"Landsknecht Pike Block - 28mm Wargames Foundry" Topic
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| Sir Able Brush | 15 Mar 2017 4:58 a.m. PST |
Painted a good while ago…
Lots more pictures on the blog post here link |
| wrgmr1 | 15 Mar 2017 8:50 a.m. PST |
Looks great to me. I did find that the front rank lowered pike were a detriment to base contact denoting melee. |
| olicana | 15 Mar 2017 9:17 a.m. PST |
Indeed. It looks great but it does cause gaming problems. Sometimes it helps if you put an extension to the base to the length of the pike – you can't use that space anyway. The look of a block going into action (they wouldn't lower pikes until the last minute) can be obtained with the front pikes at 45 degrees – as per this unit of TAG Italians.
On the whole I think it works much better and I'd recommend the TAG 'front to back row' graded pike. It helps at the clash.
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| firebase2012 | 15 Mar 2017 2:37 p.m. PST |
Brillant. Very inspiring stuff. Thanks for sharing. |
Puster  | 16 Mar 2017 10:30 a.m. PST |
TAGs approach is pretty good. Otherwise the 45° are as ahistorical as you can get them, and I avoid the Old Glory Landsknechts for that reason. I put an optional base in front of them with lowered pikes. If you have two such battlegroups they usually can use that base together for a realistic look. Wish I would find the time to actually paint them :-) |
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