Saga - My Normans
Mounted Hearthguard
I saw that the cost and low blister size of metal cavalry models was prohibitive, but with my Vikings and Saxons being completely infantry based I wanted to include cavalry in my force.
I turned to Conquest Games miniatures and their plastic cavalry sprues gave excellent value for money. I have seen people dress down the quality of sculpt and crispness of details on these miniatures, but I feel that the quality is fine. The alternative for me was perhaps not to have cavalry at all and feel that would have been a shame.
I intended to have one troop of warriors (8 miniatures) and one set of hearthguard (4 miniatures) and realized that to differentiate between warriors and the hearthguard would take a touch of planning. I didn’t want to limit my fun with shield designs and tie the whole unit into one shield type. The miniatures did have a variety of attire, but there was no obvious sculpts that allowed me to pick 4 more opulent, better armored, standout models that would be obvious by pose or model alone. I settled on rectangular shaped bases for my hearthguard and lozenge shaped bases for my warriors. For the warriors I also tried to select heads and clothing that were definitely less well armoured and less affluent looking than the ones selected for the hearthguard.
I think that a sword was often a status symbol because they weren’t as quick or easy to make as a spear or as common as an axe so went for all swords with the Hearthguard.
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