1st Munchkin Sharpshooter Regiment (Wars of Ozz)

This regiment to me resembles the Munchkin equivalent of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, especially with their hats. That historical unit was composed mostly of cowboys, which (as officially designated as the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry) fought in Cuba in 1898 mostly without any mounts. As the Munchkin Sharpshooters are also dismounted save the regimental commander – the similarity for me holds – except for height.

The 1st Munchkin Sharpshooter Regiment is SKU OZZ-116. There are 21 figures for the regiment – including the mounted regimental commander and 20 riflemen. Yes, these guys have RIFLES with scopes, not muskets. As such, their range is the same as troops with muskets, but they can fire at the equivalent of short range all the way out to long range. Normally, at greater than 7″, missile fire effective strength is halved. Not these guys! They can fire at full power out to 14″. 

All of the figures are metal and 28mm in size. They are based 4 apiece to a 2″ square base – so five bases for the regiment plus the regimental commander on his own separate MDF base. No assembly was required for the unit other than to add the flags and for a small modification I made to an NCO figure that you’ll see below. The regiment is good at missile combat with their rifles – having a Marksmanship value of 6/10 with that great range. As for Melee, they are really weak with a poor value of 3/10 (maybe they needed bayonets!). Their Resolve value is okay at 6/10, but their Elan value is lousy at 4/10. The unit costs 6 points. As I always do, I mixed and matched the figure types and poses such that no two bases of the five in the regiment were identical.

I am currently expected to be waylaid because of minor knee surgery. So, in terms of painting and blogging, I decided to hurry up and paint these and post them now. I’ll be able to read your posts and replies of course, but the painting and blog creation booths are to be closed for a couple of weeks – so Merry Christmas to you all! I am hoping to participate in Dave Stone’s Wargamesculptors Blog “PAINT WHAT YOU GOT CHALLENGE 2023/2024” painting challenge as I should be ok by then. 

Also, I did not take any WIP shots, so I’ll just go right into eye candy. Apologies as I had some struggles with my lighting – but I think the photos are getting a bit better, just not as consistent as I’d like.

Eye Candy

Regimental Commander Base

Base 1

Base 2

Base 3

This base 3 had a unique figure – he is probably supposed to be an NCO. He is the bald guy. Instead of a rifle, he is holding what looks to be a guidon/spear/streamer signaling thing – and that looked too plain to me. So I added a couple of ribbons and a shrunken down pair of crossed rifle images with the “1” insignia on card stock to its cross bar.

Base 4

Base 5 – Command Base

Group Shots

I hope that you enjoyed seeing this unit – and I am happy that I was able to get this post in before I had to wait a while. I think when I recover I’ll be working on some Munchkin artillery and some Munchkin National Guard (Landwehr) for Dave’s challenge. Thanks for looking!

And yes, I still have much more Ozz to come…

Miscellaneous details and references for those interested in that sort of thing:

For all of my previous posts on Wars of Ozz games, figures, units, and other related projects – please see this page.

PAINTS, INKS, GLAZES, SHADES, WASHES, PIGMENTS, FLOCKING, GLUES AND MORE THAT I USED ON THE 1ST MUNCHKIN SHARPSHOOTER REGIMENT:

1. Rectangular Brigade MDF base (used as a Regimental base) from Old Glory
2. 2″ square steel bases from Wargames Accessories (#21)
3. 1.25″ x 1″ square steel base from Wargames Accessories (#FOW1)
4. 1/2″ Everbilt steel washers
5. 3/4″ Everbilt steel washers
6. Poster tack
7. Vallejo Premium Primer “White”
8. Vallejo “Flow Improver”
9. Vallejo “Airbrush Thinner”
10. Citadel “Nuln Oil” (wash)
11. Vallejo Mecha Color “Off White”
12. P3 “Brown Ink” (ink)
13. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Royal Robes 2.0”
14. Vallejo “Thinner Medium”
15. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Aethermatic Blue”
16. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Contrast Medium”
17. Vallejo Model Color “Black”
18. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Pylar Glacier”
19. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Crusader Skin 1.0”
20. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Magmadroth Flame”
21. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Ironjawz Yellow”
22. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Ashen Stone 2.0”
23. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Black Templar”
24. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Ruddy Fur 2.0”
25. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Cygor Brown”
26. P3 “Midland Flesh”
27. Citadel “The Fang”
28. Vallejo Model Air “Gun Metal”
29. Army Painter “Warpaint – Weapon Bronze”
30. Vallejo Mecha Color “Sky Blue”
31. The Armory “Dark Blue”
32. Vallejo Model Color “Wood Grain”
33. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Satchel Brown 2.0”
34. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Hardened Leather 1.0”
35. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Speed Paint Medium 1.0”
36. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Stormfiend”
37. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Bad Moon Yellow”
38. Vallejo Model Air “Steel”
39. Vallejo Model Air “Bright Brass”
40. Citadel “Nuln Oil GLOSS” (wash/shade)
41. Vallejo Model Color “Light Flesh Tone”
42. Citadel Technical “Soulstone Blue”
43. Battlefront “Sherman Drab”
44. Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Gloss Varnish”
45. Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Matte Varnish”
46. Elmer’s PVA Glue
47. Pendraken 12mm dice frames
48. Gorilla Glue
49. Black Sharpie pen
50. Army Painter “Battlefield Field Grass” (flocking)
51. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “Jungle Tufts” (flocking)
52. Gamers Grass “Green Meadow Tufts” (flocking)
53. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Dark Forest Light Blue Tufts” (flocking)
54. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Dark Forest Dark Blue Tufts” (flocking)
55. Twigs
56. Small stone
57. Blue Sharpie pen
58. Brown Sharpie pen
59. 1/4″ Blue Ribbon
60. Flags printed on card stock