Haggis Rampant; Fierce Foot Unit II

Or nine of them! The other three were featured in the Haggis Rampant; Islemen Men at Arms post earlier. I've got to admit to really enjoying painting this Islemen for Lion Rampant despite their tendency to disappear under a hail of arrows with alarming regularity!

If I'd had a little more time I would have decked out some of the Men at Arms and Fierce Foot in something akin to plaid, which although not in use at the time (in as far as we know) would have given them a certain flavour. I feel that this is something that I could get away with, like the Clan Cameron Livery which I have completely invented! In reality the checks of the time on the clothing were probably very fine in the weave and wouldn't be visible until one was very close.

I've actually still got a unit of Fierce Foot and two units of Bidowers to get painted up for the campaign but thankfully some Welsh Teulu that I had painted about ten years ago have been more than useful as stand ins for the rest of the retinue. The sharper among you may have already picked this up from the AAR's that I've posted.

Back to the Hastings Game tomorrow evening.

Bye for now.

Clubbing It! Haggis Rampant and ACW

With the return of Medical Student James over the holidays we decided to abandon for one week the Haggis Rampant campaign and go for a free for all with four players a side. This effectively meant that the Scots/Islemen had for advance into a hail of missile fire and well, get shot to pieces- again! :>)

With the inevitable pincushion ahead of us the four Scots/Islemen players (Stan and my good self), with the exception of the prevaricating Dave and Mick (who cunningly used the excuse that there was a village in their way so they were unable to advance) , marched forward into the English Archers deathray.....erm I mean arrow storm with predicable results! Much fun was had by all. The highlight of the game was probably when Nige (playing the English) got fed up of Jim's (also playing the English!) very technical approach to the game charged him in the flank and rear! Basically the game was a chaotic maul with the Scots coming out much the worse off.

Apologies for the pics being all from my perspective of the game but there simply wasn't enough room for me to manoeuvre around the table to get any other views!

I also got a chance to take a peak at Shaun's ACW collection again at the club Thursday gone and was able to take a few snaps. Not sure what the scenario was or which battle was being partly played out but they do look resplendent:

Bye for now.

Haggis Rampant; Islemen Men at Arms II

These belligerent gentlemen were painted a while ago and have been sat languishing in an old Games Workshop carry case since our last Lion Rampant game and in between those that went before. The reason? I hadn't added any grass tufts! It's amazing but as I'm sure you all know the introduction of 'grass tufts' into the hobby was a bit of a basing revolution. I don't think I've been able to consider a mini as 'finished' for the past few years without it having some sort of amalgamation of tufts gracing the base.

The same is just as true for skirmish types as their cousins on larger multi-bases. Perhaps more so as the mini is a stand alone 'vignette' of sorts and therefore should look every bit as decorated as a multi-bases mini.

There are six Foot Men at Arms and three Fierce Foot who have all been acting as my second unit of Fierce Foot as I've been painting them in batches of nine and well, that's just the way it has turned out thus far! Again, for the Men at Arms I've used a contrived livery as I have yet to see any evidence for the Islemen using a livery in any meaningful sense. I have used this device to homogenise the miniatures in order to create a coherent force and have in the process thrown away the rule book as far as painting Late Medieval miniatures goes. It wasn't easy;my addiction to the history and modelling of Late Medieval warfare as accurately as possible usually wins over!

Foot Men at Arms:

Fierce Foot:

Bye for now.