Switzers (updated 17/2/22 - von Bubenberg)

[fred]

Excellent stuff - glad to see the megalomania carried into another period!

[Frostie]

Awesome work, very inspirational!  makes me want to start my 15mm project for this period but I have that down for next year!

[Roo]

As always with the scale and quality of your armies...wow...what we all dream of but cannot afford in time or hard earned cash.  Lovely to see and the finished project will have the Bigredbat trade mark ‘awesome’ (and it’s always a pleasure to see Olicana’s fantastic collection).

Keep it up sir!

[bigredbat]

Thanks all. I'm plugging away towards the half-way mark, more slowly now because I'm repainting/highlighting the additional minis to bring them up to spec.  I should have the third block done by the end of the month, though.

[Duff]

Both big and beautiful.

[Warboss Nick]

Splendid! There is something quite satisfying about large Swiss pike blocks with lots of flags 

[bigredbat]

A new contingent joins the Swiss, above, blue-clad Freiburgers, temporarily joining the Uri keil.

The combined minis so far, below.





There's more about them on my blog at https://bigredbat.blogspot.com/2020/12/switzers-x-almost-half-way.html

[Atheling]

Class Simon 

What an impact they will have on the table top! 

[bigredbat]

Thanks Darrell

I find myself wondering whether there was some sort of order of precedence as to how the Swiss deployed. Oldest cantons on the right?  I must look at some paintings.

[Atheling]

Thanks Darrell

I find myself wondering whether there was some sort of order of precedence as to how the Swiss deployed. Oldest cantons on the right?  I must look at some paintings.

Hmmm.... something I have never even considered! 

Well worth looking into as there was bound to have been inter-canton rivalry. Let us know what you manage to work out- could be very useful.

You will almost certainly be familiar with Schilling Chronicle, Grandson:

[skip]

Fantastic looking units, really inspiring, especially the size of the units, which battles
would these be suitable for ? i was thinking of getting some Artizan figs to fight my Landsknechts

Brian

[Atheling]

Fantastic looking units, really inspiring, especially the size of the units, which battles
would these be suitable for ? i was thinking of getting some Artizan figs to fight my Landsknechts

Brian

With the fashions in clothing and armours, plus the way they have been painted in the colours of the Swiss Cantons you're basically looking at anything from the outbreak of The Burgundian Wars in 1474 to the Battle of Cerignola 1503, perhaps a little beyond.

[skip]

ok thanks Atheling, i was thinking maybe 1515 to the battle of Pavia

Brian

[Atheling]

ok thanks Atheling, i was thinking maybe 1515 to the battle of Pavia

Brian

The Perry stuff is too early, though if you were to add bits and bobs of the Warlord plastic Landsknecht's you could create something passable. Or just use the Founrdy, Steel Fist [recommended] and/or WL stuff. If you look at our very own Stuart's Army Royal blog (link below) you will  get a much clearer picture of the 1515 or thereabouts fashions in clothing and armours:

Army Royal
https://stuartsworkbench.blogspot.com/

[Warboss Nick]

Coming along nicely 

Interesting choice to use blue for Freiburg. I stuck to the banners for the main colours, i.e. black and white for Freiburg, leaving blue for Zurich, Luzern and Zug.