Treason never prospers (new stuff added 30/4/23 p3)

[levied troop]

“Treason never prosper, What’s the reason, For if it prospers, None dare call it treason”

Sir John Harington, (d:1612), inventor of the flush water closet.

Quite some years ago, the team I’m part of did a series of  demo games based on the Prayer Book Rebellion 1547-49 and taken from a WI article ‘Landsknecht’s in Devon’.  I did the terrain and the rest of the team produced all the figures.  It was great fun  (highly recommended and adaptable to quite a few periods - I could fancy it as a VBCW affair) and as part of the background research I became aware of the various revolts that erupted during the Tudor period:
Yorkshire Rebellion 1489
Cornish Rebellion 1497
Lincolnshire (the Pilgrimage of Grace) 1536
Western (Prayer Book) Rebellion 1547-49
Rebellions of Commonwealth 1548-49
Wyatt’s Rebellion 1553-54
Northern Rebellion 1569-70
plus a variety of anti-tax disturbances on a regular basis.

And then there’s the what-if of a possible Spanish invasion in 1588.

And I discovered the Foundry Elizabethan Swashbucklers, possibly my favourite range of all time.  So, in the background, I started painting these and the Vendel range (now Hoka Hey) and I seem to have arrived at a usable force after about 10 years (slow I know).

So here’s Sir John, the 4th Lord Elpus, and the force, which can be split various ways to provide Rebels and Royalist forces for a small scale skirmish game on a virtually 1:1 basis:


Long pointy things:





Small bang sticks - Calivers:


Big bang sticks - Muskets:



A huge bang stick - cannon:






Good old reliable Bills:


And, much better than these new-fangled bang sticks, Bows:


Plus some Gentlemen Adventurers:


The whole force assembled:


And a close-up, a doughty Yeoman, ready to resist the imposition of foreign religions, unjust taxation or minor changes to liturgical text:





And the Spanish are coming, here’s a teaser, the elegant Don Quinoddin, come to impose the true faith on the misguided English:


Figures are, as stated, Foundry Swashbucklers or Vendel/Hoka Hey, with a couple of Foundry Elizabethans lurking in the background (but really too small to be usable with the heroic stature of the others).

Painting by me, with a few exceptions done by Dags.

[wolfkarl]

What a great start! I've always liked this period, but I have too many irons in the wargaming fire already. Maybe when Pikeman's Lament arrives I'll give it a go.

[OSHIROmodels]

Cracking stuff 

I'd heard of Wyatt's rebellion but none of the others, you learn something new everyday 

cheers

James

[Steve F]

Lovely stuff.  Might they also stretch to Essex's attempted coup d'etat?

[aircav]

Great stuff 

[Marine0846]

Excellent painting.
Love them.

[Poiter50]

Lovely work, looks like they really suit a large-ish skirmishing style of rules.

[War In 15MM]

Really good stuff!

[marianas_gamer]

Love'em!  Have to resist those damned liturgical backsliders
LB

[manatic]

Sweet stuff! A surprisingly rarely seen period.

[Sunjester]

They look excellent 

You have also given me some ideas for alternative uses for my Border Reiver collection. Until now they had just seen action raiding Scots farms or beating up the Catholics in Ireland, now they can trash the place all over England! 

[levied troop]

Thanks for all the kind comments chaps.

Not sure about the rules yet, currently reviewing Once Upon A Time In the West Country to see if that would work

Lovely stuff.  Might they also stretch to Essex's attempted coup d'etat?

Good call, I'd forgotten that one.

You have also given me some ideas for alternative uses for my Border Reiver collection. Until now they had just seen action raiding Scots farms or beating up the Catholics in Ireland, now they can trash the place all over England! 

The people are commonly bent to novelties and to factions and most ready to receive that doctrine that seemeth  contary to the present state and that inclineth to liberty, as Archbishop Whitgift was only saying over nuncheon the other day 

There's an excellent book that covers all of these novelties - Tudor Rebellions by Fletcher and MacCulloch (5th edition preferred as its been updated in the light of recent research).

[dijit]

Lovely stuff. As someone else who loves Elizabethan stuff, youve also got all the raids in the spainish Caribbean as soon as youve got some spainards.

[Lowtardog]

What a lovely looking army, worth taking a look at Donnybrook as a set of rules too or lion rampant. If you are after more musketmen casting room miniatures have a selection of those you have with head swaps, and some nice border horce and reiters

[whiskey priest]

I'll second Donnybrook , I had a game with my dutch revolt stuff which is the same era (and same figures) and it worked really well and if your looking for some spaniards to play against gimme a shout.