| Malatesta1500 | 14 Jul 2015 2:48 p.m. PST |
Hi Guys, The block has grown to a ridiculous 292 figures but you can never have enough Landsknechts!
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| Knob | 14 Jul 2015 3:16 p.m. PST |
I hope you're are on defense because I would hate to have to move that unit across the table lol |
| Oh Bugger | 14 Jul 2015 4:27 p.m. PST |
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| IanKHemm | 14 Jul 2015 4:38 p.m. PST |
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| Katzbalger | 14 Jul 2015 4:54 p.m. PST |
Now THAT is a pike block! Very impressive--the enemies of the Empire must be quaking in their boots. Rob |
| Combat Colours | 14 Jul 2015 5:40 p.m. PST |
That is awesome! Very inspiring. :P |
| Whatisitgood4atwork | 14 Jul 2015 9:12 p.m. PST |
Applause from over here in the cheap seats. Loud applause. |
 Yellow Admiral  | 15 Jul 2015 10:19 a.m. PST |
Very, very nice. I want to play in your games.  Those pikes are preternaturally straight, so I'm guessing they're wire. A clumsy moment while reaching across the pike block could put real blood on the battlefield… Did you make them or buy them? - Ix |
| Malatesta1500 | 15 Jul 2015 11:04 a.m. PST |
Cheers for the comments guys. Yellow Admiral the Pikes are made from florists wire that I have cut to the correct length. They aren't sharp as there would indeed be real blood if they were. I still managed to get a few straight in my forehead when I was rebasing the figures and leant down from my painting desk to pick something up! |
| HarryB1961 | 15 Jul 2015 12:08 p.m. PST |
That's jaw dropping at 28mm. Can you possibly imagine what the real thing looked like ? |
| Kropotkin303 | 15 Jul 2015 1:46 p.m. PST |
Amazing. Makes my Ral Partha Pikes look way too small. Great paint job and flags. Just out of curiosity does anyone know the likely casualties such a block might receive in a major action? How effective were this sort of "unit"? Sorry i'm not sure if a pike block was a regiment or company. |
| Clays Russians | 15 Jul 2015 6:54 p.m. PST |
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Puster  | 17 Jul 2015 12:53 p.m. PST |
> likely casualties such a block might receive in a major action? Judging from the Swabian and Italian wars, around 30-40% if you were on the losing side and able to retreat. 90%+ if not able to retreat, like at Pavia where the Black band was practically annihilated, or at Ceresole where they were surrounded and managed to surrender. The "winning" side gets between 1% and up to 30%. Just from memory, without checking the actual ybooks. |
 oldbob | 20 Jul 2015 9:24 p.m. PST |
I do like the Swiss in photo #10. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 28 Jul 2015 5:49 a.m. PST |
It's not often that something makes a Renaissance Swiss pike block look puny, but that certainly does! Excellent effort. |
