Army Spotlight: Chris' Orc Army

Fear the mighty orcs!

One of my goals for the SAG blog was to feature some of the armies our club members have painted, though my own skills are sub-par we have some pretty outstanding painters in the club.

Here is the first of those armies, Chris' Orcs. Chris originally built and painted this army for our Age of Sigmar escalation campaign last year, but has since used the army in a one-off Battlesystem game and now plays it in our Kings of War escalation campaign. He was tired of painting drab, historical figures; he wanted to try his hand at a non-human fantasy army. Being able to buy them relatively cheap didn't hurt!

This army doesn't have many exotic painting techniques, just a lot of dry brushing, some home made washes and hard work.

Originally a Megaboss on Maw-krusha for Age of Sigmar, in the Kings of War campaign this is a
Krudger on a Winged Slasher.  This centerpiece figure was painted with dry bushed layers, and Chris
is most proud of the excellent base work.

Gore riders!  Chris glued magnets under his individual figure bases, and then glued metal washes on Kings of War bases,
spackled them for texture, then painted and dry brushed them, producing an excellent look and allowing his orcs to
shift back and forth between different war game systems 

These savage orc gore riders had blue paint added to really make the figures 'pop'.

Orc ax regiments are the heart of the orcish armies, Chris painted these with ink paints. 

This savage orc regiment is a Morax unit in Kings of War.

these orc archers make an excellent unit of Skulks for Kings of War.

Orcish leaders and heroes, a Kudger on a gore, a kudger dismounted, a Godspeaker, and a Flagger. 

I haven't yet faced Chris' orcs in Kings of War, and I'm not eager too, it's an intimidating force!  But gorgeously painted -- dem Boyz is pretty!

Age of Sigmar!

We had a nice turn out at the club last night, but only two games, both in the Age of Sigmar escalation campaign which we run on the first Friday of each month.

In the first game, my Seraphon army took on Chuck's Maggotkin of Nurgle.  The Seraphon lizard men all have a jaw attack... and Nurgle's followers are nearly all walking pus boils... imagining the taste truly sickens...

(I forgot to tak pictures, here are my Seraphon 

taking on Buck's Daughters of Khaine a few weeks ago.)

Technically, I won the game on points... but it feels like a cheap win.  The game has an artificial deadline of 5 turns of play, with an additional turn or two Chuck would have won.  And holding objective is based solely on number of models within 6", and a huge powerful figure, like say the bastiladon in the center of the picture above, counts the same as one of my tiny skinks that die in droves.  

Chuck out-played me, and he ended the game in a much better position then I did from a purely tactical position (ignoring the 'victory points').  He deserved the victory. 

The models are cool, but I'm just not a big fan of GW games, I still much prefer TSR's old Battlesystem 2nd edition.  I'm hoping to run a game of that for some of the guys later in March. That said, having fun playing with the club, and getting to play a fantasy game is awesome. and I really do love my ragtag, home-kitbashed lizardman army coming from multiple GW eras combined with toy dinosaurs.  And I also love that I can use them as Venusian lizardmen in Space:1889 games. I'm all about multi-use minis. ☺

In the other game this week, Chris' Orks took down Buck's Daughter's of Khaine and allies.  It was a close game, but Buck is getting a bit frustrated, I think. His miniatures rock though. I should have taken some close ups. 

Age of Sigmar & Team Yankee

This past Friday was another well attended SAG game night, with a Team Yankee game, our ongoing Age of Sigmar Escalation Campaign, and a Konig’s Krieg French & Indian War battle.

It was a rare NATO win in Team Yankee, as Ren’s American armor company and John’s French cavalry company took on Jake and Wayne’s Russian T-72 company.

For once, Ren’s M1 Abram’s lived up to the hype and slaughtered the opposing Russian armor. 

In the Age of Sigmar we ran 1500 point games.  Jason’s undead Legions of Nagash clashed with Chris’s orcs on a grassy plain dotted with ruins.

Jason managed to grab the victory.

Meanwhile, my Seraphon lizardmen were faced off against Buck’s Eldar Daughters of Khaine on a gloomy plain dotted with ruins.  The gloom was so thick that visibility was limited to 6”, which severely limited the options of my skinks. Still, my Chameleon Skinks managed to sneak up on his cavalry, and get off a couple devastating volleys, allowing me to grab an early lead in points, which despite the ferocious hand to hand abilities of his Sisters, Buck was never quite able overcome.  I was very happy with the performance of my home-built, kit-bashed Bastiladon.

Ken played the British against Eric’s French, both with Indian allies in a gorgeous looking 28mm Koenig’s Krieg game. I wish I could have watched more of that one, I love the period and want to give the game system a try. Ken's Brits took the win.