After a very, very lengthy interregnum imposed by the need to clear my late father's house, I'm finally getting back into the swing of things.
Since the Perry WoTR and other figures I've used are Post heater shield, the opportunities to show house affiliation are somewhat limited in 25mm. I'd opted to create a pool of generic infantry types, in common colours, based along the generally agreed principles i.e. Northern bannermen had more pike, longer hair and thicker clothing, more boring colurs choices etc. while the richer south and specific houses like the Lannisters could afford the best and latest kit. etc.
Before the break I had started to convert suitable foot captains with heater shields which sported the house sigils. I now have boxes of Fireforge Teutonic, Templar and Foot Sergeants that I'd planned to convert into foot captains leading the various contingents, with the residue drafted into the Night's Watch all of whom seem to sport more shields.
I'm trying to field a number of smaller sub-groups that I can combine to represent the various factions from the War of the Five Kings, the Ironborn invasion and potential set-to Battles like the Battle of the Fords etc. using a simple mini campaign system along the lines of DBA/DBM.
e.g. House Tully, with Bracken, Vance and Mallister;
House Frey, with Haigh, Erenford and Charlton;
House Stark, with Cassel, Cerwyn and Mullen;
House Lannister, with Clegane, Marbrand and Crakehall;
as well as a number of other affiliated houses that feature in the books
Have any of you other GoT'ers out there had similar ideas/thoughts? This is a familiar conundrum to representing multi company formations in other periods like Medieval and ECW using a limited number of models.
I'm having great trouble squaring up my desire to represent a number of minor houses within factions along feudal lines, while still ending up with functional units that work on the battlefield. I want to game large skirmish/small battles, but as yet don't have a system in mind. I see other gamers using unit sizes around 8 strong, but I don't want to generate dozens of such units...
I'm currently working on the premise that each minor house fields 1 mounted and 1 Foot captain, 2 MAA and 4 Archers. The Major house might field as part of its levy a CO on horseback, mounted squire, banner, musician and small units of Mercs/specialists. Some minor houses (e.g. like Reed) may provide a single unit entirely of archers. Lannister may also for example have a unit of paid mercenary crossbowmen.
I'm struggling with whether to include the captains and banners in the 'levy' of simply add them for command and control purposes and visual effect. This also only achieves a 1:1 MAA : archer ratio.
My aim is that an alliance of 3 or 4 such factions should combine to generate a couple of 'battles' of archers, a 'battle' of MAA and a 'battle' of mounted knights along traditional medieval lines.
I see some of you creating excellent Houses with entire units of figures, but I also find myself very taken with the smaller groups along skirmish lines as used by some of you WoTRers out there.
Any suggestions/ideas before I start kit-bashing?
29 June 2017, 11:23:05 AM
