Wargames Atlantic Orcs

I've had my eye on the Wargames Atlantic Orcs since their release. I don't play too much fantasy battle th se days but I was enamored with their resemblance to the orcs 1978 cartoon Lord of the Rings.

I saw a few boxes of the Wargames Atlantic Orcs at my local hobby shop and decided to support my local business with a purchase. 

I saw a video tutorial from Jim Morris aka "Mogsymakes" where he tackles the same orcs for his Midgard armies. I liked the look and copied his approach. The sprues were cleaned in warm soapy water and rinsed in clean water. Upon drying, I primed them black on the sprues and then removed them from the sprues and attached to popsicles sticks. Painting was done with dabs of paint allowing the black undercoat to provide definition. 

Here are the wolf/warg riders in all their glory. For the army, I decided to go with a limited color palette of grey, red, ochre, brown and black (and green for the skin of course). I drybrushed the wolves and that was it for them, there are three different drybrush tones but I managed to place all the grey wolves in the middle of each base even though I was basing randomly.

Three bases of orc heavy axemen, there are about 12 total figures on each 40x40mm base. I think 12 figures works, it allows me to get 3 bases gives me some space in the back for a dice tray. 

Here we have three bases of spearmen. These fellas all have shields and I couldn't just paint them black and leave it at that. I tried my hand at painting the "Red Eye of Sauron" on the shields but didn't like how they turned out so I went with the "White Hand of Saruman". I think they turned out good enough for hastily painted 10mm figs. 

I didn't really have a fantasy mass battle ruleset in mind but these are based to be compliant with Chipco's Fantasy Rules! and Nic Wright's Fantastic Battles. I have experience with Nic's Irregular Wars ruleset which have similar mechanics as Fantastic Battles, so I knew that I'd be placing dice trays on the back of these bases. Below is an image showing off the rears of those Orcs as well as the dice trays. 

I still have the swordsmen and archers left to paint, which should give me about 6 bases each. I think the entire box set will give me about 18 bases of infantry, 4 bases of wolf riders and also some command stands. I will probably purchase some trolls from another manufacturer to complement the army. Overall, I'm pleased with the figures and how much you get for less than $50 USD.