The Italian Wars will form a good chunk of my Challenge efforts this year and here is the first of the bunch, a unit of Heavy Cavalry for my Spanish. The figures are from The Assault Group and Flags from Petes Flags.
I've got 36 heavy and 24 light ready to go. During the course of the year I have started to paint groups of 6 Cavalry in between larger units of foot and its really helped with motivation, it keeps things fresh and its amazing how quickly the horse builds up doing it this way.
6 figs is our usual size unit for Gendarme style Cavalry in the Italian Wars as they would usually operate in Squadron sizes of 100 - 120 (plus squires etc). Points wise it will be 6 x 10 for the 28mm Cavalry plus 2 for the Flags giving a total of 62.
Below is a picture of the new unit along with the other two I did earlier in the year, I think it's going to be pretty impressive at the end of the Challenge with 12 units all together.
I've got a unit of Arab Cavalry for the Crusades nearly done as well and they may make the cut before Curt hands over the reigns, if not then it will be on the first Minion Tuesday.
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Gorgeous work, Ken! These Spaniards look magnificent with their lances and pennants. I love seeing Italian Wars stuff. It makes me want to return to them for another run. Perhaps I'll have to try your approach of breaking up the units in more manageable (and varied) chunks. Great stuff and I look forward to seeing more!
- Curt
Those cavalry looks fantastic, Ken. Your Italian Wars project continues to be a highlight of the AHPC year after year thanks to entries like this.
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