If their armour keeps them alive, those double handed weapons will seriously spoil your opponents day!Īnd of course, what medieval army would be complete without the sound of thundering heavy horse? So I looked at the Foundry website again, and thought 'oooooh! I like the look of those.'Īnd ordered a bunch of late medieval plate-armoured knights on plate-barded warhorses. An interesting tactic I still have to further explore.Ī stronger option to the billmen are dismounted knights (or men-at-arms), wearing heavier partial or full plate armour, and carrying quite beefy double handed axes. However they give several options, from attacking units in their own right, or using mixed order and combining them with archers, as the leading ranks of the overall unit. I think I went a bit mad with the billmen, with somethng like 80 billmen painted up and ready. And the bills give you +1S, and thus can make quite a dent in your opponent! Having to use both arms to carry the weapon meansīut with heavy armour, you can still manage a good save. However they can make for a rather defensive unit, as you often do not want to move them and reduce thier shooting effectiveness!Īfter the Longbows, came several units of plucky billmen, armed with a mixture of pole-arms bills, glaives, halberds, spears etc etc. The Longbows are certainly flavoursome for the period, and can lay down a withering amount of fire, particularly with the medieval massed fire rules from the Age of Chivalry supplement. The first unit completed was a bunch of Longbowmen, which was added to over time until I now have 80 ready for action. I always like a bargain and have found E-bay invaluable as a source of figures and other gaming materials and paraphernalia.

But not wanting to be left out in the cold, I decided to start a Warhammer Ancients Medieval army, figuring that at a push it could morph into Brettonians or Empire for WFB, if I had no alternatives.Īnd thus I started my Medieval collection, kicked off by a few good purchases from E-bay for Foundry figures. Thing is I had not played Warhammer fantasy in a long time, and didn't want to got back to it if possible too many uber characters and magic to make a mess of simple good tactical wargaming for my likes. However, Warhammer seemed quite prevalent. I have to say I didnt find much Warmaster going on (and still haven't). However, trying to plan ahead I checked out the gaming scene in NZ via the internet before leaving the UK. At the time my main wargaming interest was GW's Warmaster, for which I have two fully painted armies (more on these in a future blog update). If you have read my introduction, you will note I emigrated from UK to NZ a couple of years back.

Warhammer ancient battles