Foot Knights

Foot Knights. Something Bretonnia should have always had. Yes they may have the flower of cavalry in the Old World (well... according to fluff... when in actual fact inner circle Empire Knights trample all over Bretonnian knights. gah.... GW should just have let Bretonnia have the best knights and be done with it.. Empire have EVERYTHING!)... but what you really need when it all gets muddy and messy is some strapping bloke in ten tonne of armour waving a huge broadsword around in your face. Foot Knights give Bretonnia another option.. a half decent infantry unit ... and they are fun! Look around at the old models (take a look Foundry miniatures which effectively carry the old old Bretonnian models) they have a lot of character. There are plenty of models in there that you can picture a diorama for.

This is my first unit of Foot Knights... I have another batch at the washing and basing stage. They are deliberately 'dirty' and not crisp... after all they are foot slogging it.

Bretonnian Army - needs some care and attention

Over the years since the box set of Warhammer with the super sharp one piece pointy goblins and elves, I have collected a large (well massive?) Bretonnian army. I loved the theme and background and how they played on the tabletop. The trouble is, until recently (20 odd years later) they had not seen a lick of paint! I am now in the process of going back through and giving them some care and attention. My painting skills have now reached Level Basic Table Top If You Squint From Six Foot so I think the time is now or never (leave it any later and I will be doing them when I retire... chances are my hand will be even more shaky then!). So here is the unpainted army:

I have already made a start to this with some foot squires (truth be told I am shying away from the legion of cavalry at the moment)

The paint work on these is deliberately left dirty with the wash and I have chosen not to highlight as I normally would. Eventually I want them contrasting with the brighter, crisper paint job on the knights.

Necromunda - Blades

This is my close combat specialist. Nice increase in WS, T and W to go with the Counter Attack, Disarm, Parry and Step Aside. Taking the disarm and making the opponent lose an expensive weapon is always a brilliant moment in the game. Or just simply wading in and then taking on all comers and still standing at the end.

Necromunda - Gang Leader

This is the original gang leader. He worked his way up quite nicely in terms of stats increases (cant complain about decent WS, BS, S, W and A). The red dot laser sight was an early addition and proved quite useful a number of times. The leg bionic may well have helped him out with an injury if memory serves me correct and the grav chute was useful when he was 'Diving' and 'Leaping' about. Medic and Inventor came into their own for the long game, helping my gang surive (albeit with lots of scars) and popping up the odd item or two to keep or sell.

Necromunda - Blast from the past

I recently went through my old hand written Necromunda gang list and reminded myself just how much of a set of dangerous madmen that "Dazza's Daggers" had become. This is one example (courtesy of the excellent roster available at Yaktribe)

Brought up in the gang from a Juve he managed to get all the stat and characteristic advances you could ever want if you wanted to become a dual pistol wielding, super shooting, gunfighter in the underhive.

More Bretonnian foot on the way

My latest painting project is plenty of Bretonnian foot. I have a massive amount of Bretonnians and they have not seen a lick of paint since the day I bought them (ohh... shall we say nigh on 20 years ago?). I have finished up some Foot Squires but the latest batch are a unit of Men at Arms with halberds, another unit of Foot Knights and a unit of Archers.

Into the Fray!

Welcome to what will probably be an infrequent and occasional blog about my wargaming hobby through the years. I started 'back in the day' (how I hate that phrase uttered by 10 year olds as if they were referring to something that happened back in their family ancestry!) with Advanced Space Crusade from Woolworths (remember Woolworths?) This progressed very quickly into Warhammer 40K with a Space Marine army (Dark Templars, my own chapter and no, not the excellent one that used to be found on the internet, mine predated that but did not have as much love or forethought). This led naturally into a very large Imperial Guard army which is still growing and getting out of control. Along the way I picked up and enjoyed Necromunda, various Warhammer box sets which resulted in a huge Bretonnian army (but no real games!) and some Battle Fleet Gothic as well. In my more senior years I have been enjoying getting back into the hobby by finally learning how to paint in more than one single step. This is a good way for me to relax at the end of the day even though I cannot remember the last real games I played of any of these systems! In fact my senior gaming habit has spiralled a little out of control with a large collection of XWing miniatures even though again I have not really even played a proper game at all.