Crusade: Lion Rampant game

[Engel]

A new unit, this time a small unit of Mamluk Heavy cavalry archers.
They are meant to be combined with a small unit painted previously to make up a standard sized unit.

MANY more pictures at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2015/09/mamluk-heavy-horsearchers.html

It was fun to paint all those exotic oriental textiles. 

[tomek917]

Nice! 

[Phil Portway]

Quality as usual, Engel
 

[Centaur_Seducer]

I love this project

[Hendrid]

Nice! Great character.

[Vanvlak]

Wow. That flag 

[Hupp n at em]

Wow. That flag 

Quite!   

[Jeff965]

Nice colourful work Engel.

[Engel]

Big thanks guys.



Last saturday we had a great battle of Lions Rampant, pitting three armies on each side against eachother.


Many more pictures at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2016/01/crusade-big-battle-lions-rampant.html
Unfortinutly many of them are somewhat blurry, I should really take just a second longer to take the pictures... Sorry for that.

[von Lucky]

Pretty shiny stuff. And bloody!

Maybe also take some close in shots too.

[Argonor]

Truly grandiose project!

I wish I could pull together that much stamina and patience when working on a project. I distract much too easily.

[Engel]

Big thanks, the Crusades somewhat took the hold on me.

Usually I also get distracted all too easy but this has been something I always could fall back to.
At the moment I am somewhat distracted into 40k as my club is running an Escalation campaign but I got lots of miniatures in the pipe for the Crusades. So bee patient and I will update this thread with more pictures when they are ready.

The more I read about the Crusades, the Muslim perspective and so on. Gathering of miniatures from different sources and painting all those varied colors. The more I engulf into this the more different takes on it I find.

[Harry Faversham]

Very inspiring, I have a question which I hope won't drift the thread too much. Which would the best books for an apprentice Crusader? Ideally I'd like an Adkin 'Crusader Companion', plenty of piccys, mixed in with detailed accounts of the campaigns, and all topped off with personal accounts by them as were there. Pretty tall order I know but any pointers would be most appreciated.

[Argonor]

The more I read about the Crusades, the Muslim perspective and so on. Gathering of miniatures from different sources and painting all those varied colors. The more I engulf into this the more different takes on it I find.

Do you have the Amin Maalouf‎ book on the subject? I really enjoyed that!

[Engel]

My book shelf is rather limited I must confess.
I have a couple of osprey books on the subject. Some different magazines from different publishers, I subscibe on Medieval warfare http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/medieval-warfare/ and I have read some other books.

Some podcast about the crusades:
http://historyhub.ie/the-crusades

http://historyofthecrusades.podomatic.com/

On youtube there is the channel of "Real Crusades History" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpiumHmUE5EZeLTftxv9qGw but you can find many Historical documantery on youtube also, good to have in the background when painting.  


Further reading can be found at:

http://defendingcrusaderkingdoms.blogspot.com/

http://crossandcresent.blogspot.com/

https://weaponsandwarfare.com/category/crusades/


And there are of course pages upon pages of information about the crusades on wikipedia where I have spent hours reading.

So, I would say that I know somethings but are far from an expert.






Here are a start of what will hopefully become and French Crusading force, some crossbowmen.
These are enough to form two unit of crossbowmen in Lions Rampant or one standard sized and one small sized unit in Hail Caesar.

More picture at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2016/05/french-crusader-crossbowmen.html