My Tudor Army so far

[Stuart]

RE; my ORBAT, hopefully this makes sense, it's loosely based upon a DBR listing but with some of my own modifications.

Troop type   Point cost   Allowance   Painted
         
C-in-C   Ln (S) @   35AP       1      1
Sub-General   Ln (O) @ 32AP   1-2   1
English men at arms   Ln (O) @ 12AP   0-2   2
Burgundian men at arms   Ln (O) @ 12AP   0-4   4
English demi-lancers   Ln (F) @ 11AP   2-6   2
English javelins & staves   LH (O) @ 5AP   5-8   6
English longbowmen   Bw (S) @ 7AP   6-24   12
English billmen   Bd (O) @ 7AP   1-2 per 2 Bw   16
English pikemen   Pk (O) @ 4AP   0-4   0
English arquebusiers   Sh (I) @ 4 AP   0-4   2
Landsknecht pikemen   Pk (O) @ 4AP   3-12   12
Landsknecht arquebusiers   Sh (I) @ 3AP    0-3   2
Serpentines & Sakers   Art (O) @ 20AP   0-1   0
Organ guns or falconettes   Art (I) @ 5 AP   0-4   1
Heavy gun   Art (S) @ 25AP   0-1   1
Bombard   Art (S) @ 25AP   0-1   0
Wagon laager for baggage   FO @ 2AP   0-8   0
         
Only until 1513 AD;         
Dismounted Generals   Bd (S) @ 29AP   0-3   2
Dismounted men at arms & demi-lancers   Bd (S) @ 29AP   0-8   0
         
Imperial Allies as below;         
C-in-C   Ln (O) @ 32AP   1   1
Sub-General   Ln (O) @ 32AP   1   0
Burgundian men at arms   Ln (O) @ 12AP   1-4   2
Mounted Crossbowmen   LH (S) @ 7AP   0-1   1
Landsknecht pikemen   Pk (O) @ 4AP   4-12   2
Landsknecht arquebusiers   Sh (I) @ 4 AP   0-4   0
Arquebusiers   Sh (I) @ 4 AP   0-4   4


Further to the above this is a list I have researched / put together over the last 2 years or so, stating known commanders, numbers and dispositions for the 1513 campaign;

Foreward, led by the Earl of Shrewsbury
12’000 men including 2500 Landsknechts;

•   Earl of Shrewsbury (George Talbot, captain of the vanguard with retinue of 4437)
•   Sir Rees ap Thomas (Commander of the demilancers and large personal retinue, 2993 in total)
•   Sir Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby (Captain with a retinue of 511)
•   Lord Fytzwalter (Captain with retinue of 108)
•   Lord Cobham (Captain with retinue of 103)
•   Sir Richard Sachverell (Treasurer of the Foreward with retinue of 111)
•   Lord Hastings (Captain with retinue of 115)
•   Sir John Digby (Captain with retinue of 106)
•   Lord Thomas Docwra, Lord of St Johns (Captain with retinue of 205)

Middleward, led by Charles Somerset
14’000 men including 1500 landsknechts;

•   Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (Captain with a retinue of 513 incl. border horse)
•   Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, the lord Chamberlain, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard with a retinue of 1063.
•   Sir Henry Marney, Knight of the Garter.
•   Sir John Peachy, Knight.
•   Sir Richard Carew 1469-1520 (Lieutenant of the Calais Garrison & Master of the Artillery with retinue of 104)
•   The Calais Garrison 1000 men incl 40 men at arms & 300 demi-lancers
•   Henry III of Nassau-Dillenburg
•   Sir John Zouche de Codnor (Captain with retinue of 102)
•   Sir Randolph Brereton (Captain with retinue of 204)

Rearward, led by Henry VIII
7500 men including 1000 Landsknechts;

•   Henry VIII (C-in-C)
•   The Kings Spears 1000
•   Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk / Viscount Lisle (The High Marshall, 2nd in Command with retinue of 400 pike)
•   Raiffe Egerton De Ridley, the Kings Std bearer (retinue of 100)
•   The Marquis of Dorset (Captain with retinue of 300)
•   Edward Stafford, third Duke of Buckingham (Captain with retinue of 500 cavalry and 619 pike)
•   The Bishop of Durham (retinue of 126)
•   Sir Edward Poynings (Captain with a retinue of 200)
•   George Neville, third Lord of Abergavenny (Captain with retinue of 500)
•   Lord Robert Curzon (Captain with retinue of 113)
•   Lord Thomas Darcy (Captain with retinue of 400)
•   Lord Dudley (Captain with retinue of 200)
•   Sir Henry Willoughby (Captain with retinue of 200)
•   Lord Audley (Knight with retinue of 126)
•   Sir John Hussey (retinue of 320)
•   Henry Bourchier, Lord Berners 2nd Earl of Essex (Lieutenant general of the king’s spears)

[Lowtardog]

Amazing work there absolutely green with envy and awe

[TheBlackCrane]

Looks brilliant! The blog also is fantastic - always considered putting together a Henrican army myself, but having seen that I have a curious sense of inspiration and inadequacy!

Had a quick skim through some of your posts and was interested to see you've been using some of the Perry plastics and a fair bit of green stuff here and there (although I don't think my own conversion skills are up to much personally), are there any other ranges you've used heavily? I've always looked at the Redoubt range for a starting point, wondered if you'd used many, or any, of them at all?

Rob

[Stuart]

I've exclusively used figures from the Perry WOTR & European Armies range alongside the old range of Perry sculpted Wargames Foundry Landsknechts & gendarmes. eBay is a good source for the latter. Other companies so far don't reach the same standard IMHO. In adopting this approach I've had to make a couple of compromises but the feel is still achieved. I'm still new to green stuff, give it a go, you'll be surprised at what you can achieve.

[janner]

Fabulous 

[valleyboy]

Superb

[Slayer]

well those are just flipping sexy figures 

[dm]

What a stunning army and reminds me of the Rick Scollins painting from all those years ago from Military Modelling

[dodge]

Brilliant, great painting and characterful shots.

dodge

[AzSteven]

Lovely figures!

You want more depth of field in your photos.  If your camera will allow it, use a very small aperture and longer exposure time to get more things front and back in focus.  Usually if you have a phto floodlight you can set up that will give plenty of good light for a picture with good depth of field.

[Stuart]

AzSteven

Thanks for the advice, very much appreciated, I shall give it a go.

Sometimes I find that the absence of full depth of field has an interesting effect but admittedly it's not always the intention.

Thanks again

Stuart

[Stuart]

There have been a couple of additions since the army photographs, you can keep an eye on progress here; www.stuartsworkbench.blogspot.com