Lord of the Rings Orc Army

Finally, I completed my Mordor Orc Army for The Lord of the Rings. I didn't build this army with any concern for the army list--rather, I just picked a bunch of models I liked, put them together, and came up with a company-sized warband.

The leader of the company is named Shargror, a particularly mean and surprisingly intelligent uruk, hailing from Barad-Dur itself. Several of his subordinate Black Guard followed him from his last command and now form his command group.

A selection of the core of the company, composed of Mordor Orcs and Morannon Orcs.

The Morgul Stalkers are a strange breed even among orcs--these guys provide some scouting and infiltration duties for the company before the battles, and do some assassination-style killing during the fighting.

The Orcs, frankly, don't know what to think about the two Castellans. They are regarded with a mix of respect and trepidation by the orcs--they are fearsome in battle. Shargror himself isn't sure if they were provided to him as extra punch for his company, or if they're spies for his commanders, making sure he doesn't overstep his bounds. Frankly, he doesn't care which. They take his orders, and that's enough.

And finally, the heavy hitters of the army, the three war trolls. These guys are dangerous enough on their own, but when supported by the rest of the company, they're terrifying.

By Request: Epic Pictures

By popular demand, I took some pictures of my various Epic scale forces. Some of them are in a state of disrepair, and I caution that the paintjobs are woefully out of date, but here they are.

Back in my days of playing Space Marine with some fanaticism, I collected and fielded an entire chapter of Space Marines, my homegrown chapter, the Nightblades.Now the chapter is somewhat depleted, as I cannibalized some of them to paint up other Space Marines from other chapters.

Back in its heyday, the Nightblades' usual foe was the Eldar from the Yriel-Dyann craftworld:The Eldar were formidable opponents, and the superheavy grav-tanks, the Tempests, and the Eldar Exarchs caused me untold amounts of frustration. As did the Eldar Phantom Titans, which unfortunately got lost in the shuffle, so I don't have pictures of them. Suffice it to say, one of them was armed with twin Pulsars, and pretty much vaporized my titans with ease.

Speaking of which, here they are, Bellator, Pugnator, and Venator:
As you can see, they've seen better days, and are due for some attention from the Adeptus Mechanicus.

My Space Marines were on occasion aided by various other forces, including the Imperial Guard:
Imperial Knights:
and the massive Imperator Titan, the Iustus Potestas:

Occasionally, my Imperial forces ended up fighting the forces of Chaos, represented here by one of their Titans:

The Ork forces never got to see battle, but I still started building a force anyway. In the future sometime they may still take to the field.
The Orks, of course, had to have some heavy support.

After Epic 40k was released, I started building forces using the new strip bases. I ended up cannibalizing some the Nightblades to make my Ultramarines force:
Also, as an experiment, I wanted to paint up squads from other chapters, so I did up a squad each of Dark Angels, Space Wolves, Blood Angels, and another homegrown chapter, the Sea Warriors.The Sea Warriors were an experiment of mine, even their name wasn't set in stone. Their symbol was similar to that of the Dark Angels or Blood Angels, but instead of a winged sword or blood drop, the Sea Warriors had a winged trident.I had not developed the chapter background all that much, other than that they had a nautical theme.

The Necron Fleet

The Necron FleetThe Necron Fleet consists of the Necropolis, 1 Cairn Class Tombship, 3 Scythe Class Harvest Ships, 1 Vulture Class Cruiser, 1 Shroud Class Light Cruiser, 10 Jackal Class Raiders, 4 Dirge Class Raiders, and 12 Khopesh Class Ramships.

Below are the three ships that I invented/scratchbuilt myself:
The Necropolis
Vulture Class Cruiser
Khopesh Class Ramship

Tainnbaharr Eldar Fleet

Here are some pictures of the Tainnbaharr Craftworld Eldar Fleet, who recently debuted in fighting against the Necrons.


Dragonship

Wraithship 1

Wraithship 2

Shadowhunter Escorts

Go Guard!

Using some extra Imperial Guard miniatures lying around, I decided to convert some of them to give a representation of some of the varied Imperial Guard regiments of the Arcadia Sector.

	Anacostian Light Infantry The Anacostian Light Infantry is renowned throughout the sector for their stealth and their ability to show up quickly, anywhere, anytime.
	1st Arcadian Infantry The 1st Arcadian Infantry Regiment was heavily engaged during the Cyclades Campaign, repelling an invasion of Yriel-Dyann Eldar. The Regiment lost nearly half of its number during the campaign, but largely due to the regiment’s efforts, the Eldar invasion was successfully repulsed. Since Cyclades the regiment has fought against other xeno forces, including Tyranids and Orks.
	4th Arcadian Infantry The 4th Arcadian Infantry suffered horrific casualties in their first battles against the Necrons, but since those initial defeats, their experience fighting them has begun to show through.
	5th Arcadian Infantry (Mechanized) The 5th Arcadian is renowned for innovative tactics, and is among the first regiments to make use of combined arms, integrated down to the battalion level.
	11th Arcadian Rangers The 11th Arcadian Rangers were involved during the Assault on Morkandy Beach, where they supported the beach assault by dropping behind enemy lines, disrupting the defenders’ supporting artillery and ambushing reinforcements.
	16th Arcadian Infantry The 16th Arcadian has seen action against Tau forces, but its most famous action was undoubtedly the Assault on Morkandy Beach, where the entire regiment participated in the first assaults on the beach. During the action, the first battalion alone suffered 85% casualties.
	2nd Cydonian Infantry (The Nightstalkers) Cydonia is known for mass producing high technology devices and arms. As such, like most Cydonian regiments, the Nightstalkers are extremely well equipped.
	1st Deukalion Infantry The 1st Deukalion Regiment specializes in close quarters actions, either within cities or at night. As such they tend to be well equipped with powerful, short-ranged weaponry, and specialize in military operations in urban terrain.
	Fafnir Infantry (The Ice Wolves) The Fafnir Ice Wolves specialize in combat in cold weather environments. They are renowned for their skill in setting up ambushes and then disappearing into the wilderness.
	Tantalus Desert Fighters Tantalus is a cold, dry, desolate world with a tenous atmosphere. The Tantalus Desert Fighters are skilled in conquering the environment as much as the enemy. As such they are used to dealing with hostile environments, destroying enemies who are less prepared.

Yriel-Dyann Eldar

The Eldar is one of my oldest armies, and it shows, both in the models, and the paint jobs. It all started back around 1990 when I bought the "Aspect Warrior Deal" through GW mail order, which consisted of 5 Dire Avengers, 5 Howling Banshees, 5 Striking Scorpions, 5 Swooping Hawks, and 5 Fire Dragons, all for...$20. Those were the days... The army grew through the years as I added a model here, a model there, without any real guiding force as to what kind of army it was supposed to be. It just got bigger and bigger with time, and eventually I had amassed a rather eclectic force. Despite the random nature of army construction, it has done pretty well on the battlefield.

The warhost of Yriel-Dyann

The Avatar

Farseers and Warlocks

Fire Dragons with Exarch

Harlequins

Howling Banshees with Exarch

Striking Scorpions and Exarch

Wraithguard and Spiritseer

Dire Avengers with Exarch

The new Dire Avengers

Guardian Defenders

Rangers

Storm Guardians, consisting of some of the oldest models in the army

Swooping Hawks with Exarch


The newer Swooping Hawks, with Exarch with (now illegal) Web of Skulls

Vyper Jetbike Squadron

Warp Spiders and Exarch

Dark Reapers and Exarch

Falcon

Vibrocannon and crew

Wraithlord

HQ
The Avatar of Khaine – 155pts
Eldrad Ulthran – 210pts
Farseer (Spirit Stones, Doom, Eldritch Storm, Guide) – 140pts
Warlocks – (1 Singing Spear, Conceal, Destructor, Enhance) – 118pts

Elites
Fire Dragons (Exarch with Firepike) – 116pts
Harlequins – (w/Troupe Master w/Power Weapon, Death Jester, 2 Harlequin’s Kiss, 2 Fusion Pistols) – 238pts
Howling Banshees (Exarch w/Executioner, War Shout, Acrobatic) – 128pts
Striking Scorpions (Exarch w/Scorpion’s Claw, Shadowstrike, Stalker) – 212pts
Wraithguard (w/Spiritseer with Singing Spear, Enhance) – 224pts

Troops
Dire Avengers (w/Exarch w/Diresword & Shuriken Pistol, Defend) – 97pts
Dire Avengers (w/Exarch w/2 Shuriken Catapults, Bladestorm) – 152pts
Guardian Defenders – (w/Scatter laser) – 175pts
Rangers – 95pts
Storm Guardians – 56pts

Fast Attack
Swooping Hawks (w/Exarch w/Hawk’s Talon, Skyleap) – 163pts
Swooping Hawks (w/Exarch w/Power Weapon, Skyleap) – 142pts
Vyper Jetbike Squadron (w/2 Scatter Lasers and 1 Brightlance) – 195pts
Warp Spiders (w/Exarch w/2 Death Spinners and powerblades) – 137pts

Heavy Support
Dark Reapers (w/Exarch w/Shuriken Cannon, Fast Shot, Crack Shot) – 182pts
Falcon (w/Scatter Laser) – 130pts
Support Weapon Battery (Vibrocannon) – 50pts
Wraithlord (Shuriken Catapult, Flamer, Starcannon) – 120pts

Total: 3235pts