Rakkasan | 20 Nov 2012 11:30 a.m. PST |
I am looking to build a human army to battle my orcs and goblins. I plan to use the appropriate army book as a guide to set up the force but am not planning to use GW figures. I may use Mighty Armies, Armies of Arcana, RRtK, or even a variation of Blood and Swash to actually fight the battles. I have read some good advice on TMP about what figures to use and will probably use a mix of Old Glory and Foundry with some GW figs for certain rare or special types. So which do you recommend; the Knight/peasant Bretonnians or the Polish/cossack Kislevites? Thanks |
kallman | 20 Nov 2012 11:58 a.m. PST |
Well if you are not going to use Warhammer as the rules does it really matter which force as long as it is one you like the look of? Personally the Bretonnian army is going to be more colorful with all the heraldry but will take longer to paint. On the other hand there is something dynamic about winged hussars charging into battle. |
CeruLucifus | 20 Nov 2012 12:00 p.m. PST |
Bretonnian figures are probably easier to source inexpensively via the used or alternative market. On the other hand the heraldry is more complicated unless you force yourself to keep it simple. The Kislev list as I recall had more limited troop choices, but of course that would matter less as you're using a different game system which presumably has well rounded army troop selections. |
mad monkey 1 | 20 Nov 2012 1:12 p.m. PST |
Kislev. Winged Hussars and Cossacks. |
Volstagg Vanir | 20 Nov 2012 2:00 p.m. PST |
Giant Bears and a War Wagon vs. Pegasi and a Unit of Knights. The Choice is Obvious. |
YogiBearMinis | 20 Nov 2012 2:07 p.m. PST |
Kislev has options for Tsar on a Bear, the Ice Queen, and a weird fusion of Muscovite meets Mongol. Bretonnia is just late feudal French plus English longbowmen. Ho-hum. |
Doctor X | 20 Nov 2012 2:41 p.m. PST |
Brettonians will not have black powder weapons, Kislev will. |
Pictors Studio | 20 Nov 2012 3:21 p.m. PST |
I would go with Kislev myself. The winged hussars alone would do it for me. |
CPBelt | 20 Nov 2012 6:20 p.m. PST |
Eastern Renaissance is awesome, plus Old Glory make great figures for the period. Check their Cossack Wars for lots of characters. BTW you might want to check Warmaster instead. It can play with 28mm no problem since stand based. |
Pedrobear | 20 Nov 2012 6:29 p.m. PST |
Cheap plastic Fireforge knights and MAA vs. more expensive metal medieval Polish figures? |
KTravlos | 21 Nov 2012 4:57 a.m. PST |
Both :p since it is fantasy why not paint some kinghts and man at arms, to represent more "empirised-brettonianised" elements of the army, and also Winged Hussars and Cossaks to represent more tradtional elements. I mean the historical Polish-Lithuanian army had such a strcuture (with the foreign, Polish and Lithuanian contingent) |
Griefbringer | 24 Nov 2012 1:48 p.m. PST |
Kislev army list certainly allows for them to be taken as allies for a Bretonnian force. |