More Jacobites for Montrose!

[mollinary]

After a period of lassitude, I finally plucked up courage to base the horde of Jacobite Highlanders Kev painted for me for use in my Montrose army. The antediluvian basing with Basetex is to fit in with my original figures for the ECW, based some twenty years ago.  I have grouped the highlanders at the front of the base to try  and give them the 'feel' of an aggressive charge. .  Leon has kindly agreed to insert the photos for me!   All flags are by Wargames Designs.

Mollinary

[Leon]

Photos added, looking good!

[d_Guy]

Nice! The massed Highlanders have a great look, very effective. The Irish Brigade ain't too shabby either. 

[Techno]

Very impressive ! 

Cheers - Phil.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those are beautiful!

[Sandinista]

Figures look great i like large units 

Sorry to be pedantic but my understanding is that the highlanders flags of that era are like the ones in the Pendraken flags section. Did you use ones you researched or generic flags?

cheers
Ian

[Westmarcher]

I like. 

[pierre the shy]

Very inspirational Mollinary, thanks for sharing.

Those highlanders really look the part based like that.

Convinces me that the Jacobite period highlander figures work just as well for 1645 as for 1745 

[mollinary]

Figures look great i like large units 

Sorry to be pedantic but my understanding is that the highlanders flags of that era are like the ones in the Pendraken flags section. Did you use ones you researched or generic flags?

cheers
Ian

Hi Ian,

No worries regarding pedantry!  The flags are from Wargames designs Montrose Scots range and cover the Mc Donald's, Macfarlanes, Gordon's and Grahams.  I am sure they would be happy to share their sources with you. Although flags are an obsession of mine I haven't done any special research in Scots flags of this era. The Pendraken ones look more like the personal flags or arms of the named individuals, do you know their source?   

Best,

Mollinary

Andrew

[FierceKitty]

Och, they look reet bonny the noo.

[cameronian]

@ d guy

What Irish Brigade, what have I missed ?

Very nice figures Mollers.

[mollinary]

@ d guy

What Irish Brigade, what have I missed ?

Very nice figures Mollers.

Thanks Cam!   The fourth and fifth pictures, of the mixed pike and shot units, carry the flags of the Irish brigade. Now, you will have noticed there are no figures here in trousers, or sporting those neat little beanie hats. Well, a combination of no Irish brigade figures made by Pendraken or Minifigs/AIM, and a supposition that over the campaign as clothes wore out replacements would have been of local manufacture and style, provided sufficient justification in my flexible mind to allow me to use these Jacobites as proxies.  Sue me! 

Mollinary

[cameronian]

Perhaps I should sue my optician, I cannot see anywhere a flag I recognise as Irish Brigade - big St George's cross, In Hoc Signo Vinces - can't see it 

[mollinary]

Perhaps I should sue my optician, I cannot see anywhere a flag I recognise as Irish Brigade - big St George's cross, In Hoc Signo Vinces - can't see it  

Oh very witty!    .      . These ones belong to a rather large thug  called Alasdair McColla!

Mollinary

[d_Guy]

As I have proven time and time again I am no authority on - anything. I do like flags and actually use flags to tell me which unit is which on the table top (plus the labels I now place beside them a'la PaulR  ) so for what it is worth - the flags of the Irish Brigade (with the possible exception of the one Cameronian mentions, OK and maybe one other, are all conjectured). It's just that most gamers seem to use the flags show.

As to dress, it's not clear if most members of the IB were battle-hardened veterans from Flanders, raw Irish recruits (Antrim mainly), men of the isles, etc or, most likely, all the above. This bespeaks a wide variety of dress (and that only when they first  landed in Scotland). The were redressed multiple time (as Mollnary suggests) - so who knows. It is not even clear if they had pikes (many arguements pro and con) although they could have picked them up after every battle they fought. 

As to clan flags I pick some major motif (a fish, a raven, etc) from the coat of arms (usually modern) and use that - why? Because I like it!

I commit more errors in every unit I assembly then scholars can possibly enumerate - Oh Well!  I even have a warning (several I think) on my blog that what I do should not be used as entirely factual for the period.

I know that this reads as the height of arrogance and pendantry - just the style in which I write. 

I like what everybody does for this period and enjoy seeing the various illusions.