Sunday, 11 January 2026

From PaulSS: Medieval Peasants and more drunkards - 100pts


The break for the Holidays really allowed me to crack on with the Barons' War collection, this past week or so I've built the box of Wargames Atlantic Peasants that were left under the tree in my first post of the challenge.

Our last game was a refight of the Battle of Lewes using Midgard and it enthused me to get painting more peasants to represent the London militias on Rebel left flank.

The first few are assembled as levy spearmen, painted using drab colours



Next up, a bunch of archers, half of them are done as levy, but three were assembled from the Peasants set but with helmets from the Serjeants set to fill out a unit of Serjeants with bows in the collection.


That model on the right has lost his arrow tip, I think it's a moulding problem as most of this pose do not survive the first battle, this one broke while still on the painting table!


A trio of levy slingers, again to pad out existing units. 



I had some spare Reconquer Designs drunkards left over after my last post  these can be used as table dressing in our games, or pad out units if I'm short a few figures.



Finally, I've added a leader for the Militia, in Midgard I base the level 1 champions on 30mm bases, this chap with his battered sword and helmet can be a minor leader of the levy.




Twenty 28mm figures will add another 100pts to my ongoing total.

To whet your appetite, some pictures from the aforementioned Battle of Lewes game, James has done most of the named characters, the vast majority of the rank and file are from my collection. 

The Royalist lines

The Rebel lines

Some more from a Battle of Northampton game.


Royalists storm the breach

Royalists follow up into the abbey gardens




From DaveD . Great to see more for this period from you Paul. You are certainly knocking them out .the volume is building up nicely . That’s a nice round 100 pts for you.

23 comments:

  1. Lovely mob of unwashed ! I need some :-)

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  2. Those look excellent! Really like those drunkards

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  3. Terrific work, Paul and looks like a wonderful game was had.

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    1. Thank you Curt, we've had some great games working on the Midgard: Barons' War supplement play tests

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  4. A fine looking rabble! The drunkards would look great in a baggage train.

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  5. That battle looks great! I really like your colour choices with the peasants, and the guy having a drink mid-fight is super.

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    1. Thanks Barks, I try to use muted tones for the rabble.

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  6. Having a bit of liquid courage before a battle seems quite appealing, your drunkards should get a nice morale bonus. Great work on these medieval minis.

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  7. Excellent choice of colours for the linen, just the right level of realism. Thanks for the battle pictures as a bonus.

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    1. Thanks Norm, I use a lot of WWII uniform colours on the peasants and they seem to be suitably drab.

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  8. They look great! Both in the displays and on the battlefield.

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  9. Love the muted colours on them

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  10. Crackin work, Paul. Lovin the drunkards!

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  11. Great looking unwashed peasants!
    Best Iain

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