Samuel's Intro Post - OWAC VII - Von Glockenspink's Commission: Grand Army of Nuln

So it’s that time of year once again where we gather ourselves and the hollow remnants of what was once our flourishing wallets to partake in the grand challenge of actually painting some of the things that have decimated our finances. But where we find ourselves paupers in the bank account, we are rich in the small lead figures department. And what a fine feeling that is.... right?

This year I’m going back to my roots of WHFB and a new army to boot. Recently, and quite fortunately, I’ve found myself in a wonderful group of Oldhammers who play WHFB pretty regularly. I’ve painted a fair bit of old lead in the previous five OWACs that I’ve participated in, however I only have one WHFB army painted so far. And I’ll be honest, whilst I love my Savage Orc army I’m getting a little bored of it. Time for some fresh blood. So this year I’ve opted for an army that I’ve admired since childhood, a grand Empire army of Nuln. Generally, I like to stick to themes with reasonable strictness. So that means plenty of artillery, gunpowder weapons only and a smattering of Sigmar nutters.

 

The back story:

Hendrick Von Glockenspink, Master Gunner, Master Engineer and Professor of Comparative Blast Dynamics at the Nuln School of Gunnery had a theory. Or perhaps a better description would be many theories that made one grand and brilliant over theory (including ones shoehorned in as they had no better place to go, like the one about the rat stubbornly occupying the corner of his office watching him, he even wrote a paper about that one but thought better of it before publishing). And the core of his grand theory was that velocity was proportional to the death of the object.

He had proven it many times over and even published a 700 page manuscript (727 pages to be precise) detailing all his testing and proofs. Including the spectacular results of the biannual Grand Exhibition held between Nuln and Altdorf in which his personal design of the Helblaster was mounted on a track and used at steadily decreasing range to blow things apart. There was absolutely no doubt in the test results. The things (mostly criminals and the odd witch) were far more dead at a much faster rate the closer the cannon got. Indisputable!

And yet, there were some who continued to doubt the veracity of his theory! To doubt him even! There were some that even went beyond that, called him a fraud and publicly labelled his theory poppycock! The cheek of such Dummkopf! It just would not do, he refused to let such insults stand. He would prove once and for all his methodology was the only way to design new gunnery. And there was only one way to do it. One way that removed all doubt. One way that even the truth deniers could never stand against. Real battle-hardened results.

The commission had been drawn up. The Von Glockenspink name would go down in history as the man who proved them all wrong. He could taste the victory already!

 

The list

1 x General on Griffon …. 250pts

1 x Wizard Champion …. 118pts

1 x Wizard …. 56pts

 

20 x Halberdiers with full command inc Champion …. 177pts

18 x Handgunners with full command inc Champion …. 182pts

20 x Flagellants …. 200pts

 

Steam Tank …. 200pts

Helblaster Volley Gun …. 100pts (Von Glockenspink's Pride)

Mortar …. 100pts

Great Cannon …. 95pts

 

Total …. 1278pts

 

As those who have been following previously will know I’m a practitioner of the eye wateringly bright 90s vibrancy, and this year will be no exception. Nuln is a little more challenging on that front being as its mostly a black scheme, but I’ll be using a few spots colours of clean bright yellow, red and white to make things pop. Fingers crossed it’ll come out how I intend it.

 

So that is about all. I’m looking forwards to get cracking and good luck to all the challengers.

 

Peace out

 

Samuel