Pokrzyw's Druchii - Month 2 - Rank & File - Spears & Xbows (1204 pts)

"Almost all Dark Elves, both man and woman, are deadly and extremely dangerous fighters, equally adept with sword, spear or their famous repeater crossbow. At times of war almost  the entire  Dark Elf population can be called to arms.. "

Plans for February:

Lessons learned - first months shall have all miniatures that goes with great numbers. As I create the defensive list with common troops, I planned to have four units - two mixed city guards, bigger block of spearmen, and separate unit of crossbowmen. It could be also transformed in four units of city guards. I previous edition (fifth) I left with some miniatures that I cannot paint because of monotony. 

I have also one remaining from January secondary objective - sorcerer with nice spear.

• sorcerer (59)

Primary:

• 10 city guards ( 5 spears +5 xbows) (130) + surprise (56)
• 10 city guards ( 5 spears +5 xbows) (130) + surprise (56)

Secondary:

• 11 xbowmans fcg (169) + champion (53)
• 14 spearmans (399) + champion (52)

Bonus ( one bolt thrower from April):

• Repeater Bolt Thrower (100)

Realisation:

I started with both units of city guards and assassins to be sure that I would have primary objective done. Valentine's day gave that two photos that means that I passed "have to" part of Rank & File no 2.

But still I have something to do in remaining two weeks (left tray WIP of sec objective, right tray with 6ed miniatures for local league).

In last week I was able to paint it, First time I created banners using aluminium from coke can. hard to cut, but I was positive surprised comparing to thick paper (smooth texture).

Final gallery

I'm disappointed with quality of photos - cloudy day and I didn't realised that there was some grease on lens..

All forces done in this month in defensive formation.

Another perspective

Commanding sorcerer

Xbowmans

Dragon banner

All forces of Druchii in OWAC 7

Some witches around

Rainforcements from another era

Final result of the month:

Points (1204) (1605 TOTAL from the beginning of OWAC7)

• 10 city guards (5 xbows + 5 spears) - (130)
• 10 city guards (5 xbows + 5 spears) - (130)
• 11 xbows (169) + champion (53) 
• 14 spearmans (399) + champion (52)
• sorcerer (59)
• assassin (56)
• assassin (56)
• repeater bolt thrower (100)

Bonus level 😜 (out of OWAC):

In this month in addition to OWAC I've painted 6th edition Mengil Manhide's Manflayers (count as a shades) + sorceress for local ToW escalation league.

Mengil Manhide's Manflayers

Closeup

Plans for March

Time for heavy cavalry - elves on dinosaures. Lasers replaced by dark magic. Last unit of infatry in addition. I wait for one miniature that could introduce some wildness. Would be a lot of fun.

primary:

• 4 cold one knights fcg (228) + champion (74)
• general on cold one (lance, xbow, shield, h.armour) (179)

secondary:

• sorceress on cold one (xbow) (72) - would be stripped..
• 9 dark elf warriors fcg (shields) (121) + champion (52)

Ratwig's Rank & File Post Number 3 (432 points)

 This month, I am submitting a unit of shadows led by a level 10 hero with a level 10 assassin attached and a Dark Elf wizard mounted on a cold one. The assassin / shadow kill team will be for going about murdering characters from the other side using magic and/or poisoned projectiles from the hero and assassin. The wizard on cold one will reinforce the first unit of cold ones I painted for this challenge bringing them up to a strength of seven.

1 x level 10 hero (88) --> 99, "Xylomox", E: hand weapon, repeater crossbow (+4), light armor (+2), scout leader (+5)

7 x shadows (19 ea) --> 133, E: hand weapon, repeater crossbow (+4), light armor (+2)

1 x assassin (88) --> 100, "Vox", E: hand weapon, additional hand weapon (+1), crossbow (+3), light armor (+2), throwing knives (+1), scout hero (+5)

1 x level 5 wizard (78) --> 100, "Nit Noy", E: hand weapon, cold one (+22)

Total 432 points.

Xylomox, level 10 leader of the shadows.

Vox, level 10 assassin.

Nit Noy, level 5 wizard, aspiring grand master of death...

Group shot of this month's submission:

All but two of this month's entry are Marauder figs. The wizard is an old pre-slotta hunk of lead and one of the shadows is an older "Drow" figure. The shadows had brass wire strings added to their repeater crossbows. The assassin carries a Gripping Beast crossbow with copper wire bowstring.

For next month, I pulled out two old units that I've had sitting around for a long time for my final rank & file entry.

Damnit Janet! Who drank up all the Jack?!? Oh yeah, never mind...

Ratwig out...