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| Imperialist cavalry from Warlord Games' "Epic" Pike & Shotte range. |
My second submission for this week returns to my nascent 30 Years War project. This is a regiment of Imperialist Cavalry. The figures are all from Warlord Games "Epic" Pike & Shotte figure range.
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| Caracole, anyone? Sounds like a fun way to spend an afternoon! |
Warlord Games has a way of taking a great idea, and only executing on 3/4 of it - but even when they stumble, they often keep pushing through and improving. And I see the Pike & Shotte "Epic" range very much through this lens - of all their various "Epic" efforts, the Pike & Shotte stuff is, IMO, far and away the very best, and the cavalry frames really deliver.
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| Close up of the command base... |
When you get a calvary box, you get three frames that contain multitudes, everything from the "horse" to dragoons (mounted and dismounted), to a few cuirassiers, as well as some commanded shot, an officer/ensign and two different types of artillery! Three frames of that is pretty great, as far as I'm concerned...
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| Another close up showing various bits of armour, swords, and a couple of awesome pistols! |
Cavalry for the 30 Years War period is fascinating. I love the huge honkin' cavalry "pistols" these guys carried, and am intrigued by the idea of these units who ride up, and try to shoot the pike blocks enough to rattle them before charging in. I love the mix of armoured bits, swords, sashes and - of course - pistols galore!
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| Some jaunty feathers on some of the caps! Although the other chaps have helmets... |
The banner is from the handy sheet that comes with the box...it is, supposedly, an Imperialist banner, but...well, I'm just going to go with that, as I still don't know a lot about the flags from this era.
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| You can see a few "fusils"/muskets in addition to the pistols - so much shooting! |
These guys were a lot of fun to paint, and I hope to add another couple of cavalry units to my budding Imperialist forces before this edition of the AHPC concludes!
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| Deployed in line, ready to advance! |
For scoring purposes we have 15 x 15mm (well, 12.5mm, but whatever) cavalry figures, which should count for 60 points! Another relatively slow week, but more progress is progress! Thanks for reading, and I hope to have some more to share next week!
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You've done another lovely job with these tiny Trotters Greg!
Hoping to see more of this project as the Challenge progresses :-)
-Paul
Oh man, these cavalry look terrific Greg. Similar to your earlier Warmaster post, you've done a wonderful job in picking out the details from these small models. Consider my interest piqued for these minis!
ReplyDeleteCheers Curt!
DeleteSuperb work. They look fab.
ReplyDeleteThank you Adam!
DeleteLovely work, I thought they were 28mm.
ReplyDeleteCheers Barks!
DeleteGorgeous. They are great models - so detailed and characterful for their scale. But that would be nothing without your magnificent paintjob.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much!
DeleteI also they were 28’s. Very impressive detail for this scale!
ReplyDeleteCheers Bob!
DeleteImpressive, very nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks Teemu!
DeleteAgain excellent work, Greg!
ReplyDeleteMartijn
Cheers Martijn!
DeleteSmashing work, they certainly pop and firing black powder weapons from horseback feels like lunacy…
ReplyDeleteHaha yes! Totally safe, I'm sure. While being in battle is a risk, of course, I expect all of those early 17th century black power weapons will fire smoothly and safely...
DeleteExcellent cavalry Greg!
ReplyDeleteCheers Peter!
DeleteA great looking epic cavalry unit. Excellent painting.
ReplyDeleteCheers Tom.
DeleteLovely work Greg.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ray!
DeleteGreg, I went straight to the Warlord store after looking at these, great work, very inspirational!
ReplyDeleteLovely! I'm always glad to inspire the hobby squirrel in others!
DeleteGreat paint job on these guys
ReplyDeleteReally good Greg - yet again
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