Warlord have a Richelieu figure

[joroas]

The Red Eminence, as he was known, was a powerful clergyman acting as the French King Louis XIII’s First Minister. Richelieu transformed France into a strong central power and wielded not inconsiderable influence during the war.



Our model is firmly inspired by Henri Motte’s depiction of Richelieu besieging La Rochelle as seen above – a brooding piece of art that should have any gamer worth their salt heading for the Thirty Years War section of our new webstore!

[Svennn]

Quite an evocative painting not quite matched by the figure though

[anevilgiraffe]

no, but I could find a use for them though

[Phil Robinson]

I quite like it, the iron mask head would be useful to put on other figures too.

[Captain Blood]

That is a truly wonderful painting.
That is not a truly wonderful figure... 

Warlord's 'pike & shotte' output seems very variable...
Some of the figures I really like. Some of them look pretty ropey.
If it's all the same sculptor, it's a weird level of inconsistency of execution... 

[einarolafson]

Some more pictures that I have taken of those miniatures.









I´m thinking about painting another one for me but in black clothes. May be I can use him in Wierd Pike & Shotte zombie wars or something like that.

Cheers.

[Steve F]

Warlord seem to be getting their Dumas in a muddle.  As any schoolboy (or Monty Python  fan) knows, Cardinal Richelieu died in 1642.  The Man in the Iron Mask was set, what, about 20 or 30 years later, around the time the real masked prisoner was first recorded.

Of the four 28mm Richelieus I can think of, I'd rank that second, after Brigade Games, but ahead of Redoubt or Black Hat.

[Galland]

That is a truly wonderful painting.
That is not a truly wonderful figure... 

Warlord's 'pike & shotte' output seems very variable...
Some of the figures I really like. Some of them look pretty ropey.
If it's all the same sculptor, it's a weird level of inconsistency of execution... 

This ^^

[Patrice]

I like them (and I'm French!).

I am not playing this period ...yet... but I may be tempted by this Richelieu 

and the other guy can be useful as a cavalryman/nobleman (because of his boots) prisoner.

[joroas]

Warlord have quite a prolific output and this figure has obviously attracted a designer and I think that this deserves note.  That there are four Richelieu models out there shows how much gamers are spoiled for choice at the moment.

[The Gray Ghost]

I have already painted Tilly up as Richelieu

[Colonel Tubby]

I like it, will probably order it at the same time I get around to ordering the Pike & Shotte rules.

[OSHIROmodels]

Not really bothered by the figure (should be a not Heston really) but the image that the inspiration comes from is intriguing. The rather large poles coming out of the sea are obviously a coastal defence but would they have really been that big? It seems a really massive undertaking to have them that large, let alone that many?

cheers

James

[Captain Blood]

The painting is a late Victorian era 'romantic' piece, so probably bears about as much relation to historical accuracy as late Victorian portrayals of Ancient Britons and so on... 

[OSHIROmodels]

That was my thought as well. The first thought that came into my head when I saw it was Man O War from GW 

cheers

James