Hundred Years War - DBA

[paulr]

Many thanks OldenBUA, Werner von Urslingen it is then

Base coated mail, helmets & weapons of new batch

Base coated one horse of this batch

Dry brushed mail

[Big Insect]

At least two of those are from noble families, so these may work.

Werner von Urslingen: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urslingen

Conrad von Landau: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCningen-Landau

Others are more difficult to track down with just a name.

German heraldry is a lot like Polish (in fact the Poles appear to have copied the 'German' principle) in that the junior members of the family carried the full family arms - without any cadence marks.
Also, at this period quartering (through marriage or inheritance) was rare in Germany - so you'd be safe to use the full Urslingen or Landau heraldry. But worth checking if your Free Company captain was legitimate or not, as bastardy marks were used (although I suspect that with a Free Company captain they'd probably not want to show that).

[DecemDave]

But worth checking if your Free Company captain was legitimate or not, as bastardy marks were used (although I suspect that with a Free Company captain they'd probably not want to show that).

I'd suspect the opposite!  The men were unemployed mercenaries, the dispossessed, younger sons or just types that enjoyed terrorising the civvies. I think they would be more likely to respect a fellow professional soldier/hard-case forced to follow a non noble career than a legit "chinless wonder".  And being a bastard was not a barrier in the official armies.  The  English had John Beaufort and later the French bastard of Alencon fought and died with his half brother the Duke at Verneuil. I'm currently "researching" Verneuil armies.  Interestingly, the English seem to be slightly and the French quite different than the DBA 3 lists [e.g. Scots could have been as many as 6,000 of 16,000 not 2 of 12]. So I'll have to do some extra elements if I ever need to go Barkercompliant although its arguable that the missing types were there but not important enough to mention in chronicles/pay rolls.

[paulr]

Thanks Big Insect & DecemDave

Dry brushed helmets & weapons

Started main tunic colours

[paulr]

Finished main tunic colours & trousers as well

I'm in the office during the day for work tomorrow after a couple of night shifts
Then I'll be a playing Spearhead at one of our local conventions, Call to Arms
Then on holiday for a week visiting friends and catching up with my son

All this will slow down progress on the Scots

[Steve J]

Have fun at the wargames show and try to take some pics if you can.

[DecemDave]

Correction to my previous post.  The Alencons were captured not killed at Verneuil.

PaulR - while researching the earlier period, did you come across any sources that might cover  later HYW Spanish ?  I'm currently looking at some of the primary chronicles and their presence is acknowledged but no details at all except important ones that got killed!  [Guillaume II, viscount of Narbonne and ex-"King" of Arborea]

[paulr]

...
PaulR - while researching the earlier period, did you come across any sources that might cover  later HYW Spanish ?  I'm currently looking at some of the primary chronicles and their presence is acknowledged but no details at all except important ones that got killed!  [Guillaume II, viscount of Narbonne and ex-"King" of Arborea]

Short answer: no

Longer answer: I haven't done that much research but did consider IV/68d Castilian Army, IV/68a Portuguese & IV/68c Aragonese instead of the Free Companies and found very little on them during my limited research

[paulr]

I've returned for my week long holiday despite an interesting encounter in Christchurch



Adjusting to being on nights has slowed my painting

Have fun at the wargames show and try to take some pics if you can.

Call to Arms is held in a school hall, a panorama of the whole event







There was one trader this year who also ran a demonstration game



The bring and buy was about as busy as usual



This 'old school' demonstration game particularly caught my eye





And you can just see our 6mm Spearhead game in the top right corner, a very enjoyable game and interesting scenario
Thanks for organising it Pierre the Shy

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Looks like fun....

[Steve J]

Thanks for the photos and my son would have loved to have seen those Daleks in the flesh so to speak. Great to see the show was able to go ahead, which gives all some hope going forward. I hope you all enjoyed the show.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Show!
People!
Wow!

[Techno II]

Excellent !

Cheers - Phil.

[DecemDave]

Shows!  I remember those.   

Seriously having to tell myself not to even think about starting 40mm skirmish games.   

[fsn]

Shows!  I remember those.   

Something from the BeforeTime.

[Raider4]

Good to see a real-life show taking place again, but that bring 'n' buy looks seriously empty. The last time I saw one there was a 5-deep scrum at the tables.

[fred.]

Good to see a real-life show taking place again, but that bring 'n' buy looks seriously empty. The last time I saw one there was a 5-deep scrum at the tables.

That is what I thought too! Couldn't tell if the caption was serious or sarcastic!

Great to see gamers out getting in games. The NZ hobby scene seems to be a bit younger than the UK one. Also interesting to see that the show seems to have far more games than traders, at most UK ones traders predominate, rather than games.

[pierre the shy]

Great to see gamers out getting in games. The NZ hobby scene seems to be a bit younger than the UK one. Also interesting to see that the show seems to have far more games than traders, at most UK ones traders predominate, rather than games.

Conventions in NZ have always tended to be more games/competition orientated in NZ as we simply don't have the same number of wargaming related traders/manufacturers here in NZ that are based in the UK. We're lucky to get two trade stands at Call to Arms. One local trader was supposed to be coming to CTA but ran into stock supply issues so decided not to attend this year at the last moment. The whole supply chain here has long lead times due to COVID and shipping availablility issues......Mrs Shy is very happy as we finally got the kitchen cupboard that we ordered over 6 months ago     

[paulr]

Good to see a real-life show taking place again, but that bring 'n' buy looks seriously empty. The last time I saw one there was a 5-deep scrum at the tables.

That is what I thought too! Couldn't tell if the caption was serious or sarcastic!

Great to see gamers out getting in games. The NZ hobby scene seems to be a bit younger than the UK one. Also interesting to see that the show seems to have far more games than traders, at most UK ones traders predominate, rather than games.

The caption was serious, our bring and buys seem to be a lot less frenetic than in the UK.

As Pierre the Shy mentioned our events tend to be more games/competition oriented so most of the punters for the Bring and Buy are there all weekend so no great rush

[paulr]

I managed to get a chance to do some more painting

Third and fourth colours added to clothing that needed them

The few hats done

Wood done