War of the Roses ~ Re-Basing and New Troops

As mentioned in my previous post I took a lot of time out to rebase a whole bunch of figures. Part of this included re-basing all of my Lancastrians for Never Mind the Billhooks. This came about because I originally based my army for Hail Caesar but everyone at my club uses Billhooks for WotR's, so I decided to conform. Whilst I was at it I also took the time to make a whole bunch of sabot bases.

In doing this re-basing the units in my army grew in number because each unit went from 15/16 figures to 12 figures. I originally had 14 units - bill & bow, dismounted knights, pike, plus handgonners and mounted knights. This has now grown to 20 units with the inclusion of the new unit of Hobilars below.

My Henry VI and the Margret of Anjou bases are not really command bases for purposes of Billhooks they are more like vignettes to add a bit of colour and interest to the proceedings and to show the possible position of the monarch.

Because my bill and bow units had more archers than billmen I ran into a bit of a problem with filling out the units. I had the option of painting more figures or just amalgamating units. In the main I decided to amalgamate, although I did need to paint up about half a dozen figures to fill up some gaps.

Then there's these fellows below: They're left overs. I can't let them go to waste and I still have plenty of figures still on the sprue so I think they might be the starting point of a potential Yorkist army. 

Last but not least is my newest addition to my Lancastrians (most likely the last unit to be added). So here we have some Hobilars - Light Horse. Sometimes known as Prickers. This type of cavalry are very useful for getting in the enemy's flanks and rear areas by with their ability to move with flexibility. Once again the figures are Perry Miniatures from their WotR's plastic range.

I could have painted them with pretty subdued colours but I decided to paint them in a variety of panoply based on the retinues I already have. They came out pretty nice and add more colour to a pretty colourful army.

And that's it for now!

Bye.