PanzerKaput Goes To Barons’ War

I am starting on working through the beautiful buildings from the last Baron’s War 3 Kickstarter, the Wimentum Village.

With the campaign being set in the Village of Wimentun we really want to be able to offer the setting for your tabletop.  We thought long and hard about the best way to make appropriate terrain available and decided the digital sculpting route was the answer.

The terrain the campaign scenarios will play out on is a big part of this funding campaign and is offered both physically and digitally.  Having created an English village of the period, we believe it can also be used for many different battles during The Barons’ War not just ‘Death and Taxes’.

The Church is St Oswald’s in the game which is a lovely digitally sculpted early medieval church, which can be used for other periods and games, I think real up to the mid 18th century, Jacobites anyone.  It is a dream to build and paint, simple to build, no issues and very intuitive. Painting wise it takes washed and drybrushes very well. Its nicely details and it is quite large compared to other buildings as it is closer to true 28mm scale as are all the buildings in the set but that’s no problem as buildings do come in different sizes.

I have uploaded a new video of my latest additions to my Baron’s War Collection. These being Mounted Sergeants/poorer Knights.

I have added some more sergeants/poor knight to my Baron’s War Project to fill up the ranks and give more options. These are from Conquest Games Medieval knights, made from hard plastic, multi-part kit and scale very well with my Footsore stuff. They are nice figures and much better than Fireforge’s Medieval Range as they actually look like they have been sculpted a human as they have more natural look to them, but not a patch of the skills of Paul Hicks.

I have painted them to fit various ladies I am adding to my Baron’s War background to add some more interest. These guys are the ladies protectors and all the colours and heraldry is fictional but kept without the rules of the time, I hope so anyway.

I have finished two more characters for my The Barons’ War: forces and them being Lady Lydia of Humerstane and her loyal knight Sir Georges d’Asling. These two miniatures, sculpted by the very talented Paul Hicks are actually very special figures indeed.

Lady Lydia is actually Nicola de la Haye and is a figure that commissioned by Geoff Buss, all profits from the sale of this miniature will be donated to The Murray Parish Trust who supports children’s emergency services across the South of England by raising money and awareness to support projects at key trauma centres, to enable pioneering research and provide life-saving equipment. Available from Footsore

The other figure is of George Asling, one of the writers and designers of the game.

I have painted these in a red and black that actually is based upon the colours of a ladybird. I am planning of using Lady Lydia and George as a Lady who is defender her lands and processions from unscrupulous and villainess Barons and Knights trying to take her lands from her. George d’Asling is her loyal knight, willing to defend her honour and lands against all.

The Manor House is from Sarissa Precision Limited.

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I have finished two more characters for my Baron’s War forces and them being Lady Lydia of Humerstane and her loyal knight Sir Georges d’Asling. These two miniatures, sculpted by the very talented Paul Hicks are actually very special figures indeed.

Lady Lydia is actually Nicola de la Haye and is a figure that commissioned by Geoff Buss, all profits from the sale of this miniature will be donated to The Murray Parish Trust who supports children’s emergency services across the South of England by raising money and awareness to support projects at key trauma centres, to enable pioneering research and provide life-saving equipment.

The other figure is of George Asling, one of the writers and designers of the game.

I have painted these in a red and black that actually is based upon the colours of a ladybird. I am planning of using Lady Lydia and George as a Lady who is defender her lands and processions from unscrupulous and villainess Barons and Knights trying to take her lands from her. George d’Asling is her loyal knight, willing to defend her honour and lands against all.

Nicola de la Haye 

The appointment of a woman as a sheriff was highly unusual in medieval times and in regards to Lady Nicola in 1216 it owed a great deal both to her inherited lands centred on the barony of Brattleby, her connections and to her strong track record of loyal service to King John. Nicola’s marriage to Gerard de Camville gave her a role in protecting their family’s interests. Such was the level of trust between the couple that when Gerard became entangled in a violent dispute between Richard’s royal chancellor and the then Prince John in 1191, during the King’s absence on the Third Crusade, Gerard placed Nicola in charge of Lincoln’s defence. In the words of the chronicler Richard of Devizes, while Gerard assisted John in securing the castles of Nottingham and Tickhill, “Nicola, not thinking about anything, defended … Lincoln castle as well as any man” against the chancellor’s forces. According to royal government records, the crown employed mercenary soldiers for forty days to besiege Lincoln castle and still failed. However, when King Richard returned to England in 1194, both Gerard and Nicola were punished for their disloyalty and effectively forced to buy their way back into royal favour.

After Gerard’s death in January 1215, Nicola returned prominently to the fore in public life, securing control of her inheritance as a widow, and assuming the office of the castellan of Lincoln in the midst of the troubles between King John and his barons. With much of the county in open rebellion against the crown, Nicola’s unflinching loyalty to John (and later King Henry III), and her experience in defending Lincoln made her a viable appointee.  Philip Marc’s removal from office, just a short time after his appointment, left Nicola at the head of the royalist cause in Lincolnshire.  Nicola firmly took control of local affairs, her time as sheriff of Lincolnshire coinciding with her successful resistance to further sieges when Gilbert de Gant, followed by Louis of France, both occupied Lincoln besieging the castle once more. Nicola remained in charge of the royalist castle garrison throughout the spring of 1217 when she faced a new threat from a rebel army led by the earl of Winchester and the count of Perche.

Recognising the severity of Nicola’s predicament, the great regent of England himself, William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, issued a summons for the royalist army to gather in force at Newark and from there proceeded to Lincoln’s relief on 20 May 1217. The outcome of the resulting battle of Lincoln was a decisive royalist victory that helped to seal the fate of Louis’s ambitions in England. Nicola’s personal role in defending Lincoln castle and receiving royalist reinforcements attracted contemporary comment. While royalist writers praised Nicola for being “a worthy lady’ deserving of God’s protection in body and soul”, the rebels and the French portrayed her as “a very cunning, bad-hearted and vigorous old woman”.

Footnote: Nicola relinquished control of Lincoln castle for the last time in June 1226 and died peacefully at her Lincolnshire manor of Swaton in 1230. If William Marshal is to be known as “the knight who saved England” then for her actions Nicola de la Haye should be described as “the woman who saved England”.

I have added a few more buildings and villagers to Humerstane after I decided to buy the Early Medieval village set, villagers and Haystacks and Dung heap set from 1st Corp.

It is a lovely set and the buildings are very nicely casted in resin and have a lot of character. You get in the set 1 House, that have a nice interior, 1 Hut, 1 Store, 1 Grain Store, 1 Pig Sty, 2 Bee Hives and 1 Plastic wattle fence sprue by Renendra, which is not painted or shown. Also you get 2 haystacks and dung heap and the Dark Age Villagers.

The villagers are nice and look like a lovely family group and paint up nicely. I think it will be a nice addition for my Baron’s War buildings as well as for use with Conquest and other games too.