Next weekend I'll be at the Britcon tournament. I'll be taking a Swiss army along; my earlier Condottieri plan was cancelled for fear of an excess of enemy elephants, which they lack an answer to, other than dismounting on which point the rules were a little... opaque. The Swiss, on the other hand, don't care about elephants- in fact, they don't care much about anything very much at all! You plonk them on the table, facing straight ahead and they do, or die. A perfect army for a morning's gaming with a hangover.
A second feature of my Swiss is that they are mostly plastic and so sufficiently portable for a train journey. Although I luckily had just enough pikes and halberdiers, I still need generals, heroes and crossbowmen, so I'm busily basing up some minis from "the reserves". Most of these came from David Imrie's collection- I swapped him for them- they are lovely minis and should look brilliant when based. With any luck it'll give me the push I need to finish the rest of the Swiss army, which has been languishing in storage for far too long.
7 comments:
Surely you need a Cardinal Matthäus Schiner mounted on a mule to ensure divine favour?
Neil
Golly I do! I have this chap, but I will need to model Schiner. He looks a bit less well fed than my existing cardinal.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zFjVP5v8qMg/XlwLX-DKSpI/AAAAAAAA9rA/Gdx4L1IXbbYPsVqwtAuGJ2zlIvgQbEi3ACKgBGAsYHg/s1600/20200229_125811.jpg
But who would know the difference? Existing figure looks fine to me!
Neil
Very nice Simon
Swiss: "Generals? We don't need no stinkin' Generals!"
:-)
Good luck! :)
This also reminds me that I need to finish off my WotR army with some mercenary pike, crossbow and handgun bases.
Keep going Simon, everything is taking shape.
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