Lost Egg's January Challenge...to complete an Elven Erehwon Warband

[Lost Egg]

Even if you don’t reach the goal, you will have accomplished something. Keep up the good work.

Cheers mate

Great work, but one thing has been nagging me as I looked at your painted archers and spearmen. Are you really married to the idea of bright white spearshafts and bows? I can almost see it as working for the spearshafts, but the bows in bright white are kind of off-putting to me. Is there a reason you rejected the standard wood color?

Yep the pics have been taken with a flash which may be bleaching them out a touch. I went with the white bows to kinda balance them out against the spearmen. I did try brown spears but they just ended up looking too dark.

Day 23

The 2nd unit of spears are done! Yay...Here's a pic of the warband so far...

This is the half way mark so when I start building my 2nd unit of archers in a mo I will be sneaking just over half way

[Lost Egg]

I was going to do a little update today with a pic of my 2nd archer unit ready for undercoating...then I undercoated them...so they are kinda greyish and dull.

Pic to follow tomorrow

I already have some ideas for expanding the warband but will have to wait till the book arrives...and till I finish what I have

[Munindk]

There's 4 days left, you can do it!

[Kitsune]

Four days is plenty of time!

[Lost Egg]

  4 days ...you must be kidding...I might just get my archers done in that time.

Hopefully my book will turn up today and I can actually write a list for 500pts (a good size intro game apparently) and if I'm lucky I might not need to add much more.

[Lost Egg]

Day 27

And look what arrived this afternoon...after I had given up hope foe the day

[Charlie_]

I like the white spears and bows!

Great colour scheme overall.

Out of curiosity, do these plastic elves give you options for more dynamic poses? Each unit seems posed very uniformly - there's certainly nothing wrong with that, and perhaps it suits elves well, I'm just wondering if you can get other spear poses out of the kit.

[CommanderBaker]

Consider me inspired, I just started a Knightly Order Army for Erehwon. Going to make a post here now. Your elves look great!

[Lost Egg]

Thanks guys

Now I've got the book I've started playing around with a small intro 500pt list which is pretty tight for Elves. At the moment I am thinking...

• Lord & 2 Bodyguards...108pts
• 5 Warriors with spears...95pts
• 5 Warriors with spears...95pts
• 5 Warriors with spears...95pts
• 5 Archers...105pts

With no upgrades (beyond the free spears) this gives me a total of 498pts. I have tried to stick to what I can build with a single Oathmark box though I could drop a unit and buy upgrades and extra warriors or archers; I could also drop a unit of warriors and convert up a mage but I have seen people saying it's best to not include wizards in 500pt games, presumably as they could be overpowered. I do have ideas for converting cavalry, knights and a mage but we will see as I'd also like to build some Celtos warbands.

I have yet to read the book beyond the intro and the Elf list but it looks nice and is thicker than I expected...you get a lot of bang for your buck. Also, I have heard some complain about the basic layout but personally I prefer the clean look...it certainly makes it easier to read as my dyslexiz can make some books a chore. There is some really nice artwork in there too.

Out of curiosity, do these plastic elves give you options for more dynamic poses? Each unit seems posed very uniformly - there's certainly nothing wrong with that, and perhaps it suits elves well, I'm just wondering if you can get other spear poses out of the kit.

I decided to go with a more regimented look with my elves to give them that disciplined look. For each of the spear units I've used the full set of arms but you can obviously change the angle they are glued on at. They aren't very dynamic options which is a little disappointing but the options are still pretty solid. For the archers there are 3 basic bow poses fired, drawing and holding the bow down. Again pretty solid and I just made sure to go for the regimented disciplined look again, if I make a unit of rangers then I will probably go for a more mixed look.

Consider me inspired, I just started a Knightly Order Army for Erehwon. Going to make a post here now. Your elves look great!

Wow, thanks Commander  Make sure you post a link I'd love to check them out...what size warband are you going to make?

[jetengine]

Does it cost extra to make your Elves have swords ?

[Lost Egg]

Nope they come with swords as standard. Spears are free; they are thrown as you close into combat. Long spears cost and they cancel enemy charge bonus I think.

[jetengine]

Awesome. I want to repurpose my LOTR Last Alliance Elves

[Lost Egg]

Go for it mate...there are no double handed sword options but I'm sure you could come up with something...I imagine some of the entries for another faction have that option so just transplant the rule across.

[jetengine]

Go for it mate...there are no double handed sword options but I'm sure you could come up with something...I imagine some of the entries for another faction have that option so just transplant the rule across.

I'll just run them a sword/spear/bow elves with Gil Galad or Elrond as a Warlord, probably scrounge up an elven sorceror and the Rivendell Cavalry work nicely.

[Lost Egg]

Sounds good mate Those elves are lovely minis.

Day 28

Archer unit 2 is getting there...