TAG French Swiss

[Paul Richardson]

I see that on TAG's website there are some pictures of some Swiss mercenaries in French service which TAG hope to release later this summer. Not my period but they look nice figures to me. 

[Condottiere]

As a matter of interest, these minis are about as close to the ‘Landsknechts’ of popular imagination as TAG will be sculpting. Everybody else in the Wargames Hobby making Landsknechts, makes them suitable for the middle of their style development (approximately 1520 -1550), and these Swiss, traditionally the sworn enemy of the Landsknechts, are superficially similar, with only the cloth slashing, “+’s” instead of “X’s”, and heavier armour, marking them out.

Have to agree, so just by filling in the crosses and without carving Xs, these could be fielded as Pavia era Landsknechts and look just like the ones in the Tunis campaign tapestry. Much better than the Pro-Gloria/Warlord plastics and clearly shows TAG has done its research - anyone notice the shot looking livelier than the early Landsknecht ones? Now if they could at least release dome separate katzbalger, to convert these to propre Landsknechts and I'd also like to convert the early ones, with the longswords... 

[Codsticker]

I especially like the heavily armoured pike men. Probably a great move by TAG as there seems to be an awful lot of Landsknecht on the market and not much Swiss.

[wrgmr1]

I agree, great looking figures for the Swiss, especially the armored pike. Have to look at these for my Later French.

[Antonio J Carrasco]

And did I need more temptations? No, I didn't!

They look great, by the way. Wish they would also release specifically looking Spaniards for the Pavia period!

[bergschotten]

Yes they do look great-so much temptation

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

I wish TAG - or someone else (yes, Michael Perry, I'm looking at you!) - would break with "tradition" and make English figures for the early part of Henry VIII's reign (1510-1525) instead of the "crap years" of the 1540s and Elizabethan periods.

[In his defence, Stuart Mulligan's 1513 "dollies" are wonderful, but require too much extra work for model-making dunderheads like myself.]