Monday, 6 February 2017

Medieval Archers by JohnSe (



I've had some plastic 5th edition Brettonian archers knocking around my lead pile for 20 years, but didn't have a reason to get them onto the table until I started playing Lion Rampant. I've been working on English army circa 1250-1315 and they desperately needed a missile contingent, but the monopose Brettonians didn't quite match the more dynamic modern Firefroge figures that made up my the bulk of my army.

Doing some research over the Summer I found that Front Rank's figures seemed to be the best match to Games Workshops old sculpting style, and had a variety of poses and equipment that would help break up the ranks of identical plastic Brettonians. I've had these figures primed and ready to go since then, just waiting for the Painting Challenge!



My English army uses a variety of red and yellow liveries for the knights and all of the troops they would have mustered. I don't believe soldiers would be fielding identical uniforms, as each was responsible for providing their own gear, so I'm depicting a rag tag look to these units, with some figures sporting more formal livery, while others making do with something vaguely red or yellow colored from their own meager clothing collection.

To help identify the units on the table I've grouped together figures into a red unit, a yellow unit and a neutral unit. Some of these figures are individually based so I can always mix the colors up if necessary, but in the end these are game pieces we need to keep track of on the table.

Red Unit

Yellow Unit

Neutral Earth Tones Unit


Three 16 man units give me 48 figures, which should give me a total of 240 points.



MilesR: great looking Archers and yet another points bomb on a Monday!

16 comments:

  1. Excellent .. nice to see a mass of them

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  2. Wonderful looking bowmen John. Great to hear of another Dragon Rampant fan too! Are you using multi based figures for each strength point in a unit?

    I think we need an Army shot :-)

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  3. I really like how rustic and hard-bitten these guys look. The sky is going to be dark after these fellow 'loose'. Fabulous units John.

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  4. A great looking bunch of archers John!

    Christopher

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  5. Great looking bunch of stout yeomen John.

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  6. Fabulous looking bunch of archers!

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  7. Fantastic, the mass of them and the quality work makes them a great post

    Ian

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  8. Excellent! Love the come and take my fingers dude as well. cheers

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  9. Excellent work. Mixing in the other figures really gave the units some life.

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  10. Very nice, I should get some of them.

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  11. Very well done, they look great all ranked up.

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  12. Great looking archers and nice use of gw plastics mixed in they work really well.
    Best Iain

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  13. The mix of figures and the natural colours makes for some very effective figures. Well done. I love the names too. Imagine the battle cries: `Forward, lads, show them the mettle of the Natural Earth Tone Unit!`'

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