Gnoll Linebreaker with Great Sword

 So, as previously posted, I am building a unit of Gnoll Linebreakers for Oathmark

He has pauldrons from Anvil Industries and green stuff armour

The line breaker with  a Gnoll Soldier.

Oathmark Mini-Armies: Work In Progress

 My current plan is to build some mini-armies for Oathmark (based on the minimum points value suggested in the rules).

The first is an Elf Light Infantry army.

This is based on an entirely Elf Ranger army.

Yes, that is the entire army, four ranks plus stragglers.

They will need to keep their distance and hope their extended bow range can pick off their enemies before they can close.

The Elf Light Infantry box contains six ranks of figures, so there was enough figures left over for an alternative army list.

One rank of Rangers plus the stragglers are exchanged for a level one Spellcaster and a rank of Pathguard

It still looks like a tiny army.

This is the work in progress Gnoll mini-army. I still have two ranks of infantry to assemble.

Of course, getting this lot painted is another matter.

Gnoll Linebreakers for Oathmark

 

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

Not Colours 2020 - part one

What with "One thing or the Other", Colours (along with a lot of other things) has been cancelled.

Having been inspired by my recent purchase of Oathmark and the release of Frostgrave II (though that is a story for another day), I put in an order to North Star for a quantity of Oathmark and Frostgrave goodies (plus lots of bases).

 As I have posted previously, I am basing my human sized Oathmark and Frostgrave figures on Renedra round bases (they are nicer for skirmish games). Oathmark works on 25mm square bases with five figures per rank.

Renedra have two sets of "sabot" bases for 25mm round figure bases, one of two ranks (ten figures) and one of four ranks (twenty figures)

 You get two sprues (four sabot bases) per pack.

Even the Gnolls (probably the most unruly of the Frostgrave figures) sit nicely in the sabot base (even if the "officer" is slightly out of position on the overhead view).

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