Last day of Orctober: Empire vs Orcs

[PhilC]

Hi gentlemen.

My fantasy Empire army is now complete, they're in time to try to repell the hordes of Orcs that try to plunder the province of Talabecland (see the project overview here: http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=24022).

Let me first show the entire army:






Led by the Duke of Talabecland himself, they're ready to defend a small village against the invaders... beware, here they are!


They have a troll!




The full story can be found here: http://philotepsfigures.blogspot.com/2020/10/orctobers-battle-empire-vs-orcs.html

What do the Orcboyz of this forum think of the valiant men of the Empire ?

[Santi Pérez]

I like your fantasy Empire army much more than one from Games Workshop in a larger scale, PhilC. Fantastic painted figures and no less great scenary.

Congratulations.

Santi.

[Peter]

Wonderfull work Phil! They are fantastic painted!

[Rich W]

This all looks really good fun. Nice fun!

[Rich W]

*Nice work!

[Bluefalchion]

Your painting style suites this type of figure very well. Weapons, faces, folds in clothing, and armor all very well done!

[carlosfaro]

I only regret not having painted even more Orcs this month !! Maybe Orctober can be extended still for some weeks hahaha

[MABO]

Great clash of men and orcs

[PhilC]

Thank you all for your comments!
I'm happy with the result, but it is still a small army, I think of reinforcements. For those who are familiar with the Warhammer world, I will try to add Kislev allies, which will give me a reason to paint Polish Winged Hussars !

[MABO]

Seems to be promissing!

[CliosPaintingBench]

A warhammer army at a 1/5 of the price! Great painting and modelling.

[Susofrick]

Already looking forward to the next Orctober!

[PhilC]

Thank you very much!

A warhammer army at a 1/5 of the price!

Oh really! I didn't count, but you must be right, GW figures are so expensive...

Next step of the project, as I wrote above, will be to add Kislev ally troops.

In case this name isn't familiar to you, this is what it might look like (illustrated with 28mm figures):



As you can see, I would need:
- heavy cavalry. The Polish Winged Hussars are the obvious inspiration - luckily, I have the Zvezda and Orion sets
- light cavalry. I think that Cossack cavalry (that I don't have) or even Huns by Hät and/or Lucky Toys (in stock at home) would do the job.
- infantry. After a look at PSR, I've chosen to use Redbox Ukrainian Cossack infantry sets, it should be close enough (I need to take an order somewhere)
- general on bear: hum, no idea for the moment...

What do you think of these choices ? Any other suggestion ?

Oh, and regarding the color scheme, either I stick to the historical models, or I use a Fantasy one, but maybe not light blue / red as illustrated on the picture above. Still to be determined, so if you have any suugestion...

[Peter]

That looks like a real nice project! Can't wait to see some painted figures!

Suggestions? Maybe you can add some mummies?

[MABO]

Seems to be an ambitious project. But it seems to be a cool army in the end. I think all the Cossak and Russian sets from RedBox might be a good choice.