William de Vesci

William de Vesci, Baron of Alnwick, born in 1205, the son of Eustace de Vesci, a Magna Carta surety. I picked William as my leader for games of Baron's War simply because I actually work in Alnwick, so it feels close to home. I also quite liked his shield design of a dark red background and a white cross.

For a figure I went for one of the commanders in the Footsore range, which also came with a banner man. Much prefer the idea of a metal figure over plastic for my Baron.

William de Vesci, Baron of Alnwick

For the banner I just took an image of a suitable cross and added it to a dark red background. I simply just painted over it once I had printed it out. I also did a second, simpler banner to add to a command group if I decide to have my force led by a serjeant of arms in smaller point games. The figure is a Templar infantryman from Fireforge miniatures.

Mitch also provided me with five pieces of wattle fencing that he had 3d printed, he had already done a load for himself which we used in the last game. I decided to add mine to modelling sticks to help differentiate them from his.

These are very nice and have asked him for some additional pieces. I also umpired another game last week, only took a couple of photos as we had a first time player. All the action ended up at the other side of the table.