Saga - My Normans
Warlords
I won a Golden Button for my Norman Warlord – perhaps more for a run of slow improvements rather than just for the quality of this model – but it was really appreciated and gave me a boost.
In my Conquest Games Norman Cavalry box there was a miniature arm sculpted with a stick. This intrigued me and i had enough horses to create a mounted warlord.
I read that William the Conqueror had used a stick, because he was famously pious and even though he was waging war on another nation it was not the done thing for a pious man to kill anyone. The stick could defend him yet not likely to kill who ever he struck. (maybe).
I have since read other articles that say that the stick wielding figure on the bayeux tapestry was actually William’s half-brother Bishop Odo. Traditionally in miniatures gaming the significance of arming a miniature with a stick would have been to represent Bishop Odo rather than William the Conqueror as far as I have seen.
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