nasty, brutish and short. And sometimes followed by a bout of unlife where you get to nom the brains of your nearest and dearest.

This month's total:

11 Wolf Riders: standard and musician, spears, light armour and shields     169 points
Level 15 Goblin hero: Wolf mount, spear, light armour and shield                 52 points
Hen-pecked Giant:                                                                                          250 points
Lead Belcher:                                                                                                 102.5 points
20 zombies:                                                                                                    Free (and overpriced at that!)

*So yeah I finished most of the above with time to spare so I dutifully pulled the remaining skaven out of the leadpile.

I spent a couple of days staring at them on my paint station then stuffed them back in the 'to do' pile and painted the zombies instead lol. I don't know why, but I just couldn't motivate myself to paint those rats! Maybe next month :)