Get Off Your High Horse and March to War with Perry’s Foot Knights
June 18, 2014 by dracs
Perry Miniatures are currently previewing their soon to be released box of plastic Foot Knights, starting by showing us the command minis of this new unit of noble warriors.
Here we see a commander, accompanied by the unit's standard bearer. The commander is apparently modeled after Richard III, however the other head options that will come in the box can all be used as well, should you wish that your King Richard go to war on horse back and you need someone else to command the Foot Knights.
These models look to continue Perry's high quality selection of historical minis. Knights on foot are a particularly welcome addition, as they can be adapted well for smaller, skirmish level games, where most companies will only really provide them on horseback.
Will you take to the field on foot, or on a horse?
Watch the first series of Blackadder. You will never think about Richard the Third in the same way ever again 🙂
‘don’t call me dicky, ducky…’
Sooo shiny. Can’t wait.
The knight without a helmet looks like James May from top gear aka (captain slow) to me.
These look phenomenal! I can’t understand how the perry minis can have such a good price despite looking so good. Pity I have no one to play historical games with.
Are there no nearby clubs?
Not very accurate
He looks nothing like Lawrence Olivier 😛
Am sure I read somewhere the other day that horses were primarily used for transport and most of the fighting took place on foot
True, that. The English nobility mostly fought on foot, stiffening their lines of infantry, while the French knights repeatedly charged on horseback through slurries of mud and their own crossbowmen, only to be slaughtered by English longbows.
So much for the romanticized view of great clashes between mounted knights on horseback. The English did bring warhorses to the fray, but usually only mounted them to run down the French when they were retreating. The English would also maintain a mounted reserve, if they had the manpower.
I’m out of my wheelhouse a bit here but my understanding is that the tactics had changed again by the time of the Wars of the Roses, though not necessarily towards cavalry charges. Richard famously met his demise following a cavalry charge.
Correct. For some reason I had HYW on the brain, and not the War of the Roses. Cavalry was used mostly against unprepared peasant infantry, but it was too vulnerable to the longbow and other weapons to be used often in the shock role. It was mostly used in pursuit, flank attacks, and as a reserve. In a sense it was the earliest form of mech infantry, riding quickly to a threatened area and dismounting, or in rare instances, meeting enemy cavalry, thus precipitating the romantic charge we all envision.
“The commander is apparently modeled after Richard III,”
Wonder if the likeness was from a reconstruction from the remains found in Leicester?
Super figures regardless.