Battle For El Cid’s Spain With New Metal Units From Warlord Games
April 9, 2018 by brennon
Warlord Games has two new sets of metal miniatures to throw your way if you're going to be getting into their Medieval version of Hail Caesar or indeed Shield Wall. We start with the El Cid Ben Yusuf Black Guard.
These stubborn and tough fighters went into battle under the command of the peerless Yusuf ibn Tashfin. The focus of the army on the battlefield was mass ranks of spearmen backed up by archers in the rear section of the advancing force.
You will find there are two packs for this unit, giving you flexibility with the make-up of your force and hopefully a way to avoid too many repeat sculpts.
If you're coming at things from the other side of the coin however then they also have the Castillian Armoured Infantry for you to pick up. A stalwart wall against the opposing army.
These warriors were very heavily armoured from the time and fought with a close-knit formation which was designed to break a cavalry charge that thundered into it. You have to have some steel in your bones to take that!
As with the previous set, there are two different options for you here, opening up the array of choices for you as a hobbyist. If you're looking to expand upon your Medieval force and get stuck into this dangerous conflict then you now have two more options.
What do you think of the sets?
"These stubborn and tough fighters went into battle under the command of the peerless Yusuf ibn Tashfin..."
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Nice looking troops.
I’m liking these! Tremendously interesting period of history and not a bad film to boot. Only thing I’d struggle with is the Arabic writing, something I’ve always been useless at…
You just need to pick up some little big man studios transfers and sprinkle them through the units for a flavour of it
While certainly useful for Hail Cesar, they’d go great with a Saga army too.
I own the Black Guard, but I remember buying them from a different company than Warlord, it was Saxon Miniatures but they seem to be gone.
These are Saxon minis. Warlord bought up Saxon last year.
yeap Collin Patten sold the company to Warlord so he could focus on sculpting and not have to worry about casting and fulfilling orders. Let someone else take the strain of the grunt work 😀
And a mighty fine sculptor he has been to over the years