PanzerKaput Goes To Barons’ War

I have uploaded a new video about my The Barons’ War: A Medieval Skirmish Game project.

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I am running a game at Partizan 2022, on Sunday 22nd May. Free you are going please come on over have a look at the game and say Hi

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I have finished the special character figures from The Barons’ War range from Footsore, them being Guillaume II des Barres and William Marshal from the Gutted at Gaillard – Character Set.

But I have painted them as two local knights, Sir John Hazelrigge, in the green and white and Sir Thomas Paget in the blue and yellow. Also I have painted the monthly special figure, William of Ypres as Sir Edward Pochin of Barkby, with the red shield.

I have really enjoyed painting these and have finished all the Barons’ War figures I have, for the time being, but next is the Welsh for the Barons’ War. #thebaronswar #warhost #fsinspired

I have uploaded a new The Barons’ War: A Medieval Skirmish Game​ video to my YouTube Channel.

This time the video is about the newly painted Ruined Hovels and Barricades from Warhost via Footsore Miniatures & Games​

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I have finished the ruined hovels and barricades from Footsore’s Barons’ War range and I am very pleased with them. They are beautifully detailed and have so many points of interest that they are a dream to paint. It is nice to see a set of ruined buildings, that are the same buildings that Footsore do, as it means you can have some creative scenarios where you destroy the buildings during the game and replace them with these. All in all very nice and I love them.

These are very useful not just for the Barons’ War but also for other periods, games and settings too like Moonstone, Burrows and Badgers, Border Reivers, Late Medieval, Blood and Plunder, Donnybrook, etc. I cannot wait to get these on the table for Partizan 2022 at the Newark Showground, UK on 22/05/22 as I think they will finish the table off well.

How I painted the wood effect  I used Vallejo Model Colour German Grey as the base, then drybrush of VMC German Camo Mid Brown, I lighter drybrush of VMC Medium Grey and a lighter still drybrush of VMC Pale Sand. Then I washed VMC German Grey over it.

Here is my opponent for Wednesday’s game, Lord ‘Hugh de Bonneville. The Bishop, Julien Felagh, has sent his best man from the abbey near Downton with a message, it appears you owe money to the church…

Retinue points: 503 / 500
95 points – 3 warriors
1x Mounted Lord Regular, Lord Hugh de Bonneville
Equipped
Sword, Mail, Barded Horse, Pennant, Priest
Abilities
Chivalry, Live By The Sword, Commander, Inspire
2x Mounted Knights Irregular
Equipped
Sword, Mail, Medium Shield, Barded Horse
Abilities
Chivalry

80 points – 4 warriors
4x Foot Knights Irregular
Equipped
Sword, Mail, Medium Shield
Abilities
Chivalry

96 points – 6 warriors
6x Foot Sergeants Irregular
Equipped
Falchion, Padded
Abilities
Martial Respect

152 points – 8 warriors
8x Bowmen Veteran
Equipped
Bow
Abilities
Every Bloody Sunday

80 points – 8 warriors
8x Levy Green
Equipped
Spear
Abilities
Sorry M Lord

I have finished my Border Reivers from Flags of War for their up and coming Border Wars range and I am very pleased with the results. Lovely sculpts, full of character and scream the period, they paint up so nicely. Very pleased with them indeed.

The building from Fogou Models and Footsore

I have another game of Barons’ War on Wednesday and I am fielding a force that it led by a fight that is buried in the local church of St Mary’s Sir Richard Hotoft of Humerstane. He was alive or even born when the Baron’s War was but I wanted a local link.

All thats know about him and the family is as followings

The Hotoft family had been settled at Humberstone from before 1288 and had since then acquired property near the High Cross in Leicester (about two miles away) as well as land at Hathern and Shepshed in the north of the county. In 1375, at the time of the death of his father, then a coroner of Leicestershire, Richard was a minor; and his marriage was then claimed by John, Lord Grey of Codnor, who alleged that the boy’s mother and brother-in-law, John Folville of Rearsby, had taken him away from Humberstone contrary to his wishes. He may have come of age by Michaelmas 1388 when the overlord of Humberstone, John, duke of Lancaster, brought an action against him in the court of common pleas for a debt of 58s; but even so his career did not properly begin until after the accession of Lancaster’s grandson as Henry V.

Hotoft attended the Leicestershire elections to the first Parliament of the reign, secured election himself in the autumn of 1414, and served for nearly four years on the local bench. In 1416 Thomas Ashby of Quenby named him as an executor of his will, at the same time making a bequest of 20 marks to his younger son, Thomas, but following a disagreement between Hotoft and his fellow executors over the administration of Ashby’s estate, the bishop of Lincoln appointed the archdeacon of Leicester as receiver of the deceased’s effects. This did not prevent Bartholomew Brokesby from suing Hotoft for a debt of £100 incurred by his late friend. Another lawsuit was instigated by Hotoft himself in 1420 against the master of St. John’s hospital, Leicester, for alleged breach of an agreement made by a former master with the MP’s kinsman, Richard Witeby, concerning the foundation of a chantry.

Under Henry VI Hotoft attended the Leicestershire parliamentary elections of 1423 and 1427, served a term as escheator and, described as ‘the elder’, performed his last duties as a royal commissioner in the spring of 1431. By that time his son, Richard, was well established in his career as a lawyer, and it had probably been he who, as ‘of Leicestershire, gentleman’, had provided securities in the Exchequer in 1429 on behalf of John Brome^† of Warwickshire. The young man proved to be of higher calibre than his father: he rose to be feodary of the honour of Leicester, duchy of Lancaster bailiff of Leicester, councillor to Humphrey, duke of Buckingham, and Member of eight Parliaments between 1437 and 1455. In the 1470s, following the deaths of that Richard Hotoft and his brother Thomas, their property was claimed by the descendants of our shire knight’s sister, Iseult Folville.

Retinue points: 500 / 500
174 points – 6 warriors
1x Lord Regular, Sir Richard Hotoft
Equipped
Sword, Mail, Pennant
Abilities
Chivalry, Live By The Sword, Commander, Inspire, Heroic
5x Foot Knights Regular
Equipped
Sword, Mail, Medium Shield
Abilities
Chivalry, Live By The Sword, Old-soldiers

92 points – 4 warriors
4x Foot Knights Regular
Equipped
Mace, Mail, Medium Shield
Abilities
Chivalry, Live By The Sword

70 points – 7 warriors
7x Levy Green
Equipped
Hand Weapon, Sling
Abilities
Sorry M Lord

100 points – 4 warriors
4x Foot Sergeants Regular
Equipped
Falchion, Mail, Medium Shield
Abilities
Martial Respect, Drilled

New YouTube Video about Plans for The Barons’ War: A Medieval Skirmish Game at Partizan 2022, Newark Showground, UK

Hope you like it.