For this post I’ve been working on some late casualty bases
for my late HYW project. These will be used for wargaming when I eventually get
around to doing that.
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All the casualties together
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Doing smaller projects like this give me nice breaks in between
working on larger units. So these and command bases are always little bits of
fun that I give myself to do, which don’t require to much thinking.
These are infantry casualties and depict both French and
English examples, with some generic ones thrown in for flexibility. The figures
are a mix of Perry WoTR causalities mixed in with some of their carroccio figures
(these can be found in their European Armies range), the latter with the
praying figures can really help make some nice era appropriate vignettes. I’d
like to take credit for this idea, but credit where credit’s due it came from
my friend Oli over at Camisado.
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A French infantryman contemplating where it all went wrong
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The circular bases with counter are available from Warbases and are v handy for this sort of thing
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Another French infantryman in the process of taking an arrow
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English billmen mourning a lost comrade
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An English man at arms helped off the field by a brother in arms, perhaps from his personal retinue?
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I haven’t gone in for loads of blood and gore, which would
invariably be more realistic, in so far as one can be with 28mm figures, so
have opted for more muted depictions of fallen soldiers. Not that I’m afraid of
grisly things, it’s more just modelling that kind of thing just doesn’t hold
any interest for me.
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A priest gives a man at arms his last rights
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A priest going about his business giving spiritual sustenence to the fallen
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A lightly armed infantryman who's luck had run out
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I remember reading the book ‘Bloody Roses’ about a mass
grave dug up from the battle of Towton. What struck me was some of the injuries
people had survived, with people having significant facial wounds that healed
and then gone back into soldiering. This was no less true in the HYW and I
remember reading a depiction (I can’t recall where of the top of my head) of
an examination of the skeleton of a known HYW war captain who’d fought over there
permanently (as opposed to on campaign). He’d had healed fractures and missing
front teeth and I rather suspect this was not uncommon amongst the permanent
military forces stationed over in France. A tough life was a soldiers lot.
