The Solving of the problem of Six Armies

Following hot on the heels of the problem of five armies that had seemingly been solved and put safely to bed, the great wargaming brain in the sky has now come to a decision that the five should now become six and decided what those six armies should look like. 

Army the first, will be the human army already started and in fact nearing completion, in the blue and black livery based on the Fire Forge Northmen range. A stolid, perhaps aging knightly, semi-nightly order that will include a small cavalry section.

Army the second, will also be a human army in black and white livery based almost entirely upon the oath mark human range. Either set as a mercenary retinue, a baronial warband or some sort of rebel force that will be larger by one half than Army the first, so in any proposed siege situations these fellows should be the attackers. They will also contain a cavalry section which gives the option of combining the two cavalry units into a much larger fully mounted raiding force of twenty eight odd horsemen, (drools at the thought of such a sight on the field, quails at the thought of the work involved).

Army the third, will be the afore mentioned White Wolf Ogres (pending).

Army the fourth, will be another human force. This will be the possibly huge, possibly cavalry supported, barbarian force made up of a number of different ancient sprue types from Victrix and converted to a more or less fantasy feel with the weapons left over from the oath mark goblin army, see below.

Army the fifth, will be made up of oath mark goblins, of which we have about 30, reinforced with the orc heavy infantry (which despite their name seem far closer in size to the goblins than the orc light infantry) to give them a bit more punch. The kits will be blended together using solely armored orc arms and heads. In the testing faze this gave the goblins a much more hunched and apelike appearance, which gives a much more threatening feel to the stances. Cavalry for these evil degenerate types will probably consist of the giant mutated boars rescued form ebay and languishing since, these should make for suitably intimidating war beasts with the addition of fighting platforms for archers and long spear wielders added to them. This will most likely be all the cavalry for them because I don’t have anything else beside horses, as the wolves have been stolen for other reasons. 

Army the sixth, will be the dwarfs of the oath mark variety. They will be converted using arms leftover from Fire Forge Northman sprues, swords, spears and bows. The armored dwarfs will be converted with the leftover arms from the oath mark human heavy infantry, both single hand and two handed weapons. Cavalry will be the converted goblin wolves as I can't find any horses that don't look vaguely ridiculous with a dwarf sat on them this will also feed nicely into a bit of lore as to who is praising the wolf god correctly, the dwarfs or the ogres.

So that’s six.

And we haven’t even thought of an undead army yet, though we do have a embryonic proto force hiding in the attic of doom which will probably be centered around some I-kore undead and barbarian figures.

But even these transplanted goalposts don’t include the West Wind orcs, which we have in the region of 70, straining the floorboards of the penthouse of delight.

Onward to the next disappointment.

Cheers all.