I have no real idea how this came about.
Perhaps I was being thrashed by the unded army so much I wanted to make an army specifically to counter them. Perhaps it was a whole heap more knights and archers in that big box of minis I managed to purchase. Perhaps it was because I was trying to finish the Elector Counts. Maybe I had a cannon, flagellants and a griffon. I guess they gathered of their own accord and here they are, finished!
Most of the knights were the first models I had, and I finally had a plan for them. Two units of the Knights of Morr. Battlemaster models make up the majority with the GW models for the commanders.
I split them into the Knights of the Black Rose and the Raven Knights.
The shileds for the Black Rose were some old skull transfers I had for years and finally used them and painted the gold wreath over them, whilst the Raven Kights shields I attached the wreath directly.
I eneded up selling the halberdiers, crossbow and archers from the Battlemasters set and bought the Empire spearmen and converted them into halberdiers. They are better that the monopose Battlemasters halberdiers but not the lastest GW sculpts. I had already decided on the black, red and white theme, so Wissenland seemed the best infantry option.
I had some old metal flagellants that I originally had painted up as diseased flagellants for the Nugle 3rd edition army. While I was in Goeblins, Germany, I picked up the plastic kit and it took me years to finally finish them off, with the Empire army being the motivation. Throwing in a Bones gravedigger as a witchhunter and adding a printed witchhunter sculpt will buff the infantry.
This gave me the idea that the local populace had become and angry mob, and in a force directed against the undead, even the villiagers would join the army and be motivated by the flagellants. Off to the internets to get some prints and test out some OSL painting technique. This ended up a good spot for the two Bones minis of the barkeep and the blacksmith and why not put the Raven priests in as well?
The hand gunners were purchased with the spearmen and provided another great exercise in speed painting.
The mages I selected were a printed Raven mage and a GW Elementalist.
For a captain I already had Boris from the Elector Counts box.
Artillery was only supposed to be a mortar, but I lacked the crew.
Somehow I ended up with the crew, the great cannon and a hellblaster volley gun with none other than Leonardo Di Cabanossi.
For the last of the infantry, I speed painted the archers in 2 days and gave a few of them some feathers.
To finish off, I painted up the Empire General, a Morr Knight on a Bones Silicone Griffon to serve as the centrepiece for the Army of the Empire!
