"TAG Henry viii" Topic

Hello, I have been looking at this range for quite a while, lovely figures but I don't have a clue where to start ! Can anyone suggest some good reading material for uniforms, organization etc ?

Many thanks,

Dave.

Ohh…me too…thinking of 15mm…patiently waiting for khurasan to produce their range…please,please,please….

I should add I have tried e-mailing TAG a couple of times but have had no reply which I understand is standard practice !

Hi Dave

The Osprey Armies of Henry VIII is a fairly good introduction and if you want a more detailed study I thoroughly recommend James Raymond's Henry VIII's Military Revolution.

Both books cover the military aspects of his reign in full.

'An Ill jurney for the Englshmen' available from the Pike & Shot society is an essay studying first hand accounts of the 1523 campaign, also a good read.

Finally Cruikshank's Army Royal / Henry VIII and the invasion of France is an in depth study of the 1513 French Campaign though I'm guessing your interest is in the 1540's?

Hope that helps

Stuart

Pieces of "Renaissance Armies" by George Gush are published on Internet. Here is the part about Henri VIII, including book suggestions:
link

Of course googling "Army Henry VIII" also helps !

Oh, almost forgot: DO read Hillary Mantel: Wolf Hall for understanding the period !

Thank you chaps !

For the 1540s figures I would recommend:

The Anglo-Scots Wars, 1513-1550: A Military History (Warfare in History) – Has loads of battles and skirmishes in the 1540s that would suit these figures, it's a great read. link

For the uniforms and flags etc the Osprey is ok, more detail can be found in Ian Heaths book but it looks expensive at the moment, The Armies of England, Scotland, Ireland, the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands 1487-1609 (Armies of the Sixteenth Century) link

The Mercenaries Henry employed throughout his reign and his difficulties in hiring them are covered in Tudor Mercenaries and Auxiliaries, 1485-1547, link

And finally, ludicrously expensive but if you can get hold of a copy it has everything you would need to know about the French campaign in the 1540s that these figures are specifically for, Henry VIII and Francis I (History of Warfare) link

Wow,thank you all !!

> ludicrously expensive
Indeed – just searched for it, and the publisher 202 EUR for the book, but just 195 EUR for the eBook version. No idea who creates such a pricing – if its out of print then prices may go up for a time, but these seem to be made directly from the publisher.

I am interested in that matter, but not to that degree…

BTW: TAG is mainly a one man show, and Pete is currently casting a lot of minis for his (Halflings) and other Kickstarters (SS2). I was never disappointed when I had issues with customer service (usually mispacks, never failed casts), but questions to other topics often get priority 2 and thus are lost.

It's Brill Publishing, their prices are on the high side even for an academic publisher. Yet apparently university libraries and the like are willing to pay them.

Well, 200 EUR for a book certainly limits the number of private customers severely. Their business model on these must be that they gain more by the high prices of the (few) organizations then they would get by selling more books at sensible prices – probably because for such a topic the "more" does not count for a sufficient number. Imho its just a bit sad that all the work of Potter is reserved for the wealthy. Personally I would want my work to be available for a wide audience, not just the academic elite.