Grim Dark (15mm)

[HerbertTarkel]

Loving the whole thread! Fantastic work!

[DivisMal]

Great thread! How comes, I missed this?

[LouieN]

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” ― Ferris Bueller

 

Thank you for the encouraging reply.  As it was, I was planning a slight update today. 

Another Orc squad has been added. That is 16/246 done.  Wow, I will have so many left over when my retirement finally comes. 



But a lot of effort has gone into getting the Desert Raiders vehicle pool on the paint table.  Any fan of 15mm sci-fi can't deny the awesomeness of GZG's unique wheeled designs.  These are classic.  They had to be included into the Grim Dark collection.

This is a WIP shot after I have airbrushed the base color on them.  Washes, drybrush, and details will come in the coming weeks.  There were ALOT of wheels that need assembling.  While my terrain for this project is grey ash wasteland I chose a color to make them stand out.  My logic is that they were rushed into the combat area as reinforcements by central command.       



More to come, slowly in the future. 

Thanks
 

[DivisMal]

Look on the bright side: when you have them all painted someday in your retirement you might have enough models for an introductory game of Warhammer 40k! 


The awesomeness of those GZG wheels strikes me as…well awesome 🤔 maybe!? No, seriously they are cool and truly grimdark.

[6mmfan]

Awesome work so far and its inspiring for my own 40K in 15mm journey. Where are the Orks from?

[LouieN]

Slow, and hopefully steady, progress.  The first full unit/platoon/mob (pick you poison) of orcs is done.  I have prepped a strong unit of mega armor orcs on the table.







A close up of the boss.  There is amazing detail on these 3D sculpts.



Thanks

[LouieN]

Well the next unit painted fast.  As they are mostly metal boxes with an Orc inside.  We have a strong unit of Mega armor orcs and the first, and only, truck.  The painted miniatures so far allows for a 1,000 point list for OPR rules. 

Orc vehicles in this scale will be hard to acquire.  I am hunting for more sources. 

Enjoy and Thanks

[zrunelord]

Hello LouieN,
Another great post.
As to ork vehicles, you could look on Thingiverse, Cults3d, CGtrader etc

e.g
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/battlewagon-garage or
https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-print-models/miniatures/vehicles/greenskins-lorry or
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4966795

or take my route & scratch build them. There are around 5 different posts.

https://castrarunis.blogspot.com/search?q=ork

The nice thing about orks is that anything goes, especially in 15/18mm
Hope this helps
Z

[LouieN]

Thanks for the links and comment zrunelord. 

[zrunelord]

You're welcome.
Z

[zrunelord]

Hey LouieN ( & others who might need them )

Just found these ork freebies on Cults.
I find that it is better to upscale to 15/18mm rather than downscale from 32mm etc..

Enjoy
Z

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/truk-orc-epic-8-mm
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/killa-kan-epic-8-mm

[LouieN]

Hello All,

In honor of getting the orc marauders to a playable army size I hosted a 1,000 (ish) game to introduce them to the Grim Dark future.   A Battle Brother patrol has been sent to a region called the stone garden, an area of large rock formations, to investigate reports of Marauder activity.  It is just like the orcs to show up when a war is already in full swing.   

In the left corner we have Orcs lead by their boss Mad Mike.



In the right corner we have the Battle Brothers.  Please take note of the numbers in comparison to the picture above.




Armies deployed in diagonal fashion with 3 objectives across the board.  The first turn saw the initial long range shooting.  The Brother heavy machine gun brought down two marauders from the distant 3rd mob.  The other Marauders mobs were using the dense terrain to hide and gain cover.  With a loud war cry Mad Mike ordered Orcs forward to overwhelm the patrol.  The central Brother squad is the focus of all the orc fire.  While many shots landed the tough armor, and terrain, meant not one brother falls to the barrage.  Blessed be the Founder.  The Orc truck screams forward and unloads Mike’s mob.  The right hand Brother squad had waited for them to get closer and open up, with some effect.

 “Mike encourages his boys forward!”



The Brother commander, knowing he had no answer to the heavily armored Ultra bosses opened a comm link to the troop carrier in orbit and transmitted one word, “Omega”.   With a blinding flash Brother Destroyers materialized in front of the Ultra bosses.  They lost no time and charged into the orc battle suits.  Their energy fist carved through two and left one badly wounded.  The retaliation of the survivor was weak, damaging one of the destroyers.   

“Destoyers…Destroy!”



Mike snarled in hatred for the loss of his tin man orcs and pointed at the commanders’ squad.  The boys leapt forward, Mike himself faced off against the Brother commander.  The orc vengeance was swift, and the entire squad was killed under the war axes of the boys.

“The commanders duel, Orc vengeance is brutal.”




The remaining Brother squad brings their firepower against Mike’s mob and brings half their number down stunning the squad.  The orcs on the far left seeing the Destroyers fatigued charge into them. Even in this state they beat off the orc mob.

In the following turn the destroyers wipe out the last Ultra boss.  The Orc mob once again jumps on the destroyers and manages to bring the wounded one down.  They are still repulsed. The Brother squad wipes out Mike’s Mob, except for Mike himself.  Another destroyer falls to a rocket launcher armed orc in the truck.  Only one remains but is steadfast.

In the last turn the lone Destroyer wipes out the two remaining boys in 2nd orc mob. The last mob of orcs surged onto the remaining Destroyer.  Numerous blows land but they cannot bring him down.

“They will know that one stood against many”




The Brother squad attempts to blast the orc mob apart.  Their shots go wide as they fear hitting the valiant Brother destroyer.  They fail to break the mob.

 The APC and the truck contest the middle objective.



The game ends with an orc victory of 1 objective in orc control and two objectives contested.

As always, a quick, brutal, and fun game of Grim Dark.  It is challenging to have board control for the smaller Battle Brother’s force.  I will need to practice more to see how to pull it off.   

Thanks