The 957th anniversary of The Battle of Hastings, October 14th, 1066 How did the best infantry in Europe Lose?

The 957th anniversary of The Battle of Hastings, October 14th, 1066.  

How did the best infantry in Europe Lose?

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Anglo Danish Command Bases

The painting done thus far for 2022-2023 The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge thus far has been dominated by my Thematic Byzantine army. I have punctuated these posts with Arthurian Welsh, Almoravid/Almohad/Andalusian Command Base and Anglo Danish Command Bases as seen below. Apologies for the lack of a link for the Spanish 11th CE stuff.

The change in project and indeed tempo is very welcome after feverishly working away at large Byzantine units every night of the week, often up until silly hours. As well as the change in pace I think the change has been a good distraction and has allowed for me to then push a little harder with the main project, that of the Thematic/Tagmatic 10th Century Byzantine army. There are probably two large posts due soon- all dependent on the weather for varnishing, but, until then I leave you with the Anglo Danish Command Bases which have been added to my army. Each 24 man unit now has a vignette style command stand.

All the images are "clickable" should you wish to enlarge them

Command Base 1:

 

Command Base 2:

Command Base 3:

Anglo Danes Close Ups of Each Base (Unit Five)

Here are the close ups of the last unit I finished. So, why the close ups? First off it allows for the bases to be seen as individual interactions or conversations between the miniatures. where possible, with my miniatures I try to make each model look like it is part of an organic fighting force This is the case even in Victorian era armies as you can see here:

This is all the more important with vignettes (to state the obvious):

In the case of the Anglo Danes I wanted to evoke the frantic crush of battle as portrayed in the Bayeux Tapestry. To conjure up the press, the desperation, the sheer brutality and belligerence as illustrated on that famous embroidery.

I hope that, in some small way I have managed to touch upon the press of battle as elucidated in the tapestry in some small way.

All the images in this article, are as usual, "clickable" if you would like to enlarge the pictures.

Huscarl Base 1:

Huscarl Base 2:

Huscarl Base 3:

Fyrd Base 1:

Fyrd Base 2:

Fyrd Base 3: