From Ians: 10mm Lord of the Ring armies for Warmaster (1386 points)

Hi I missed last sundays post as had been in ED and was not really able to post anything, so this week i have a couple of weeks worth of figures to post. I have long ponder the question of fighting the Tolkien battles on the table top but the thought of painting so many 28mm figures was just too much. Since buying a 3d printer the idea of using this to print the figures i need was a plan, and looking on the web for the scale of the project i came across a post to this challenge in March 2021 titled a sword day a red day, the figure scale was sorted 10mm. I then found a set of rules Warmaster and used the basing system from them. I tend to have two projects or armies on the go at the same time so i am never waiting for paint to dry when i have a spare couple of minutes to paint. So first up is the army of the undead, those ghostly green guys that appear in the return of the king. The figures used were from the Forest Dragon Vampire range. Now you would think these were easy to paint and would be done in no time, thats what i thought but no! They cannot be rushed as the paint has to be completely dry before the next layer is added so if i thought the paint was dry i left it for another day. I had so many repaints for this army. So here are 3 brigades of Infantry each of three regiments with brigadiers.

Each regiment is a standard warmaster three base unit with each base consisting of 12 figures so 36 per regiment. A regiment in line from front. Next up is the cavalry elemnet of the army consisting of 3 12 figure regemints and 3 figure command stand.

Close up of cavalry figures

The current Undead army

Now for some bad guys. Easterlings these figures are from a company called Tajima1 Miniatures and has both a range of miniatures and large amount of scenic materials which has been usefully in base all the figures in this post. The army will consist of three brigades one cavalry and two infantry. Cavalry Brigade. The two Infantry brigades each consist of 2 regiments of spearmen, 1 sword armed regiment, archer regiment and command base. Spear regiment

and from behind

Swordman

Archers

Command stands from left to right, ifantry command,army commander, cavalry command and 2nd infantry command.

The Easterling contigent

The final army is again from Mordor and is a small part of the vast number of orcs that I need to paint. The figures and STL files come from the Morghei range of figures. First up 4 units of Orc warriors

Next 2 units of Orc archers

A unit of Wolf Riders

And last but not least two Armoured Trolls

As i missed last weeks dealine due to IT issues here are some more orcs. I am doing Orcs in contigents so this is the second Orc element for the army of Mordor. All the Orc figures are from Wargames Atlantic, great figures, the only issue is the size of the wolves which are very large and as such i could only get two figures on a base but that did mean i got two units instead of one. 5 Orc warband units, a mix of spear, sword and halbards. Halbard Unit

Spear Unit

Swords

3 units of archers

2 units of wolf riders

3 armourred Trolls

1 Orc Command base

2nd Orc contingent

So a preview of the nexted army on the table. No points yet to be claimed for this figure.

Points: Undead Army 10mm Infantry at 1pt per figure – 333 figures – 333pts 10mm Cavalry at 3pt per figure – 42 figures - 126pts Easterling Army 10mm Infantry at 1pt per figure – 243 figures – 243pts 10mm Cavalry at 3pt per figure – 50 figures - 150pts 1st Orc Contingent 10mm Infantry at 1pt per figure – 192 figures – 192pts 10mm Cavalry at 3pt per figure – 12 figures - 36pts 10mm Trolls at 6pt per figure – 2 Figures – 12pts 2nd Orc Contingent 10mm Infantry at 1pt per figure – 240 figures – 240pts 10mm Cavalry

 at 3pt per figure – 12 figures - 36pts 10mm Trolls at 6pt per figure – 3 Figures – 18pts Total - 1386 pts.

From DaveD l Let’s start the day off with a kaboom shall we . Lot and lots of little men indeed . Always the upside of 10mm , what’s not to love . Lots of points it is then