Ewal Dvergar - from Oldschool Miniatures

Hi everyone its Jamie from Oldschool Miniatures - I finally got around to reorganising the minis into some sense of order

https://www.oldschoolminiatures.co.uk/ewal-dvergar

As part of it I am creating Army deals. We also released this week our new Mutated Dwarf and Atom demon cannon.

So a couple of chances to win some free minis - What army deals would you like to see any list I use on the site gets you a voucher for a free until of Chaos Dwarfs.

Second chance to win - we are stopping Kickstarters and moving to releasing minis as soon as they are ready - this means far faster releases - John will be sculpting some more mutants but what else do you want him to sculpt? If we like your idea - you get a copy of anything you come up with.

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Things you havent yet done that would fit in todays army lists:

Old fashioned steam tank (with a spiky roller?)

Large mortar or earthskaer cannon

Death rocket or large missile launcher

Flame cannon

Fireglaives for chaos dwarfs

Elite chaos dwarfs (i guess these could be your mutants)

Some kind of monsterous infantry. Something akin to the classic golden demon would be perfect

A taurus! Or a proxy for one

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Deals grouped into troop-type categories, similar to the Xbow horde, but specifically grouped into weapon type factions, with enough models to fill out an Old World regiment would be great, along with an additional troop type or larger model to be used as a unit filler.

The current offerings are really close to being able to be combined into a nice round unit of 20 models, but would require a small tweak to fit. For example:

(1) Evil Dwarfs Champion/General choice - 1 model
(1) Evil Dwarfs Warriors Command Section - 4 models
(1) Evil Dwarfs Warriors Set 1 Hand Weapons - 8 models
(1) Unit Filler (choice of Evil Dwarfs Baggage Train, etc) - ā€œcounts as 6 modelsā€

Fitting the Baggage Train onto 2x3 square 20mm bases is a tight fit… maybe 2x4 would be better, but it’s do-able… in any event, with these sets the unit would count as being 19 models. If the Command Section got a bonus model, or if another general or civilian type that fits on a single base was included you’d be all set. Could also swap out the unit filler for a second unit and then there’s already one extra model without adding an extra champion/general/civilian. Oh, and I’m also lumping the prison cart in with the baggage train consideration… the prison cart is the obvious choice. You need to highlight optionally building the cart with the roof removable so that you can put a model representing your opponent’s army into the cart before starting wargames to really riles them up :wink:

Swapping out the Hand Weapons for 2-handed weapons is an obvious alternate setup. Having a drop-down menu to pick the general choice or weapon choice would be pretty easy.

I think the Evil Dwarfs Daemon Cannon and the Perforator need more space if they were used as a unit filler, but including some kind of ranged unit filler as an option for the Xbows or Hand Gunners feels appropriate and easily differentiates them from the on-foot units with hand weapons.

I think you can just rinse and repeat this with the mounted units with a mounted general and mounted command too, although I have a harder time getting to a nice round number like a unit of 20-models, seems like 16-18 is easier, still including a unit filler and perhaps the Pony Centaur to pad the numbers a bit.

I think what would help sell the idea would be to assemble these units practically so you can put photos on the site, ensuing that the models are put into a unit the way they might appear ranked up so buyers could see exactly how these could be put into a single unit without trying to imagine, as right now they’re very nicely shown off, but they’re spread out like a skirmish game :hatoff:

I don’t have a head for business, but a 1-click option to purchase a viable unit that I can see an example picture of on the site seems good. I’m also imagining for games like Mordheim, etc. making smaller variants of each ā€˜unit’ that doesn’t include extra sets of models with hand weapons, etc. for smaller forces might also find a market.
~N

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A lonely battlefield outhouse with FIVE assembly options:

  1. Door closed (most boring… maybe it could also be a toll booth or similar, but not an outhouse??)
  2. Door ajar, but otherwise mundane looking
  3. Door ajar with a tentacle coming out of the seat-hole
  4. Door ajar with a hand coming out of the seat-hole
  5. Door ajar with a disgruntled/angry Dwarf seated and with a book covering his crotch and torn pages wadded up in the other hand
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I have Bang and Smash lined up - also going to point up 2k and 3k WHFB3rd army lists

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I really like that

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I have a question. Why is it that after all the long announcements, ā€œEwal Dvergar - Evil Dwarfs Boar Centaursā€ still hasn’t been released?

These guys at the front? They have been out for ages!

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I thought they were available… weren’t they??

The website says ā€œwork in progressā€ for the wild boar centaurs, so I just assumed that you can’t get them.

By the way, those look cool, I’ll have to get myself a pair (despite the high customs duty)!

They come in packs of 4 except the command

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work in progress on pictures but we have fixed that for some them - and I just reduced the prices a little bit because our costs have gone up……. yes is didn’t make any sense to me either but I am trying hard to get things to be more affordable

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can I get some photos for the website?

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The boar centaurs didn’t go to our normal painter, I have been very kindly helped by DwarfHorde and RegimentsOfRenown on Instagram with filling some gaps. The boar centaurs were the last bits and the final unit is painted, just awaiting photos. They were both just doing it for fun to fill their army out and help us out too, so I am very greatful. I apologise for the delay, my short, angry, bearded friends.

I will be taking notes on all these new ideas, both literraly and how it could potentially be done, keeping the pre-big hat aesthetic.

I am pretty sure John will enjoy some of these. I imagine if we mention possessed out house, he would love that, and while maybe not a steam tank, we did discuss something to fill this role before, but I will leave the selection to Jamie or John, depending on how Jamie wants to do this.

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I’ve added images of all the models to the dedicated thread

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Why not get a set of chaos goblins to serve as hobgoblins in the ewal dvergar army. Maybe some of your current gobbos could be modified?

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yeah any goblin variant would be pretty rad