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Wars of Ozz is a fantasy miniatures game inspired by the marvellous world of Oz first chronicled by L. Frank Baum's books in 1900. This inspiration led to the creation of the totally unique mass battle tabletop experience that is Wars of Ozz.

Russ Dunaway has taken Baum's world as an inspirational starting point for creating our own 'Ozz', a post-apocalyptic Earth where after the last 'Madness Bomb' fell in the 'Last Great War', survivors mutated and chaos reigned for several hundred years until the Wizard arrived. Wave one of Wars of Ozz introduced us to the Winkies, Munchkin, Gillikins and Quadlings.
Wave two introduces three brand new playable factions: The Land of Harvest, The Impkins and the Imperial Gnome Army together with the strategic board game Campaigns of Ozz that can either be played as a standalone board wargame with counters and map boards or used as a campaign management tool for generating exciting and meaningful tabletop encounters.
Campaigns of Ozz has been developed by the experienced board game development team of Peter Schutze and Bill Molyneaux from Fastplay Wargames. It was designed to be both a standalone board wargame and a fully compatible strategic level scenario generator for miniature focussed players. All seven historical wars from the Wars of Ozz rulebook lore are detailed as separate campaigns.

The board game is easy to learn and is highly suitable for both solitaire play and play with 2-4 players, with typical games lasting from 2-4 hours. Each Campaigns of Ozz board game includes:
• 280 full color, 1" square die cut counters
• 34"x22" campaign map
• 24 page rulebook
• Player reference chart
• Battleboard map

Wars of Ozz, Wave 2 introduces three completely new playable factions The Land of Harvest, Impkins and The Gnomes. All of the miniatures for these three new armies are sculpted now and are available as part of the Kickstarter campaign.
The Land of Harvest:
After being given life by Glenda the Sorceress, King Jack sets about creating an army to defend the Land of Harvest. The greater and lesser Pumpkin heads are joined by Pumpkin Cavalry and Pumpkin throwing catapult artillery together with animated scarecrows, corn and mushroom men, the outlandish Hammerheads and flock of crows and eagles.
Gnomes:
Somewhere to the west of Munchkinland are the hidden cave entrances to another realm, the underground empire of the Gnome King and his Gnomens. Virtually nothing is known of these secretive beings as they almost never ventured to the surface until that fateful day when a Gilikin force, attempting to mine under a Munchkin fortress stumbled into a Gnomish cave complex. The enraged King Ruggedo called together Gnomish forces from far and wide to attack surface dwellers who had violated his realm.
Impkins:
Impkins were created by the powerful sorceress Mother Ophelia as playthings for King Kittcut and Queen Garee. This explains their diminutive stature – even smaller than Munchkins – and doll-like appearance. For many years the Impkins lived in peace and prosperity on the island of Pingaree until a shipwrecked sailor from one of Admiral Jinjurs pirate fleet alerted them of a land beyond there island. King Kitticut, against Mother Opelias advice set off on an expeditionary adventure to visit the lands of Ozz, landing and doing battle with Evora and her Winkies. King Kittcut had had his first taste of battle, and he found it an exciting and enjoyable game, he cajoled Mother Ophelia to create more Impkins to fill his armies, who fought incessantly, not to capture lands and riches like the other nations of Ozz, but just to satisfy their perverted lust for battle.

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Wars of Ozz: Black Powder Mass Fantasy Battle in the Post-Apocalyptic Lands of Ozz is launched.

Wars of Ozz is a fantasy miniatures game, written by John R ‘Buck’ Surdu and set in the marvellous World of Ozz, first chronicled by L. Frank Baum in 1900, later turned into movies by MGM and Disney and now the inspiration for a totally unique mass battle tabletop experience.

Wars of Ozz is:
• A new genre for mass fantasy tabletop gaming
• Horse & Musket ‘Fantasy’
• Designed for solo, 2 player & team play
• Features a balanced Magic System
• Rulebook contains full background, army lists & painting guide
• Supported with over 70 packs of unique miniatures
• Backed with new factions and new releases for years to come
• Fun to play, streamlined, intuitive & based around reactive game play that keeps both sides continually involved
• Game length 2-3 hours

Wars of Ozz™ began as idea that Russ Dunaway of Old Glory had been planning for several years. He has often asserted that as a miniatures manufacturer, he wanted to do something new and different, but that just about every period and genre had already been done many times. In developing both the figures and the rules, we wanted to steer away from copyright infringement, and there have been whole books written on the legal maneuverings of Disney and MGM over Oz rights. That is why we spell Ozz with to z’s. Wars of Ozz™ is based on the Oz of the L. Frank Baum novels (in the public domain), but it is different.

Ozz is set in a horse and musket, massed battle, post-apocalyptic world (what isn’t these days?). In the “last great war,” the Madness Bombs were released, and as biological and chemical weapons are wont to do, the effects grew out of control very quickly. The war ended, but no one even remembers who won or what the war was about. For hundreds of years the survivors were beset by manias of all sorts. The effects of the Madness Bombs also caused mutations such as, but not limited to, pumpkin-headed men, giants and trolls, witches and wizards, and Gillikins and Winkies. After hundreds of years of tribalism and chaos, Zoraster the Wizard arrived and began to reestablish order based loosely on the Baum books. The Munchkins under Zoraster and Quadlings under Glenda established a solid alliance, defending themselves from desert nomads, screamers from the Forbidden Lands, Gillikins under the Witch Arella, and Winkies under the Witch Evora. Caught between these frequent wars of conquest by the Winkies and Gillikins, King Jack of the Land of Harvest did his best to keep his lands free of Gillikins and Winkies. This is the setting for Ozz, one of frequent, small wars between the four major nationalities and their assorted allies.

Wars of Ozz is supported by an active Facebook Group.
Many new releases are planned for Wars of Ozz over the next few years including complete new factions and additional units for existing factions. Buck and the rules development team are already working on companion rulesets that use the streamlined, intuitive and reactive games mechanisms developed for ‘Ozz’and apply them to ‘traditional fantasy’ in Wars of Orcs and Dwarves and historical ‘horse and musket’ in Wars of Colum, Line and Square.

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