tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57154687528839423332024-03-18T21:56:19.211-07:00With Peril in Jeopardy!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13896930720547913867noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715468752883942333.post-73594925657103138382018-01-09T05:23:00.001-08:002018-01-09T05:23:31.918-08:00The King’s Spears<div class="MsoNormal">
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">An elite unit then, well equipped and capable in the field.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> I'd consider them a match for the French Gendarmes but of course there's only one unit of them.</span><br />
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Knights. The Roundway figures are very
nice but were not quite flashy enough for this bunch. I added plumes for man and beast, skirts and
roundels all in Henry’s colours. I’m
pleased with how they came out and cannot wait for the command figures, also
from Roundway, to arrive to complete the unit. I added Milliput sabots, perhaps 2mm deep, before basing to raise their height to that of Essex 15mm French Gendarmes. You can see some patches of gold on the armour of these chaps-it's sunlight streaming in through the window as I took the pics.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13896930720547913867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715468752883942333.post-48064673221953446542018-01-05T19:07:00.001-08:002018-01-05T19:07:19.654-08:00I’m Not Doing Maori-Here They Are<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I decided not to do the Maori Wars.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I am interested, but the lack of suitable and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">readily available</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> 15mm figures put me off.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Also,
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enough yet.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The appeal of the Pa and the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have just bought</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> a DVD of the acclaimed Anglo-Maori War film UTU! I missed it first
time around in the 80s but never lost interest. I'ts a German release and seems to
be a first for region 2. It’s a good film by anyone’s standards. Naturally it made me think once again about my decision.</span></div>
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from Irregular and they are currently without a project to call their own. They all have guns and some sort of skirt or
loin cloth. Of course I’m still in the grip of
conversion mania – people are scared to enter the house in case they are immediately
modified with Green Stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with the Xhosa who also liked a scrap in close country. Shot guns aren’t much use at a distance but
at close range they’re a hellish weapon. Tactically then the Imperials should endeavour
to optimise their long and medium range fire power while the Maori should
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terms of TMWWBK I think the Maori could be either Veteran Irregular Infantry
with Field Craft at 6 points or Tribal Infantry but hitting when firing on a 5
rather than just a 6. That would be the shot gun effect and I’d cost such a
unit at 4 points rather than 3. So, around 5 units then. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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in Lion Rampant terms which is how Henry used them in France. If I add another
unit, and I might, they could be combined into a unit of Fierce Foot in an
Irish Retinue. The figures are from QRF’s
Tudor range and I rate them highly as 15mm Irish go. They have been modified with new or
replacement shields and in one case a spear.</span></div>
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you can see some 15mm Co conversions here.
For some reason I felt a burning desire for some English archers in
kettle helmet, God knows why, its what we do I suppose. Anyhow here they are replete with added
quivers and new coats. I added a couple of bucklers too. The rest of the unit, like the command figures, will be QRF.</span><br />
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just about ready to put a game on. All
of which leads me to share an idle thought, is there any mileage in importing
the Mounted Infantry category and rules from *The Men Who Would Be Kings into Lion
Rampant to represent mounted infantry archers?</span></div>
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the knee. Use the Green Stuff sparingly,
gently pat it out to cover, this takes a bit of time and care. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I thought I'd also do an officer for my French Archers. That meant adding quiver and cased bow and making him a mace.</span><br />
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after much cyber poking about I went for Essex.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Some Essex figures leave me cold but not their Gendarmes which I
consider are all you could ask.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">They are
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Anyhow I bought two packs so I have eight figures. That could be just one unit of six figures for Lion Rampant but there are other options. A 'Lance' of Gendarmes consisted of supporting Archers and Coustillers as well as the top boys. So, I could field four Gendarmes with an Archer and a Coustiller as a unit. Or even a one third of each line up which would provide three units. That would be a fun if not neccesarily battle winning line up. I'd need some Stradiots to balance that out- the Mirliton ones appeal most to me.</span></div>
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barding which required a bit of fore thought before dipping the brush. I have also located some French banners which I
think lift things too. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've a real sense of the cusp of a new era with these lads, rightly so I suppose.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I wonder if this is why photobucket attempted the great shakedown?</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13896930720547913867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715468752883942333.post-73242043185261108392017-12-08T13:00:00.001-08:002017-12-08T13:00:37.264-08:00Flodden in 15mm<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">You may be thinking, as I do, that those lovely flags work a treat. If so, you can down load
them free from Ray at </span><a href="http://onelover-ray.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">http://onelover-ray.blogspot.co.uk/</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> which is grand altogether. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13896930720547913867noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715468752883942333.post-90627355165964020042017-12-07T15:35:00.002-08:002017-12-08T08:20:08.327-08:00TWO BOOKS<div class="MsoNormal">
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doubt I’ll be getting that much blogging done, certainly not as much as I’d
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interested in the Sikh Wars and the Tudor War in Ireland respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sikh War</b>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“This is a great book in both size and content. The
research and writing are superb. Those who have read Sidhu’s First Anglo-Sikh
War can be assured the high quality is maintained in this volume. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is tempting for the reader to turn immediately to the
better- known actions of the war. To do
so would be a mistake-because Sidhu’s careful scene setting and meticulous
descriptions of the main actors and their motives add great depth to the
readers understanding of why things turned out as they did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The rise of the Sikh kingdom and Ranjit Singh’s centrality
to its pre-eminence left a conflicting legacy. The mass of Sikhs remained
confident and proud of their achievement. Their Government on the other hand in
the main felt no allegiance at all to the Sikh state. Many were not Sikhs and
had ascended to position by virtue of usefulness in one form or another to
Ranjit. With Ranjit gone only graft,
profitable treachery and surviving the wrath of a nation, they had betrayed
motivated them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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resilience. This was the core of the British
dilemma. The Sikh Government had helped orchestrate its own army’s defeat but
the Sikhs themselves, well aware of the fact, did not consider themselves to be
beaten.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wars in Ireland <b>James O’Neill’s The Nine
Years War 1593-1603</b> is a must. As conflicts go The Nine Years War warrants more attention and yet this is the first serious treatment of the entire war
published to date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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believe, rapidly become the definitive text for anyone wanting to understand
the greatest war ever fought by the Tudor State. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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winning the first half and the English slowly but relentlessly turning the tide
to clinch the final victory in the second. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As you might hope great attention is focused on arms, tactics, strategy
and logistics. Contrary to much received opinion in military terms it was the Irish who proved to the innovative modernisers and the English who were handicapped by clinging over-long to traditional and out dated practices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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economy shattered by the ceaseless demands of the war. Many </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">leading </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">English C</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">aptains</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">, martial reputations in tatters, were among the slain - along with
thousands of ordinary soldiers.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></div>
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Ireland, the war which had begun so promisingly ended in total ruin. A civilization that had seen off Vikings, Normans and a succession of English medieval
potentates was utterly defeated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’d say buy it now or find yourself paying an awful lot more later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I'll review both of these books in depth at some point meantime if your interests lie in either period-don't hesitate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I like these figures and think they are great value.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">They are based for Lion Rampant, the Samurai
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As you can see they are a well- equipped bunch with lots of armour.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Percy flags are from an uncredited source
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Milliput. The upside is you can file
edges to a crisp finish or file in the creases and folds you want. The down side is that it’s slow progress.
With some of them I finished the work off with Green Stuff a very different
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tear off two same-ish size amounts of both colours.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tear off a similar amount from each ball and roll them
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needed to do the job. I found little sausage shapes worked well. Press it onto the figure and with soft
controlled motions shape it as required.
Clay or wax modelling tools are great for this. Once you are happy set it aside. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I found it handy to work on about 6 figures at once.</span></div>
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Then gently pat it to flatten against the figure. If you want a buckle or horse brasses roll a small ball, press in place, flatten and using a point indent it.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">If you do the whole lot falls off.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
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muster. Bin it, it’s rubbish and start
again, easy enough just lift it off the figure with a point. I didn't mind this, I felt I'd learned something. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I say this because of the acceleration
of the learning curve-this really isn’t rocket science. You do visibly improve
before your very eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Once the Green Stuff was properly blended it took about 10 minutes to add full sleeves, lengthened coat skirt and a cap. A faster, smoother medium then, and in-expensive if you buy on line and avoid brands. </span><br />
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suitable figure laugh at unfulfilled want, wave off despair and instead reach
for the Green Stuff or Milliput.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">After a
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They walk among us and I’ve always been impressed. Some of them have blogs, very inspiring
blogs. Your correspondent has just spent
a number of hours gawking at a particularly fine example of the genre. You can see it here and it’s full of top tips
and lovely work. There are also some Anglo-French 1513 stats for Lion Rampant which greatly appealed to me.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ideas were conjured out of the ether, like teatime at Dr
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">look</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">very nice! I do Tudor
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Apparently, those in the know favour Green Stuff above Milliput- but the
latter is better for filling. I own some
Milliput and ordered some Green Stuff. I
also own some figures suitable for Henry Tudor’s Royal Army but they don’t have the
big woolly coats that led to “White Coats” becoming a popular term for English
soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The big woolly coats were quite stiff so none of the pleat
on pleat stuff that might be over challenging. In design they are simple square yoked, elbow length full sleeves and a full knee length skirt. This is encouraging. I wanted Tudor toys with big woolly coats and
it was beginning to look possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Everything said about the medium being difficult is true. Patience is key. Also, you have to do a bit at a time and
leave it overnight. On the plus side you
quickly get better at it. I should add, I found it strangely compelling almost addictive. Who knew?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Tomorrow is day three of this experiment. I’m hoping to be able to show you the
finished article next week in the form of a base or two of big woolly coated Bill men. Meantime I'm eyeing up some old and unlovely Essex Irish cavalry and thinking Stradiots or Coustilliers?</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13896930720547913867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715468752883942333.post-39353695695075566452017-11-24T05:56:00.001-08:002017-11-24T05:56:58.029-08:00A Douglas and a Percy<div class="MsoNormal">
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Era and very nice they are too.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The heraldry
especially for Percy was more than tricky and to be honest I need to improve a
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This is IR Macquire and as you can see their uniform and accoutrements
are mainly white.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This of course is a
painter’s nightmare especially in the smaller scales.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The difficulty is making detail stand out and
not be subsumed in a sea of whiteness.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There are many proposed solutions to the problem from black lining which
looks unnatural to building up various shades of grey or cream to white which
is very time consuming.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Worse, unless
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of French or Austrian Forces. Let’s turn again to IR Maquire who could so
easily be a white out but instead have nice definition. </span></div>
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to avoid overrunning on shoes or gaiters.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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boxes were painted black. Once again overrunning was ignored. Then musket stocks and hair and haversacks
were painted. Coloured facings and cockades were added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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painted and the locks, barrels and bayonets of the muskets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ink and were left to dry overnight.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then using white I painted over the now nicely delineated
straps, turn backs, hat lace and highlighted limbs and waistcoat edges. Leave
to dry, varnish and base.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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used an asymmetric composite bow that was a world beater. Some of them, or all of them, practiced, facial scarification and cranial deformation and so to Europeans looked utterly hideous. The one description we have of their body type makes them sound like Comanches, powerful, squat and bandy. I suggest no connection.</span><br />
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garment, which sounds funny until you consider how many mice had to be carefully
flayed and tanned to cover even a bit of the smallest Hun. That was conspicuous consumption on a grand
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had ever seen. Many subject German Peoples fought for them. A combination of sheer terror and a share of the loot for the leading aristocrats held them in place. The Huns really did change everything as Peter Heather rightly tells us. </span><br />
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brought more to this marriage than you did.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">He is outraged and denies it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The
row escalates and soon the whole household is up as the royal couple shout for
the totality of their possessions to be assembled to settle the argument.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Matters proceed apace but with each new
comparison no supremacy can be established.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Until that is, the cattle are compared.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Ailill has a bull that is indubitably better, better by far, better
beyond dispute.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Did Ailill crow? Did he chortle? Did he quietly and
provokingly say Sin E (That’s that.) and decide to go back to bed? It didn’t matter because Medb was furious and
she called her people to her and demanded they bring her a bull to match that
of Ailill and restore her loss of face.
So, the Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Irish Iliad, begins and so does a war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let’s deconstruct what is going on here. Our protagonists are the ruling couple of Connacht,
royal from the day of their births. From
their first spoonful of honey and cream thickened porridge they had been told
that they were without compare. First in beauty, wit and valour. By dint of family connections and personal
ability they had got to the top in a very competitive world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s tempting
then, to see the incident as an overprivileged couple badly falling out over a
trifle. That would be to miss the point,
the story is entirely political.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When Medb questioned Ailill contribution to the marriage
she was instigating a challenge to the distribution of power in their kingdom. For their marriage was legally of the best
sort. Comadas and Comchenél, suitable
and equal the jurists said. The couple were equal in beauty, wit, courage and status and both of their kin groups approved the marriage. It provided for equal decision making within the
union. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Were such a marriage to be dissolved, as they often were,
then all brought to and gained by the marriage would be divided by halves. That was the law. There were of course many other less advantageous
forms of marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ailill would have been alarmed at Medb’s words. Probably he feared she had identified a
future husband which would mean a civil war in the kingdom. He had after all killed Medb’s previous
husband in single combat. Possibly his life and the prestige of his clan were
at stake. At the end of the great
counting he could relax, he had moved from equal to superior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not so Medb, the instigator was undone, she was no longer
an equal and had badly devalued the status of her marriage, damaging her own
clan’s prestige in the process. Ailill
could now, at least in theory, seek a wife of equal status who would be pre-eminent. To restore the balance, Medb
was willing, and more importantly able, to launch a war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, the story goes and stripped of embroidery it no doubt
reflects events but it’s importance lies in the world it shows us and its rules
and conventions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As a result, the world has the Táin Bó Cúailnge that
provides a window to the Irish Iron Age, Cú Chulainn has literary and folkloric
immortality and we, well we can understand that Celtic royal women had an
agency of their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prasutagus. I would suggest they had enjoyed
a marriage of equals. Boudicca famously led a war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Brigantian Cartimandua and her husband Venutius also clearly
shared power and separately both of them started wars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cartimandua took a lover, the ‘armour
bearer’ Vellocatus - for whom the Romans thought she risked everything. Contra Tacitus, I'd say he would most likely be
another royal, albeit clearly too young to have achieved position. I'd guess he was a close kinsman of
Venutius. A nephew, if we take tradition as our guide. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Did sexual desire for a
younger man move Cartimandua to civil war?
That would not be unlikely, but the politics of maintaining the Roman
alliance would have weighed heavier. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Venutius, a man pre-eminent in military skill as Tacitus
tells us, was happy enough to take Rome on and eventually did so.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> Cartimandua preferred not to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cartimandua’s fate is unknown to us, as is that of
Venutius, Vellocatus and Boudicca. Medb
and Ailill long ago passed into legend.
Yet all of them are recognisably human like us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">So far as I can tell there was nothing particularly good or
bad about Libyan forces back in the day.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Among the Libyans t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">here was not</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">much armour about
or even a systematic use of shields. I’ve gone for archers for the Libyan
missile troops but equally and perhaps more fun they could be fielded as
Bidowers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As no one seems to have talked of the ferocity of Libyan warriors I've eschewed the Fierce Foot category in favour of Yeoman spears with javelin throwing ability.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Libyans seem to have been of average competence and numerous.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">With that in mind here are my proposed stat’s
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Move 5</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">+, Max. Movement 4"</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Defence Value 4</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">+</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Shoot </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Value </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hit on 5<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Courage 4</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">+</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Armour 3</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Special Rules<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">5+</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Move 5</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">+, Max. Movement 4"</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Defence Value 4</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">+</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Shoot 6, range 3” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Courage 4</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">+</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Armour 1</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Move 6</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">+, Max. Movement 4"</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">As Honours of War requires five bases per unit compared to Field of Battle’s four I’m making up the difference with a base of Grenadiers. These of course can happily be brigaded together for Field of Battle games. Also painting 6 grenadiers at a time is not an overwhelming task. Once again I'm appreciating the six figures per 30 x 30 base effect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Experience or just the desire for variety might change that. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Here are the stat’s for Sea Peoples for Mycenaean Lion Rampant.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> They are, in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Lion Rampant terms,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> fast moving Expert Serjeants with the javelin throwing ability of Foot Yeomen. A handful in other words-but so were the Sea Peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I had a load of Bronze Age posts for different retinues for
Chariots Rampant including some of my own thoughts on how chariots might be
represented on the table. All fell
victim to the iconoclasm of Photobucket.
Now, I’m two chariots and eight runners away from completing the various
forces I want to play. So, let’s have a
quick visual recap of the Mycenaeans including a link to my chariots post. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I decided to represent my chariot units with two chariots and 4 accompanying runners. The runners are to track casualties and don't actually fight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The same unit having been 'battle taxied'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The Yeoman Spears in 'schiltron'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">As I anticipated 30 Hungarian infantry have jumped the queue on the painting table.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Five bases, for Honours of War you see, at six figures a base, its slow progress. It’s Regiment Haller which has a very pretty uniform. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Hun Nobles, from Donnington. We have very little idea of what Huns looked like so I went for a mix of eastern and western styles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">have made it to completion or are near enough ready for Rampant’in or Lamenting.</span></div>
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