The trouble with embracing a new ruleset, is that the way you've organised your figures up to that point rarely fits the new paradigm...
In the case of 'Never Mind The Bill Hooks', rather like Lion Rampant etc., all the foot figures are in units of 12 or 6 (with the cavalry in 8s).
Unfortunately, my WOTR collection, created over the last decade, has grown organically in multiple factions of differing sizes, each with a mixed retinue of archers, billmen, men-at-arms, horsemen, gunners, crossbowmen, and supernumeraries... Normally, 20 - 30 figures per faction, but in random proportions. This arrangement suited the various homebrew skirmish rules I used to play games with them up to this point, where all figures are armed and fight 'as seen' - so it doesn't matter if you've got seven bowmen, five billmen, and three men at arms in one faction, but five bowmen, eight billmen, and four men at arms in another. And it doesn't matter if some factions are bigger than others - you just have to fight with what you've got. Which adds an element of realism, perhaps
Unfortunately though, that doesn't fit more orthodox style wargames rules, where you have six of one type, or twelve of another, regimented in units all of the same sort.
So for NMTBH, I'm having to do some reorganisation and refurbishment of my WOTR forces. Including repurposing (i.e. repainting) a few figures here and there, moving some from one faction to another, and even adding a few newly built ones to bring the numbers up to the required 12s and 6s.
I suppose I could just not have bothered and formed units in mixed liveries (which was probably what happened at the time). But it looks messy. I can cope with a unit half-and-half in two different liveries, but not a unit with several different liveries amongst 12 figures. It just looks wrong... So some rationalisation and tidying is underway.
One of the consequences is that where I had a small number of, say, half a dozen Tudors I'd made up just for fun, those (decorative but essentially useless) small contingents, will now get a change of livery and redistributed to larger factions. It's a pity in some ways, but there it is...
First up, some refurbished Scots mercenary pike (I have no idea if Scots mercenary pike ever actually figured in the WOTR - the Scots largely kept out of it IIRC - but it's possible, and the Scots were certainly well known for their long spears and schiltrons. So I've put two and two together and made a satisfying five!)
Here are the three newbies to make up the numbers. L-R: previously the sole pikeman in my 20-strong band of Flemish mercenaries got a new saltire on his shield; the fellow in the middle is a new build (I figured he could be wearing his dad's HYW-era long gambeson); and the one on the right is one of the aforementioned repurposed Tudors.
And the resulting 'new' unit...
I've just done the same thing with my red-and-white liveried Howard longbowmen, who have miraculously jumped from seven figures to twelve, by sacrificing a few one-off bowmen from smaller contingents...