2nd Baron's War

[tomrommel1]

very nice units indeed

[levied troop]

I just love the Curtey's Miniatures myself - I'm particularly fond of their spear armed foot soldiers. How do you think their archers compare?

I think they are fine, its a good range. Although not a great fan of the mounted figures, a little static for my liking.

Speaking of spear armed figures
Unit 5 - Ribauds or brigans or assorted light infantry
My favourite unit so far, they seem to me to be close to what quite a lot of medieval infantry looked liked.  I’ll need a couple more of these units.  Red seems to crop up a lot as a standard cloth colour.  No obvious source for the standard, it just looked right.  Figures are a mix of Curteys, Essex and BTD, with a couple of falx from (I think) a Tom Meir weapons sprue:







They seem to have acquired a slight gloss, once the weather’s settled I’ll take them outside for another matt spray.

Unit 6 - A city militia
Any old city, but clearly prosperous.  The sun standard crops up in a couple of medieval illustrations, on the flag its a LBM transfer, on the shields it’s the old GW transfer. Curteys figures again::









2 more foot units and 2 mounted units to finish this stage, hopefully by Christmas.

[Jeff965]

Lovely little army

[Momotaro]

This is looking great!  I know several of the local wargamers are planning a demo game for the 800th anniversary of the Battle of Lincoln, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you're doing too!

[jamesmanto]

Very pretty!

[tomrommel1]

nice additions

[Little Odo]

Very nice - and a period not seen often represented on the tabletop

[levied troop]

Back with more units, done earlier this year.   I forgot the Nottingham banner Dez kindly posted, but I've got two more units to do so it'll get used for one of them, hopefully soon.

Unit 7 - Sir Humphrey Desordre and the Knights of Violent Affray




Unit 8 - Spear armed militia, possibly a more Yorkshire-based town




Unit 9 - A garrison unit of crossbows, probably church sponsored although their trumpeter hints at a local wealthy Knight who may appear in later units;





Unit 10 - Archers raised by an ecclesiastical gentleman, possibly the Bishop of Norwich (I seem to recall an invasion of the Low Countires led by said gentleman in the 14th C):






Unit 11a - in Lion Rampant terms these are Bidowers, a smaller unit of aggressive countrymen with pointy sticks and stones:



Unit 11b - More Bidowers:



Unit 12 - More archers:



And, not so much a unit as a temptation to the honest soldiery:



I can see I need to touch up her right hand 

[GamesPoet]

This project seems to be coming along nicely, congrats!

[rampantlion]

Really nice work!  Love the time period too.

[westwaller]

I agree that there is not a lot in the way of a dedicated Barons War range, but there is quite a lot of suitable medieval miniatures that would also fit from the likes of Fireforge games, Blacktree design,Gripping Beast, Essex and Crusader Miniatures.

Admittedly it takes a bit of research and supposition to work out what equipment is suitable, but the miniatures are there- often in later 'Crusades ranges'.

A lot of the Foundry Barons war knights are a bit too fantastical IMHO. Nice miniatures but more Oldhammer than Historical.

[levied troop]

Great stuff.
Any chance of some in-game pictures, even if they're just posed? I want to see them all together.

Thanks.  They've had two outings on the table  so far, but no photography.  I'll see what I can do about a photo shoot.

I find Curteys great figures personally.  As always I want more pose variety and more dead/wounded but they do work for me. However there's also some Foundry in there and Perry's Crusader range supplies a couple of the slingers and Essex have provided a tubby standard bearer.  The only range I can't get on with is Gripping Beast, I find the anatomy a little squashed.

The last two foot units are started but have to take a back seat while I work on another project. But once they're out of the way I can start on noble men on big horses