| Testiculies | 20 Jul 2014 7:54 a.m. PST |
The title says it all. I want high quality, GB or better 28mm crossbows. Tia |
| nochules | 20 Jul 2014 9:03 a.m. PST |
Architects of War has GB. link |
| FABET01 | 20 Jul 2014 10:36 a.m. PST |
Blacktree Designs USA has some. There quality is hit and miss so you'll you'll have to decide for yourself> link |
Dervel  | 20 Jul 2014 10:50 a.m. PST |
I have these from Old Glory, they mix well with my Gripping Beast and other figures… link
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| Louie N | 20 Jul 2014 12:13 p.m. PST |
The Warstore carries Perry miniatures link |
| Goshawk | 20 Jul 2014 7:55 p.m. PST |
Just the question I was about to ask, having returned from Historicon without Norman crossbowmen. I think I bought just about everything else… Thanks for the links! |
| Robert Burke | 20 Jul 2014 10:06 p.m. PST |
Crusader Miniatures has Norman crossbowmen. link I think you can buy them in the US from Architects of War. |
| Ran The Cid | 21 Jul 2014 4:42 a.m. PST |
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| Testiculies | 22 Jul 2014 3:07 a.m. PST |
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 oldbob  | 08 Aug 2014 3:53 p.m. PST |
They always look great on the Battle field, but most rules have some type of penalty when using them. I prefer regular archers instead of crossbowmen, and usually cheaper in cost. |
| Great War Ace | 09 Aug 2014 8:37 a.m. PST |
Old Glory has nice looking Norman crossbowmen. If the rools are working properly, the crossbow has its own built-in penalty, no tricks required. It's one advantage is that it hits harder than a "war bow" of the period, any period, because as bows increased in numbers, crossbows increased in penetrative power (with a cost in rate of shot, of course, thus the pavise enters the scene). The harder the crossbow hits, the slower it shoots…. |
| oldbob | 15 Aug 2014 7:28 a.m. PST |
Great War Ace; I've notice that you have used a 1 to 10 ratio in your Diorama of Hastings, for Crossbow to Archer. Would you please inform this uneducated one on how you came to this conclusion. Very nice Blog you have! |
| Great War Ace | 18 Aug 2014 7:29 a.m. PST |
The pics are not that clear, so your estimate of "1 to 10" crossbow to bow is a bit low. I make crossbow c. twenty-five percent of the whole. As the crossbow was a relatively new weapon, and as nowhere in Europe outside of Italy did crossbows outnumber war bows, I figured that in this early period crossbows ought to be noticeably fewer in number than bows. The Bayeux Tapestry has that little opening scene of four "marksmen", only one of which is wearing mail. Lacking any other original source for making an informed guess, I used that ratio to limit my crossbow (Morton and Muntz posited that the mailed archer might be representative of a crossbowman, stitched by an ignorant artisan who had never seen a crossbow but had heard of them; seems like a stretch to me; and besides, crossbowmen of that period were also predominantly unarmored like archers, so there is no special reason for assuming that the mailed archer might be a poorly rendered "crossbowman")…. |
| oldbob | 18 Aug 2014 7:40 a.m. PST |
Great answer and insightful. Myself and that Tapestry, the book that is, have spent many hours to gather. I do remember that scene you speak of. Thanks for your reply. |
