The Barons War - Free book adventure
First ideas, first kitbash
The sergeant on the right has the kettle hat helm, arms and shield from the Frostgrave Soldiers sprue and the body of a Frostgrave cultist.
NorthStar Frostgrave Cultists bodies have some great multi layer clothing that look like medieval surplus/ tabards. The poor knight on the left has a Wargames Factory / Warlord Games head and the arms with mail are from a Viking Gripping Beast sprue. The shield is from a NorthStar Soldiers 2 sprue.The idea to get a game going in the Barons War era was with a poor warband from Galloway with a mix of Douglas Ferguson livery. And a Northern England contingent to face them. Galloway was in many respects it’s own Kingdom separate from Scotland and as such a volatile region.
Apparently Galloway was very Irish Gael in this period, with links to Man and Dublin. Sources such as John of Furdun mention Alexander “raising an army of Scots, Gallowegians and knights from the borders.” Unfortunately that is as much detail a they mention.
But in actual fact… “Thankfully” that is as much detail as they mention, because this gives me license to game in the gaps. I can Have a small group of Galloglas for some flavour and some big axes. Some of my early (maybe part Flemish by some accounts) Douglas Scots ancestors as knights and a few sergeants with the Galloway lion shields. Some levy and archers to pad out the list. Joy. I think a plan is coming together.
My Lord for a Scots force. I painted up this Footsore miniature a while ago. Meant to be James The Good Douglas from the Bannockburn era, but he's in the fashion didn't change a lot from the 1200s to the 1300s.
Galloglas perhaps? Some Dark Age Footsore minis I painted for my Saga Irish force.
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