Noobi Warriors, Leaders, and Witch Doctors (Wars of Ozz)

After finishing off my Quadlings (for the moment anyways), I decided that it was time to work on some of the troops from the southern “underbelly” of Ozz. These southerners are composed of Whim Whim tribesmen, their ally the Noobi, and the Gillikin cousins known as the Temujicans.

I decided to start off with the Noobi as the figures really intrigued me. They look like tribal Oompa Loompas, although with orange skin and green hair. They inhabit the Lost Jungles of Noobi. I had two regiments of them plus some leaders and witch doctors that I got from Russ Dunaway (Old Glory) – that have not yet been put on the Wars of Ozz website.

The regiments are SKU#1600, “Noobi Warriors with Blowguns“. They are listed on the website as Noobi – but currently fall under the desert-dwelling Whim Whim as organic troops (not costing extra points like other allies would).

Their Marksmanship is very good at 7/10. As would be expected, these little guys are not great in Melee with a value of 4/10. But they will stick around in a fight (Resolve at 7/10) and are better than average at taking it to an enemy (Elan at 6/10).

Each Whim Whim brigade can have up to 2 of these Noobi regiments at a cost of 5 points each. The downside to these is the ranges of the blowguns are only 4″ for short and 8″ for long (as compared with muskets which have ranges of 7″ for short and 14″ for long, or carbines which have ranges of 4″ for short and 8″ for long). So blowguns are like weaker carbines as far as range goes.

But, an advantage for them is that at short ranges the Noobi can get 1.5 bases of firepower (rounded up) into the fight which is a big increase. A challenge is they move at Munchkin speed, so getting them into a fight or into range takes time.

The figures are metal, and despite the Noobi’s diminutive height, are 28mm in scale. The Noobi are supplied in multiple poses that allow one to vary each of the five bases for each regiment. There are metal feathers that come with each SKU that could be affixed to either the blow guns or the Noobi – I went with the latter option and drilled out mounting slots on the different heads. While according to the Ozz canon, the Noobi have orange flesh and green hair – no mention was given as to eye color. Therefore I went with pink/magenta as I though, why not?

The Whim Whim can only have one bowmen unit in a brigade, and they have no organic artillery. Therefore, having these Noobi provides adds a crucial missile capability. Time will tell if there will be more types of Noobi going forward.

The leaders and Witch Doctors will be SKU#1601 I believe – and I had enough for two leader bases (each having a leader and a drummer) and two witch doctors. The leaders are not special, getting only one skill, but the Witch Doctors get three spells instead of just two. The leader and Witch Doctor figures are not currently shown on the website, but should be soon.

I worked on these in parallel with efforts on Admiral Jinjur’s Personal Band. I had been very convention-busy in April (HAVOC AND MAYHEM) and in May (HUZZAH Goes Hollywood. Let’s not forget that the golf season kicked off in April too. So, while I finished these at the very end of April, I am only getting this post up now. I am also getting ready for a post on a some Whim Whim that are now done. As you have seen I have kept up with post-convention and post-golf tournament posts instead. Now, for the moment, more posts on miniatures (at least today).

Now on to my progress on the Noobi:

WIP Shots and Discussion

First, clean up and wash the figures! At this point I also drilled out for the feathers.

All washed! I organized the figures and primed them.

I used a mix of grey and white primer with a brush instead of an airbrush. Why? Well, the primer paint I was using was getting old and getting stuck in the airbrush – and I hate to waste anything. The primer was still useful with a brush.

After priming, I applied a dark wash, then once dry added a dry brush application with a white paint. Then it was on to applying speed/contrast paints and some shading and highlighting as needed. The two regiments were painted similarly – with some differences. I planned to differentiate the bases for easier tabletop play down the line.

Here below are shots of some early work on the regiments:

And the individuals:

I think he’s upset because of “pink eye”…

Below is a gallery of the figures right after varnishing (with an airbrush) before I added flocking.

Now, let’s add some…

Noobi Eye Candy

The first regiment got blue and orange tufts:

1st Noobi Blowgun Regiment in a column of single bases.

1st Noobi Blowgun Regiment in a modified line as seen from the left.

I gave the second regiment red and blue tufts:

Then the leader bases and Witch Doctors:

I gave this Witch Doctor an orange and purple mask.

For this Witch Doctor, I went with a blue and yellow mask.

These were fun to paint and I look forward to their first tabletop battle at Historicon in July! Any feedback is always appreciated – and thank you 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 THESE NOOBI WARRIORS, LEADERS, AND WITCH DOCTORS:

Wargames Accessories #21 bases (2″ square steel bases)
Wars of Ozz Miniatures Round MDF bases
Wargames Accessories FOW #1 (1.25″ X 1″ steel bases)
3/4″ Everbilt steel washers (ABA)
7/8″ Everbilt steel washers (ACA)
Elmer’s PVA Glue
Vallejo Surface Primer “Grey”
Vallejo Mecha Primer “White”
Vallejo “Airbrush Thinner”
Army Painter “Dark Tone” (wash)
Vallejo Model Color “White”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Talassar Blue”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Aggaros Dunes”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Magos Purple”
Vallejo Mecha Color “Off White”
Vallejo Mecha Color “Magenta Fluorescent”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Nuclear Sunrise 2.0”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Shamrock Green 2.0”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Bad Moon Yellow”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Murder Scene 2.0”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Purple Alchemy 1.0”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Contrast Medium”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Leviathan Purple”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Snakebite Leather”
Vallejo Model Air “Wood”
Army Painter Speed Paint – Hoplite Gold 2.0
Army Painter “Warpaint – Shining Silver”
Vallejo Model Air “Black ” (metallic)
Citadel “Ushabti Bone”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Frostheart”
Citadel “Seraphim Sepia” (wash/shade)
P3 “Blazing Ink”
Reaper MSP “Pink”
Gorilla Glue
Polly Scale WWII “German Armor Dark Olive Green”
P3 “Brown Ink”
Pendraken 12mm dice frames
Citadel “Agrax Earthshade GLOSS” (wash/shade)
Citadel “Nuln Oil GLOSS” (wash/shade)
Vallejo Model Color “Light Flesh”
Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Gloss Varnish”
Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Matte Varnish”
Vallejo “Flow Improver”
Woodland Scenics “Blended Turf”
Army Painter “Moss Green” (flocking)
Army Painter “Grass Green” (flocking)
Army Painter “Brown Battleground” (flocking)
Army Painter “Battlefield Field Grass” (flocking)
Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “12mm Jungle Tufts” (flocking)
Gamers Grass “Orange Flowers” (flocking)
Gamers Grass “6mm Alien Blue Tufts” (flocking)
Gamers Grass “6mm Dense Green Tufts” (flocking)

As you may want to check out the excellent Wars of Ozz figures’ range – there are two places to get them and to get 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.

Thrilling Last Day at HUZZAH! Con 2024: Wars of Ozz Tabletop Wargaming (part 3)

Welcome back! I’m (temporarily) off the golf course and this is a tabletop wargaming post. This blog post is my final one on the “HUZZAH! Con 2024” and is part 3 of my three-part recap. To read about Friday’s games in part 1 you can go here, and Saturday’s part 2 is covered here.

Sunday, May 19th was the last day of the convention, which is run annually by the Maine Historical Wargame Association (MHWA), an excellent organization. It was held at the Doubletree by Hilton in South Portland Maine. The theme for this year was “HUZZAH 2024 GOES HOLLYWOOD”, so games with an association with movies or TV shows were categorized as theme games. I ran 6 Wars of Ozz games here, and given its association with Baum’s books and the 1939 movie, they all counted as theme games. Sunday was the final piece de resistance for me.

I have a number of photos of the game that I’ll share with as many descriptions as I can remember. The game started at 10 AM and I had a full table of 8 players – which was encouraging as often the last day of a convention is a “get out of town quickly” experience. Not here! This was my 6th 4-hour game of the three-day convention. I do include a lot of photos here – and some descriptions of them best as I can remember given my age – and teh fact that this was my 6th game in three days…plus I DID promise a surprise back in parts 1 & 2…so here goes!

Sunday Morning – The Battle for Toto (Wars of Ozz)

This was a repeat of the Saturday Evening game, and as before I had 8 player slots available for this game – but this time the game was sold out.

The scenario description on the registration website was follows:

The Battle for Toto (Wars of Ozz)

“I’ll get you my pretty – and your little dog too!”

The two rival witch sisters – Evora (a.k.a. The Wicked Witch of the East) and Arella (a.k.a. The Wicked Witch of the North) have both learned that a force of Munchkins has taken refuge in a small town near the border of the Great Land of Harvest. Moreover, their spies have also confirmed that the town also harbors other notable Munchkin-lovers – such as the Kansas Farmgirl and her friends. These include the Tinman, the Lion, and the Scarecrow – and importantly Toto.

Both witches believe that possession of the little dog Toto will bring power and leverage over their enemies. Plus, any opportunity to hit the Munchkins is always enticing.

Unbeknownst to the other, the two witches have each simultaneously gathered their forces and allies to attack the town. The two rival forces are converging from oppsite cornesrs of the tabletop. Arella has a reinforced Gillikin brigade and has allied with two Harvest brigades under King Jack, the King of the Pumpkinheads. Arella has recruited King Jack in her quest.

Evora has a both a reinforced Winkie brigade as well as two large Impkin brigades as allies.

Will the two witches put aside their differences and join forces? Or will sibling and tribal rivalries win the day and the two converging attackers try to take on each other for the right to assault the town? And, will Toto be safe?

I have secretly (at a location unknown even to myself) hidden Toto in one of five buildings in the town in the tabletop’s center. The town is defended by two Munchkin brigades – the one on the left commanded by Leif and one on the right commanded by Andrew). Toto is represented by a secret card placement – and even I as the GM would not know where Toto is placed.

As before the Winkies and Impkins were allies, and the Gillikins and Harvest were allies – so the drama built up – would they attack each other or get the Munchkins first? The Munchkins prayed for the bad guys to hit each other.

Victory is determined by scoring, but how the points awarded is different.

For the Munchkins, one point is earned for each enemy base destroyed or routed off of the board.

For the attackers, one point is earned for each Munchkin base destroyed or routed off of the board. However, 1.5 points are awarded for each base of the opposite attacking force that they take out.

Additionally, possession of Toto by the Munchkins is worth 10 points at the end of the game. For the attackers, possession of Toto and getting him off the tabletop successfully is worth 10 points at the end of the game.

On to the photos!

The players – clockwise from the left Michelle (attacking with an Impkin brigade), Brad (attacking with another Impkin brigade), Leif (defending with a Munchkin brigade), Matt (attacking with a Gillikin brigade and Gillikin divisional commander), Sam (attacking with a Winkie brigade and the Winkie division commander), Andrew (defending with a second Munchkin brigade), Jerry attacking with a Harvest brigade), and Steven (partially hidden attacking with a second Harvest brigade).

Most of the players were experienced so it went smoothly as far as play goes.

Leif prepares for a Gillikin Dire Tiger assault from Matt with his Munchkins.

Jerry maneuvers his Harvest troops towards the town using the forest as cover as that Munchkin Medium Artillery battery (in the fence) was deadly.

Matt sent a regiment of Gillikin skeletons into Andrew’s Munchkin Guard – with Phantom Allies to boot!

Brad’s Impkin cavalry and infantry make a determined attack on the Munchkin light battery and push it back from its walled defensive position.

A view from Leif’s Munchkin Sharpshooter’s position as Gillikin Dire Bears and more come their way.

At this point the game had gone on for about about 2 hours. As was the custom with HUZZAH!, the games were paused for the MHWA to announce raffle winners, best in slot winners, painting contest winners, and best in convention winners.

Insert drum roll here...here comes the announcement…

I was thrilled and honored to win the “Best in Convention” award for HUZZAH 2024 for Wars of Ozz!

I was so very honored as the other games there were of such high quality and run by incredibly talented GM’s. I especially appreciated the solid and loud round of applause from the convention attendees! WOW!

The gamers join me for a celebratory photo with the award!

Well, we went back to playing the game as the convention hall emptied – all except for US. The players did not want to leave!!! How great is that!

Winkie infantry and Gillikin Dire Bears breach the town defences and start searching buldings for Toto…while eyeing each other warily. In the foreground, the skeleton regiment is licking their wounds from the Munchkin Guard (can skeletons lick?). The Guard at this point had been wiped out.

All of the players were actively planning their next moves.

Finally, the bad guys started to fight each other as well! One of the Impkin Infantry regiments was hit in the rear by a regiment of Harvest Savage Apple Trees that had been hidden in a forest copse!

On the other end of the table, Winkie infantry engage both the Dire Bears and the Skeletons of the Gillikins to keep them out of the town search for Toto…

Matt and Sam (who are engaged by the way) – were fighting each other here as Gillikins and Winkies respectively. Love is love, but we’re talking about Victory Points here!

Meanwhile, Brad’s Impkin ally, the Tin Mechanical Axemen of Professor Nitpick, found Toto and moved to get their little dog prisoner off of the tabletop.

The Tin Mechanical Axemen have Toto! The Impkin’s cry HUZZAH!

The Tin Mechanical Axemen pass Toto off to the Impkin Infantry, who scamper away successfully with Toto!

This game was a reversal of the previous one on Saturday night, with this time the Winkie/Impkin alliance successfully getting Toto off the board for the 10 points. The final scores were:

Winkie/Impkin (Michelle/Brad/Sam): 35.5 points
Gillikin/Harvest (Matt/Jerry/Steven): 27 points
Munchkins (Leif and Andrew): 18 points

Yet another amazingly fun game with a lot of twists and turns! Toto was the key to victory, as it should have been. At this point, we had the hall to ourselves!

I am so very, very, grateful to a number of people…

To all my players –THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

I MUST thank and acknowledge the great help and assistance of Bradley Gosselin and Leif Magnuson in helping me set up and take down the games. Wingmen supreme throughout the convention!!!

I also want to again sincerely thank the Maine Historical Wargamer’s Association (MWHA) for running HUZZAH! and doing it so very well. Thanks SO VERY MUCH for honoring me with your “Best in Convention” award!!

Also, you may see a lot of Dave (of the Guru PIGS blog and club in Australia) and in particular his “Mouse Metropolis” terrain gift in these photos that have helped to made my games so special. Thank you Dave! Thanks so much to Buck Surdu and Russ Dunaway for their support and inspiration.

As a side note, this marks my second “Best in Convention” award, as I was awarded the “Dave” award at this year’s HAVOC for yes, Wars of Ozz games. I learned of the award after that BGB convention and after my post on it.

And thanks to my wife Lynn for tolerating this all!

If you get the idea that Wars of Ozz is a great game system and that the figures for it are way cool, then I have achieved my goal. Check it out!

Thanks for looking! Hopefully now I’ll be able to share with soon you some of the regiments that have not yet been seen here but have been painted and ready for action. It is summer here, and golf season, but my world has room for both!

And Historicon is coming up!

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.

As you may want to check out the excellent Wars of Ozz figures’ range – there are two places to get them and to get your own copy of the rules. 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.

HUZZAH! Con 2024 – Part 2 – my recap on Saturday’s Wars of Ozz Games

Welcome! This post is part 2 of my three-part recap – and will cover the Saturday morning, afternoon, and evening games that I ran on May 18, 2024 at the “HUZZAH! Con 2024”. (To read about Friday’s games in part 1 you can go here).

As a reminder, this convention was held between Friday, May 17th and Sunday, May 19th, 2024 at the Doubletree by Hilton in South Portland Maine. It is run by the Maine Historical Wargame Association, a fine group of folks.

The theme for this year was “HUZZAH 2024 GOES HOLLYWOOD”, so games with an association with movies or TV shows were categorized as theme games. I ran 6 Wars of Ozz games here, and given its association with Baum’s books and the 1939 movie, they all counted as theme games.

Once again, lot’s of photos here – and some descriptions of them best as I can remember.

Saturday Morning – Learn To Play Wars of Ozz

This was yet another permutation on the LTP format that I have run before. I had 6 player slots set up for this game – and had 4 players show up. To keep play more adaptive to the learning process, we played the game with each player just having one brigade – and left the other two brigades on the tabletop for the next game’s set up. The Saturday morning game was listed on the registration website as follows:

Wars of Ozz Battle – Learn to Play Wars of Ozz

Take part in this big battle set in the horse & musket/black powder fantasy world of Ozz. This is definitely not Kansas anymore. Various factions, including Munchkins, Winkies, Gillikins, Impkins, Quadlings and others will fight for victory in this fast-paced and easy-to-learn fun game. Beginners are very welcome. Rules will be taught. Players are invited to bring their own 25-point brigades of official Wars of Ozz figures if they have them or they can use one of the several brigades that we will have available for play. Players under 13 only with a playing adult.

I used 21-22 point brigades – and the gamers were a mix of 2 new players and 2 experienced ones. The forces were, from nearest to farthest in the photo:

Red side (on the left side in photo from nearest to farthest):

One Munchkin Brigade
One Quadling Brigade

Black side (on the right in photo from nearest to farthest):

One Harvest Brigade
One Harvest Brigade

At the start of the game with three of the four players. Leif looks glum, and Brad looks happy.

As on Friday, victory is determined by scoring. One point is earned for each enemy base destroyed or routed off of the board. A half-point is earned if an enemy base is still routing and not successfully rallied when the game ends.

Brad (Quadling commander) discusses strategy with Andrew (Munchkin commander).

The Munchkins send their ally, the Great Owls, up into the town. The Harvest troops were advancing on the other side of the town.

The Quadling 4th Infantry Regiment deploys into line. To its right, the Quadling 1st Light Battery unlimbers as the Harvest forces approach.

The Great Pumpkin Heads hunger for battle. Always.

The Menacing Hammerheads move forward – knocking out a fence with their, well, hammer heads. They have allied Lesser Apes on their right.

Brian moves his Great Pumpkin Heads forward. Closer to the camera, you can see that a Harvest ally (Admiral Jinjur’s female pirates) is moving into the Mushroom forest for cover. Meanwhile, another Harvest ally, Professor Nitpick’s Mechanical Tin Axemen is approaching the Munchkin Sharpshooter Regiment.

The Industrial City Witch, TotalCon37, successfully casts a “Fleet Feet” spell on the slow Axemen, and they manage to close with the Munchkin Sharpshooters. These Munchkins are great at using their rifles for long-range fire – but in Melee they are woefully outclassed by their metal-clad enemy here. Still, the Munchkins rolled well and gave as good as they got – until they decided to run away…

The Munchkin Sharpshooters rout away from the Tinmen, and the Quadling 1st Infantry Regiment moves up to plug the gap while the Tinmen redress their ranks post-melee.

Back on the Quadling’s center, the Great Eagles of the Harvest forces flies over and hits the Quadling 4th Infantry Regiment in the rear. Glenda the Sorceress can only look on in horror. The 4th would not survive the battle.

The Great Pumpkin Heads try to hit the Quadling 1st Battery as the Great Eagle attack was successful.

Munchkin Landwehr (National Guard) take out a base of the Lesser Apes before the simians exact a heavy toll on them in Melee.

The Harvest attack was successful at driving way the bulk of the Munchkin and Quadling forces.

At this point in the game, nearly every Munchkin and Quadling unit was either destroyed or running away. Therefore, scoring was unnecessary as the Harvest forces were totally victorious.

Saturday Afternoon – Heavy Meeting Engagement (Wars of Ozz)

I had 6 player slots available for this game – and ended up having 5 players. The scenario design is similar to the last game, but with 6 brigades in the battle (3 per side). I also swapped the two Harvest Brigades from the previous game, and added a third on the Black side. On the Red side, I added an Impkin Brigade. As for the scenario description, I listed it on the registration website as follows:

Several allied brigades from the sides of good and evil are coming to blows of the open plains of the world of Ozz! Of course, who is good and who is evil is in the eye of the beholder! Both side’s forces are equal in strength, but are their commanders? That’s up to the players! This battle will be a fast-paced one using the easy-to-learn fun game of Wars of Ozz. Various factions, including Munchkins, Winkies, Gillikins, Impkins, Quadlings and others will fight for victory and glory. Beginners are very welcome. Rules will be taught. All miniatures/brigades will be provided for play. Players under 13 only with a playing adult.

All were experienced Ozz players. They were as teamed up as:

Red side (on left side in photo from nearest to farthest):

One Munchkin Brigade (commanded by Brad)
One Quadling Brigade (commanded by Brad)
One Impkin Brigade (commanded by Bob)

Black side (on the right side in photo from nearest to farthest):

One Harvest Brigade (commanded by Leif)
One Harvest Brigade (commanded by James)
One Harvest Brigade (commanded by Steven)

Here again, victory is determined by scoring. One point is earned for each enemy base destroyed or routed off of the board. A half-point is earned if an enemy base is still routing and not successfully rallied when the game ends.

Bob’s Impkins deploy successfully into line with his “slingshot light battery” similary lined up. He also had his Guardian Swamp Fairies lined up as well. Sorceress Mother Ophelia (and her Cats) watch from behind.

Steven’s Harvesters get into Melee with Bob’s Impkin’s and lose three bases to the Impkins two -and subsequently rout (red marker). Steven moves up the savage Carrot Creatures and the Mystic Crone to fight Bob’s Impkins (aka the Creepy Fighting Baby Dolls).

Similar to the last game, the Great Owls (Munchkin allies – Brad) move up into the town. This time, the Harvest forces counter with their own aviation – the Great Eagles (Leif). The ensuing flyer on flyer Melee resulted in the total annihilation of the Great Owls by the Great Eagles.

This time Brad’s Quadlings successfully move forward and deploy into line along the fence – with their right flank supported by the Munchkin Sharpshooters (also led by Brad). The Menacing Hammerheads (James) take out more fence and go into line formation.

Brad also got his Munchkins into line – here you see his Landwehr and Sharpshooter regiments in line to maximize firepower. Leif’s Lesser Pumpkin Heads take cover behind a wall and secure his Great Eagles’ flank by the town. James has his Admiral Jinjur’s Female Pirates and Lesser Ape regiments moving up against the Munchkin sharpshooters.

A view of the battle in the field as the James’ Menacing Hammerheads start to take fire from three defending Quadling units of Brad at close range.

Back on the far end – Steven’s Carrot Creatures deploy into line and fire their bows at the Impkin infantry (Bob) armed with muskets. A back and forth firefight ensues (well bows and muskets anyways).

Leif moves up his Great Pumpkin Heads to attack Brad’s Landwehr.

Notably in this game there were a number of critical spell failures – by the Harvest side – all of which redounded to their favor. One notable one was when a spell of Steven’s witch failed, but the result would cause the nearest inanimate thing to animate and leave the battlefield. This resulted in the Impkin’s slingshot deciding to head for the hills, leaving their crew dumbfounded. Another critical failure by James got him a unit of Dire Tigers added to his forces. These, and a few others were hilarious.

The Impkin Slingshot rans away to the casualty pile…

And James got free Dire Tigers – which were too late to arrive to make a difference but were amusing anyways.

In the end, the Quadlings/Munchkins/Impkins were victorious over the forces of the Great Land of Harvest by a score of 24-15. It was a fun game and all enjoyed it. I believe this game also won the runner up award as the best game in the time slot.

Saturday Evening – The Battle for Toto (Wars of Ozz)

For the Saturday Evening game I had 8 player slots available for this game – and ended up having 7 relatively experienced players. The scenario design is my own, the Battle for Toto – and I have ran this a few times in the past. However, in the past I had a bigger table – so I modified it for playability here by deleting a few units and rearranging the deployments.

As for the scenario description, I listed it on the registration website as follows:

The Battle for Toto (Wars of Ozz)

“I’ll get you my pretty – and your little dog too!”

The two rival witch sisters – Evora (a.k.a. The Wicked Witch of the East) and Arella (a.k.a. The Wicked Witch of the North) have both learned that a force of Munchkins has taken refuge in a small town near the border of the Great Land of Harvest. Moreover, their spies have also confirmed that the town also harbors other notable Munchkin-lovers – such as the Kansas Farmgirl and her friends. These include the Tinman, the Lion, and the Scarecrow – and importantly Toto.

Both witches believe that possession of the little dog Toto will bring power and leverage over their enemies. Plus, any opportunity to hit the Munchkins is always enticing.

Unbeknownst to the other, the two witches have each simultaneously gathered their forces and allies to attack the town. The two rival forces are converging from oppsite cornesrs of the tabletop. Arella has a reinforced Gillikin brigade and has allied with two Harvest brigades under King Jack, the King of the Pumpkinheads. Arella has recruited King Jack in her quest.

Evora has a both a reinforced Winkie brigade as well as two large Impkin brigades as allies.

Will the two witches put aside their differences and join forces? Or will sibling and tribal rivalries win the day and the two converging attackers try to take on each other for the right to assault the town? And, will Toto be safe?

Looking at the photo below, Toto is secretly hidden in one of five buildings in the town, which has two Munchkin brigades in defence (one on the left commanded by Michelle and one on the right commanded by Vicki). Toto is represented by a secret card placement – and even I as the GM would not know where Toto is placed.

The Gillikins (Brad in the top left corner) are allied with two Harvest Brigades (Keith in the bottom right corner). For the Winkies – Leif was in the top right corner, and was allied with the two Impkin brigades in the battle bottom left corner (commanded by Sam and Matt). Understand that there is no obligation for these rival bad guys to fight – but they can decide to do so (and the Munchkins would just love that).

Victory is determined by scoring, but the points awarded are different.

For the Munchkins, one point is earned for each enemy base destroyed or routed off of the board.

For the attackers, one point is earned for each Munchkin base destroyed or routed off of the board. However, 1.5 points are awarded for each base of the opposite attacking force that they take out.

Keith moves up his Harvest forces – here you see one regiment of Admiral Jinjur’s Female Pirates approaching a Munchkin Medium battery deployed behind a fence. A follow up Jinjur regiment is behind, as are the Carrot Creatures.

In the Winkie corner, Leif makes a mad dash for the town and the Munchkin Guard with his Winkie Infantry. He also deploys his Winkie Light Battery to hammer Vicki’s Colonel Tik-Tok infantry who are behind a stone wall. Great Owls, Winkie Sharphooters, and Zilk-riding Winkie cavalry are in the follow-up positions for Leif.

Back on the Harvest corner, the Great and Lesser Pumpkin Headsmaneuver around and through the woods to threaten the Munchkin Medium Batteries other flank.

While the Winkies make a direct assualt, the Gillikins move up Dire Bears, infantry, and skeletons to hit the Munchkin’s other units. No fratricide…yet…

Eric of the HAWKS shows up to briefly offer Vicki advice on her defence.

The Lesser Pumpkin Heads take carbine fire from the crew as they approach the Munchkin Medium Battery outside of the gun’s firing arc.

At this point in the games, the convention organizers stop all games to announce the winners of the raffle and the best in session awards. I was honored to win the “Best of Session” award for the Satuday night game slot! Huzzah!

Hey, I won “Best in Session” for my game!

Very cool! Btw, the sheets I use to score the game and a card denoting a building searched that Toto was not in are shown here.

Now back to the game!

Fratricide begins! The Guardian Fairies of the Impkins strays into a forest where Savage Apple Trees of the Harvest forces were – and fighting ensues. However, neither was able to inflict much damage on the other in the exchange.

A view of the right side of the town – getting swarmed!

The Carrot Creatures search successfully and seize Toto!

As their Harvest allies have Toto, Gillikin forces move to hit and damage any Winkie units that they can.

The Harvest forces successfully got Toto off the board for the 10 points. The final scores were:

Gillikin/Harvest (Brad and Keith): 31 points
Munchkins (Michelle and Vicki): 25 points
Winkie/Impkin (Leif/Sam/Matt): 11 points

What a fun game with a lot of twists and turns!

That wraps up Saturday – with only Sunday left to report on in part 3. And there are surprises (yes more) for Sunday, so stay tuned!!

To all my players -THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Again, I MUST thank and acknowledge the great help and assistance of Bradley Gosselin and Leif Magnuson in helping me set up and take down the games. Wingmen supreme!

I also want to thank the Maine Historical Wargamer’s Association (MWHA) for running HUZZAH! and doing it so very well. Thanks also for honoring me with your “Best in Session” award for Saturday night.

Don’t forget that there are more surprises coming in part 3 (yes I said that again!). As before, please let me know if you like the post (or if you do not) in the comments section. I’ll share Sunday’s game in a few days (hopefully).

Thanks for looking!

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.

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

In the UK go to Sally 4th.

HUZZAH! Con 2024 – Part 1 – my recap on Friday’s Wars of Ozz Games

The “HUZZAH! Con 2024” was held between Friday, May 17th and Sunday, May 19th, 2024 at the Doubletree by Hilton in South Portland Maine. The theme for this year was “HUZZAH 2024 GOES HOLLYWOOD”, so games with an association with movies or TV shows were categorized as theme games. I have run many games at previous HUZZAH! conventions, it is one of my favorite conventions. With that said, it was a no-brainer for me to submit Wars of Ozz games for the convention with its association with Baum’s books and the 1939 movie that they inspired.

As has been my (admittedly somewhat insane) habit this year, I submitted games to run in every time slot – that being two on Friday, three on Saturday, and one on Sunday, for a total of six 4-hour games.

I took a lot of photos worth sharing here – but to do so all at once in just one post seems a waste and probably overwhelming for you the reader (let alone for me trying to write such a behemoth-like tome).

Therefore, I will share my HUZZAH! Con 2024 experiences in three parts – one for each day. This post – part 1 – will cover Friday’s games – during which I ran one game in the afternoon and one game in the evening.

Friday Afternoon – Learn To Play Wars of Ozz

I had 6 player slots available for this game – and it quickly sold out. It was listed on the registration website as follows:

Wars of Ozz Battle – Learn to Play Wars of Ozz

Take part in this big battle set in the horse & musket/black powder fantasy world of Ozz. This is definitely not Kansas anymore. Various factions, including Munchkins, Winkies, Gillikins, Impkins, Quadlings and others will fight for victory in this fast-paced and easy-to-learn fun game. Beginners are very welcome. Rules will be taught. Players are invited to bring their own 25-point brigades of official Wars of Ozz figures if they have them or they can use one of the several brigades that we will have available for play. Players under 13 only with a playing adult.

I ended up using 21-22 point brigades – and the gamers were a mix of new players and experienced ones. There were 6 brigades facing off on the tabletop as you’ll see below. The forces were, from nearest to farthest in the photo:

Black side (on left side in photo from nearest to farthest):

One Gillikin Brigade
One Winkie Brigade
One Harvest Brigade

Red side (on right in photo from nearest to farthest):

One Quadling Brigade
One Impkin Brigade
One Munchkin Brigade

Victory is determined by scoring. One point is earned for each enemy base destroyed or routed off of the board. A half point is earned if an enemy base is routing and not rallied when the game ends.

The players are ready to go – black side on the left, red side on the right.

Glenda the Sorceress and the Quadlings face off against the Gillikins.

Gillikin infantry and Dire Bears next to their Lesser Witch.

The Gillikins maneuver their Dire Lions (with the Lion as an attached hero figure) and their Dire Wolves forward against the Quadlings.

A view past the Gillikin forces shows the center of the black side – with the Winkie Brigade moving up through a field toward the Impkins.

The Harvest Brigade was reinforced by an allied Winkie Light artillery battery – shown here with noted artillerist hero Boom-Boom Palmer attached. They faced the Harvest Brigade. They would not survive the day.

Both the Dire Lions and the Dire Wolves took damage from the Quadling muskets and artillery, and found it difficult to get the gumption up to subsequently charge them. In the rear of the photo, you can see the Impkins successfully getting into line formation to maximize firepower and to hold off the attacking Winkies.

The Dire Bears decided that it would be more fun to attack the Impkins instead of the Quadllings. This led to a series of morale results that led them to charge multiple units of both Impkins and Quadlings on a mad rampage across the tabletop. These bears almost single-handedly turned the tide of battle, until they were wiped out.

In the end, the Quadling/Munchkin/Impkin alliance inflicted slightly more casualties on the Winkie/Gillikin/Harvest forces. The final score was 33.5 to 27.5. The black side’s loss of both their Dire Bears and the Winkie artillery (with Boom-Boom as well) were instrumental – and not evened up by the destruction of the Munchkin Aerostat by the Harvest forces.

Friday Evening – Attack on the Munchkin Border Post

I had 6 player slots available for this game – and it also sold out. It is a scenario design that is in the rulebook. I redesigned and reworked it for 6 players, and listed it on the registration website as follows:

The Munchkin Border has been quiet, but terrifying storm clouds are brewing. The Munchkins are determined to defend their frontier by fortifying a series of small villages & positions along their border. Shockingly, their unknown enemies are launching a surprise attack! The local Munchkin commander has sent runners up to division to request reinforcements. Will the Munchkins stop their foes? Will help save the day? Will the border be protected? Beginners are welcome. Rules will be taught. All miniatures/brigades will be provided for play. Players under 13 only with a playing adult.

In a town there is one brigade of Munchkins reinforced by Admiral Jinjur’s Female Pirates and Admiral Jinjur’s Personal band. A relief column in the form of a sister brigade of Munchkins is on the way. Attacking are four brigades – two each from the Winkies and the Gilikins. The Munchkins and Jinjurs are all in strong defensive positions. An additional rule for this scenario is that if the attackers are routed and cross the river, an additional base is lost.

Victory is determined by scoring here again. One point is earned for each enemy base destroyed or routed off of the board. If the attackers can drive all Munchkins from the town at the game’s end AND have at least one base in the town – they would earn an additional 6 points.

The players – on the left are the two Munchkin Brigade commanders. On the right, from nearest to farthest are the two Winkie Brigade and two Gillikin Brigade commanders.

A Gillikin Skeleton Regiment moves up to the Jinjur’s wall and attempts to flank, while the band plays a rousing tune. The band can be shot at but not engaged in melee.

The Munchkin relief column is approaching on the left, led by light cavalry.

The Winkie Zilk-rider cavalry and infantry move up to intercept the Munchkin pony riders.

A view from the back of the Munchkin relief column.

Gillikins and Winkies swarm across the battlefield towards the town, while the defenders fire away at the attackers.

The Munchkin and Winkie cavalry meet in battle. The Winkies took slightly more casualties than the Munchkins despite the advantage of the Winkies.

Winkie infantry brave the dedicated rifle fire of the Munchkin Sharpshooters and assault the town.

The Winkie’s advantage in Melee proves too much for the defenders, and the Sharpshooters are pushed back with heavy losses. The Winkies enter the town.

Meanwhile, while trying to retreat to a safer location (away from the flanking skeleton attack), the Pirates become the target of the Winkie’s Great Flying Apes. The GFA fly over and launch a vertical envelopment to try to hit the Jinjur’s in the rear. The female pirates manage to make an about face just in time. Now they are wedged between the skeletons and the GFA. And the band plays on…

The Winkie cavalry, though damaged, interrupt the relief column effectively.

The best Winkie infantry – Evora’s Body Guard – hits Colonel Tik-Tok’s infantry hard. This Munchkin unit would not survive the day.

Admiral Jinjur’s Female Pirates lose all taste for the fight as the Gillikin forces stream over the south side of the town. And the band played on…

Gillikin troops breach the town’s defenses.

Some Munchkin relief column troops (Zoraster’s Guard Infantry) reach the extreme edge of the town as the Munchkin cavalry attempt to screen their approach. The Sharpshooters have been able to stop the Winkie infantry’s progress and hold on desperately.

Gillikin Dire Lions and skeletons devastate the Munchkin Medium Battery.

Gillikin infantry move through the town to eject the Munchkin Sharpshooters and finish what the Winkie infantry started.

The Munchkin players worriedly survey the merciless attackers savagely over-running them.

A view at the end of the game – the Munchkin relief column was arriving but the defenders were badly outnumbered, though they held a sliver of the town.

In the end the Munchkin players denied the attackers the bonus 6 points for the town. They also exacted a total of 21 enemy bases, but lost 30 in the process. So it was a victory for the Winkie/Gillikin team 30-21 in the end.

After the game, I reset and prepared for Saturday’s three games, which I will share in my next post. I do believe this last game was a runner up as best in time slot at the convention.

I do want to acknowledge the great help and assistance of Bradley Gosselin and Leif Magnuson in helping me set up and take down the games.

I also want to thank the Maine Historical Wargamer’s Association (MWHA) for running HUZZAH! and doing it so very well.

There are more surprises coming – and I will pace these posts out. Please let me know if you like the post (or if you do not) in the comments section.

Thanks for looking!

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.

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

In the UK go to Sally 4th.

Wars of Ozz at MAYHEM 2024

MAYHEM 2024 was held in Lebanon, NH from Friday, April 19th to Sunday April 21st. I attended and had signed up to run 4 Wars of Ozz games there – 2 on Friday and 2 on Saturday as I had a golf commitment on Sunday.

Before too much time had passed – I wanted to give a photo summary of my experiences there. It was my first MAYHEM and came quickly on the heels of HAVOC two weeks before. I packed up the car Friday morning and headded up through Western Massachusetts and Vermont and into New Hampshire.

Upon arriving, I was able to get a luggage cart and move all of my stuff into the convention hall in one move.

The convention was held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Lebanon, NH. Below you will see the layout of their small convention ballroom and the gaming tables. I got to stay at #4. The diagonal table set ups were a bit strange – but probably used to maximize the space. As you can see there were tables in the hallway and even in the hotel lobby.

The convention set up and Friday afternoon’s games listed.

I set up my tables similar to the previous conventions, with 6 brigades deployed 3 to a side.

Friday Afternoon “Learn to Play Wars of Ozz” game

My first game was sold out – and went well.

Friday afternoon game at the start – I asked for “happy gamer faces”. Results varied!

The players were all newbies to Ozz, and picked up the game quickly. What follows is some of the mayhem at, well, MAYHEM…

Dire Lions (Gillikin Brigade) and Quadlings clash – with casualties on right.

Having suffered two bases of losses, the Dire Lions rout.

The Great Owls (allied with the Munchkins here) attempt to move behing the Gillikin’s Skeleton regiment while the Munchkin Landwehr and Sharpshooters deploy.

The Great Owls hit the Skeletons from the rear and drive them into a town.

The lesser Evil Witch “The Soothsayer” (Winkie Brigade) traps the Munchlin’s Guard infantry with a “Poppies” spell. Meanwhile, the Winkie player also maneuvers the Winkie Sharpshooters onto the Guard’s flank.

It was rough on the Quadlings – here the Gillikin’s Dire Bears (reinforced by the Lion)overrun a Quadling Light Battery and rout it – while hero Wood the Courier takes damage.

In the end, the game was actually very close, with the Quadlings and Munchkins eking out a 26-24 victory over the Winkies and Gillikins.

Friday Night “Heavy Meeting Engagement Wars of Ozz” game

My Friday night game was surprisingly not well-attended – I had only 2 players. Usually my games had been full or close to full at previous conventions. I guess I was due. Luckily, my set-up allows for this possible situation. I had one player play the Quadlings (Ken – his second Ozz game) and another (sorry I failed to write down his name but he was a nice guy for sure) played the Winkies. With only two players, it went fast.

Below are the two opponents:

And here are some action photos:

Quadlings deploy into line but their artillery was decimated by the Winkie muskets of the Sharpshooter regiment.

The Quadling Infantry took heavy casualties and Wood the Courier was dispatched as well.

The firefight led to routing Quadlings and command of the battlefield for the Winkies.

The game ended amicably, although the Winkies won 11-3.

I ended Friday with a couple of pics of a nice challenge coin given to me (army guy) by a Navy veteran Frank Preziosa. Very cool and thanks Frank!

Saturday morning was extremely disappointing as I had zero players. It happens. I left my tabletop set up for the Saturday afternoon game and joind a Napoleonics homebrew rules game of the Battle of Marengo on the Austrian side. The GM ran the game twice, in two parts. The morning results would be the basis of the afternoon game – which I could not join as I did have players on Saturday afternoon. The GM was gracious and the game was fun – and my Austrians did pretty well.

After lunch, I ran my last game – as I had set up for the morning with 6 players.

Saturday Afternoon “Heavy Meeting Engagement Wars of Ozz” game

Well, this was with smaller brigades, but still a fun game.

Dire Wolves (Gillikin Brigade) and Great Owls (Munchkin allies) fight it out while behind them Munchkin Sharpshooters rout away from the Gillikin Dire Bears and Dire Tigers.

Quadlings deploy into a town for safety – well, they thought so…

…the Great Flying Apes had other ideas – and hit them from the rear and wiped the Quadlings out.

At the other end of the table was a fiesty Gillikin versus Munchkin scrum.

Gillikin Dire Lions hit the Munchkin Landwehr.

Quadlings get slowed down by a “Poppies” spell setting them up for a Great Flying Apes envelopment. To their left, another Quadling regiment seeks safer ground by routing away from the enemy.

In the end, The Winkies and Gillikins solidly defeated the Quadlings and Munchkins 34.5 to 19.

I want to thank the players who participated in my games, as well as the MAYHEM staff for running the convention. I hope that you readers enjoyed these photos. I will be running many of these games at the “HUZZAH Goes to Hollywood” convention in May.

Hopefully, I can share a couple of new units with you shortly. Thansk for looking!

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.

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

In the UK go to Sally 4th.

Admiral Jinjur’s Personal Band (Wars of Ozz)

Admiral Jinjur is a female pirate who has gathered females from all of the various main factions of Ozz. As I wrote in my post on my two Admiral Jinjur regiments that I painted up:

In the world of the Wars of Ozz, Pirate-General (Admiral) Jinjur is said to:

…sail on the (Great Nonastic Ocean). She commands a flotilla of ships big and small, all crewed by female pirates. Her pirates board ships and raid seaports, ruthlessly overwhelming any resistance.Wars of Ozz, Section2.6.6, The Lands Beyond Ozz, pages 45-46

Her pirate forces are composed of females from all over Ozz – so her troops are made up of Gillikins, Munchkins, Winkies, and Quadlings – all the main races of Ozz.

There is, however, one other unit that is affiliated with her – Admiral Jinjur’s Personal Band. It is SKU#OZZ-517, and is composed of 7 figures. The unit has no combat capability and can take 4 hits before it is removed. Otherwise it has no Melee, Marksmandship, Resolve, or Elan values. The unit costs 3 points. It has this ability:

The Band may play a rousing tune when it activates instead of moving. All units, friendly or enemy, within 9″ of the band increase their Elan by 1 during its next actvation.

Wars of Ozz unit stats

This ability would be very helpful to get either timid troops or those that have been previously routed to get up the gumption to get into Melee (or at least to stop routing away).

I built out mine as follows:

Band Leader (Quadling)
Trumpeter (Gillikin)
French Horn player (Quadling)
Drummer (Munchkin)
Flautist (Quadling)
Fiddler (Winkie)
Concertina player (Quadling)

Let’s get into the build and painting. First, some:

WIP Shots and Discussion

I started working on the unit on April 9th in conjunction with more stuff (units and individuals that I’ll post about soon). In my collection of potential bases, I had a leftover hexagonal 4″ basswood base that I had made when I painted my Minifig “The World Of Greyhawk 9 Cavemen” waaaay back on April of 2015. I’m glad I saved it, as I did not want to use an artillery MDF base for the band. As this unit only takes 4 hits, having 7 figures on a single base would not make any sense to use (as the artillery bases allow for figure removal to equal hits).

Then, it was on to filing off the flash, mold lines, and giving the figures a quick wash before priming. The figures are great and have a lot of character. No assembly was required.

Instead of using my airbrush to prime the band, I mixed some old grey and white primer that was no longer airbrush-suitable – but that was certainly fine for hand brushwork.

I did (and do still) have other issues and projects going on as I stated earlier. As you may have noticed, I also am part of a committee that runs the monthly Tour of the Brookfields golf tournament here in Central Massachusetts (the latest one is here). So, in between that, attending and running games at MAYHEM in New Hampshire (which went from April 19-20 for me and for which I still need to do a blog post), other golf, and other units/individuals, I worked on the band with the hope of having the unit done for HUZZAH Goes Hollywood in May. Yeah, retirement is busy!

Back to the band – by April 22nd, I had made some progress.

And by the 28th of April, I had the figures painted and ready for varnishing, basing, and flocking. Chris Palmer’s Pi-Rats that he had painted had inspired me to go back and paint a few of these band member’s pants with stripes. As I did this before with my Conquistadores, it was a nice flashback to many of my previous fond projects.

By April 30th, I had finished the band for April as you can see below!

Admiral Jinjur’s Personal Band Eye Candy

Photographing the unit was a bit difficult given the configuraton that I chose. First some close ups – these ladies of Ozz are all in fine form:

And here is the entire base flocked and done:

I also decided that with my new WordPress plan that I should try to add a video – as that might be of interest as I get to describe more and rotate the unit:

A brief video of the Admiral Jinjur’s Personal Band

I’m probably going to add this unit to a brigade that already has the other Jinjur pirates. We’ll see how I can work that into HUZZAH!

Lastly, Jinjurs in the Jungle:

With apologies to Jethro Tull – Jinjurs in the Jungle, that’s all right by me!

So why the jungle shot? Well, first, pirates are known for hiding out on jungle-infested islands, no? Second. well, this is a tease for my next unit post. Though my next post will likely be a MAYHEM wrap up. To my fellow bloggers, I look forward to more of your stuff too – I have been remiss in commenting, but not in reading. WordPress is intermittenly still not allowing me to “like” your comments on my PC! Grrr…

As always, much 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 ADMIRAL JINJUR’S PERSONAL BAND:

Homemade 4″ hexagonal base made of 1/8″ basswood
5/16″ Everbilt steel washers (ACA)
Black Sharpie pen
Green Sharpie pen
Poster Tack
Vallejo Surface Primer “Grey”
Vallejo Mecha Primer “White”
Wargames Accessories FOW #1 (1.25″ X 1″ steel base)
Elmer’s PVA Glue
Army Painter “Dark Tone” (wash)
Vallejo Model Color “White”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Peachy Flesh 2.0”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Ork Flesh”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Talassar Blue”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Baal Red”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Aggaros Dunes”
Vallejo Mecha Color “Off White”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Purple Swarm 2.0”
Reaper MSP “Pure Black”
Vallejo Mecha Color “Magenta Fluorescent”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Imperial Fist”
Vallejo Model Air “Chrome”
Army Painter Speed Paint – Hoplite Gold 1.0
P3 “Midland Flesh”
Vallejo Model Color “Brown Rose”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Apothecary White”
Citadel “Squid Orange”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Basilicanum Grey”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Bad Moon Yellow”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Shamrock Green 2.0”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Murder Scene 2.0”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Snakebite Leather”
Vallejo Model Air “Wood”
Vallejo Model Air “Black ” (metallic)
Citadel “Dryad Bark”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Garaghak’s Sewer”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Dusk Red 2.0”
P3 “Blazing Ink”
Citadel “Drakenhof Nightshade” (wash/shade)
Vallejo Model Air “Gun Metal”
Polly Scale WWII “German Armor Dark Olive Green”
Citadel “Agrax Earthshade GLOSS” (wash/shade)
Citadel “Nuln Oil GLOSS” (wash/shade)
Vallejo “Airbrush Thinner”
Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Gloss Varnish”
Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Matte Varnish”
Vallejo “Flow Improver”
Gorilla Glue
Woodland Scenics “Blended Turf”
Army Painter “Moss Green” (flocking)
Army Painter “Grass Green” (flocking)
Army Painter “Brown Battleground” (flocking)
Pendraken 12mm dice frames
Army Painter “Battlefield Field Grass” (flocking)
Pendraken 12mm dice frames
Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Wildflowers – Primrose” (flocking)
Gamers Grass “Yellow Flowers” (flocking)
Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Dark Forest Blue” (flocking)
Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Dark Forest Purple” (flocking)
Gamers Grass “Wild Shrubs” (flocking)

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

In the UK go to Sally 4th.

Wars of Ozz games at HAVOC XXXVIII – Games that live up to the convention’s name!

Havoc is the premier miniatures convention of the Northeast and has run continuously for 37 years, well…except for the two Covid-19 years. Havoc XXXVIII (2024) will be held on April 5th thru April 7th, 2024…
HAVOC website

Last weekend the latest iteration of the Battle Group Boston’s HAVOC convention was held in Marlborough, MA, at the Best Western Hotel. The BGB folks did a nice job setting up and running the convention, though it did seem like turnout was a bit light compared with previous years. Still, there were a great many wonderful games (not just mine you know). I did not get a chance to watch or play in other games of course, but I did see my neighbor’s awesome Stalingrad Fireball Forward table:

I have also seen one excellent blog post by Peter Anderson at his site Blunders on the Danube (what a GREAT blog moniker btw!) that showed a number of the wonderful games in their full glory. Here is the link to that site – it is really nice, so please check it out.

This convention was held at the same hotel that TotalCon 38 was in February. At that convention, there were 10 slots, so I ran 10 Wars of Ozz tabletop wargames as a GM. When the HAVOC sign up showed up on the web, I saw that there were as usual 5 slots – 1 on Friday, 3 on Saturday, and 1 on Sunday. I thought, hell, if I can handle 10 in 4 days, I can handle 5 Ozz games in 3 days. The only difference between the conventions was that I had added the Quadling Brigade and heroes that I discussed in my last post. Besides, if you paint them, they will come!

For this post, I took some photos that more or less capture the essence of each of the games. I’ll try to give you a flavor of the action with all the eye candy I can (there’s a LOT).

Friday Evening – “Learn to Play Wars of Ozz“

For my “Learn to Play” (LTP) games, I give each player brigades of 21 points apiece. That usually works out to a Brigade Commander, 3-4 units, and a couple of individual hero/magic users.

Brad waits for the players to arrive. On the left here (Red team) are a Harvest Brigade, the Quadling Brigade, and two Munchkin Brigades. They faced two Gillikin and two Winkie Brigades (Black Team) on the right here.

A view from the other side of the table as the players start. This game had 7 players.

Black Team’s Dire Tigers from one of the Gillikin Brigades charges the Quadling 1st Regiment’s line with the Dire Wolves on their left.

Meanwhile, the Gillikin Goat Riders made a mad charge against the 4th Quadling Infantry Regiment – only to come up short facing their muskets.

Bob maneuvers his Munchkin Brigade as he faces off with the Winkie Infantry. His witch (Belinda the Nun) recovers on the left from a critical spell failure. The Aerostat jockies for a key hit on the marauding Winkies.

To Bob’s right, Brad’s Munchkin Sharpshooter Regiment faced a massive dual Winkie attack from Leif – who used both Evora’s Body Guard and the Zilk rider cavalry. His Landwehr watched in horror and waited for an activation.

Leif brings up the Winkie Sharpshooters to reinforce his offensive.

The Great Flying Apes prepare to assault Bob’s Munchkin Aerostat by taking cover in the town. The Winkie Infantry behind them have been routed by the Munchkin Sharpshooters and are running away as Leif moves up his Winkie Sharpshooters.

While the Winkies successfully unlimber their artillery on the hill, the Winkie Sharpshooters are then also routed by the Munchkins!

The Munchkin Landwehr and Munchkin Sharpshooters both hold out against Evora’s Body Guard, Zilk cavalry, and the Great Owls.

On the Red team’s right flank, the Harvest Brigade under Scott sends its female pirates against Gillikin infantry. Their witch, Lady Thistlethorne, had cast a “poppies” spell on the hill to keep the Gillikin skeleton regiment away from its Lesser Pumpkinheads, while the Great Pumpkin Heads wheel around the hill to take on the Gillikin Gugu Forester Regiment.

Bob’s Aerostat crew breathes a sigh of relief as the Great Flying Apes attack on them fizzles.

Ken’s witch, Glenda, uses a “transport” spell to successfully send the 1st Quadling Infantry Regiment into the Zilk cavalry’s flank.

As time ran out, the battle was called. The score was a victory for the Red Team (Munchkins/Harvest/Quadlings) who had destroyed 26 enemy bases versus the Black Team (Winkies/Gillikins) that had 14.

Saturday Morning – “Learn to Play Wars of Ozz“

For my second LTP game, I moved some brigades around and swapped in some new ones. The table set up is flexible so if the number of players vary from the sign up, I can adjust. Again, each player had brigades of 21 points apiece.

The players are ready – eventually we had 5. because of the shortage – we left off the Harvest and Impkin brigades nearest the camera. This left two Munchkin brigades and a Quadling brigade (Red Team on the left here) versus a Winkie Brigade and two Gillikin brigades (Team Black on the right here).

Our 5th player arrived just as Eric and Brad got simultaneous activations and moved to attack.

As in the previous game, the Winkie Infantry (lower left) took fire and damage from the Munchkins and fled. Eric then got his Winkie Sharpshooters in good positions atop the hill.

Forces converge. Munchkins move up on the left, while Gillikin’s Dire Lions charge out of the forest at the Great Owls.

A view of the Gillikins moving forward on the left side of their side of the table.

The Dire Tigers show their flank to the Quadling 4th Infantry Regiment as they try to hit the 1st Quadling Light Battery on its flank!

The Dire Tigers take out 1 base of the Quadling Artillery, but are pushed back. The Dire Bears try to move up but are hit on both of their flanks by the Quadling 1st Infantry and the artillery.

Once again, the Winkie Sharpshooters are routed, but manage to rally, and move forward in single column to get better shots at the Munchkins with reduced Elan.

At the game’s end, the Dire Tigers, one of the Dire Bears, and the Dire Wolvere were a skeedaddlin’…

Time ran out and the game ended. Despite the routs, the aggressive attacks of the Black Team (Winkies & Gillikins) had cost them 19 casualties, but they had successfully inflicted 25 on the Red Team (Quadlings and Munchkins) for the victory.

Saturday Afternoon – “Heavy Meeting Engagement”

For my “Heavy Meeting Engagement” (HME) games, I give each player larger brigades of 31 points apiece. That usually works out to a Brigade Commander, 4-6 units, and a couple of individual hero/magic users. I ran the first of these HME games on Saturday afternoon with 4 players. On Team Red were a Munchkin Brigade and an Impkin Brigade. On Team Black were a Harvest Brigade and a Winkie Brigade. I did not take as many photos in this game versus my previous games. We had 4 players.

Impkin musketry causes the forward-based lady pirates of Admiral Jinjur to abandon their safe hard cover in the town and charge the Impkins in the open.

The Great Pumpkin Heads and the Impkin Cavalry BOTH could not get up the guts to get into Melee!!!

The Jinjur pirates were forced back into the town and the Impkin infantry advanced. Black Team moved up the Carrot Creatures.

In the middle of the board, the Munchkins repulsed a skeleton attack.

The game ended, with a very close score, 24-21, very narrowly in favor of the Red Team. I then checked out the vendors during a break, and bought a few supplies. Also saw some old Buck Surdu rules!

Then it was on to the second HME game…

Saturday Evening – “Heavy Meeting Engagement”

Every convention seems to have one game that if you saw it you’ll end up talking about it for years to come.

THIS is that game.

I had 4 players, with Team Red with a Quadling and a Munchkin Brigade, and Team Black with 2 Gillikin Brigades.

This is what they each had for forces:

As we only had 4 players, we used half of the table. Brad had the Munchkins and Leif had the Quadlings. The initial moves and attacks from the Gillikin left brigade (Gregg) and their right brigade (Bruce) were nothing stellar. In fact, on the first activation, Gregg failed to reach one of the Quadling Batteries with his Dire Bears, and Leif sent them scurrying towards the other side of the board with short-range artillery fire. Bruce’s goat riders took fire and damage and ran to a town for cover.

Unfortunately for Leif and Brad – that would turn out to be the high water mark of the Red Team in this game.

Leif and Brad on left and Gregg and Bruce on right get ready to rumble!

Here come the Dire Bears – and you know what happened – but Gregg’s “kitties” are behind…

Gregg’s Dire Lions subsequently hit the 2nd Quadling Infantry Reiment – unfortunately led by a leader with “The Poltroon” ability – that knocked down their Resolve from a 5 to a 4 – and they routed in the face of the Dire Lions. Leif’s Quadling front was then broken and the Lions were in the gap, with Dire Tigers close behind them. Gregg’s Gillikin Infantry then hit the 2nd Quadling Battery on the flank and the Quadlings abandoned their gun in a rout. Gregg then threatened the Quadling left flank (4th Regiment) with his Gillikin Infantry. The 4th turned to face the Gillikins where the routed gun crew left their gun.

Brigade Commander Zeb the Scribe of Ozz can only stare in disbelief as the Quadlings lose a battery and an infantry regiment in short order.

View from the Red Team’s right flank as the Dire Lions breach their defenses.

The Dire Tigers rout the other Quadling Infantry Regiment (1st) adn hit the remaining Quadling battery in its flank. It did not last long. Both guns would be lost and spiked.

Leif can only look on in amazement at the HAVOC raised by Gregg on his forces…see what I did there?

Eventually, all Leif had left was his brigade commander and his witch – with no brigade. He was a good sport as you see here – and Brad is looking on knowing he is in dire straits too.

On the other side, Bruce’s Goat Riders maneuvered expertly and took Colonel Tik-Tok’s regiment in the flank (who were dealing with Bruce’s skeletons in their front), nearly wiping it out. Bruce’s Dire Bears were moving up for the kill. Brad was all alone now.

The Gillikin Goat Riders then hit the Munchkin Aerostat, which routed off the table. All that Brad had left was 2 stands from Tik Tok’s infantry, a medium battery, his brigade commander, and a witch.

The end of the game – Tik Tok was routing and clearly even the medium battery would not have survived an attack on three sides.

I have never before seen an Ozz game become a battle of annihilation – but this game was.

No shade on the defenders, they had some bad luck combined with the attackers good luck and good plan. All had fun though! The final score was 45-13 in favor of Team Black.

Sunday Morning – “The Battle for Toto”

I have ran this game several times and discussed it previously in this blog. Basically, Toto is in the Munchkin-defended town. Converging on that town are two non- allied enemies who both want to seize Toto. The little dog is in a secret place (one of 5 buildings). The attackers want to get Toto – and hate each other. It’s up to them if they fight each other on the way to the Munchkin town, or if they collaborate and fight afterwards. I had 5 players, with Team Red with 2 Munchkin Brigades, facing a force of 2 Impkin Brigades and a force of two Harvest Brigades. As we had too few players, we used just half of the table, and left off the Gillikins and Winkies on the far side.

Admiral Jinjur’s Female Pirates (fighting for the Harvest Brigade) and the Great Pumpkin Heads attack Zoraster’s Guard Infantry who are defending a wall outside the town.

With an unlucky Morale Roll, Zoraster’s gets antsy and charges OVER the wall – and leaves its protection.

The Impkins try to fire on the Munchkin Sharpshooters with the Swamp Guardian Fairies’ bows, while the rooster riding Impkin cavalry tries to go around and get to the town.

An overview – at this point Glenn’s Lesser Pumpkinheads attacked the Impkins so the free-for-all was on.

Steven had secretly deployed the Savage Apple Trees near the Munchkin walls. Their attack allowed the Eagles to get into the town and search two buildings – without finding Toto.

At this point, A HOTEL FIRE ALARM WENT OFF! We had to leave the building for at least 40 minutes. There of course was no fire, just a malfunctioning alarm.

When we returned, I scored up the game as people (understandably) were ready to go home. The final score was a Munchkin victory at 33 points (10 points for Toto), Harvest 12.5, and Impkins 2.5.

I really want to thank BGB for running the convention. I also want to thank my players, both newbies and veterans all were great.

I ESPECIALLY want to thank Leif and Brad who signed up for EVERY game and helped me throughout the convention. Gregg was a big help as well.

My next convention is MAYHEM in New Hampshire in April and then I have HUZZAH GOES TO HOLLYWOOD in Maine in May. This summer I also plan on Historicon in July.

I hpope this was enjoyable – and if you’ll be at one of these conventions, come and join the Ozz goodness!

Thanks for looking!

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.

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.

THE QUADLINGS ARE COMING! THE QUADLINGS ARE COMING!

With apologies to Paul Revere, of course! (these DO have red coats!)

But this post is not about one Quadling regiment – it is about 3 infantry regiments (63 figures), 2 artillery batteries (12 figures), 2 generic brigade commanders, a named brigade commander (Rolf von Guufling), a Quadling faction witch (Glenda the Sorceress), and 2 hero conversions (Zeb the Scribe of Ozz and Wood the Courier of Ozz). Yes, that’s 81 figures, AN ENTIRE QUADLING BRIGADE!

Quadlings are the “beefy farm boys” of the world of Ozz. They are the most human-like of the factions, and are great friends with the Munchkins. Their color fixation is red. Most of their army is made up of militia. I had not had any of my own Quadlings on the tabletop at previous conventions.

I was about to hit another two gaming conventions (HAVOC and MAYHEM) in April. I am also going to HUZZAH! in May. After 3 weeks of being away on vacation, I returned back from Florida on March 19th, hoping to make a dent in my mass of Quadlings. These I had previously gotten from Greg Priebe (80 figures) and Chris Palmer (1 figure). It would make up an entire Quadling brigade plus two heroes – but the HAVOC convention would start on April 5th – could I do it? In just 17 days? I decided to try to and plow on and get a whole brigade of figures done for my upcoming Wars of Ozz convention games. I finished on April 4th!

As I did not have enough time to do my usual type of post with WIP and all that – I focused on painting these – and getting them fully tabletop-ready. So this post will just be fully painted stuff. I’m not even going to add the paints this time! (ok I might edit and add them later next week).

So enjoy the photos – and if you are coming to an upcoming convention (add HUZZAH! to that list too), these will be in play – so join me!

Here we go – EYE CANDY!

Eye Candy

1st Quadling Infantry Regiment

This (and the other regiments I painted) are all Northern Quadling regiments – with a slighly better Melee value of 7/10 and a Marksmanship value of 6/10 than other Quadlings. Their Resolve and Elan are average at 5/10 and 6/10 respectively. As all of these regiments are the same sculpts, I painted each with slightly different colors to match the flags that Buck Surdu designed. On this regiment I used a blue facing theme of color over white pants. The plumes on the shakos are red. They are all armed with muskets.

2nd Quadling Infantry Regiment

I went with a sallow yellow-facing theme over light grey pants – and put white plumes on the shakos.

And a side view below:

Some close ups:

4th Quadling Infantry Regiment

For the 4th, I went with a bright green-facing theme over dark grey pants – and I put red plumes on the shakos. I skipped the 3rd because its flag is red, and I wanted a contrast with the red coats!

Marching in column:

Lastly, a gallery collection of views:

1st and 2nd Quadling Light Artillery Batteries

These I only varied in the plume colors (white and red). I also painted the guns slightly differently. They have Marksmanship and Melee values of 6/10 and 4/10 respectively. They do have good Resolve at 7/10 and the Elan of 6/10 is good for artillery.

2 Generic Brigade Commanders

Overall I had 7 mounted leader figures to deal with (each regiment had one, I had the leader pack with three from Greg Priebe, and Chris Palmer gave me one at Fall In 2023). This allowed me (if you had not previously noticed above) to vary each regimental commander’s pose for each infantry regiment. I decided to use two of the remaining ones as generic brigade commanders – and save two more as conversions for Ozz heroes for which there are no dedicated figures to buy. For these two, I painted them slightly differently as they were the same pose.

Rolf Von Guufling, named Brigade Commander

A named brigade commander has 2 additional abilities/skills versus generic ones that have only 1. Of course, the generic ones are free to each brigade, and a named one cost 2 points. Greg’s lot of Quadlings included named Rolf, with his plate of cookies (which as anyone who knows me that the cookies HAD to be chocolate chip). He has Magical Protection plus one additional randomly selected skill. I thought that his bringing chocolate chip cookies to the battlefield merited a burgundy/pink theme for his facings – or maybe his magical protection…

A view from the front:

Glenda the Sorceress

Of course each faction has a witch – and this one is Glenda. She has spells: Transport (can send any unit 10″ in any direction – even behind enemy lines), Fleet Feet (can increase a friendly unit’s Movement rate), Confusion (can rattle an enemy unit’s attacks), and Good Luck (can improve a frienly units. She also can act as a commander with the ability of Charismatic as an as overall leader which is very powerful.

And a view from the side:

Ain’t she pretty in pink?

Zeb the Scribe of Ozz

As I mentioned, I converted two of the mounted Quadling commanders (all are mounted on giant boars) to heroes. They could be part of any faction. The first was Zeb the Scribe, an homage to Zeb Cook, a legend of the early days of Dungeon & Dragons and other games. Zeb played in one of my games at TotalCon 38 in February. I found some small resin books and used green stuff to create a sort of book rack for the figure. When attached to a unit, Zeb can rearrange one attribute of that unit to the best value of the four.

Zeb’s theme was very purple and yellow:

From the other side:

Wood the Courier of Ozz

This one I really thought a lot about as well as it is an homage to Dave Wood, my West Point classmate/roommate and longtime buddy. Over the last months, Dave has helped transfer many figures for other GM’s for Ozz games and more support of conventions – hence the “Courier” appellation. Dave is also a ultra-distance runner who thinks marathons are short (seriously). I knew that Dave’s drink of choice is Diet Mountain Dew (caffeine-free if possible as well). But this is Ozz, so what about Munchkin Dew? So, I found some doll house/diorama Mountain Dew bottles, and designed and sculpted a couple of baskets to hold them, and voila! I think it will be fun on the tabletop.

The figure gives +2″ of movement to an attached unit.

Another view:

A nice side view:

Cheers Dave!!

Lastly, I put all of the Quadlings into their own box – with Zeb and Dave joining my box of heroes separately.

That concludes this post. On April 5th – they will be on the tabletop!

I’d love to hear your thoughts on these – any favorites or suggestions on my insanity are all welcome fodder.

Until next time – thanks for looking!

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.

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

In the UK go to Sally 4th.

And if I update the paints I used – it will be after this sentence!

UPDATED (and in no order of use – and I’ll never not use a list again!) :

PAINTS, INKS, GLAZES, SHADES, WASHES, PIGMENTS, FLOCKING, GLUES AND MORE THAT I USED ON THESE QUADLING TROOPS:

Vallejo Flow Improver
Vallejo Premium White Primer
Vallejo Model Air Surface Primer – German Dark Yellow
Vallejo Surface Primer – Gray
Vallejo Airbrush Thinner
Vallejo Mecha Varnish Gloss Varnish
Vallejo Mecha Varnish Matt Varnish
Wargames Accessories #16 (1/2″ Square steel base)
Wargames Accessories #21 (2″ Square steel base)
Wargames Accessories FOW #1 (1.25″ X 1″ steel base)
Wars of Ozz Miniatures Round MDF base
Wars of Ozz Miniatures Square MDF Sabot Base
Vallejo Black Citadel Contrast – Black Legion
Citadel Nuln Oil GLOSS Citadel Nuln Oil New Formulation
Citadel Contrast – Aethermatic Blue
P3 Cygnar Blue Highlight
Citadel Drakenhof Nightshade
Vallejo Mecha Color Sky Blue
Citadel Soulstone Blue
Army Painter Speed Paint – Caribbean Ocean
Army Painter Speed Paint – Royal Robes 2.0
Battlefront Colours of War Battledress Brown
P3 Brown Ink
Citadel Contrast – Cygor Brown
Citadel Contrast – Gore-Grunta Fur
Citadel Contrast – Snakebite Leather
Citadel Cryptek Armourshade Gloss
Battlefront Colours of War Dark Leather
Vallejo Model Air First Light
Citadel Seraphim Sepia
Army Painter Speed Paint – Dark Wood
Army Painter Speed Paint – Satchel Brown
Vallejo Model Air Wood
Vallejo Model Color Wood Grain
PSI Kneadatite (green stuff)
Wars of Ozz Miniatures Regimental and Faction Flags
Vallejo Brown Rose
P3 Midland Flesh
Army Painter Speed Paint – Peachy Flesh
Shadow’s Edge Miniatures Lavender Flowers
Pendraken 12mm Dice Frames
Army Painter Battlefield Field Grass
Woodland Scenics Blended Turf
Shadow’s Edge Miniatures Blue Flowers
Army Painter Grass Green
Army Painter Green Meadow Tufts
Army Painter Lowland Shrubs
Army Painter Moss Green
Shadow’s Edge Miniatures Pink Flowers
Shadow’s Edge Miniatures Red Flowers
Small Stones
Twigs
Army Painter Yellow Flowers
Gamers Grass Yellow Flowers
Elmer’s PVA Glue
Card Stock
Gorilla Glue
Citadel Contrast – Basilicanum Grey
Citadel Contrast – Space Wolves Grey
Army Painter Speed Paint – Battleship Grey 2.0
Citadel Contrast – Striking Scorpion Green
Vallejo USA Olive Drab
Polly Scale WWII German Armor Dark Olive Green
Sharpie Black Sharpie
Craftsmart Amethyst
Vallejo Model Air Black (METALLIC)
Vallejo Model Air Bright Brass
Vallejo Model Air Gun Metal
Army Painter Speed Paint – Aztec Gold 2.0
Army Painter Speed Paint – Hoplite Gold 1.0
Vallejo Model Air Steel
Crooked Mile Cottage Doll House Mountain Dew Bottles
Sharpie Yellow Sharpie caps
Citadel Contrast Paint – Magmadroth Flame
Citadel Changeling Pink
Vallejo Mecha Color Magenta Fluorescent
Reaper MSP Core Colors Pink
Army Painter Speed Paint – Familiar Pink 2.0
Citadel Contrast Paint – Luxion Purple
Citadel Contrast Paint – Magos Purple
Citadel Contrast Paint – Sigvald Burgundy
Citadel Astorath Red
Citadel Blood for the Blood God
Citadel Contrast Paint – Baal Red
Citadel Spritstone Red
Citadel Contrast – Aggaros Dunes
Secret Weapon Washes Parchment
Citadel Ushabti Bone
Vallejo Thinner Medium
Vallejo Mecha Color Off White
Craftsmart White
Vallejo Model Color White
Citadel Contrast Paint – Ironjawz Yellow
Army Painter Speed Paint – Ancient Honey Reaper
MSP Core Colors Sun Yellow

Until next time…

10 Games of Wars of Ozz at TotalCon 38!

TotalCon 38 was held in Marlborough, Massachusetts between February 22^nd, and February 25^th, 2024. I was a GM there for 10, count them, 10 games of Wars of Ozz.

It was wonderful – the games were sold out quickly and the players were excited to play the game. I even had more players than I had slots (I let extras in when I could). I have some photos and a brief synopsis – but if you think I can remember all the details of 10 four-hour games over 4 days, well, you have greater faith in me than I have!

I had 67 players over the weekend. Some came ready to play!

Big thanks to the TotalCon38 staff, especially Bryan Clauss, Steve Parenteau, and Gregg Belevick. Extra special thanks to ALL the players. And EXCEPTIONAL thanks to Leif Magnuson, Bradley Gosselin, and Chris Comeau for all their assistance above and beyond the call of duty.

Thanks also to David DeVeau and Ken Howe for some photos.

With that said, here are some photos and descriptions of the games that you might enjoy.

Game 1 – Thursday Morning, February 22^nd, at 8 AM

Scenario: “Learn to Play Wars of Ozz.” 6 players out of 6 slots – lining up 3 brigades per side.

Opposing forces: 3 brigades of Gillikins vs. 3 brigades of Munchkins

Objective: Take out more of their bases than they take out of yours.

Duration: 4 Hours

Final Score: Munchkins eke out a 17-15 victory

Game 2 – Thursday Afternoon, February 22^nd, at 1 PM

Scenario: “Learn to Play Wars of Ozz.” 5 players out of 6 slots – lining up 3 brigades per side.

Opposing forces: 3 brigades of Gillikins vs. 3 brigades of Munchkins

Objective: Take out more of their bases than they take out of yours.

Duration: 4 Hours

Final Score: Munchkins got a major victory over the Gillikins, 22-8

Game 3 – Thursday Evening, February 22^nd, at 7 PM

Scenario: “Rear Guard Action – Pursuit of the Fleeing Gillikins.” 5 players out of 6 slots.

Opposing forces: 4 Brigades (2 Munchkin, 1 Harvest, 1 Impkin) pursue a retreating force of 2 Gillikin brigades.

Objective: Pursuers – destroy as many bases as possible of the Gillikins. Gillikins – escape and save as many troops as possible to fight another day.

Duration: 4 Hours

Final Score: Gillikins manage a narrow victory over the attackers, 23-20, by having a light battery abandon its gun to save the crew – yielding a 4-point swing on the last turn of the game.

Game 4 – Friday Morning, February 23^rd, at 8 AM

Scenario: “Learn to Play Wars of Ozz.” 8 players out of 8 slots – lining up 4 brigades per side.

Opposing forces: 2 brigades of Winkies and 2 brigades of Gillikins vs. 2 brigades of Munchkins and 2 brigades of Harvest

Objective: Take out more of their bases than they take out of yours.

Duration: 4 Hours

Final Score: Munchkins eke out another narrow victory, 25-23.

Game 5 – Friday Afternoon, February 23^rd, at 1 PM

Scenario: “Heavy Meeting Engagement” 7 players out of 6 slots (worked in an extra and I played to round out the game) – lining up 4 brigades per side.

Opposing forces: 4 brigades of Winkies and Harvest vs. 4 brigades of Munchkins and Impkins

Objective: Take out more of their bases than they take out of yours.

Duration: 4 Hours

Final Score: The Munchkin/Impkin alliance got a major victory over the forces of Winkies and Harvest by a score of 38-27.

Game 6 – Friday Evening, February 23^rd, at 7 PM

Scenario: “Attack on the Border Post.” Again, 7 players out of 6 slots – they shared.

Opposing forces: 1 brigade of Munchkins is holding up in a town, attacked by 4 brigades (2 Winkie and 2 Gillikins). Another Munchkin brigade is moving in as a relief force.

Objective: The Winkies and Gillikins need to clear all Munchkins from the town and be in the town at the game’s end. Also, points are awarded for each base taken out on both sides.

Duration: 4 Hours

Final Score: The attackers nearly succeeded in clearing the town, which would have gotten them 6 points. However, the spirited defense by the Munchkins exacted a heavy toll on the attackers. The final score was 42-30 for the Munchkin defenders.

Game 7 – Saturday Morning, February 24^th, at 8 AM

Scenario: “Learn to Play Wars of Ozz.” 8 players out of 8 slots – lining up 4 brigades per side.

Opposing forces: 2 brigades of Winkies and 2 brigades of Harvest vs. 2 brigades of Impkins and 2 brigades of Gillikins (this was a “Munchkin-free zone”).

Objective: Take out more of their bases than they take out of yours.

Duration: 4 Hours

Final Score: This was the bloodiest game of the weekend with 73 bases taken out. The Winkie/Harvest team won by 41-32 over the Gillikins.

Game 8 – Saturday Afternoon, February 24^th, at 1 PM

Scenario: “Heavy Meeting Engagement.” 8 players out of 8 slots– lining up 4 brigades per side.

Opposing forces: 4 brigades of Winkies/Harvest/Impkins vs. 4 brigades of Munchkins and Gillikins

Objective: Take out more of their bases than they take out of yours.

Duration: 4 Hours

Final Score: The Munchkin/Gillikin temporary alliance got a major victory over the forces of Winkies/Harvest/Impkins by a score of 36-23.

Game 9 – Saturday Evening, February 24^th, at 7 PM

Scenario: “The Battle for Toto.” 5 players out of 8 slots.

Opposing forces: 10 brigades are involved here on three sides. The Winkies are allied with the Impkins (2 brigades each on opposite sides of the tabletop longways). They are vying with the team of the Gillikins and Harvest forces (also with 2 brigades each on opposite sides of the tabletop longways). In the middle, in a town with Toto in a secret location, are 2 Munchkin brigades.

Objective: Possession of Toto is worth 10 points. Each base taken out is worth a point for the appropriate force.

Duration: 4 Hours

Final Score: The Impkins found Toto – gaining the bonus – and ended up with a final score of 19. The Munchkins dispatched 19 bases, so despite the loss of Toto they tied the Winkie/Impkin team. The Gillikin/Harvest alliance got 14 points in third place – despite turning on the Winkies with a sneak attack by Dire Bears on the Winkie artillery.

Game 10 – Sunday Morning, February 25^th, at 10 AM

Scenario: “The Battle for Toto.” 8 players out of 8 slots.

Objective: Possession of Toto is worth 10 points. Each base taken out is worth a point for the appropriate force.

Duration: 4 Hours

Final Score: The game went slowly – and was called at 3 hours as players needed to leave. In the end, the score was not close, with the Munchkins keeping Toto, and getting 18 points total. The Winkies/Impkins got 8, and the Gillikins and Harvest got 0.

That’s all for now – I’ll be silent for a bit here as far as posting for a bit – but I will be back! To those whose blogs I follow, I will be checking them out while I am out.

Hope you enjoyed these photos – if you like them let me know – I’ll be running more of these games at HAVOC, MAYHEM, and HUZZAH!

Admiral Jinjurs Female Pirates Reinforced By Some Old School Figures from Ral Partha, Grenadier, and Citadel (Wars of Ozz)

In the world of the Wars of Ozz, Pirate-General (Admiral) Jinjur is said to:

sail on the (Great Nonastic Ocean). She commands a flotilla ofships big and small, all crewed by female pirates. Her pirates board ships and raid seaports, ruthlessly overwhelming any resistance.
Wars of Ozz, Section2.6.6, The Lands Beyond Ozz, pages 45-46

Her pirate forces are composed of females from all over Ozz – so her troops are made up of Gillikins, Munchkins, Winkies, and Quadlings – all the main races of Ozz.

Because I participated in the Kickstarter for Ozz a few years ago, I got a bonus of 4 of these figures for Admiral Jinjur’s Female Pirates (AJFP), SKU #OZZ-516 with my initial order. Later, when I bought a number of Gillikin-affiliated Ozz units from a UK estate sale – I was surprised to see that three fully-painted stands of AJFP had been thrown in the shipment. This left me with a need for another just 4 figures to round out the group for a full regiment of 5 stands/20 figures. Russ Dunaway was kind enough to get me not just 4, but 10 more – which if you are doing the math added up to 4 (Kickstarter) + 12 (estate sale) + 10 (Russ) = 26! Now, I could have said, ok, that’s enough for 20, but part of me decided to push the envelope for two full regiments. Rather than beg Russ again, I decided to roust out from my lead pile 14 Old School female warriors – mainly Amazons, halflings, and female fantasy types, and convert them into appropriate AJFP’s. These would be 25mm Ral Partha, Citadel, Ral Partha Imports, RAFM, and Grenadier figures, that were 30-40+ years old. I would give them new weapons and paint them up as members of the the various Ozz factions and size them to be close to the 28mm originals in terms of faction assignment.

This post is a definite result of my predilection for being focused on completion of a project. I could simply not move on to the Quadlings and leave these AJFP undone! While I am not IRO when it comes to converting figures, nor Roger when it comes to sculpting with green stuff, hopefully the figures that I will share below will be fine enough for my standards for the tabletop. After finding the suitable candidates for “drafting” into the AJFP, the next question I had was how to organize and use the figures these “draftees”. I decided that because the 12 already-painted estate sale figures had a sandy/beach base, I would make that regiment entirely of original AJFP Wars of Ozz figures on sandy bases. This would take adding two stands – one of Quadlings and one of part Munchkin/part Gillikin.

The other regiment would be based on grassy terrain, with a mix of original Ozz and the Old School warriors from the 1980’s. As I like to track where the Old School stuff actually came from, I will be sharing that research as well. Below you see my starting point – with all of the figures plus some of the conversion weapons. Some of the weapons were left over from other projects, and some were some I cast myself years ago. These would help me convert the draftees into more appropriate-looking Ozz types. While I hardly ever deviate from the “official” figures, I thought that this would be fine and a chance to paint up some older stuff and that was most intriguing.

All of the 40 figures shown here at the start – including many Old School figures still ensconced in their blister packs for the last 40 years or so.

Let’s start with the sandy-based regiment. As I mentioned, all of the figures were canon – original Ozz stuff. I think the three stands of estate sale figures were painted well enough. However, they were not fully varnished, and where they were, it was gloss – and I prefer matte as a final coat. Additionally, there was some paint loss/wear – and I would need to try to have the two new stands look similar to the estate sale stands – which also needed work.

A stand from the estate sale – showing the paint loss on a hat, some glossy varnish, and a base that needed work.

All three estate stands with the steel bases I added underneath.

For all of the figures that I would paint here – each would be painted in their faction colors – so red for Quadlings, purple for Gillikins, blue for Munchkins, and yellow for Winkies.

Below are in-progress close up shots of the three original OZZ-516 Munchkins and the one Gillikin that I used on the sandy-based AJFP regiment.

These 4 Quadlings, 3 Munchkins, and the the Gillikin figure, would go onto the green stuff covered polystyrene bases you see below, and then be flocked in conjunction with the estate sale bases.

Ready to be based with the three estate stands.

It turned out that flocking these to match each other was more involved than I initially anticipated. I ended up using a combination of chinchilla dust, cork rocks, washes, and tufts to try to make them look alike. The chinchilla dust came out more looking like snow so I needed to darken that up. The rocks and tufts helped. My two stands ended up thicker than the estate sale three, but I don’t think that will be a problem.

Sandy-Based Regiment

After finishing – here are the estate stands:

As for the two stands that I painted for this regiment – first the base with Munchkins and Gillikins:

And now the Quadling base – btw painting these gave me an ear worm of Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls”:

And a group shot:

Now, let’s move onto the grassy-based AJFP regiment! Of course, there was a LOT more work to be done on the grassy-based regiment as it involved so many conversions.

Below you see the source of all of the figures I used for the grassy-based AJFP regiment – and I was able to find the origin of each except for one (and if you know that one please let me know!). The research here was not easy – even with the help of the Lost Minis Wiki and The DnD Lead websites – but those really helped. Check out both of them to see what you young folks missed – or what you old folks might remember.

As you can see from the chart above, six of the figures in this AJFP regiment were original OZZ-516 Wars of Ozz figures. They would primarily go on two bases – one with 4 Winkies and one with 4 Gillikins.

Here are a few shots of the original Winkies in progress for the grassy-based regiment:

Here are a few photos of the original Gillikins in progress:

Now onto the conversion figures. Six of these were Grenadier #3102, and were repackaged by Mirliton as female warriors. They were originally sculpted around 1992 by Sandra Garrity, and were called “Women of War”. Grenadier was later bought by Mirliton, and many of their miniatures were repackaged post-acquisition. These are not found on the Mirliton website so OOP.

I gave these warriors hats and pistols, plus I bent a few swords to look like cutlasses. My sculpting efforts here as I said are not great – and I learned to my chagrin that using old green stuff with the consistency of used hardened bubblegum (like from under a desk) is NOT what you want to use. Still, I used all as female Winkies due to their poses and sizes.

Below is one of the conversions – I made all to have a different look.

A few shots of the 6 Grenadier “Women of War” later in the project:

The next figure was also a Grenadier figure, but much older, and came to me in an eBay lot. I remember stripping off her bad paint job years ago, but that was all that I did with her. She is Grenadier 102 (v2) from the Fantasy Lords First Series “Females”. The figure is called “Female Assassin”, and dates from 1981. I gave her a bicorn hat and designated her as a Gillikin.

Next up are the Munchkin surrogates. I found 3 loose little female halfling figures in my stash that could stand in as Munchkins. I discovered that they were from the Ral Partha AD&D Adventurers Series. The figure is named “Female Halfling Fighter Thief” #11-102 (b) from “Halfling Fighter Thieves” circa 1989. This figure is the “b” version, and is a Tom Meier/Dennis Mize sculpt. I removed the staff, and modified one with a leftover Munchkin carbine from the Munchkin Light Cavalry project, one with a pistol, and one with a cutlass. Plus, no one got furry feet painted…

The next one was to be a Gillikin. She is an Amazon figure originally sourced from Ral Partha Imports Fantasy Adventurers Series – FA-27 “Amazon with Sword” – from 1986. Back in the 1980’s, Ral Partha imports took Citadel figures and marketed them in the US under licence. I made her a Gillikin and left her alone – except to give her a purple shield. Maybe it was her chain mail bikini…

FA-27 in her blister pack. Nice price for back then – but “historical miniatures”? I missed that chapter in history!

After priming, dry brushing, and an initial wash

The next figure was a bit of a mystery to research. It started with her blister package. As you can see below – the figure’s blister was mislabeled as FFA35 “Necromancer Slime Beast with Sword”.

Needless to say – she is not a necromancer. Her base had FA-19 on it, which allowed me to dig deeper and find her image here. The figure is actually FA-19 V2 “Female Fighter with Breastplate and Sword”. She was sourced from Citadel Miniatures US FA-19 (v2) from “Fantasy Adventurers” line circa 1982. From what I can tell, similar to Ral Partha Imports, this brand was either manufactured or imported by Ral Partha in the 1980’s. I modified the figure with a bicorn hat. As I thought she looked more as if she was wearing a tunic versus a breastplate – I painted her accordingly and as a Gillikin.

The penultimate figure in the group of draftees was a RAFM figure of a female ranger and her hawk on her right arm. It appears that the figure was initially sculpted around 1986. Many RAFM figures (including this one) are still commercially available as Silver Fox Productions (SFP) now owns the RAFM lines. I sourced it from RAFM at some point maybe 8 years ago. It is RAFM Miniatures#3908 “Female Ranger”. I gave her a bandana and painted her as Winkie.

The last of the 20 draftees is a female figure with a dagger. That’s all I know as the figure’s base was devoid of any markings and I could not discover her origin. As it was the last female figure I found (that was not topless – I couldn’t bring myself to put topless Amazons into Ozz – and I have a bunch of those). As she is, she seemed ok, so she was in. I painted her as a Gillikin but added nothing else.

Let’s see the finished AJFP grassy-based regiment:

Grassy-Based Regiment

This first base has 4 Winkies – 3 from OZZ-516, plus one Grenadier “Women of War” figure. The die is a 12mm die.

The second base has three Gillikins that are original plus the Grenadier 102 (v2) “Female Assassin”.

The third base has three of the Grenadier “Women of War” figures and the RAFM Miniatures#3908 “Female Ranger”, all as Winkies.

The fourth base has three Munchkins (the converted Ral Partha “Female Halfling Fighter Thief” #11-102 (b) figures) and the unknown Gillikin figure.

Rounding out the grassy-based AJFP regiment, the fifth base is composed of two of the converted Grenadier “Women of War” figures in the front rank, with two Gillikins in the back rank – the Ral Partha Imports Fantasy Adventurers Series – FA-27 “Amazon with Sword” and the Citadel FA-19 V2 “Female Fighter with Breastplate and Sword”.

Group shot of the AJFP on the grassy bases

These two AJFP regimentscount as my sixth and seventh unit respectively for Dave Stone’s “PAINT WHAT YOU GOT CHALLENGE 2023/2024” painting challenge that runs from December 26th, 2023 to February 29th, 2024.

Both regiments will play a major role in many of my upcoming games for the multiple gaming conventions that I plan on supporting as a GM. The good news is that they will provide some firepower to a brigade as they are treated as having carbines. The regiments are good at missile combat – having a Marksmanship value of 6/10. As for Melee, they are middle of the road with a value of 5/10. Their Resolve value is similar at 5/10, but their Elan value is a little better at 6/10. Each unit costs 5 points. As Buck says, it’s nice for players to have some “shooty units”!

My convention games are coming up fast. At present, that support level is now at 25 four-hour games from February through May across 4 different conventions in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire (TotalCon38, HAVOC, Mayhem, and HUZZAH!). Check them out and maybe just come?

A quick side note: I also got a surprise during the painting of these two regiments. My good friend Buck Surdu sent two more individual figures that can act as heroes in the game. One is “Boom Boom Palmer” (named after Chris Palmer). This figure can attach to an artillery unit and make it more effective. The other is Grand Admiral Priebe, who can give an attached infantry unit the ability to charge cavalry. THANKS BUCK!!

I did enjoy getting to paint both of these AJFP regiments- and to incorporate the Old School stuff really was a nice and fun change. But, now it’s back to more Ozz stuff!

As always, much thanks for looking!

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

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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 TWO ADMIRAL JINJUR FEMALE PIRATE REGIMENTS:

Three original figure stands of Admiral Jinjurs Female Pirates
Old School miniatures as detailed above
Plastruct #91107 2.5mm polystyrene sheet
2″ square steel bases from Wargames Accessories (#21)
Elmer’s PVA Glue
Green Stuff (kneadatite)
Gorilla Glue
5/16″ Everbilt steel washers (ACA)
3/4″ Everbilt steel washers (ABA)
#8 3/8″ Everbilt steel washers
Poster Tack
Reaper MSP “Pure Black”
Battlefront “German Camouflage Black Brown”
Vallejo Model Air “Wood”
The Armory “Dark Blue”
Battlefront “Sherman Drab”
Vallejo “Thinner Medium”
Vallejo “Flow Improver”
Vallejo “Airbrush Thinner”
Vallejo Surface Primer “Black”
Vallejo Mecha Color “Off White”
P3 “Midland Flesh”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Ork Flesh”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Crusader Flesh 1.0”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Bad Moon Yellow”
Vallejo Model Color “Brown Rose”
Vallejo Game Color “Bronze Fleshtone”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Striking Scorpion Green”
Vallejo Mecha Color “Green Fluorescent”
Vallejo Model Air “Steel”
Vallejo Model Color “Wood Grain”
Vallejo Model Air “Bright Brass”
Vallejo Model Air “Gun Metal”
Vallejo Model Air “Black ” (metallic)
Citadel “Balor Brown – AIR”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Black Legion”
Battlefront “Boot Brown”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Hardened Leather 1.0”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Satchel Brown 2.0”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Enchanted Steel 2.0”
Army Painter “Warpaints – Plate Mail Metal”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Aztec Gold 2.0”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Baal Red”
Hataka “Gris Vert”
Vallejo Model Color “Black Green”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Ironjawz Yellow”
Tamiya “Titanium Silver”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Apothecary White”
Army Painter “Flesh Wash” (wash)
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Dusk Red 2.0”
Army Painter “Red Tone” (wash/shade)
Citadel “Nuln Oil GLOSS” (wash/shade)
Citadel “Nuln Oil” (wash)
Army Painter “Warpaints – Shining Silver”
Vallejo Model Color “Dark Prussian Blue”
Vallejo Mecha Color “Sky Blue”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Celestium Blue”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Talassar Blue”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Cygor Brown”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Pylar Glacier”
Army Painter “Blue Tone” (shade/wash)
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Purple Swarm 2.0”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Magos Purple”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Familiar Pink 2.0”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Leviathan Purple”
Reaper MSP “Pink”
Citadel “Daemonette Hide”
Citadel “Contrast Paint – Doomfire Magenta”
Army Painter “Warpaints – Bright Gold”
Army Painter “Speed Paint – Runic Grey 1.0”
Citadel “Waystone Green” (technical)
Citadel “Longbeard Grey” (dry)
Reaper MSP “Sun Yellow”
Battlefront “Gunship Green”
Citadel “Troll Slayer Orange”
Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Gloss Varnish”
Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Matte Varnish”
Chinchilla Dust
Army Painter “Battlefield Field Grass” (flocking)
Pendraken 12mm dice frames
Army Painter “Battlefield Rocks” (flocking)
Twigs
Army Painter “Yellow/Meadow Flowers” (flocking)
Gamers Grass “2mm Moss” (flocking)
Army Painter “Highland Tufts” (flocking)
Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Dark Forest Plum” (flocking)
Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Dark Forest Blue” (flocking)
Gamers Grass “Yellow Flowers” (flocking)
Citadel “Agrax Earthshade” (wash/shade)

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

In the UK go to Sally 4th.

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WIP Shots and Discussion

Noobi Eye Candy

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PAINTS, INKS, GLAZES, SHADES, WASHES, PIGMENTS, FLOCKING, GLUES AND MORE THAT I USED ON THESE NOOBI WARRIORS, LEADERS, AND WITCH DOCTORS:

Sunday Morning – The Battle for Toto (Wars of Ozz)

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Saturday Morning – Learn To Play Wars of Ozz

Saturday Afternoon – Heavy Meeting Engagement (Wars of Ozz)

Saturday Evening – The Battle for Toto (Wars of Ozz)

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Friday Afternoon – Learn To Play Wars of Ozz

Friday Evening – Attack on the Munchkin Border Post

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Friday Afternoon “Learn to Play Wars of Ozz” game

Friday Night “Heavy Meeting Engagement Wars of Ozz” game

Saturday Afternoon “Heavy Meeting Engagement Wars of Ozz” game

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WIP Shots and Discussion

Admiral Jinjur’s Personal Band Eye Candy

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PAINTS, INKS, GLAZES, SHADES, WASHES, PIGMENTS, FLOCKING, GLUES AND MORE THAT I USED ON ADMIRAL JINJUR’S PERSONAL BAND:

Friday Evening – “Learn to Play Wars of Ozz“

Saturday Morning – “Learn to Play Wars of Ozz“

Saturday Afternoon – “Heavy Meeting Engagement”

Saturday Evening – “Heavy Meeting Engagement”

Sunday Morning – “The Battle for Toto”

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Eye Candy

1st Quadling Infantry Regiment

2nd Quadling Infantry Regiment

4th Quadling Infantry Regiment

1st and 2nd Quadling Light Artillery Batteries

2 Generic Brigade Commanders

Rolf Von Guufling, named Brigade Commander

Glenda the Sorceress

Zeb the Scribe of Ozz

Wood the Courier of Ozz

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PAINTS, INKS, GLAZES, SHADES, WASHES, PIGMENTS, FLOCKING, GLUES AND MORE THAT I USED ON THESE QUADLING TROOPS:

Game 1 – Thursday Morning, February 22nd, at 8 AM

Game 2 – Thursday Afternoon, February 22nd, at 1 PM

Game 3 – Thursday Evening, February 22nd, at 7 PM

Game 4 – Friday Morning, February 23rd, at 8 AM

Game 5 – Friday Afternoon, February 23rd, at 1 PM

Game 6 – Friday Evening, February 23rd, at 7 PM

Game 7 – Saturday Morning, February 24th, at 8 AM

Game 8 – Saturday Afternoon, February 24th, at 1 PM

Game 9 – Saturday Evening, February 24th, at 7 PM

Game 10 – Sunday Morning, February 25th, at 10 AM

Sandy-Based Regiment

Grassy-Based Regiment

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PAINTS, INKS, GLAZES, SHADES, WASHES, PIGMENTS, FLOCKING, GLUES AND MORE THAT I USED ON THE TWO ADMIRAL JINJUR FEMALE PIRATE REGIMENTS:

Game 1 – Thursday Morning, February 22^nd, at 8 AM

Game 2 – Thursday Afternoon, February 22^nd, at 1 PM

Game 3 – Thursday Evening, February 22^nd, at 7 PM

Game 4 – Friday Morning, February 23^rd, at 8 AM

Game 5 – Friday Afternoon, February 23^rd, at 1 PM

Game 6 – Friday Evening, February 23^rd, at 7 PM

Game 7 – Saturday Morning, February 24^th, at 8 AM

Game 8 – Saturday Afternoon, February 24^th, at 1 PM

Game 9 – Saturday Evening, February 24^th, at 7 PM

Game 10 – Sunday Morning, February 25^th, at 10 AM