Swiss Crossbowmen

 Here are some Swiss crossbowmen on foot, after their mounted counterparts of some months ago. These are Perry plastics, with some Perry metal Swiss heads mixed in. The flag is from the excellent Pete's Flags.

 

 

With these miniatures I have tried to give an impression of mixed origins, with soldiers hailing from different cantons and dressed in their personal clothes, while still forming a coherent all. Some of the men are reloading, some are marching, some are shooting. This is to represent the skirmishers advancing ahead or on the flanks of the main body, harrasing the enemy and keeping the pressure up.

Burgundian Ordonance Infantry

 It has been a while since the last update, but I have made some progress on my late medieval project. I have added some infantry to my Burgundian force, namely some halbardiers and some skirmishing handgunners. 

The halbardiers are lead by a man-at-arm with a converted bend, the pattern for which I shamelessly copied from Simon's excellent blog. The flag is from the Krigsspil website (https://web.archive.org/web/20120117013854/http://www.krigsspil.dk/). The miniatures are plastic Perry War of the Roses figures. They are based on a 200 mm frontage. The aim here was to represent professional ordonance troops, but ones that haven't had too much money showered on them, as the basic, boring infantry wasn't necessarily at the top of Charles the Bold's priority list. I will make both feudal troops as well as more menacing mercenary units in the future, but I thought that a middling unit would certainly have its place.

Next is a unit of skirmishing handgunners, to be deployed in front of the main line of battle. These are also Perry plastics with a Krigsspil flag.

Württemberg Chevaulégers

 It has been a while, but I haven't been idle. Among other things I have painted up some of Piano Wargames' lovely metal figures, this time Württemberg Chevaulégers for the 1809 campaign along the Danube.