Expanding the retinue

So after completing my Baron, William de Vesci and his banner man, I decided to expand his retinue. I also made the decision to use a themed colour scheme. I went with a dark red and cream to match my Baron. My thinking is that these troops will all be retainers from his estates. For more professional troops like veteran serjeants I will use figures already in my collection.

The first additions are 2 groups of serjeants. The first carry the bill and the others are armed with the falchion. I have one of these earmarked as a serjeant at arms when the retinue expands further. I already have 2 serjeants with bills in this colour scheme so that is handy.

Serjeants with bill

Serjeants with falchion

I've got another 2 serjeants with falchion on the painting table as well as a group armed with spears and larger shields. For some ranged firepower I completed a group of Crossbowmen and archers. The crossbowmen are a mix of Fireforge and metal figures from Footsore. For the archers I wanted them in some armour as the rest in my collection are all unarmoured. For these I used spare bodies from Fireforge with the bows from Wargames Atlantic peasant levy.

Crossbowmen

Archers

So that is 22 figures added to the retinue. I've another 7 figures which are being based up and another 9 in various stages of being painted. 

I've ordered another sprue of peasants as I want to equip them with slings, this will allow me to cover all the options. There is also another sprue of mounted serjeants from Conquest miniatures on its way to add some mobility to the force. Now I need to cut up some teddy bear fur in various shapes for fields.