Footsore Bolster The Forces Of The Moorish Tribes
August 2, 2017 by brennon
Building on their range of Dark Age and Medieval armies the folks at Footsore Miniatures have now added some Moorish and Arabic warriors to their collection. We'll kick off with the Moorish Tribal Warriors.
This set helps you begin to build up a new band of warriors with spears and shields and I like the inclusion of a few armed with swords to mix things up. I love the face coverings mixed with the helmets and the light armour too. It would be great to see these painted up with some bright colours.
Next up we have some more warriors to help build on your Moorish and Arabic forces with their Heavy Cavalry options.
These horsemen will be able to break the line and smash through towards that all important warlord to deliver the killing blow. Once again I like the face coverings and head scarves here rather than the chainmail coif we see on the middle figure.
Are you looking to expand towards this kind of army on the tabletop?
"These horsemen will be able to break the line and smash through towards that all important warlord to deliver the killing blow..."
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nice one. Always found it curious that the likes of Moorish commanders like Tariq ibn Ziyad (who gave his name to Gibraltar – Tariq’s mountain) or Musa bin Nusayr are completely unheard of in the popular imagination of the early dark ages when they’re some of the most instrumental characters in the development of medieval European history. If I could, would love to do a Berber/Moorish force as well as a Visigothic Spanish force for Saga. The colour, the panache, even boring stuff like being able to model terraced farmland so they’ve somewhere decent to have a scrap would be… Read more »
I see a new crusade could be kicking off.
Grear figures.
The Arab invasion of Europe was an important part of dark ages. As a result, Europeans, who predominantly fought on foot, had developed the mounted knight. ( To counterbalance Arab heavy cavalry) Also I believe that is how stirrup was introduced to western Europe.