Ratwig's January OWAC VI WAB Romano-British Rank and File Entry: Cohors III Nerviorum, (256 Points)

For my first entry I am submitting Decurio Crisius and Cohors III Nerviorum, a unit of 32 Pedyt. They are not too hot as their weapon skill of 2 puts them on par with goblins... The troops are equipped with thrusting spear and large shield (+1) and have full command of leader (+5), standard (+5) and musician (+5), which brings them in at 201 points. They have the Shieldwall ability, which along with their large size, helps with their durability a little. Decurio Crisius is equipped with a sword, large shield (+3), heavy throwing spear (+1) and light armor (+3) for a total of 55 points. This brings the total points up to 256. All figures are Gripping Beast, and the spears are brass rod pounded flat on one end and sharpened.

Cohors III Nerviorum in formation:

Cohors III Nerviorum command:

Decurio Crisius:

And that is a wrap for submission one.

It's Jack time! Ratwig out.

goblinpaladin's Necromunda - a January Rank & File update (Skavvies)

 "[W]hat I saw in her face was not the ignorant suffering of an animal. She knew well enough [...] how dreadful a destiny it was to be kneeling there in the bitter cold, on the slimy stones of a slum backyard, poking a stick up a foul drain-pipe."
    - The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell

'ullo, chum

First gang out of the 'hive: Smilin' Jack and the Bitter Dregs.

MODEL LIST

Skavvy Boss: shotgun, sword, autopistol, frag grenade (173 creds) 

2 x Skavvies: autogun (41 creds each)

4 x Skavvies: stub gun, pick/knife/axe/club (33 creds each)

Skavvy: shotgun (41 creds)

Skavvy: blunderbuss, spikes mutation (62 creds)

Skavvy: stub gun, claw mutation (38 creds)

Skavvy: stub gun, autopistol, extra arm mutation (55 creds)

Scaly: spear gun, discus (181 creds)

Scaly: scatter cannon (200 creds).

TOTAL: 964 credits

Thirteen cannibals from the sump - enough for a decent starting gang, with some leftover creds for backup pistols hidden in pouches or to lure in some plague zombies.

just some lads

regular lads

The regular core gangers. I tried to go for a fairly minimalist colour scheme, heavy on washes and grime. Initially I was trying to mimic the inimitable axiom's Ian Miller-inspired skavvy colour scheme. Strong on iron greys, with spot colours of muted orange and shocking yellow. I also spent some time staring at Asslessman's lads, who also have the yellow touch.

every family's got one

so this family has three big deal

As always happens, I think I strayed from the original brief and fell into regular habits, but I did try to keep to a fairly limited palette. Oh, and the pale skin colour is from the always-brilliant Wilhelm.

that way

techno wotsits

These are hard to find painted images of online! The Leadpile has a few in his fantastic gang - although where he sculpted his arms, I just used some from Victoria Miniatures I had lying around. (The laspistols count-as stub guns because they're in such poor condition. It's fine.)

These sculpts were released around the time of Confrontation, although they first appeared in White Dwarf in May 1989. You can see them and their comrades on the Collecting Citadel Miniatures wiki here.

they do watercolours

easy now, fuzzy little man-peach

Yeah, love a good abhuman. These guys didn't turn out quite like I intended (their scales were meant to be darker) but by the time I realised my error, I didn't want to work harder. They're fun sculpts to paint, even if they have the same legs.

this sword was passed to me from my father's father

a lil' freehand chequer just for you

i lied about the sword. now give me your stuff

Finally we have the boss. I might have gone overboard on staining his guns.

The name of the gang just clean popped into my head while preparing the miniatures, but I think it works.

Interior illustration for Necromunda, p.295
Artist uncredited. © Games Workshop, 1997

Coming up for February: Pit Slaves Free men

Introduction - BenF's Epic Orks

I've enjoyed following the entries to the previous OWAC.  Now there's the chance to join in and help clear up my backlog of Epic miniatures I'm excited to give it a go!  

My plan is to add a Snakebites clan and a Kult of Speed to my Orks, using the NetEpic army book as my guide.  This pretty closely follows 2nd Edition Epic Space Marine - the first boxed game I ever bought, now sadly lost to the mists of time and house moves - but I try to make it so the forces will also be useable in Epic Armageddon.  

I've accumulated  figures from a mixture of editions, plus some newer figures from Vanguard miniatures, which all need (re)painting and mounting on 25mm round bases to match my other boyz.

The 1750 point list I'm building comprises:

[Company] Kult of Speed (5 Nobz Warbikes, 2 x 5 Warbuggies) 400 pts

[Special] Warboss (Warboss, 5 Nobz, 2 battlewagons) 250 pts

[Support] Evil Sunz Spleenrippa Squadron (3 Spleenrippas) 125 pts

[Support] Traktor Kannons (5 Traktor Kannons) 75 pts

[Company] Snakebite Clan (4 Nobs, 5 Boarboys, 15 Boyz) 600 pts

[Special] Runtherd 75 pts

[Support] Gretchin Mob (4 Gretchin) Free

[Support] Mega-Squiggoth 250 pts

This gives me plenty of troops for the rank and file months and a Warboss and Squiggoth for the leaders and monsters month.  For the wildcard I'd like to add some terrain plus any other support I can fit in.

For the horror-themed participation fee, I'd like to submit the fierce and fearsome Epic Chaos Minotaur!

Cheers,

Ben

Nicolas' Slaanesh Minotaur Herd

 For many years I have had this idea behind my head...  There is this old drawing of a minotaur by Adrian Smith that have fascinated me since my very first moments in the hobby. I would go back and forth in the 4th edition Realm of Chaos book for hours but always go back to see this page.

And so I began buying minotaurs with the budget I had as a fifth grader... Playing for years the only 2 I had initially bought. Now fast foward 27 years later, happy me sorting through my stuff to find Slaanesh demons for OWAC VI, with the firm intention to expand the demon horde I started the previous year. I had got 3 minotaurs out, telling myself they could be fit for Slaanesh demon princes, after all the original Keeper of Secrets was not to far in style. And I kept digging, going through absolutely all of my boxes to realize I had collected a great herd of minotaurs!

So out goes the demons, for the moment, and now comes the age of the Slaanesh angry bulls!  

And now the army;

1 minotaur lord 290 pts

Lo'Gom the Sumptuous

His origins are mysterious, filled with the mysticism of the tribal chiefs that tells of Lo'Gom stories. But everyone tells about how he came down from the Chaos Wastes and crossed the Frozen Sea by foot. He would have spent days of euphoria, feeding on rotten kraken meat and listening to the songs of monstrous sirens hidden under the ice. The pinnacle of his journey would have been the slaying of a giant ice crab with his bare hands, spreading its claws and cracking the shell of the creature with a mighty headbutt. The gruesome scene that followed captured the eye of Slaanesh himself, who became his guide out of this iced hell with Lo'Gom's promess to repeat his acts of repulsive lust all across the Oldworld.

Over 3 decades, Lo'Gom and his growing horde of beasts have sold their services as mercenaries to all the most vile warchieves possible with the promess of fresh meat and riches.

5 minotaurs 200 pts

6 minotaurs 240 pts

6 minotaurs 240 pts

10 hounds 110 pts

15 Slaanesh Beastmen 165 pts

And maybe...

Keeper of Secrets 0pts

15 beastmen skeletons 150 pts

A lot 

And finally, a little thing that goes "BOOM" in the night for the Overlord  ;)

A Legion Thirty-Five Years in the Making

I am Frank Thompson. I just turned 49 and have been fooling around with toy soldiers for nearly forty years. I started with the second edition Warhammer Fantasy Battle back in like '85. By "started" I mean I started collecting models and painting some to a questionable standard. I don't believe I actually found an opponent and played a game until I was using the third edition hardcover and Warhammer Armies.

Then in '88, just starting high school and living in the mid-West, I acquired Slaves to Darkness and my tiny mind was blown. The crazy in that book left deep impressions, the scars of which I carry still.

I loved everything in that book, but it was Slaanesh and his/her wild color schemes made without reason or constraint that really pulled me in. I managed to cobble together enough models to play a modest chaos army, but what I really wanted was to assemble a Legion. 

The daemonic legions as described in Slaves to Darkness were a far cry at what Games Workshop settled on later. Balance between them and "ordinary" mortal armies was abandoned entirely, and the madness and power levels of the forces turned up to eleven. Slaves to Darkness included quite a bit of daemon vs daemon art but had only a single page in the color section (yes, only one section was in color) showed a Daemonic Legion battle in progress. It was, of course, glorious, and I have always wanted to build one and settle scores on behalf of the gods themselves on the table.

But I was a mere teenager, my funds were limited, and in the midwestern US the acquisition of proper Realm of Chaos daemon models was problematic. At most, I cobbled together a unit of Daemonettes, a couple of Fiends, and single lovely Keeper of Secrets. Oh, I had plenty of champions and beastmen and monsters, but these were all the extras in a Daemonic Legion army, or "Auxiliaries" as Slaves to Darkness called them. Then I went off to college, started playing more and more 40k, and eventually went off to the military, and in the process lost most of my toys. I recovered that single Keeper from my folk's place years later and he lurked in a box niggling at me.


About a decade ago, I restarted this childhood quest with a good deal more patience and significantly more funds. The Keeper and his handful of followers were stripped bare, trades were arranged, and purchases made. This past year I concluded that I had enough to begin the great work.

Slaves to Darkness and The Lost and the Damned lay out very different rules for Daemonic Legions. There is a clear departure from the "battles as ritual" vision in Slaves to Darkness and the "Chaos Mashup" vision of The Lost and the Damned. This divergence is vast enough that there is significant adaptation required to fight Khorne or Slaanesh Legions against Nurgle or Tzeentch. For the most part I have chosen to remain 'true' to the vision of "battles as ritual" in Slaves to Darkness, because it puts the daemons front and center and leans into the otherworldly nature of the engagements. It is also more restrictive than what The Lost and the Damned lays out, so could be easily adapted to that format if desired, while doing so in reverse would be difficult or even impossible. With all that in mind, I plan to build the daemonic core of the Legion for this challenge. My goal, Slaanesh willing, is to nearly max out the lesser daemon allocation for the Legion and top it with a solid spread of hero/commander models.

Greater Daemons of Slaanesh = x3 Keepers of Secrets, one with the Rod of Command (Free)
Lesser Daemon Infantry = x6 units of 6 Daemonettes (600 points each)
Lesser Daemon Cavalry = x2 units of 6 Daemonettes on Mounts of Slaanesh (720 points each)
Daemonic Beasts = x3 units of 6 Fiends of Slaanesh (240 points each)

Spawn Pack = x1 unit of 6 spawn and a Daemonette 'handler (700 points)
Daemon Princes = x1 Slaaneshi Daemon Prince (810 points)

Yes, gentle reader you read correctly, greater daemons are free of charge in a daemonic legion. Keeping that in mind, this will come out to 7750 points of Slaaneshi daemons, leaving me 250 points to buff up the character models with magical toys for a total Legion value of 8000 points. As an alternative a Champion could soak up that final 250 points, but I want mortals for the Legion to be an expansion project down the road or maybe a future OWAC.

For the purposes of this year's Old World Army Challenge, I will be building a total of 5860 points of models...
x30 daemonettes (another six who are already done and painted and will join the new ones, pic below)
x12 Daemonettes on Mounts of Slaanesh (very much the pride of this collection as they were absurdly difficult to find)
x12 Fiends of Slaanesh (I still need to find five more of these to finish a final third unit, they may have to come post-challenge)
x1 Keeper of Secrets with a Battle Standard (the other two are already painted but may be getting converted time permitting, pic below)
x1 Daemon Prince (he is a gorgeously odd minotaur conversion)
x1 Daemonette as Spawn handler (her six spawn are already done and awaiting her, but are Hasslefree sculpts I converted, not old lead)

So, to sum up, this will be (to quote Slaves to Darkness page 172) "in short, no petty collection of mortals squabbling on an insignificant battlefield." (I shall leave that role to my fellow challengers 😜) but rather "an instrument of a Chaos god's will, wielded in the eons-old struggles of the gods." ...And it shall be glorious.

Lastly I have taken the Overlords desire for creepy and horror themes to heart and provide this swarm of Advanced Heroquest Giant Spiders skittering across a grimy dungeon floor.

Sybou´s in Albion for the second time

 Hello everyone,

After one year of break following the arrival of my sweet daughter, i m finally back in order to finish my Albion´s Army.

I'm, right now, not in my house and so i m going straight to the point.

Here is the army for 2023!

So basically, i have around 87 miniatures for the challenge:

1 druid lord on Kelpie

1 druid apprentice

5 light riders

5 light riders

10 heavy cavalry

20 pikemen

20 wolfmen (count as Urslo s bearmen)

10 crossbowmen

10 skirmishers

4 small giants (ogres)

1 giant

here are the heavy cavalry that will go with my horse lord from last challenge. Then we have a two headed giant.

The druid lord is from Conquest miniatures. I think really few people talk about this company and they re doing some really cool Albion s stuffs;

I m not sure if i m going to cut him and put him on the mount.

The mount is a kelpie from warploque miniatures, it s my first stl file and my cousin printed it.

Here we can see light cavalry, skirmishers and the pikemen. These guys are still really wip, i need to sculpt their kilts and add the pikes to all of them.

Then a champion with giant s blood tamed some wild beasts, the Faoladhs.

Rulewise, these are like the bearmen of Urslo:

Finally 4 small giants (3 from conquest games) and a plastic one from dnd miniatures.

They will bulk up the unit from the first challenge.

The last unit is a small squad of crossbowmen in order to have some shooting guys.

The miniatures for Iannick is a zombie but unfortunately, i dont have the picture with me.

I m right now in Perou with my wife s familly and have little access to my stuffs.

Thats it for my entry. Lots of minis but i can do it!!!

Cheers and take care!

Sybou/ Sylvain

Overlord note : Sylvain will show off hos offering in January. I'm really in a generous mood this year.

JamesP RT Khorne Army

Hello again!

I am returning to the OWAC after a year hiatus. I have taken part in 2 other OWAC (III & IV), each year painting half of my dream Empire army. It was quite an undertaking but so worth it and I’m happy to say they have seen a fair bit of table time. I am not happy to say that 2022 was a rough year with only a dozen or so minis painted. The OWAC is the best way I found to paint a force. What can I say? Without our benevolent overlord’s rants of “HAVE YOU SUBMITTED YOUR ENTRY YET?!” along with my fellow competitor’s encouragement and seeing all the progress of beautifully painted armies I just can’t get motivated.

I want to ease back into the challenge after my break, so I’m doing a small project that has taken me years to collect. I’ll be painting a Rogue Trader Khorne army. 

 

This force will consist of:

·        Month 1 – 8 tactical marines and 1 marine on jet bike (a cheeky 10 model minimum)

·        Month 2 - 8 tactical marines and 1 marine on jet bike (another cheeky 10 model minimum)

·        Month 3 - 8 devastator marines and 1 marine on jet bike (more cheekiness)

·        Month 4 – 5 marines on jet bike (will the cheekiness never end?)

·        Month 5 – A land Raider and a Predator (Lovingly restored to their former glory)

·        Month 6 – Command consisting of 1 terminator general, his lieutenant, a tech marine (who is currently navigating the warp i.e. The Royal Mail) and a dreadnought.

Points will be listed every month along with unit descriptions. I am doing the bare minimum for most months as I have to travel a few times in the beginning of the year. Hopefully this will not hinder my efforts.

For our master of ceremonies: The celebrant of the macabre, My personal Freddy Krueger who haunts my dreams not with fingers ending with blades but with tiny paint brushes for digits I humbly submit a Citadel Fiend Factory (FF58) Vampire to keep the FF1 Fiend company.

 

I look forward to watching the armies grow!

Good luck!!