My Last Project of 2023 – Munchkin Light Artillery Battery (Wars of Ozz)

The last Wars of Ozz unit of 2023! Fittingly, it is also my last Munchkin unit – at least for the near future. As I shared in my last post on the Munchkin Landwehr, I am still recovering well from my knee surgery, and I have able to work on a few things. The Munchkin Light Artillery Battery was one of those.

A year ago, I painted up a medium battery for the Munchkins. That unit, with it’s 8″ short and 24″long range, has had the longest range of any of my Ozz units in 2023. To level the playing field/tabletop – and to provide a bit more variety for scenarios, I have decided to get the Munchkins this Light Battery – and to get the Winkies their own medium battery as well (coming soon I hope). Maybe at some point I’ll address this shortfall for the Gillikins, but not now! Again, Dave Stone is also currently is painting challenge “PAINT WHAT YOU GOT CHALLENGE 2023/2024”. This is my second unit for that challenge.

The Munchkin Light Artillery Battery (MLAB) has a short range of range of 6″ and a long range of 18″. Otherwise, the stats for the MLAB and crew are the same as the larger MMAB except for cost.  Both units are good at missile combat with either their cannon or their carbines – with a Marksmanship value of 6/10. As for Melee (which is obviously not ideal for artillery), the MLAB and MMAB are both below average at 4/10 as one would expect. The Resolve value (the measure of the unit’s desire to stick in a fight) for both types is great at 7/10, and as for Elan (the desire to take the fight to the enemy), both are at an average 5/10. The MLAB is cheaper at 4 points, versus the MMAB cost of 5 points. Having two types of artillery give a lot of flexibility to a player or to myself as a GM. 

The MLAB’s SKU is #OZZ-106. All of the figures are metal and 28mm in size. Artillery batteries in Wars of Ozz games are composed of 5 figures plus the gun. While an infantry or cavalry regiment has 5 bases – each of which can take 4 hits per base – a battery can only take 5 hits (one per figure). Each hit removes a figure and loses a die for the unit when it fires. The scale is 28mm and these figures are metal.

As with the Landwehr, I did not take many WIP shots, but I’ll share what I have and then go into some eye candy.

WIP shots…

This was also a time to work on models with my grandaughter post-Christmas. We built a Pokemon Mew model, and then a Grogu. She just turned 7, so I was impressed with how well she did. Yes, this was fun too!

Back to the MLAB, here are some…

Eye Candy

This project’s completion brings my completed forces for the Munchkins to 8 units and 3 individuals (not counting the 4 Adventurers of Ozz):

The links for all of these are consolidated below:

1. Munchkin Light Artillery Battery (this post)
2. 1st Poppy Fields Landwehr Infantry Regiment – for the Munchkins (Wars of Ozz)
3. 1st Munchkin Sharpshooter Regiment (Wars of Ozz)
4. Colonel Sourdough, Munchkin Brigade or Division Commander (Wars of Ozz)
5. Munchkin Aerostat Corps – Hot Air Balloon with Crew (Wars of Ozz)
6. Munchkin Light Cavalry with Command (Wars of Ozz)
7. Munchkin Medium Artillery Battery (Wars of Ozz)
8. Colonel Tik-Tok’s Infantry Regiment, Zoraster, and a Munchkin Mayor (Wars of Ozz)
9. Zoraster’s Guard Infantry Regiment (Munchkins for Wars of Ozz)

I appreciate your looking at this artillery unit. Next up I’ll be doing my annual 2023 year end round-up and 2024 goal-setting post. That’s mainly for me to hold myself accountable! (somebody has to…)

Thanks for checking this post out and please let me know what you think in the comments section. Yes, I still have more 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 THIS MUNCHKIN LIGHT ARTILLERY BATTERY:

1. MDF Artillery sabot base from Wars of Ozz Miniatures
2. Elmer’s PVA Glue
3. 1/2″ x 1/2″ square steel bases from Wargames Accessories (#16)
4. 1 1/4″ x 1″ square steel bases from Wargames Accessories (#FOW1)
5. Poster tack
6. Vallejo “Flow Improver”
7. Vallejo “Airbrush Thinner”
8. Vallejo Premium Primer “White”
9. Secret Weapon Washes “Heavy Body Black” (wash)
10. Citadel “Nuln Oil” (wash)
11. 1/8″ neodymium magnets
12. 3/4″ steel washers
13. Vallejo Model Color “White”
14. The Armory “Dark Blue”
15. Vallejo “Thinner Medium”
16. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Hoard Bronze 2.0”
17. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Crusader Skin 1.0”
18. DecoArt “Peacock Pearl”
19. Gorilla Glue
20. Citadel “Nuln Oil GLOSS” (wash/shade)
21. Vallejo Model Color “Dark Prussian Blue”
22. Army Painter “Blue Tone” (wash)
23. P3 “Brown ink” (ink)
24. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Contrast Medium”
25. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Apothecary White”
26. Vallejo Mecha Color “Off White”
27. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Bad Moon Yellow”
28. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Baal Red”
29. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Karandras Green”
30. Pendraken 12mm dice frame
31. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Hardened Leather 1.0”
32. Vallejo Model Color “Wood Grain”
33. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Glittering Gold 2.0”
34. Vallejo Mecha Color “SZ Red”
35. Martha Stewart Crafts “Brushed Bronze”
36. Vallejo Model Air “Steel”
37. P3 “Midland Flesh”
38. Citadel “Blood fro the Blood God”
39. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Royal Robes 2.0”
40. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Aggaros Dunes”
41. Army Painter “Flesh Wash” (wash)
42. Battlefront “Sherman Drab”
43. Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Gloss Varnish”
44. Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Matte Varnish”
45. Army Painter “Battlefield Grass Green” (flocking)
46. Small stones
47. Twig
48. Pillow batting
49. Gamers Grass “Green Meadow Set”
50. Army Painyer Battlefield XP “Woodland Tufts”
51. Army Painter “Battlefields Field Grass” (flocking)
52. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Dark Forest Dark Blue Tufts” (flocking)
53. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Dark Forest Light Blue Tufts” (flocking)
54. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Wildflowers – Corn Flowers” (flocking)

As you may want to check out the Wars of Ozz figures’ range – there are two places to get them and the rules (and I make no money from this btw). The game rules and the figures are available from the following two places:

In the US Old Glory has a site – Wars of Ozz Miniatures.

In the UK go to Sally 4th.