Sunday, 28 September 2025

The Retinue nears completion

As I gear up towards a club weekend gaming the Barons War, I made a bit more progress on my own retinue. I had already added a couple of crossbowmen and serjeants to round the units out. This time I added a few more peasants and some serjeants with spears and large shields.



I'm pretty happy with the retinue. I have quite a few options which will give me some flexibility in designing forces. I still have a unit of slingers to add as well as some mounted serjeants. Then I may start on a second smaller retinue.







The beauty of the peasants is that they can be used in any retinue or even as a stand alone force as outlaws, hmmm maybe a Robin Hood force? The other thing I did was create some morale tokens with spare shields and dice holders. The first 8 I did were in my Baron's colours.


On Thursday night I actually got to play a game instead of umpiring. It didn't go well as Sean's peasants ran off with the prized goose we were fighting over. A few photos from the game.








18 comments:

  1. That is a decent sized retinue you have created Scotty! You can't turn your back for a second on those wily peasants!

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  2. Nice collection! Nothing motivates painting like an upcoming game.

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    1. Cheers Jonathan. Looking forward to the 18th. 7 players for a series of games

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  3. Great looking retinue, built up in pretty quick time too! Better luck in your next game though!

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    1. Cheers Donnie, definitely needed a bit of luck

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  4. That is quite a collection you have painting. They look good and I do like the morale tokens.

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  5. Beautiful looking collection!
    Really love your medieval miniatures.

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  6. Very nice a good looking team 👍

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  7. Great work Neil, that's quite a collection!

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  8. Splendid looking collection. I'm envious.

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  9. very nice looking force. And I loveloveloveLOVE the morale tokens.

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    1. Cheers Stew, I thought the tokens looked Moore in keeping with the game than just a die next to the unit

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