I've always intended that my Warhammer Fantasy human collection would be ambiguously Bretonnian/Imperial. I like both army lists, and want to be able to hop back and forth betwixt 'em....
Both Army lists in WARHAMMER ARMIES include peasant levy infantry, and the Bretonnian Army list makes at least 20 Peasant levies mandatory, so I thought they'd be a good place to start. Armed and imperiled home owners lend themselves to all sorts of 'Magnificent Seven/Sven' and 'Bloodbath at Orc's Drift' scenarios, so that was also a motivator...
...another was the fact that my painting still sucks, but nobody expects a mob of impromptu militia to look all that great, anyway....These were the first figures I painted with my REAPER paint set, although the red used on the banner and the leader's shirt are GW blood red...the REAPER reds are curiously muted and sorta brown...but I like to paint in earthy, muddy colors, so I'm actually really liking the paints...Just needed to pick up a few bright reds and yellows from GW to round things out...
Captain of Volunteers Brom Broadbelly in his famous red 'battle shirt'...The troopers in the unit and the converted standard bearer are all OLD GLORY figures from their REVOLTING PEASANTS line...not super-splendidly characterful or detailed, but I like them well enough and at $30 for a bag of 30 figures, there's no cheaper, faster way to build massed metal armies that I know of. On the bagpiper and on Mayor Broadbelly, I went ahead and spent a few bucks on old 80's figures by Citadel on ebay...
This unit totals out at 36 figures...plenty to fill out the Bretonnian army list requirement...but there's more coming...I've got another unit of 42 figures waiting in the wings...and about twenty peasant archers coming...
Garn! Snotlings in the grain silo again! Best clear 'em out before dinner!
Hey! You Goblins get off my lawn!
The peasant militia entry for Bretonnian militia from WARHAMMER ARMIES
...and the Empire entry
