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My name is Gavin McClements. I am a wargamer and family man, living in Los Gatos, which is a suburb of San Jose, CA. Building terrain is one of my favorite aspects of the wargaming hobby - in fact, lately I've become more interested in making my battlefields "pop" than in actually playing.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Warmaster Bretonnian army - Building thoughts

I was thinking that a Bretonnian army would be easy to build because they could be so easily proxied.

Here is a proxy list that I'll be pulling heavily from:
http://www.forum.specialist-arms.com/index.php?topic=5696.0

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwarmaster-fr.niceboard.com%2Ft2333-bretonnie&edit-text=

This list needs a lot of help because I'm not sure which models to get for it. There are so many "Knight" models out there, but I dont truly understand historical periods, etc, so if you have advice?

The Kallistra line looks really promising for most options because they're in strips, and seem to fit the bill. NOTE: Kallistra bills themselves as 12mm. This might explain their larger size *LOL! (at my own silliness for missing this)*

Bowmen - 803 Romano British Archers

This is their H-903 100YW Longbowmen: [YES!] - as seen at http://warmasterdk.blogspot.com/2014/11/10mm-knights-and-bowmen-kallistra-100yw.html

Men-at-Arms [polearms and spears] - 802 Romano British Spearmen

I have to admit, however, that their 100 Years War models (H-901 100YW Men-at-Arms) looks a little more "Bretonnian" in my mind?

Peasants - 804 Peasants

Squires - 809 Romano British Horse Archers

Knights - These should be regal - after all, they're the heart and soul of the Bretonnian army. The Kallistra "British Romano" knights dont have the right look, I feel...still looking.

A friend recommends: "Stick with the 100 Years War & War of the Roses stuff. The Tuetons are a bit too gothic and while cool I'd give them a pass too. I'd also pass on the Romano British, that pretty much dark ages stuff (400 AD).

Oh 100 Years War French would be the best."

 
100 Years War "H-904 100YW Mounted Men-at-Arms" perhaps? [YES!]

H-1005 WOTR Mounted Men-at-Arms, perhaps? [YES!] - as seen at http://warmasterdk.blogspot.com/2014/11/10mm-knights-and-bowmen-kallistra-100yw.html

Some smaller options (not 12mm):
Magister Millitum's AOK 22 and AOK4 for flavor - AOK23 is a foot command
Grail Knights - H-8001 Teutonic Knights

Pegasus Riders - Eureka

400FAN47 http://eurekaminusa.com/collections/fantasy-10mm-by-alan-marsh/products/400fan47-pegasus-knights

Trebuchet - Kallistra HA-06 Trebuchet
 

General -Kallistra 808 Romano British Command

Also H-908 100YW Command:
 
Also H-1012 WOTR Command? So many to choose from!
H-8005 Teutonic Command
 Hero - See General, above

Enchantress - This could be the female mounted on the Unicorn, to the left (Eureka 400FAN19) but dang...only one comes in the pack and I don't really need another whole pack...


Unicorn - Mount (see above)

Pegasus - Mount - Not sure...Pendraken has one (no pic) and Eureka has their Pegasus Knights (see above) that I could get extras of...


Hippogriff - Mount - use the Pegasus Rider models to be on it? Hmmm...
http://ironwindmetals.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=8000&osCsid=4vma1o8hu6lcsradpodusmhgt2

MM has some riders, but I cannot find images:
http://www.magistermilitum.com/fks202-spire-guard-hippogriff-riders.html

Grail Reliquae - special

1 comment:

  1. Stick with the 100 Years War & War of the Roses stuff. The Tuetons are a bit too gothic and while cool I'd give them a pass too. I'd also pass on the Romano British, that pretty much dark ages stuff (400 AD).

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