Author Topic: Captain Blood's Perry Mounted Men at Arms. P.156 Scots pike block painted (Read 593728 times)

Captain Blood · « **Reply #735 on:** October 18, 2012, 09:59:18 AM »

Quote from: Arlequín on October 17, 2012, 11:06:57 PM

I'd think the Perrys should be considering cutting him on the vig (sorry, been watching 'Boardwalk Empire').

I've had Boardwalk Empire seasons 1 and 2 on my Amazon wishlist for a couple of months now. I hear it's dead good. Hopefully Santa will oblige

Quote from: commissarmoody on October 17, 2012, 01:04:06 PM

I am just going to use the names of some of my old platoon buddies. But we had a Dodds, Kennedy, Ward, Whitley, Raleigh, Macon, Dooly, Peacock, Turner, Bakker, Hamm, Smith, Robert, Archer, Fisher, Camp, Jackson, Hansen, Karns, McCall, Hunter, Cooper, Newberry, Cats, Allen, Arent, Glass, Perkins, Goodwin,Neal, Dutton, Peterson, Fulbight, Douglass, Bell, Rivers, Taylor, Booth, Toll, White, Black, Gardener, Lake, Thomas, Lake, Coffey, Upright, Paul, St. John, Minon, Williams, Terry, Lockheart, Jonson, Lee, Sall, Hall, Porter,Tucker, Grooms, Hobin, Lust, Tagen, Blakeley, Kister Pogue, Isenbart Guest. And those are the names off the top of my head.

Some fabulous names there

I'd say the following sound passable surnames for medieval gentry: Ward, Whitley, Hamm, Arent, Fulbight, Rivers, Toll, Lake, Thomas, Minon, Hall, Lust (gotta be!), Blakeley.
To me, these have the right feel. Most of the others are either too Celtic or they are 'occupation' names - Baker, Archer, Fisher, Turner, Hunter, Gardener, Porter, Tucker etc - which would work for commoners, but not the fighting upper classes... And one or two are clearly foreign (although slightly French-sounding surnames work well for English medieval bigwigs, since there was still a huge amount of cross Channel interaction... Hence Arent and Minon would work for me... )

Quote from: jimbibbly on October 17, 2012, 12:11:13 PM

Now then, since I'm thinking about getting into this myself (next year) are there some family names you could throw my way to get me started?

The names I've used for my various factions are literally the names of the various medieval manors, high families and villages around where I live. The area had a number of manors - Tenchley, Detillens, Osney, Stocketts, Foyle, and so on... Just do a search online for local manors in your chosen area, and it will throw up a cornucopia of local history records containing hundreds of genuine medieval names of people, families, manors and villages. And usually the complex web of interrelationships between all these people and their holdings, plus assorted connections to the higher aristocracy.
Then off you go

Once you've picked your families / factions, you can invent their heraldry / livery in a cavalier fashion (like I have), or you can research it.
Old churches in villages and hamlets very often have the coats of arms and colours of their medieval families on the wall somewhere, or you can find local history records detailing these.

OSHIROmodels · « **Reply #736 on:** October 18, 2012, 10:13:50 AM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on October 18, 2012, 09:59:18 AM

The names I've used for my various factions are literally the names of the various medieval manors, high families and villages around where I live. The area had a number of manors - Tenchley, Detillens, Osney, Stocketts, Foyle, and so on... Just do a search online for local manors in your chosen area, and it will throw up a cornucopia of local history records containing hundreds of genuine medieval names of people, families, manors and villages. And usually the complex web of interrelationships between all these people and their holdings, plus assorted connections to the higher aristocracy.
Then off you go

Once you've picked your families / factions, you can invent their heraldry / livery in a cavalier fashion (like I have), or you can research it.
Old churches in villages and hamlets very often have the coats of arms and colours of their medieval families on the wall somewhere, or you can find local history records detailing these.

Sounds good to me

Now then, which area to choose... Kingston methinks. It'll make a nice triangle between you me and Steve

cheers

James

redzed · « **Reply #737 on:** October 18, 2012, 10:57:37 AM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on October 18, 2012, 09:59:18 AM

I've had Boardwalk Empire seasons 1 and 2 on my Amazon wishlist for a couple of months now. I hear it's dead good. Hopefully Santa will oblige

one of the best TV shows ever made, certainly in the all time top five

...and season three is just as good so far

Arlequín · « **Reply #738 on:** October 18, 2012, 12:39:48 PM »

Quote from: redzed on October 18, 2012, 10:57:37 AM

one of the best TV shows ever made, certainly in the all time top five

...and season three is just as good so far

I wouldn't go quite that far, but without doubt it's compelling viewing! I've just finished Season 1 and 2 is next on the list!

Big Martin · « **Reply #739 on:** October 18, 2012, 12:58:37 PM »

Great job on the men-at-arms. I invested in another box of the plastics at Colours, mainly to create some additional alternative commanders for our games. I was disappointed, however, as I couldn't get any of the Yorkist command metal figures to use for the actual personality, so the plastics remain waiting for a paintjob. Wish I could get results like yours!
Not sure who I doing yet, other than Berkeley of Stoke Gifford, because he was the lord of my home village and I was stood by his grave recently in the Lord Mayor's chapel in Bristol during the "Doors Open" day. He lived to a ripe old age (for the 1400s) and was a Yorkist though not always agreeing with Edward IV.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #740 on:** October 18, 2012, 01:47:27 PM »

Quote from: Big Martin on October 18, 2012, 12:58:37 PM

Not sure who I doing yet, other than Berkeley of Stoke Gifford, because he was the lord of my home village and I was stood by his grave recently in the Lord Mayor's chapel in Bristol during the "Doors Open" day. He lived to a ripe old age (for the 1400s) and was a Yorkist though not always agreeing with Edward IV.

Brilliant Martin. Sounds like a very good reason for reincarnating Berkeley. I hope he has a good-looking coat of arms

Is he the same Berkeley that appears in Kingmaker (I seem to recall a red, white and black shield... )