Barons' War additions (14)

 Another week and another batch of troops join the Barons' War collection!

Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester. The Earl is a Footsore miniature, while the serjeant carrying his banner is from Crusader Miniatures. 

I was running low on Northstar metal spears and decided to try out the new plastic ones from Northstar, the banner bearer has the first of these! I'll be using a lot more plastic spears in the future.

This next piece is quite cool. I had a Serjeant with a torch from Footsore and wanted to have him lighting a signal beacon.

At the recent Britcon event in Leicester, James picked me up a brazier from Irongate Scenery a really cool piece with built in LED, perfect for the job!

I built up the plinth from a stack of 25mm bases and finished with stonework from the Willis Scenery range. Some dowel was cut up to represent chopped logs and stacked alongside the plinth 

Then because  I like to over complicate things I built a unlit fire, again from chopped dowel which can be replaced with the IGS LED flames when lit! 

The serjeant is painted to represent one of Gilbert de Clares' men.

I think this will be a very cool objective marker in our games.

Another five angry monks have also been added to the few painted last time. Again, all Footsore miniatures.

Another trio of archers and a couple of peasants. 

Lastly a few more shields for use as casualty markers were painted up.

Do I have more than enough Barons' War stuff? Yes. Will I keep adding more? Also yes!

Imperialist Heroes

 

What started as a small project to square off against the undead has rolled on like a juggernaut and eclipsed the children of the night, but the end was in sight.

These four heroes are all that remained to be painted*

This Imperialist Commander model is rather exquisite, although being a single print is a bugger to paint the detail! And there is plenty of detail, the carrier pigeons, the juvenile griffon, and everything.

The standard bearer broke twice during painting, hence all the glue on the legs, when his sword blade pinged off the third time, I left it off.

A second Imperialist Hero on foot, I already one done, but this gives a few more options.

I had a broken Gendarme left over so stuck back on the plume and tail and added another Champion.

Finally a second Witch Hunter to purge the blasphemous foe.

*Truth be told I could likely squeeze another spear unit from the figures left over from making the Tercios.

Imperial reinforcements

What with the hot weather, vacations and family illness the painting mojo has been low of late, but I've finished the last of the Imperialist troops that reside in the pile of potential.

All are Forest Dragon 3D prints from MGS.

They are all based for our mini-Midgard games on an 80mm frontage, 40mm depth for foot and 60mm depth for mounted.

Griffonknechts

The first of a pair of units of Griffonknechts, elite men at arms mounted on mythical beats.

Griffonknechts

Griffonknechts

Griffonknechts

The second unit of Griffonknects, my units of Gendarmes have a consistent scheme, with the, Griffonknects each has a unique colour scheme representing the best of the Gendarmes sent to fight with the elites.

Griffonknechts

Griffonknechts

Halberdiers

A third unit of Halberdiers joins the contingent, stout hard hitting chaps. The chap at the front right of the unit hit so hard he broke his halberd clean in half - the pitfalls of 3D prints, buggered if I know where it went!

Halberdiers

Halberdiers

Swordsmen

Just when I thought I had all the troops I would need for the Imperialists I noticed that they did infantry with swords and shields, so having to have at least one of everything I bought a couple of units to add to the halberdiers, spearmen and Tercios I already had - when will it end!

Swordsmen

Swordsmen

Swordsmen

Swordsmen

Swordsmen

Lastly, after painting the Tercios I had enough skirmishers left over for another couple of units of Forlorn Hope.

Forlorn Hope

Forlorn Hope

Forlorn Hope

Forlorn Hope

Forlorn Hope

Forlorn Hope

With a fresh coat of varnish, these stout chaps get their first game today against the Undead. 

Doomed they are!

Imperialist Tercios and Gendarmes

I've already got more than enough Imperialists for a very large game of Midgard, but I decided that I really wanted to field some Tercios.

First Tercio

First Tercio

So, I purchased a few packs of unshielded spearmen, I figured that for resin prints, if I used pikemen then it would just end in broken resin and tears! I then added a pack each of hand gunners and crossbowmen and finally some skirmishers with swords and pistols. Enough to build three large units of fifty figures* each.

First Tercio

Second Tercio

* I would say men, but these exquisite Forest Dragon figures show what a equal opportunities employer the Imperialists are. Some with missing eyes, some with a wooden leg, some with only one arm, some of them are women!

Second Tercio

Second Tercio

Each tercio has a core of 30 spearmen in five ranks of six, then two crossbow detachments of four each on the rear corners, two detachments of four hand gunners on the front corners, then a screen of four skirmishers out in front.

Third Tercio

Third Tercio

For Midgard purposes, in their first game I counted them as Warriors (Heavy Infantry with Missiles - Bow) then added the Big and Steadfast traits.

Third Tercio

 There were enough figures left over to do a couple of characters.

Master of Crossbows

Heroes with swords and pistols

To complete this post, I had a palette cleanser of a fourth unit of Gendarmes to add to the force. This clumsy oaf did break off a couple of plumes though.

Gendarmes

Gendarmes

Gendarmes

Already working on more Imperialists and hope to have a bumper update when we get back from vacation in a couple of weeks.