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Swedish Black regiment |
I picked up a second "Push of Pike" boxed set on a fairly steep discount that I plan to use for experimentation moving forward. I am still trying to get the right look for my Pike and Shotte units, as they seem rather sterile so far. I opted to use some of the separate musketeers from the commanded shotte units to put some skirmishers out in front of an advancing regiment. I grouped the marching shotte stands from two sprues together with another standing pike to build out this new regiment. I did the coats in charcoal black with a mix of colors for the trousers to create the 'black regiment.' I recognize that uniforms aren't really a thing for this time period, but I want to be able to different units at a distance here.
For the second regiments, I used the left over strips/models to do a pike block with two ranks at the ready. I added some Peter Pig musketeers fill the empty space to the front of the shotte stands I did these up as a second unit from the Yellow Regiment, bringing my total number of Swedish regiments to seven.
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Reinforcements for the Swedish Yellow regiment |
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Swedish Army on Parade |
My next Infantry project is going to be to figure out how best to represent a Spanish Tercio. Warlord's rule set just has you add a second block of pikemen to the center of the formation, but I want a better way to represent the 'heft' of the unit. Currently I am leaning towards going with two blocks of five ranks of pike with the shotte stands backed by an additional stand of pike. I will have to see if it looks too busy. Does anyone know where I can find a 12mm Viggo Mortenson to crawl under the pikes with a sword and dagger?
Really impressive work, Jake. I should not be amazed at how quickly you fielded these armies but I am.
ReplyDeleteSteve (https://soundofficerscall.blogspot.com/2023/11/warlord-epic-ecw-minis-for-tillys-very.html) halved the size of the Epic foote regiments and I think they look good too.
Interesting idea. I may have to give it a try, although I am tempted to increase the depth with the other halves rather than increase the total number of units.
DeletePicked up a couple of copies of "Wargames Illustrated" to get the free Scots sprue. It looks promising so far.
DeleteThey look superb
ReplyDeleteThanks Neil!
DeleteVery nicely done ……great minds think alike I was planning on starting to ‘ break up’ the look of a few of the next regiments. I will test out some of your ideas👍
ReplyDeleteI'm interested to see your results.
DeleteLovely looking pike and shot units!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Many thanks!
DeleteAmazing looking collection sir!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate it, thanks for stopping by!
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