Saracen army, inventory

Next up in my inventory plan is my Saracen forces.

This is a massive army but I got loots of loots of ideas on future units. This seems to be a collection that can always grow, their are juts that many types of units, factions and different types of mercenaries to add....

The pictures looks somewhat flat because of bad light, I could have wished for better sunlight today.

In Hail Caesar I would count these as:

2x Mamluk heavy cav
Mamluk heavy cavalry archers
2x Arab, Bedouin ,Berber or Kurdish Heavy cav
Cataphract Camel Guards
Turkic Ghulams
4x Turcoman horse archers
3x Arab, Bedouin, Berber or Sudanese light cavalry
Dismounted Mamluk Heavy infantry Archers
Sudanese spearmen
2x Sudanese mixed rank spearmen
small unit of Sudanese mixed rank spearmen
Sudanese bowmen
3x City militia, Syrian spearmen, levy
Syrian medium infantry archers
Light infantry archers
small unit of Turcoman infantry archers
6x African javelin skirmishers
small unit of Naphta throwers
small unit of Workforce
Azerbaijani swordsmen

But If you see some units missing that I really should add please do tell.

Medieval army, an inventory

Time for a new army picture...

I needed to do an inventory of my collection on medieval Westerners for an upcoming Crusader battle and why not share some pictures of it for you guys to. I did this so I could get a grip on what I could potentially muster in next game.

What you can see here in Hail Caesar terms are:

4 units of Medium infantry with mixed archers.
3 units of Medium infantry Crossbowmen
1 small unit of Medium infantry
1 small unit of Heavy infantry
1 unit of Fräsle till fots (dismounted knights)
1 small unit of light infantry archers
2 Command stands
1 unit of Frälse (knights)
1 unit of German knights
1 unit of light infantry Archers
1 small unit of Crusader Veterans
1 small unit of Svennar (Medium Cavalry)
1 small unit of Beridna skyttar (Medium cavalry with crossbows)

 And I just love seeing painted miniature all together like this. Hope this can inspire more people to spread out their collections... I want to see them

French knights, work in progress

I feel satisfied with the glueing and the greenstuff work on these French knights. These will be nice to field once all painted.

I have given some horses extra chainmail or clothed barding, the dark metal I think will look nice contrast against the bright colours I have planed.

As a sort of tribute to my first knights I have integrated some old Bretonnia bits into this unit.

New pictures for the French crusader crossbowmen

I wasnt happy with the pictures of the French Crusader crossbowmen and as it wasnt raining when I was home on my lunch hour I took some new pictures on the miniatures.


Im mutch more happy with these, it really shows what light does to the pictures. Even when these pictures are taken with the phone they are mutch better.

Hope you enjoy.

French crusader crossbowmen

 Edit: Better pictures of this unit can now be found in the post above (kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2016/05/new-pictures-for-french-crusader.html)

I have for some time now thought about getting some French soldiers for the crusader era. Here are are the start of such an force.

For the start I painted two units of crossbowmen in Lions Rampant terms or one standard sized unit and one small sized in Hail Caesar. The are actually two miniatures to much in this batch but thats because I was missing two miniature in an earlier painted unit.

I went with one unit carrying a rather generic "French" colours of blue with a yellow "French lilly" , the other unit is carrying the colours of the House of Lusignan, http://wappenwiki.org/index.php/House_of_Lusignan and which happen to look similar in style to the House of Hvite, http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2014/11/ebbe-sunesen-hvide-af-knardrup.html from my Medieval Scandinavian project making it easy for these to have more then one use.

http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/search/label/Medieval%20Scandinavia


Sorry for the bad pictures, its not easy balancing my small son in one arm keeping him from arms reach of the miniatures and the camera in the other combined with the lousy weather and sunlight.

Edit: Here are some more pictures I took with the phone.