Norman Archers : Hastings

I have continued planning in my head Hastings 1066 and painting away. I know we needed some more Norman archers so picked these up as a Christmas present. I normally paint a maximum of 24 figures but stretched it here to the whole box which is 30 in one go on the basis that they are a very simple scheme.

Annoyingly as I wanted to base them in 6’s, for other potential rulesets you get five bases anyway I do have some more conquest archers, so may do them as well

Happy with the mass effect and of course they can pretty much play in any dark age army, there are a few head shops as some have picked up helmets from fallen enemies etc

I thought I would also get out all my Normans to see how I am doing, at the moment I can squeeze it to six infantry blocks, the archers, about the same number of crossbows, some additional mercenary generic Celtic types and 7 or so units of cavalry. Some of these are actually Saxons but as we know the ladybird book of history tells us the Saxons all fought on foot so they can double as Normans. At a pinch I also have a unit of Al Andalus infantry and they could hide at the back. I think this might be enough for a small version test game and I plan to check out how many Saxons I can muster.

Holiday weekend is planning  some more painting.

Matt