Perry Miniatures Armour Up For Agincourt With New Kit!
July 16, 2014 by brennon
Perry Miniatures are continuing their long march towards Agincourt with some more 3-Up previews of their armoured soldiers on foot with axes, hammers and spears...
While these have been made as English Men-At-Arms they could easily be translated over to fighting for the French according to the Perry twins because of how similar their armour was during the period. I think these look very, very cool and I can't wait to see what a whole regiment of these looks like painted up.
One of the neat things is that it looks like the visors are positioned according to your liking so you could have them all down, ready for battle, or leave a few open or indeed off if you saw fit as they scout out where their next target is on the battlefield.
Some great things are coming out of Perry Miniatures!
@bigdave will be happy
I’m happy too. My overdraft (and overcrowded painting table) not so much.
Just leave them in the boxes. They stack better.
I already have a pile of Perry stuff, and this release just means it will get even higher. My missus is an ACW buff so my wallet takes a real beating every time we peruse their site.
@somegeezer The day your painting table stops creaking you know you have cash flow problem.
Wauv.
The are great 🙂
‘our king went forth to Normandy, with grace and might of chivalry!’
For God, King Harry and St George!!!!
There it is! “If we are marked to die, we are not to do our country loss, but . . . ” ah, you guys know the rest. 😀
good book series if anyone is interested, a French author called Maurice Druon – interesting bloke really, fought in the French Resistance and was a massive history buff, absolutely loved the 100 years war. If you want to get into the era it’s a great way to do so 🙂 George R Martin claimed a lot of inspiration from his writing style, and can tell you what, the Lannisters have sod all on the Capetians, the House of Valois or even our own Plantagenets!
little bit of trivia as well if anyone’s interested – an estimated 800 archers present at the battle of Agincourt all came from within a stones throw in each direction from where I’m from in north Derbyshire, apparently until that point we’d been supplying archers for garrison duty in Wales but when it all kicked off with the tennis balls etc, the Jodrell’s, a big family in the area raised a number of companies under license from the King and some of the other local magnates and off we went to France! All from a handful of villages 🙂
Cracking scenario would actually be to do a what if moment on the beaches of Normandy – in the 12 months leading up to the invasion, the French actually dug trench lines, set sharpened stakes in the tree lines beyond a number of the beaches in the hope that the Genoese crossbowmen (which at this point, were nearly always on the strength) could decimate the English landings before legging it back to the relative safety of towns like Harfleur, when the time came, French funds had dried up a little and it had become awkward to maintain a force in Normandy for such a length of time – France was ready, but as you see with the Agincourt campaign, they packed everyone off (so they could stop forking out the wages) then when Harry did land, trumpets sounded and thousands made their way to Paris then to the north to confront the invaders!
Thanks for the tips and trivia 🙂
Isnt there some honour type rolls for the HYW online via the National Archives ?
http://www.medievalsoldier.org/
If you know where to look there’s tonnes of interesting documents, the National Archive, the Harleian Library and I think the History Dept at the University of Southampton have really detailed muster records throughout 1369-ish to the late 1450’s, then you’ve got the lists (date to about 1417, lot of the veterans still clamouring for their back-dated wages and bounty money, the lists were assembled for the chancellor of the exchequer so he knew who to pay), the day to day garrison and pay records, indentures of service, one big thing Henry V did was to say that anyone who went on campaign couldn’t have their debts pursued while they were in service so a lot of seemingly wealthier middle and upper class people who may have tried to get out of serving by paying the tax-man went to help protect their families from debtors and nick a load of French treasure while abroad, come home after a speedy campaign and pay your debts off
Loads of stuff out their, it’s the patience and tenacity to find it all…
Here is one 🙂
http://www.medievalsoldier.org/
Cant wait to begin building HYW armies.
awesome period, makes for some great naval battles as well – Duke of Brittany was known for being a bit of a pirate, and it was only by paying the Flemish vast sums of money that the English navy was able to rule the channel unopposed… Some English ships captured that many vessels from Spain, Portugal and Germany that on some occasions they nearly declared war and joined in
‘sorry sire, thought he was French, he was foreign…’
‘you numpty! you were raiding the coast off Bremen!’