"Need help with minis for the German Peasant Revolts" Topic

Hi-

Anybody have any ideas which 28mm figures would be best used for the German Peasant Revolts. I have Landsknechts (Foundry), but i was wondering about peasants and other assorted mercenaries.

Can you bash some serviceable troops together with the Perry War of the Roses boxed sets?

Any help would be great-

Thanks!

Try GW Empire Militia and religious fanatics boxes. Militia especially is great for creating many different poses. Some Empire plastic landsknechts combined with Militia parts will also work. See if you can find GW boxes from the 90's on the net. Also, Mordheim figures. Foundry landsknechts will mix pretty well with those.

There is also a German company that makes excellent civilian figures for semi fantasy for the period. Just can't remember their name right now, I am sure someone in here knows.

I've painte a lot of Old Glory revolting peasants and most of them, if not all, will work for the period.

Lead adventure maybe?

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Yes, that's it! I never painted those and don't know how they mix with foundry. Also, I never mixed Perry and GW parts. In general, GW parts are larger than Perry.

I'm not sure the WotR stuff would work too well. For mercs (besides the obvious Swiss and Landsknechts) I would stick with "Early Renaissance" type figures, of which there are loads. Just make sure you don't have anything too outlandish, like a figure who is clearly Spanish, Irish, Albanian, etc.

You might wan to take a look at 1st Corps' Hussite offerings for armed peasants; these were formerly Kingmaker miniatures. Despite being off by nearly a century, many are very suitable. N.B., I don't have any personally, so I don't know how they match size-wise with other ranges.

My German Peasants are largely from Old Glory's "Revolting Peasants" sub-range.
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Nice figures and lots of variety, not to mention a great price, especially if you have "the Card". Don't shy away from the "sticks and stones" guys; if you're half-way decent at minor conversions, you can drill out the hands and arm them. Same goes for the looters.

Even if you opt not to go with OG for figures, I strongly recommend them for your artillery and wagon needs. It's hard to beat the price and variety. Just trawl through their Late Medieval and Early Renaissance lists and you'll have a suitably varied assortment of tumbrils, carts, hay wagons, light guns, etc.

Progloria:
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TAG:
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Artizan

Old Glory's renaissance ranges are one some of their nicer ranges- between their Italian Wars, Eastern Renaissance, Vlad the Impaler, and Wars of Religion lines you should find most of what you need.

Rich

Foundry have just found the moulds for an in-period German Peasant blister – amongst a number of other late medievals by Ronnie. I saw them on the rails in their shop on Tues. Figures looked lovely – and actually exist, unlike Pro Gloria.Artizan are 'just' further Lanschnechts. Old Glory peasants are a good route.Kingmaker/1st Corps includes some useful figure,particularly women with weapons, but the armoured figures look very early indeed and are in a static style unlike the active looking unarmoured ones!

and actually exist, unlike Pro Gloria

Pro Gloria actually has a small but beautiful selection of metal models that have been already available for a good while. Unfortunately their online store seems to be unaccessible at the moment.

(Their plastics on the other hand…)