"Non-character figures for A Song of Ice and Fire" Topic

My thoughts were that the setting is roughly analogous to HYW, however, now I'm wondering if it isn't closer to the WotR. Any thoughts?

As far as figures go, I was eyeing the Perry's, however, as I'm not familiar with 28mm medievals, any suggestions as to other lines that would go well with them?

I am only about halfway through the second book, so any suggestions for faction-specific kit/outfitting/visual style would be welcome as well.

Thanks,
Jim

To clarify (it is a poorly worded topic title), I am looking for figures to represent the armies in the field, not the POV-characters who variously lead, sabotage, or run away from them.

Dark Sword Miniatures make the official ASoIaF miniatures:
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Granted, that's mostly characters, which isn't what you asked for. However, it gives an idea of the look GRRM was going for, and the line does include Night's Watch, Gold Cloak (?), Wildling and Hedge Knight non-character models.

The author was inspired by the wars of the roses when he wrote the books.

I always thought the mirliton 25mm fantasy human range recalled the Martin books.

Yeah, GRRM has gone on the record and said it's basically WoTR with fantasy elements.

Joey

However, the armor styles are all over the place- there's chainmail, scale, half and full plate described.

Personally, I'd go for more WOTR-era miniatures for the southern areas (Westerlands, the Reach, etc) and 100 Years War-era miniatures for more northern areas (Riverlands, the Starks and bannermen, etc). The Ironmen are basically classic vikings, and the Dornish probably should be a mix of Spanish and Turkish models.

There is not too much faction specific kit described, most of the armies are of similar composition. One of the few threads I could discern was that crossbows appear more often in southern armies, longbows more often in the northern armies. Areas with cities in them probably have semi-regular troops in the form of city watch (Gold Cloaks). I believe that cavalry in general is more common in the south, but I don't have specific information to back that up. Many of the nobles in the North are not knights, but that appears to have little or no impact on how they fight.

-Will

The Dornish to my mind were Cornish, with a Spanish Portuguese look about them. They would still however be armoured in a similar manner to the rest. Like wise with the northerners and iron islanders.. while they may have a more Anglo-Saxon, Viking look to them (longer hair and beards) they to are still depicted in the book as wearing the same armour, heraldry and carrying similar weapons to the rest of them.

To me, for Westeros any WotR ere troops would fit for rank and file. Some of the more exotic countries out east are where you would find your "turkish" "slavic" "arab" looking armies.