JohnR's Month 6 - Rank and File (415 points)

Things I have learned this month:

Firstly Covid is significantly more serious in men than women*.

Secondly, it's very difficult to paint or even photograph miniatures while your body is trying to explosively eject your own lungs.

Fortunately I'd already painted most of what I wanted to get done for the month by the time Papa Nurgle came calling. The bits that remain unpainted (mainly Lord Waac and his Slaaneshi chaos contingent) will have to wait for another OWAC.

But enough about what didn't get painted; here's what did.

12 wolves with 3 beast-masters. Dark elves value their own lives highly and war-beasts are common in their armies. Starved and abused and then driven into combat by the whips of their masters the beasts rarely survive long. But whether they kill an enemy, catch an arrow or just provide a distraction they have done their job and there is always a ready supply of replacements.

Half orc scabbies. Wherever you have human slaves and greenskins you'll get half orcs. Mother Magaera, the half orc witch, cares for these mongrel infants. At least until they are old enough to be put to work with the other slaves in the mines beneath Aksys' Tower. Those few that survive to adolescence are recruited into the raiding parties: themselves becoming willing slavers and creating more victims for the mines.

Magaera is obsessed with Aksys. In her youth he took her as an apprentice into his tower and taught her some rudimentary magic. Word around the campfire is that he also took her as his lover and that she even bore him a child - though what became of it no one knows. 

This months total:

12 Giant Wolves and 3 Dark Elf beastmasters                    135 points
20 Half Orcs, hand weapons, light armour and shields       160 points
Level 5 Half Orc Hero, light armour, shield and halberd      35 points
Level 10 Half Orc Witch                                                        85 points    

*No disrespect to the fairer sex, and jokes about man-flu aside, apparently men have accounted for 70% of Covid deaths and hospitalisations. Even triple jabbed it flattened me. Don't want to think about how bad it could have been if I was a flat-earth antivaxer...