Horse Archers and Crossbowmen

A few more things rolling off the workbench this week…

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Turcoman Horse Archers from Gripping Beast.

These will be a unit of “Mounted Yeomen”/Light Riders for my medieval Muslim Lion Rampant/Dragon Rampant Retinue/Warband.

Here they are with other members of the Retinue/Warband so far…  (The foot are actually part of Frostgrave Warbands – but I figure I could press these ones into service as a unit of Fierce/Belicose Foot and Bidowers/Scouts…).

Some Armoured Crossbowmen from Perry Miniatures. I was picking up some other stuff from Perry Miniatures so I thought I’d grab these to use as Marksmen in Frostgrave - as they have Mail, Crossbow, and Sword – the equipment of marksmen… unfortunately these are earlier crusaders and the helmets on the rest of my soldiers are later medieval… ah well…

If you look close, two have been painted with yellowish tunics for the Gold Wizards warband and two have green for the Jade Wizards. The other two in could be for anyone. I haven’t ever taken any Marksmen – I’m not a fan of the slow-loading crossbows – I’d rather have a Ranger that can get twice as many shots down range… but I thought I should get some Marksmen to try out at some point…

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I’m pretty excited about the Medieval Muslims at the moment, I may try to push to finish up the remaining two or three units of cavalry so I could have a fieldable force – and then work on the additional infantry options when I get to them. Of course there are a lot other things on my workbench, so who knows…?! 

Wings of Glory and Another Odd Assortment of Miniatures: Medieval, Fantasy, Indian Muntiy!?

The kids have been learning about the Great War this week and a number of movies and documentaries have been watched and I’ve tried to sneak in a game or two.

On Friday we watched Blue Max. I still love that movie - incredible stuff - all pre-CGI. 

Then busted out Wings of Glory (which I actually won in a contest on BoardGameGeek!)

The Boy took a Fokker DR.1 and The Girl the Albatros D.VA. I took the Sopwith Camel and a SPAD.

MRRRRRrrrooooowwwwww-dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka! That’s my Camel finishing off The Boy’s Fokker.

(Yes, sound effects were required. I’m pretty sure it’s somewhere in the rules!)

Here are a few other items I’ve been working away at over the last week or so, concurrent with the Mike Bravo Miniatures

Casualty marker for my Medieval Muslims from Perry Miniatures

Another OLD Citadel Miniature recently stripped and repainted. I think the figure was actually an assassin figure for Talisman, but I’m planning to use it as a Thief or Treasure Hunter for my Gold Wizards (since I recently did a Treasure Hunter for the Jade Wizards

Since I’ve put together a Summoner warband, I thought I should have some more figures I could use as Imps. So I dug out these “Bushwoolies” from Thunderbolt Mountain. I don’t recall actually ordering these… I think they may have been sent along as free samples when I ordered some other things from them…?

Three dwarves to finish up a unit of Elite Foot for Dragon Rampant. The one in the middle is from Reaper Miniatures and the two flanking him are from Games Workshop.

Here’s the whole unit. The leader is so badass – he’s worth TWO of the six Strength Points!

Now to get the rest of the Dwarves finished!

(Actually I have my Dwarf DBA army that could easily be pressed into service for Dragon Rampant… but I also happen to have enough individually based Dwarves to field a Dragon Rampant warband! They just need some painting... well some of them… about half).

This is Suliman Le Saracen an old warhammer figure from Games Workshop I picked up in trade from my pal Cory when he was here for the Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter Wargame Campaign Weekend. I had hoped that I might be able to slip him into one of my Lion Rampant units of Medieval Muslim Cavalry…

But as he towers over the others I think he’ll have to be some sort of Heroic Prince in Dragon Rampant and be fielded as a Single Model Unit of Elite Cavalry!

These are some Highlanders for the Indian Mutiny from AW Miniatures. Terry had a sample pack of them and gifted them to me for my birthday and I painted them up because… well… um… No, I don’t have enough for a full unit… er… No, I don’t have any other British troops from the era… I don’t even have anything I could pass off as mutinous Indians to have these guys fight a last stand defensive sort of game against… Really I’m not sure why I did these… It just seemed like a good idea at the time.

I’m pretty happy with how their kilts turned out.

Finally some crusader Religious rabble. A couple of these guys are partial repaints… I can’t remember which now… I thin they’re all from Old Glory…?

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I have no idea. I feel like I’m all over the place. I feel more like cleaning and organizing the basement before doing any more gaming or painitng…

We shall see… 

Seljuk Heavy Cavalry

In January I picked up three units of Medieval Muslim foot from Black Tree Design to start a retinue for Lion Rampant (or a warband for Dragon Rampant…) when they had their crazy 50% off sale going on. I managed to get a half dozen camel riders from their fantasy Saracen range and replaced their goofy looking shields to make them look slightly more historical… But I knew I’d need more cavalry so I began looking around for options – thinking I’d pick some up once I got what I had painted… then I found a few packs listed on the Sentry Box’s online catalogue – some Gripping Beast Seljuk cavalry that were clearly old stock that had been sourced when the US dollar and UK pound were in the tank – So instead of waiting I decided to just order them, lest they be snapped up by someone else…

While I’ve been painting a few individual medieval Middle Eastern figures for use with Frostgrave Warbands, I thought I’d try paint up a few of the units for the Lion Rampant Retinue and ultimately decided that I should start with this newly acquired cavalry… (last in, first out, I guess…).

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As I mentioned these figures are from Gripping Beast.

These will be classed as Mounted Sergeants (@ 4 points) with the Bow upgrade (+1 point = 5 points) in Lion Rampant.

(in Dragon Rampant they’d be “Heavy Riders” with the “Mounted Missiles” upgrade – also 5 points – same stats, different names)

I reallyhad fun painting them – they’re quite colourful! I figured the elite cavalry would be a bit more well off than the common foot soldier and would like to show off their “bling”. I’m really happy with how the shields turned out.

The guy with the upright spear probably could have had a banner… but I got lazy. Perhaps I’ll add one later – when I have other units – to distinguish them from one another and indicate where the leader of the retinue is…

I also just finished up some Treasure Tokens for Frostgrave (but they went in a separate post just before this one)

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I have a few more European foot Men-at-Arms on the work bench that I might paint up next… but they could easily be swept off and replaced with… who-knows-what!?