Oathmark Heavy Elf Infantry

 North Star have just released their Elf Heavy Infantry for Oathmark.

Five figures per sprue, and six sprues.

Each sprue can build six heavy armoured Elves, all armed with hand weapon and shield or two handed weapon (or a combination of the two) There is also components to build a standard bearer and an officer.

The sprue does not contain enough swords or axes (one or two handed) to build five axe or five sword, you will need to combine parts from separate sprues.

Oathmark Elf Infantry

 Nearly two years ago I posted about the Oathmark Elf Light Infantry from North Star.

Finally I have got round to photographing the Elf Infantry. 

This kit is supplied in the usual box and includes six identical sprues, each of which builds five figures. 

The figures can be armed with sword (hand weapon) and shield, spear and shield or elf bow.

The five shields are similar but different designs.

First Gnoll

First painted Gnoll.

Citadel Chaos Black spray undercoat followed by Humbrol 93 Desert Yellow spray.

Main clothing is Citadel Dryad Bark. Axe haft is Army Painter  Oak. The loin cloth and top are Citadel Steel Legion Drab. Belt and straps are Citadel Mournfang Brown.

 Drybrushed with Citadel Terminatus Stone and washed with Citadel Agrax Earthshade.

Oathmark Gnolls

I bought a set of Frostgrave Gnolls when they first came out, assembled a few and put them away again.

When I bought Oathmark, I was interested in adding a non-human army in plastic, and something a bit different from the usual elves, dwarfs, goblins and orcs.

You may look in vain for the army lists for Gnolls in Oathmark - until there is an official list, I am using the Orc list from the rulebook.

 The box contains four sprues, each sprue having five different bodies.

Each sprue has four hand weapons (two axes, a morning star and a sword), three two handed weapons (sword, axe and spear), two bows and one crossbow.

There are ten different heads, some wearing hoods.

Two ranks of Gnolls with Hand Weapons (the shields will be added after painting.

I added some green stuff to bulk up the neck and bed the head to the body better.

One rank of archers

Forces list

Type	Ranks
Gnoll Soldier	6
Gnoll Archer	1
Gnoll Linebreaker	1

Oathmark Elf Light Infantry

As mentioned earlier, I recently received an order from North Star. This included the Oathmark Elf Light Infantry.

 There are six identical sprues, each sprue having five different bodies and enough arms to build all archers or all sword and shield.

 There are fifteen heads, five each of bare headed, hooded and helmeted.

 The Elf Light Infantry sprue will build either Elf Rangers or Elf Pathguard.

I built the first two sprues as Rangers, which point up at nearly half the number of points of a minimum army.

 They are in a Renedra Oathmark sabot base.

My starter army can be built from just one box of Elf Light Infantry.

For the shootiest version, four ranks of Elf Rangers eats most of the points (they are very points hungry).

This does leave (almost) two sprues left over.

As an alternative, you can swap one rank of Rangers for Pathguard and buy a level one Spell Caster.

Here is my spell caster built from one of the Elf Light Infantry with a couple of additions from the Frostgrave Wizards's sprue.

The whole lot needs proper basing before being painted.

Oathmark Forces

Here are some initial starter armies for the minimum force size of 550 points.

Oathmark Human Army

This will need two boxes of Oathmark Human Soldiers to make up:

Type	Ranks
Soldier	3
Spearman	2
Archer	4

Gnoll Army (using Orc statistics)

This will need two boxes of Frostgrave Gnolls

Type	Ranks
Gnoll Soldier	6
Gnoll Archer	1
Gnoll Linebreaker	1

Fireforge Northmen Army

This require two boxes of Northmen Warriors, one of Northmen Archers and one of Northmen Cavalry.

Type	Ranks
Spear	3
Archer	2
Cavalry	1

Fireforge Medieval

Types	Ranks
Spear	2
Archer	2
Warrior	4