Ian’s Mordheim - Wrap Up Post

Being out of the country to travel with my family until mid-August, this wrap up post is written from Gent, Belgium, with my iPhone. Not very efficient but it will be done. A big side project this year, family matters and job stress sadly prevent me from achieving 100% of my goal for the OWAC VI challenge. Nevertheless, I am quite happy with this year production as it gives me 4 basic Mordheim Warbands to play with the day I will finally manage to play my first game... The Warpstonegnawers

The Bloody Hood Coven

Khakzog The Unfinished's (and still unfinished) Lost Herd

Johàn von Hallark the First and The Brotherhood of the Cleansing Bastards

What I liked about doing this year´s challenge was the variety of miniatures involved in my choice of probably the best game ever made by Games Worshop: Mordheim. Having more time and motivation, I would have done a personalized roster sheet for each warband (I only did it for the Skaven), a few mercenaries or dramatis personae and some sceneries. Unfortunately it didn´t happened. If I will be part of OWAC VII, I still have quite a few army options... 1. I could continue my Goblin army started in OWAC V with a focus on squigg, machinery and more wolf's riders. 2. I also have quite a load of undead to fill many challenge... 3. This last two years, I collected almost each different big hat Chaos Dwarfs ever made by Games Workshop, with many Hobgoblins, a few chaos creatures, black orcs... 4. A Dogs of War army with many varied units could be nice too. I would like to give a huge thanks, once again, to the overlord Iannick and Byron, his precious assistant, for all the time and energy they invest to make the OWAC possible. Congratulations to all the participants, you are all a source of great inspiration. Cheers! Ian

Ian's Mordheim - Johàn von Hallark the First and The Brotherhood of the Cleansing Bastards

 BURN!

     - Johàn von Hallark the First

Johàn von Hallark the First and The Brotherhood of the Cleansing Bastards are roaming the streets of the city of the Damned in search of bloody heretics and any human or non human scum. Their mission is straightforward: torture, burn and kill all warlocks, witches, sorcerers, fortune-tellers, necromancers, worshippers of the dark gods, deviants, mutants, blasphemers, sinners, utterers of profanities, servants of Daemons, or composers of corrupting music, among others (source: Mordheim rulebook).

Johàn von Hallark the First, armed with two pistols and sword - Witch Hunter Captain,100 GC

Gundolf Schildknecht, armed with sword - Witch Hunter, 35 GC

Günther Loos, armed with crossbow and sword - Witch Hunter, 60 GC

Wolf Felsenbaum, armed with sword, pistol and wearing light armour with Magnus - Witch Hunter and Warhound, 85 GC

Bernard and Wilburg, armed with flail - Flagellants, 110 GC

Gerwig Traube, armed with mace and fish, Norman Pfisterer, armed with sword and Archibald Weisgerber, armed with axe and puppet - Zealots, 78 GC

I tried to paint my witch hunters warband in a semi grimdark style to fit the setting of Mordheim. This was my last planned warband for the OWAC VI challenge. May and June will all be painting a few additional miniatures to expand some warbands. I will also complete the missing roster sheets and add them to each post that's missing one and maybe write a few more details for each post. Learning how to do good pictures of my miniatures would be nice too.

Cheers!

Ian

Ian's Intro post - Mordheim

Hello everyone,

My name is Ian McMurray, I am from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am French Canadian (yeah I know, McMurray…) so please be indulgent with my written prose.

OWAC V was my first time. I painted a small part of my goblin pile of shame for the challenge to add to my already existing goblin army. It was a great experience to challenge myself and share my work with all the participants and readers. I knew I had no chance to win but that was not my goal. I really enjoyed having a monthly task and stick to it, building a small army month after month. I think I did a decent job and was quite proud of it. I still didn’t find some time to play my first game in about 30 years though…

Of course, I wanted to enter OWAC VI and was frantically spending a ridiculous amount of money to acquire enough Big Hat Chaos Dwarfs (which I had absolutely none in June 2022) for this next challenge. That was before the Overlord decided that OWAC VI could be something different… So all those weird looking evil dwarfs will have to wait another year (more time to buy more, sadly) and my aim shifted to Mordheim, the city of the damned. I bought quite a nice amount of the original miniatures in the last 4-5 years and, more so, a complete box set of the game with all the original content.

I love Mordheim. I love the grimdark setting and lore. I love the art and stories in the books and supplements, the weird and disturbing characters. I am attract to the hopelessness and filthy destroyed streets of the damned city. Having a warband of a dozen of miniatures that can evolved, or get decimated, is very appalling and a complete change from the hundreds of goblins and undead I’ve been painting those last few years. So I am very excited to have the opportunity to paint 4 warbands for OWAC VI. Each month will be something new and will be a breath of fresh air compare to painting an army of repetitive miniatures. So here’s my goal for OWAC VI :

                                          

Each warband with their game’s point value will be described in details each month. For now, here are a few more pictures of each one.

Beastmen Warband

Possessed Warband

Skaven Warband

        

Witch Hunters Warband

There might be some changes or additions to each warband if I have time to paint more but that's about it. I will have a special character not showed on the pictures as my leader month (I have a few choices) and might try to do some scenery in my wildcard month.

Here's my offering to the Mighty Overlord. It will be delivered in person in May or June.

Good luck to all the OWAC VI participants.

Peace, love, health and fun for 2023.

Ian