These are coming on apace. Leon has kindly agreed fo put up the two latest photos showing the 12 cavalry markers, and the 7 foot units done so far. Another 13 on the table as we speak!

Mollinary

Very nice and also very creative. I too love the pikes as that really adds to the look. Well done!

Terry

Thanks to Leon for inserting the piccies in my last post. Now moved on to 10 completed foot bases, hope to do another 5 tomorrow. With luck, should be all done by Thursday night!

Mollinary

 

Cor. There's been some hot action in this part of the field, I see.

Cracking job mate, the broken pikes and flags really set them off.


kev

Brilliant

Excellent ideas there.

Excellent ! 

Cheers - Phil

Lovely work Andrew.

I like this a lot!

Thanks again for the comments, guys, much appreciated.  Foot units up to 15, so today's target met. Tomorrow is another day!

Mollinary

Don't recall seeing these earlier. Bravo! 

They look good, and certainly show what where the action has been. My only reservation, and people are going to hate me for this, is that would the unit flags be left on the ground by the survivors? 

Curiously, I think far more flags were probably picked up as a Regiment disintegrated than were captured in manly hand to hand combat. That seems certainly to have been the case at Gettysburg 200 years later, and I see no reason why it should not have been the case in the ECW. And it looks cool!   

Mollinary

Seconded, if I was running away withdrawing rapidly I don't think I would stop to pick up a big heavy flag that had been dropped

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

I do not do ECW so may be wrong about the lengths individuals would go to to save their flags in this period, but I do do Naps and ACW. In these periods, there are many accounts of individuals going to extraordinary lengths at great risk to themselves, to stop the enemy gaining the flags as trophies. Indeed we see numerous paintings of the time showing the colours of a beaten enemy being exhibited as a form of triumphalism, and individuals who either saved or captured colours were lauded and rewarded. No-one likes being shamed. Often we read that if the unit was in danger, and the situation desperate,  flags would be sent to the rear
The destroyed units stands are splendid, look splendid and the fallen colours on them have the advantage of showing what units are involved thereby making convenient tokens, but I remain unconvinced that they echo reality. Remember very few units are totally destroyed, and the stands show where significant  causalities were suffered. The flags would normally move with the survivors.
Having said that, we are  after all only playing a game, so what does it matter 

Funnily enough I remain unconvinced that lead echoes flesh, but in a game I do like clear markers so that I know what is going on. In the real world I would have little idea beyond the next hedge or crest.

One thing to consider is in the ECW period there were more flags per unit than two hundred years later, usually on the order of one per company. Even with the flags collected to the center and protected by the pikes, which was the usual practice, a much greater possibility of one or two being left behind would seem to exist.

I'd be in favor of shredding them up a bit (but not so much that you can't tell who's who).