So I am making a small (3rd) Crusader army for War & Conquest.
I have the figs, but haven't started painting them yet.
But I am having trouble deciding just how to make up the units.
Here is what I have so far:
a unit if medium infantry (spears, shields)
a unit of dismounted knights
a unit or two of archers
I have purchased 3 boxes from Fireforge
2 boxes of Templars (because Western Knights was out of stock) & 1 box of mounted sergeants. The sergeants are pretty straight forward; the question is how to do the knights?
I want to make one unit of Military Order and one unit of regular knights. The make-up of the two boxes means I have 12 barded horses & 12 without barding.
One thought was to make the templars straight from the box. so 6 Brothers on barded and 6 Templar sgts without barding. The other box would be similar western knights.
Another thought – mostly for variety – would be to combine the Templars & Hospitalers into one unit of 12. So there would be 3 Templars on Barded & 3 Templar sgts w/o and 3 Hosptalers on barded & 3 without.
Were they ever "brigaded" like that?
I guess I could do two units of six and make them separate – but smaller units. But units die quick when they are that small.
I know I don't want to have two full units of military orders – wouldn't feel right for the size of the force I am building.
Would appreciate any thoughts.
Well, besides the "it's your army do what you want" variety. As a soloist – I know that already – LOL
