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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: Rothgar68 on 22 August 2012, 01:17:59 PM

Title: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: Rothgar68 on 22 August 2012, 01:17:59 PM
4 bases of 4 figures leaves me with -1 horse. I'd like to use something to denote a command base.

Not thrilled with the ECW mounted command in it's current form.

Any thoughts or inspirations? Know of a mounted command from another period that would work?

Thanks,

Sean


Title: Re: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 22 August 2012, 03:10:32 PM
Depends on which side - Charlie was certainly in a coach at Nasby......

IanS
Title: Re: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: Rothgar68 on 22 August 2012, 03:30:16 PM
sorry.. I should have been more specific.

I'm doing Haselrigge's Lobsters.. so I need 1 more mounted miniature to put on a base with 3 cuirassiers, to denote a commander/musician/banner/etc.

I was thinking that the whole unit was armored, even the guidon carrier.

Title: Re: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: GordonY on 22 August 2012, 03:44:08 PM
Shove a mounted General on it EC13, ok he's only in back and breastplate but he'll make the command base stand out.
Title: Re: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: Gandalf on 22 August 2012, 06:32:41 PM
I'll check when I'm in work tomorrow but EL9 Elizabethan Gendarme with a vertical lance might do as a standard bearer if there is one in the mould
Title: Re: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: Hertsblue on 23 August 2012, 07:54:40 AM
How about a trumpeter? They were never armoured (try inflating your lungs to blow a trumpet with thirty pounts of steel strapped around it!).  :o
Title: Re: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: Gandalf on 23 August 2012, 12:07:48 PM
Quote from: Gandalf on 22 August 2012, 06:32:41 PM
I'll check when I'm in work tomorrow but EL9 Elizabethan Gendarme with a vertical lance might do as a standard bearer if there is one in the mould
Unfortunately there is only one pose, charging with horizontal lance, in the mould.  Sorry about that.
Title: Re: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: FierceKitty on 23 August 2012, 01:14:58 PM
Quote from: Gandalf on 23 August 2012, 12:07:48 PM
Unfortunately there is only one pose, charging with horizontal lance, in the mould.  Sorry about that.
On the other hand, it's a smashing figure and looks super in my French and Milanese forces. :)
Title: Re: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: Rothgar68 on 23 August 2012, 02:01:44 PM
Thanks for checking Gandalf!

I'll look into this EL range and see what else may be possible.

Title: Re: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: Gandalf on 23 August 2012, 05:47:26 PM
You're welcome
Title: Re: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: sunjester on 23 August 2012, 10:21:46 PM
Have you looked as the cuirassier standard from the Malburian range? He's armoured with a lobster pot helmet.
Title: Re: ECW Cuirassier Command?
Post by: Rothgar68 on 24 August 2012, 01:41:35 PM
Thanks sunjester, I'll check there too!