Swiss pikes and command (burgundian wars)

[Paul]

A new range of 1/72nd figs.
So far there are 32 marching poses, 24 available from Germania Figuren

The rest of the figs can be seen here
Questions are, how many in a wargames pikeblock? (I like a large block, 40 plus figs but that´s just me.)and what material is best for wargamers?

facts about swiss pike blocks 

We don't know if Swiss Pikemen enjoyed a good fight. No-one ever managed to give them one.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A Swiss Pike block a day kills.
A drilled Swiss Pike block turning 90 degrees will unscramble an egg.
A Swiss Pike block built the Matterhorn with buckets and spades whilst digging a camp latrine.
If you get charged by a Swiss Pike block in your dream, you die.
A Swiss Pike Block can have their cake AND eat it too.
Some people get lucky and kill two birds with one stone. A unit of Infants Perdu's once killed four birds with half a stone. What's that? You say there's no such thing as half a stone? The four dead birds didn't think so either.
S is for Swiss Pike block, as is every other letter of the alphabet.
Swiss Pikemen don't breathe, they hold air hostage.
Swiss Scientist Einstein's original Theory of Relativity was; if a Swiss Pike Block hits you, your relatives will feel it.
During the middle ages, The Swiss National Lottery numbers were not random. They were just the number of people Swiss Pikemen killed that given day.
During the wars against Charles The Bold a Swiss Pike block came across a bear in a forest near Morgaten. It was so terrified that it fled North into the arctic. It was also so terrified that all of its decendents now have white hair.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Now I will never think about theory of relativity without thinking of a swiss pike block   

Nice figures, great work for 1:72.

[Arlequín]

We don't know if Swiss Pikemen enjoyed a good fight. No-one ever managed to give them one.

I'll just say Marignano... 

They look excellent though.