The March Warden

[Gluteus Maximus]

How true - he really is too fine for a March Warden, but I now have a compulsive habit of acquiring any and all late Tudor/Stewart era personality figures as character figures for my various games. Poor old Tilly is now The March Warden. Gustavus Adolphus (who arrived this morning with a culverin, a load of gabions, artillerymen, and those TAG mounted carabins) is going to be recast as a reiving Crozier or an Armstrong (sorry about that, Hammers, Rhoderic and other Swedish colleagues  ) Although he may well also double as a royalist colonel for my rapidly expanding ECW collection...

On the subject of which, for anyone else who may have missed some of these recent pictures, should you care to take a look, I've loaded a batch of shots into a new ECW section on my LAF gallery here...

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;su=user;cat=74;u=577

 

I don't think it matters about being too fine - after all you could easily say he was a recently retired professional soldier taking up a second career, or just a rich local with an armour fetish. I'm sure Gustavus Adolphus will fit in well too - good idea about the ECW alternative use. I may steal it for my own games

I have a couple of ECW Generals who are too posh for the sort of skirmishes I like. When I get them painted, I will just say they are local big-wigs with loads of money and military experience.

I'd love to try some reiving one day, from the little I've read it is quite thrilling stuff. 

I believe there were a family of Halls on the borders, so that could be my inspiration. After all, you don't find too many namesakes in history.