Sir Robin ' the Brave' Barres War Band

Sir Robin ' the Brave ' Barres

Sir Robin wanted to be a jousting champion.  A world famous jousting champion unfortunately Sir Robin was not a very good jouster.  He was much better in melee based events but he refused to enter and concentrated on the jousting.  His constant failures but unwillingness to quit earnt him the nickname ' the Brave'.  When the jousting season ended Sir Robins funds were quite depleted so he elected to join the crusades to gather more wealth and more fame .

Alamar Payne

Alamar met Sir Robin on a road through France. Bedraggled and sleeping in the local woods Alamar had been caught with the Tavern owners wife. The tavern owner was not happy and Alamars wife also was not impressed and he was through out of his house and then found by The Tavern owner who exacted his own punishment on Alamar.  Sir Robin found Alamars situation amusing and offered him a place in his retinue.

Gregory Dinas

Gregory was a body guard for another jousting knight and when the season ended he was let go. He quickly signed up with Sir Robin to go to the  Holy land

Gawain Nash

Gawain was a pilgrim to the Holy land. After a year wondering the Holy Land,  Gawain was ready to defend the Holy sites. He met Sir Robin and begged to join his retinue so he could take the fight to the heathens. Sir Robin took him on straight away

Joachim Browne

Joachim was Sir Robins servant when he was jousting. He likes tinkering with gears and mechanisms  so was drawn to the crossbow he now carries .

Wolfgang Bigge

Wolfgang was also Sir Robin's servant.  He is an eagle eye with his hunting bow which he used to hunt food while Sir Robin was travelling from jousting tournament to jousting tournament. He has now turned  his now to the art of war. 

Sir Gregore 'Firebrand' DeMorts War Band

Sir Gregore 'Firebrand' DeMort

Sir Gregore came to the middle east as a young man at arms. Hungry for war and glory. After several years and many many battles Gregore had made quite a name for himself. In one battle he saved the life of a renowned knight who knighted Gregore when they returned to their camp. From then on Sir Gregore fought with fury and tenacity to gather glory, fortune and further himself. Gregore will always be seen at the head of a force charging into battle.

Dietrich Wulfstrum

Dietrich Wulfstrum was and still is Gregores best friend. As soon as Gregore was knighted Dietrich joined him as his loyal second in command. Raised in the forests of Germany, Dietrich grew up swinging an axe  and  always charges into battle with a 2 ganded axe. 

Marcus Ward

Marcus grew up in the south of England and desperate to avoid a life of fishing he snuck aboard a ship full of New crusaders. When he was caught  he managed to talk his way into being a man at arms for one of the crusading knights. On the journey he was trained to fight, the knight who had took him on didn't think he would last long in battle but Marcus proves himself.  After his patron was killed in battle Marcus entered Sir Gregores service.

Francis Lemer

Francis is a fresh levy from France. Full of religious fervour and zeal.  On his journey once He had heard of Sir Gregore, Francis  wanted to join his retinue.  Sir Gregore impressed someone had heard of him and wanted to join him gladly accepted Francis's services.

Agomer D'mach

Agomer is Sir Gregores most recent recuitment. Sir Gregore pulled Agomer out of a rather vicious tavern brawl after seeing his reckless bravery and offered him a place with his band.

Sir Godfrey 'Dragon Heart' Arden and his Men

Sir Godfrey 'Dragon Heart ' Arden

Sir Godfrey was a squire to a champion jouster when he reached 21 he was knighted by his master. Sadly his master was killed not long after in a jousting match.  Godfrey not knowing what to do then answered the call to go and fight for God. He carries 3 swords as you never wanna be without your sword!

Thomas Fletcher

Thomas Fletcher son of a bow and arrow maker is a crack shot with a crossbow taught from an early age by his father he was destined to take up the family business. However Thomas hated making arrows and bows when he could be shooting them and drinking instead.  He ended up signing up for his local lord as a man at arms . His Lord set off for the Crusades and to celebrate Thomas went out and drank.  When he awoke he had missed the caravan and would miss the boat. In his panic he met on the road Godfrey who agreed to take him on.

Reeve Alderman

Reeve Alderman was a man at arms for Godfreys master and when he died. Reeve joined up with Godfrey as they worked well together and were good friends. He is a whirlwind with his axe and batters foes into submission.

Godwin Rolfe

Godwin was a pilgrim and discovered on the journey to the holy landby Godfrey beaten and robbed. Godfrey took pity on Godwin and took him into his band as a levy.

Luther Broadstone

Luther is the newest member of the war band. Godfrey discovered Luther at one of the many drinking establishments that have risen up looking for work and took the levy on board to bolster his war band.

John Cresswell

Godfrey before embarking on his journey went to the local Abbey to seek spiritual guidance and to see if any men of God would join his quest. The monks didn't seem so keen on travelling to the middle east all except one intiate of the Abbey. John felt the call of God to go with Godfrey and joined him

The whole war band

Update on stuff

Been a quiet few weeks I can't lie I've been playing Fallout 4 a lot (just discovered mods so been playing with those ). Though I have assembled and undercoated a load of load of models and had a sort out of the geek shelves so that's progress!
As I've mentioned before a very kind fellow gamer has sent me some models to break my painting slump.  I have already mentioned the Russian maxim team he sent here so won't mention those.  Paul also sent me some Gates of Antares C3 Concord troopers. So those were made up and undercoated. These were lovely  plastic models to put together and really easy which is definatly a plus! ! Also uncovered my gunny peegs fron Bad Squiddo games so undercoated them as well.

Gunny Peegs!

Next up was some knights and men at arms given to me by my friend to make war bands for Outreamer Faith and Blood. A skirmish game set in the crusades . I managed 3 bands out of the species my friend have me. I'll do more blogs about each individual band when they are painted

All the knights and men at arms

My 3 war band's all set up and named!

My main knight

You can never have to many swords

As it was a mix of sprues and I hadn't read the rules yet I was guided by the ultimate wargamer rule. ' The rule of Cool'. I got a nice selection of axes, spears and swords.  Also threw in some crossbows and a bow.
I also made some small terrain pieces!  For the upcoming totenkorp factory raid  I wanted some barb wire  barricades.  Ages ago I bought from poundland some garden edging that makes good 28mm logs. I've used bits here and there but thought they would make good barb wire barricades and since I had so many I tried some old fashioned stake barricades as well. They were really fiddly a d as not based they quite fragile but I think they look ok.

Barricades look good I reckon

Paint queue

That's pretty much it on the models front now have a massive like of models to paint!

Also dug out my pirates as Dead Earth Games are going to kickstarter with Pirates of the Undead Seas, join the Facebook group  here and get all the info.

Arr me hearties!