France entered the sixteenth century with its gendarme companies being the largest and most respected force of heavy cavalry in Europe, feared for their powerful armament, reckless courage and esprit de corps. As the fifteenth century waned, so did the tactical practices of the Hundred Years War, and the gendarmes of the sixteenth century returned to fighting exclusively on horseback, generally in a very thin line (en haye), usually two or even just one rank deep, so as to maximize the number of lances being set upon the enemy target at once.
-Excerpt from Wikipedia's "Gendarmes in Battle in the Early Sixteenth Century", author not listed
This is an update I have been very excited to make for the past few weeks. I had half this unit done for some time now but I was focussed more on finishing the pikemen, now I am at a pause with them as I have plans to speed paint them using a system I quickly wrote up.
I have changed the focus of my project. I opted for complete plastic units with upright pike just for ease of play but after some thought units with 45 degrees and leveled pike just look so much better. This leaves all the upright pike I own at the moment as rear rankers so I'm not gonna put too much effort into them anymore.
I'll go over the details of how I'll be speed painting a 3-layer method in a future post.
-Excerpt from Wikipedia's "Gendarmes in Battle in the Early Sixteenth Century", author not listed
This is an update I have been very excited to make for the past few weeks. I had half this unit done for some time now but I was focussed more on finishing the pikemen, now I am at a pause with them as I have plans to speed paint them using a system I quickly wrote up.
I have changed the focus of my project. I opted for complete plastic units with upright pike just for ease of play but after some thought units with 45 degrees and leveled pike just look so much better. This leaves all the upright pike I own at the moment as rear rankers so I'm not gonna put too much effort into them anymore.
I'll go over the details of how I'll be speed painting a 3-layer method in a future post.
Only the feathers left to sculpt. I've taken inspiration from Steel Fist Miniatures renaissance knights, so they should be appropriately exuberant for Royal Knights
A lord and his unfinished retainer to be carrying his device
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