From Curt - 10mm Warhammer Fantasy Goblins (Fantasy Location) - (500 Points)

For the past few years our local gaming group has been using a fantasy variant of  'To the Strongest' for our 'Old World' of Warhammer games. We've been enjoying a hotly contested map campaign since last spring which is now drawing to its nail-biting conclusion. The hustle-bustle of the campaign has encouraged us to add units to our existing forces, and as a result here we have the Goblins benefitting from this surge in industry on my part.

In our campaign the Goblins are the spoiler force, run by the GM (me) to add a bit of friction to the players' plans. The little blighters invariably get creamed, but its always fun to see them in action. 

Any self-respecting Goblin commander knows that he needs hordes of infantry, so here we have two fresh mobs of Night Goblins to bolster the Greenskin line of battle.

The combination of 10mm figures and larger bases allowed me to have a little fun in composing the units. As Night Goblins like to imbibe on trippy mushrooms from time to time (meaning ALL the time), I thought a cluster here and there of narcotic fungi would be apropos. 

The next Night Goblin regiment is benefitting from the enthusiastic support of a Snotling Pump Wagon. (If 'support' means getting crushed into red paste by a huge spiked roller.) With friends like these, who needs... Well, nevermind.

So, if one Snotling Pump Wagon is good then a whole unit must be the cat's pyjamas.  Toot! Toot! Parp! Parp!

A battery of Bolt Throwers keen to miss everything they aim at and perhaps hit something they didn't.

Goblin wolf riders doing, you know, wolfy and ridery things.

A horde of hungry Squigs being cajoled and chivied along by their Night Goblin overseers. I had a bit of fun printing squigs in various scales to give the unit more of a unformed look.

And finally, a Goblin commander proudly watching his horde (just before it breaks down into internecine bickering and complete chaos).   

As to points, there's lot of these little fellas so I'm going to have to be methodical with my tally (and I'm sure I'll somehow screw it up). Bear with me, Dallas! 

Mob with pump wagon:    

123 inf = 123 points

1 mounted = 3 points

1 vehicle = 6 points

4 crew = 4 points

Total 136 points

Mob with big Mushrooms

107 inf = 107 points

1 mounted = 3 points

Total 110 points

Squig Mob

98 squigs = 98 points

3 mounted = 9 points

13 shepherds = 13 points

Total 120 points

Wolf Riders

10 mounted = 30 points

Total 30 points

Pump Wagons

4 vehicles = 24 points

16 crew = 16 points

Bolt Throwers

3 guns = 9 points

6 crew = 6 points

Chariots

4 vehicles = 24 points

12 crew = 12 points

Command Stand

2 foot figures = 2 points

I'll also claim the 'Fantasy' library location for it's 20 point bonus. 

Grand Total = 500 points 

Yeeash, that's probably my largest submission to date. Certainly one for the books for me. Thanks Dallas for letting me squeeze in with your Saturday crew!

Oh, Barks, there are 2 skullz on the Chariot standard and 3 on the one with the Wolf riders. So, 5 total! :)

480 points for the 'Really Little Guys Challenge'. 

...and 480 points for the 'Warhammer Fantasy Challenge'!

- Curt

Anything for the Snowlord! The models look super and I love all the small details on the bases - definitely an advantage of using larger "group" bases. The fungi are fun and goblins are always good for a laugh. When I saw that you were posting goblins I had hoped there would be a Snotling Pump Wagon, and there are four! (You know I can never think of Snotling Pump Wagons without thinking fondly of our late friend Kean and his WHFB army). The squig mobs are great too of course, that's a ton of painting - 381 infantry in this post! I'm going to take your word for the scoring as I have trust in the spreadsheet and I was told there would be no math... a real nice points bomb and excellent work my friend!

Dallas

From AaronH - Heroes and Villains (89 pts)

This week's entry is two more Star Wars Legion models, a dwarf for role playing and some nasty Morannon Orcs to storm Osgiliath and Minas Tirith.

First up are Luke and C3PO. There are several versions of Luke models and two different game versions, a commander and an operative. This is the Operative Luke model.

His clothes are all black so I went with Black and dark gray with a Nuln Oil wash to give some differentiation.

Truth be told, Luke's not a great  hero for the Rebels. A lot of force users are sub-par but he hasn't really been upgraded to the level of the top tier in the last couple of years.

C3PO is a nice, clean, easy model.

C3PO is R2D2's sidekick. He can't be taken alone except in the new Ewok battleforce. He's actually pretty interesting there as a strong support character.

C3PO and R2 come in a scenario pack with the crashed escape pod. It comes with some objective, deployment and condition cards to play a themed scenario. I've never actually played any of those, which seems like shame now that I think about it.

Warhammer Dwarf Quarreler

This next model is a rank and file Dwarf crossbowdwarf from Warhammer. I painted him for our role playing campaign as one of the characters is a dwarf ranger with an arbalest.

He was quick and easy and I should probably just bang out the rest of the unit as well. These are not great models but they do the job.

I decided to add a splash of color with the fletching on the bolts. I'll carry this across the army, mostly to the bolt throwers when I get to them.

14 Morannon Orcs to bring terror to my enemies.

The last entry is 14 Morannon Orcs from the Lord of the Rings game. These are 12 plastic spear orcs and two metal heroes, Grishnakh and Guritz - the Master of Reserves (with the skull on his helmet).

Grishnakh on the left and Guritz on the right.

I've had Grishnakh for 15 years. Gurtiz is a more recent acquisition, being only eight years old.

I painted the armor with a dark metallic and then washed it to make it look rusted and un-cared for. In these images it came out more as brown but it presents better in real life. I'm having some issues with varnish since I ran out of my old Vallejo matte and the new one is more satin. Very disappointing and it makes photographing these models trickier.

Twelve spear orcs. 

The plastics come with separate shields, with one or two exceptions. This lets you get more variety in the poses but only within reason.

The shields do leave room for painting heraldry. Is it heraldry when orcs have it?

These models are the usual sort of crappy plastics from GW. They have large blobs that aren't actually any sort of thing, just plastic filler. A lot of the details are soft or imaginary. 

The numbers you see here are not representative of what comes on the sprue. I have several boxes of these and just grabbed 12.

I also have 12 sword and board on the table right now, along with a troll and some more heroes. The local gaming group is doing an Osgiliath themed narrative game at the end of the month. Rhys and I have been working on these models as well as terrain for the last six months. Sadly by the time they locked in the date, we had a prior commitment and will not be able to attend.

I think this guy is my favorite of the spears.

At the very least I'll complete the sword and board as well as the troll and 12 archers. That will give me a painted and playable Mordor army to add to the collection.

I only grabbed one of this dude. He's terrible to play with since his spear really really gets in the way on the table, instead of only partly really getting in the way like all of the others.

2 x 32mm Legion x 7 pts = 14 pts

1 x 28mm Dwarf x 5 pts = 5 pts

14 x 28mm orcs x 5 pts = 70 pts

Total =  89 pts

Nice variety in the post today Aaron, those Legion models are super and I love the shiny Threepio. We all have tons of unpainted LotR orcs and good on you for cracking on with this dozen, they look good and I like the scrawled on "heraldry" on their shields, they look really good. 89 points for you!

Dallas

From SylvainR: Tray 6 - 6mm WW2 Cossacks (part 3 of 3) (63 points)

 Here are the last units of my battalion of Cossack.

First, a company of tachankas (spelling may vary depending on the source). Basically, it's a "Maxim" heavy machine gun mounted on the back of a horse-pulled cart and set to fire backward. The weapon could also be dismounted. The models are from GHQ and they are very tricky to assemble since the horses have no "pedestal" to be glued on the base. I would love to write a GregB-style rant about it, but I'm just not that kind of wordsmith wizard.

The Company HQ has a few models from Heroics and Ros.

Next are 4 cavalry scout sections for reconnaissance. This picture also clearly shows my philosophy about creating terrain for bases. You can see that I am slightly exaggerating the amount and size of rocks on the base, but to me this seems more natural.

In this composite picture, 2 battalion HQs, one for the Cossacks and one for the Polish cavalry. All the models are from Heroics & Ros, except the cart and horses on Budyonny's base. The coding colors at the back represent the companies they command. For the Polish BHQ, I built some kind of stone circle in the grass, but in retrospect it does not feel purposeful. I also mounted a radio operator on the cart for the Cossack BHQ. I like how, on Budyonny's stand, the orientation of the miniatures somehow creates the illusion of a slow moving group.

Points claimed:

For the sake of simplicity, I would like to count each Tachanka (and each cart on the BHQs) as a vehicle (instead of counting 2 horses + 1 foot + 1 limber, etc).

- 18x 6mm vehicles at 2 points each = 36

- 24x 6mm mounted at 1 point each = 24

- 5 x 6mm foot at 1/2 point each = 2 (let's drop the fraction, it's annoying :-))

Total = 62 points

This will also count towards the "Really Little Guys" duel.

Thanks for reading!

More awesome Cossacks here Sylvain! The tachankas are really cool and it's fine by me to count them as vehicles. The groundwork looks great too. Consider that 62  63 points added!

Dallas

From DavidB: White Scars 40k (140 points)

  Hu- Black Thunder

I am off for Duty this weekend...Should be my last medical review in the military. I think I may slam some energy drinks and a few pots of coffee before the EKG test tomorrow( for science). I would say this is the last of my 40K White Scars, but there will be more just not necessarily this challenge. What follows is the entire box from the Leviathan 10th edition box of Warhammer 40k. I got a rulebook, terminators, and some other miniatures I had to add. I barely got them completed today...well Friday as i am still burning the candle at both ends. These were all undercoated black with a zenithal highlight of white ink. The White Scar chapter insignia on all the models is from Pop Goes the Monkey.

Just a couple of the many skullz in this submission and you can also see how the white ink will mix with the other colors even though the ink was applied over the summer months.

My new Lt Knives for the White Scars. Wearing the lighter phobos armour, he looks pretty tough in posing and the addition of tyranid carapace to his armor. Honestly beside the rulebook hew is the reason I wanted the starter box. I was half thinking of making him and a few others Iron Snakes, but decided that all would go to the White Scars.

I really thought hard about making the terminator capt an Iron Snake, but I decided he would be a nice addition to replace KoSorro Khan on occasion.

He does look pretty sharp in the red cape and i actually do not mind the scenic bases. 

My White Scars are apparently foes of Necrons and Tyranids.

The terminators are a welcome addition to the White Scars and I cannot wait to unleash them on Razor.

The Ebon Keshig are a 30k unit for the scars and I use black for the robes and tabards on my force. I painted a couple of the terminator shoulder plates black for that reason and each marine had different red decorations added to them.

Especially the helmets with different dags on the helmet.

The terminator Librarian and Apothecary are welcome additions to the force. I almost made the librarian an Iron Snake, but I painted him as a white scar. I am not quite liking the blue in the terminator armor and may revisit him later, but he will soldier on with the Scars as is for now until I decide different. I couldn't let him be the only White Scar to fight Razor as a primed only model!

It could be just eliminating the red trim and turning it to gold as the back view is pretty good.

A slightly blurry photo of the sternguard  with the snazzy black tabards.

They too have a lot of red added in decorations including the helmets. besides the terminators they are another welcomed unit to the White Scars.

The Incinerators are a new Unit of Primaris troops with flame throwers. I haven't even read on what they can do  yet. They too almost went to the Iron Snakes, but the Sgt's mohawk decided them as White Scars.

His mohawk and that drawing of the Knife...He isnt going to use technology but instead tried and true!

The alternate build is an Incinerator with grenade...good visual reminder that my troops do have grenades to use!

My first Primaris dreadnought. I rather like this one and with the lascannon and rockets it will be nice support for the fast moving White Scars. 

Mostly clean and sharp, but still plenty of detail.

I like the Ad Mech power plant.

The tally....

one dreadnought- 20 points and 6 skullz

terminator capt-5 points and 17 skullz

Lt Knives-5 points and 6 skullz

apothecary- 5 points and 6 skullz

terminator Librarian- 5 points and 14 skullz

terminator squad- 25 points and 34 skullz

sternguard squad-25 points and 23 skullz

incinerator squad-50 points and 24 skullz

(note that the incinerators needed 10 guys to beat the skull count of 5 sternguard)

that is 140 points and 130 new skullz

Legion tally unchanged at 8 units or 22 legionnaires...these are 40k not 30k!

stompy robots of death- got another one for 4 

skullz just jumped from 29 to 159 

I have no idea where I am off to next as a bunch of butterflies are occupying my desk...it could be anything including more space marines!

Great looking White Scars here David! But with all the talk about Iron Snakes do I sense another Chapter project in the making...? I really like the ichor dripping off of Lt. Knives's sword, very cool. And the Tyranid "parts" on the bases really make these guys look battle-hardened. White can be a b*tch to paint but you've done a great job on these models, the red dags and cloak really pop too. Great production and 140 points for you!

Dallas