| jeeves | 01 Mar 2014 11:10 p.m. PST |
Which models do you like for a German army around the time of the Battle of Lechfeld? I'm tempted to go with museum miniatures. Will any dark ages stuff do basically? |
| WCTFreak | 02 Mar 2014 3:20 a.m. PST |
Donnington has a range for ottonians |
| jeeves | 02 Mar 2014 8:12 a.m. PST |
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| GurKhan | 02 Mar 2014 10:54 a.m. PST |
QR do a small range – the "Early Germans" at qrminiatures.pl Minifigs of course do a few – link Then there's Essex, the generic "Dark Age" range – link |
| jeeves | 02 Mar 2014 7:29 p.m. PST |
The Essex dark age range any good? They look mediocre on the website. |
| Lewisgunner | 03 Mar 2014 3:42 p.m. PST |
Essex are good and much of the stuff in their Dark Age and Saxon ranges with round shields will fit |
| jeeves | 03 Mar 2014 8:36 p.m. PST |
Avoid anything with the teardrop shields then eh? Is RMA110 early german Essex army pack any good? Is it accurate at all? |
| GurKhan | 04 Mar 2014 3:04 p.m. PST |
The earliest depiction of the kite ("teardrop") shield in Western Europe may be German, a mailed spearman on foot in the Gospels of Otto III (983-991) – see Oakeshott "The Archaeology of Weapons" fig.81, or Ian Heath "Armies of the Dark Ages" 2nd ed., fig. 61; and an unarmoured counterpart at fig.62. So for Lechfeld – well, there could already have been a few around 30-odd years earlier, but the odds are perhaps against it. |
| jeeves | 04 Mar 2014 9:38 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the info. Interesting stuff. |
| Lewisgunner | 06 Mar 2014 3:56 a.m. PST |
thereis a carved ivory church vessel which shows flattish oval shields, some of which have no boss. However, round shields are the overwhelming majority for Ottonians and other near time depicttions. They generally wear rounded two or four part helmets. |
| Swampster | 09 Mar 2014 1:47 p.m. PST |
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looks at some new terrain products, which use space age technology!
