From StuartL - Poles with Poles - 80 Points

Hi all,

    This week I have been painting up a few things, and the first minis to come off my painting desk are some medieval Polish foot serjeants with polearms.

    These figures are 3D prints from a company called Black Knight Miniatures on MyMiniFactory. I have no idea how historically accurate they are, but I think they look fine. These figures are going to be used for the Northern Crusades through the Baltic countries. 

    I got the colour scheme from an Osprey book on Medieval Polish Armies, and it showed a diamond pattern being used, so I tried to replicate it on some of the models. It came out okay-ish, but was a pain to do, so I only did a couple of minis. When painting the yellow, I covered the area with a bright neon pink first, and then painted the yellow over that, and it really pops. If you dread painting yellow, I really recommend a pink undercoat first. For these figures, I had a black undercoat, Vallejo Squid Pink, Vallejo Heavy Goldbrown and then a 50:50 highlight of Heavy Goldbrown and Vallejo Golden Yellow. The banner, shield and surcoat emblems are a part of the figures and are just painted in black, no fancy free-handing for those.

    The unit will see play using the Hail Caesar rules. For HC, the units are usually based on identical sized bases, so for a 16 man unit, you'd expect 4 bases of 4 figures. But here I went with slightly narrower bases on the flanks, and made all of the bases a bit deeper, getting a 5-6-5 pattern. This is primarily to narrow the frontage, so units have more room to move around. Too often, when I have played Warlord's historical games, both armies just line up and have no room to maneuver. I can also make a smaller unit by removing the middle command base. 

    Unfortunately, the STL files for these models were set at a slightly larger scale, so these chaps tower over the Fireforge minis I plan on using for other parts of the project. Still, they are all based together, so the difference in height shouldn't be too obvious.

So, 16x 28mm models should net me a nice 80 points for my tally, and another squirrel.

My ongoing duels information:
Skulls - 141 (+0)
BSRoD - 5 (+0)
Squirrels - 7 (+1) - D&D Animals, 30K Militia, Plague Clowns, Afghans, Robots, Anglo-Saxons, Medieval Polish

From Millsy:

Yikes! These guys really look like they mean business. That's some serious hardware they are rocking and combined with the yellow and black theme these look absolutely fearsome.

I've had similar scale issues with various units but I can usually ignore it when not mixing minis in units. They must be pretty chunky though as Fireforge are no minnows either.

80 amazing points it is for you tally mate.

Cheers,
Millsy