Captain Blood's Perry Mounted Men at Arms. P.156 Scots pike block painted

[Mason]

Nicely done, sir.
The dead have never looked better.
 

Now THAT is how to sell the 'no card tokens and chits' philosophy.

It certainly beats a nice shiny fluorescent plastic token, dice or piece of cardboard any day!
 

I especially like the new ones, I think they actually look more realistic without the gore. 

I concur.
Gore can be seriously over-rated.
 

 

[Dr. Zombie]

The dead really brings life to a battlefield. For a long time I have been wanting to make markers of casualties where close combats have been fought, to kind of help tell the story of a battle. This might have given me the final push.

[Plynkes]

The dead really brings life to a battlefield.

Interesting concept. For my money, the thing they bring is death.

[OB]

Very impressive work.

[levied troop]

The dead really brings life to a battlefield. For a long time I have been wanting to make markers of casualties where close combats have been fought, to kind of help tell the story of a battle. This might have given me the final push.

I agree. I tend to use casualty figures as ‘shock’ markers but I’d like to use them to show the story as well.
And those WotR casualties are very nice - the partly stripped figure is an excellent idea.

[Captain Blood]

Thanks gents 
I was planning on doing a few more, but have just been waylaid by the new Perry Afghans which landed on the doormat today 

[Mason]

Thanks gents 
I was planning on doing a few more, but have just been waylaid by the new Perry Afghans which landed on the doormat today 

 

BUTTERFLY!!!
 

[gamer Mac]

Ambushed by Afghans  I am sure it is not the first time that has happened
I Will be searching  for the thread with the afghans

[Ray Rivers]

I've eschewed the blood and gore on these figures. I think it's enough that they're dead. Or sleeping. Awkwardly.

Agree.

And well done. Yet another awesome addition to an already fantastic collection. 

[syrinx0]

More beautiful work.  Enjoy the Afghans too. 

[tomrommel1]

very nice painting on these

[Griefbringer]

I was planning on doing a few more, but have just been waylaid by the new Perry Afghans which landed on the doormat today

You could try combining the two topics, and convert a few of the Afghans into WotR casualties... though their clothing might be looser than what was in fashion in the late 15th century England.

[Captain Blood]

Not a bad idea
Can't be any stranger than a dead Zulu at Bosworth anyway...

Meanwhile, I've settled on my counters strategy for Never Mind The Billhooks 
As explained somewhere up above, I'm anal about NOT littering my wargames tabletop with plastic chits and printed counters - nicely done as the printed ephemera for NMTBH is.

So in addition to the battlefield casualties as 'Daunted' markers, I'm going to do discarded battlefield debris as 'Disarray' markers.
I'm also doing arrow supply markers (very much as suggested by Lord Callan in the rules), and order tokens.
These will be on steel repair washers, which I use for all my basing - 40mm (for the dead), 25mm, 20mm, and 15mm respectively.

The wonderful side benefit of having built a couple of hundred Perry plastic Wars of the Roses figures, is that I have a vast collection of spare parts, including several hundred heads which will never otherwise be used. So what a great way of using up some of that spare plastic

For the titchy order tokens, I've gone with a single abandoned helmet - these will be murrey-and-blue for York, and blue-and-white for Lancaster (painted helmets were probably a rarity at the time, but hey, nobody knows for sure, so what the hell... ) With white flowers on the York order tokens, and red flowers on the Lancaster ones (Wars of the Roses, see?)

For the 'Disarray' markers, there are many spare parts that can be thrown into the mix to create interesting and varied bases.
On this test piece I've used another sallet helmet, a gauntlet, and a sword in its scabbard. In reality of course, nobody in their right mind would drop an expensive item like a decent sword or helmet (other perhaps, than in a complete panic-stricken rout). But they serve the purpose well enough.
I've pulled out a whole boxful of assorted suitable spare parts - bits of armour cut off redundant bodies or arms (pauldrons will work particularly well for this I think), endless parts of polearms, various pennons and flags, bucklers, cannon balls, broken staves, and so on. Hell, I might even do one with some horse armour

For the arrow supply markers, I've just used a sheaf of Perry arrows (the ones from the Agincourt English set will do just as well as these ones from the WOTR set), and made a small micro-dice shaped recess to take the die that indicates the remaining arrow supply.
Luckily, as a one-time avid collector and player of the Pirates collectible card game, I have thousands of these tiny dice in a whole range of colours. (Although to stay true to my mantra of not littering the tabletop with bits of garish plastic, I'll probably just stick to the muted black ones with white spots).

In all cases, the basic manufacturing process is the same... A small mound of Green Stuff applied directly to the metal base; embed the components, make up the surrounding groundwork with paint/sand/PVA mix, spray the whole thing with primer, paint, add tufts. Simples.







And for scale...

[Plynkes]

The different sizes of bases are a really good idea. A kind of visual shorthand so you have less chance of getting what they represent muddled up (which I think I might do if I was using markers of the same size for different purposes, even with different items on said bases knowing me I'd still get in a muddle from time to time).

[gamer Mac]

Cracking  idea and well executed