Meeple Organization

So, true to my word, I ordered a bunch more meeples, small 15mm ones and Carcassonne-sized ones. I'm going to organize them in the 'XXX Rampant' manner, in groups of six and twelve. 

I have 12x cavalry in three colours, blue, green and red, these all will be organized to units of 6 figures, each with a lance and shield, to represent heavy cavalry. I have grey and brown meeples (also I can lift some more from a Carcassonne box) for medium and light cavalry troopers.

In total I have 80 infantry per these three colours and 50 more in yellow, and another few in white and beige. The 80 figure lots are going to have 8 banner bearers, and 2x12 figures of heavy, medium and missile infantry each. I'm not sure about the yellows yet, we shall see.

A Return to Meeple Warfare

While trying to get things on the Super Cheap side, for other real life reasons, I thought more about the planned Lion/Dragon Rampant project, and in the end decided to use my existing army of meeples instead of purchasing more figs, to save space and cost.

So I'm going to buy a few more meeples to complement the existing lot, and perhaps one more container to house the whole thing.

I'll also upgrade the meeples' weaponry with tooth pick bows, spears and coffe stirrer shields. This shall be a minor project that would result in playable armies in no time.

Going Medieval Ep.2, Dragon Rampant

I developed my original ideas somewhat and came to a few conclusions.

First of all, I managed to dig out the remainders of the last Aliexpress package (of the ripped-off Caesar knight figures that everybody likes on the Super Cheap Wargaming FB group), and all in all I could field a few units already. I have four mounted knights (a reduced figure number or half unit of heavy cavalry and a commander), a group of archers, a few standard bearers and foot sergeants, which is a good start.

Superhobby or Mojehobby or however you'd like to call it supplies most of the Dark/Light Alliance 1/72 plastics, and a few more interesting sets in between, so I would be able to field a lots of units cheaply and without having to resort to Chinamen using stolen products. (I wonder though if it's really stolen as Caesar is also a Chinese company and whether they just sold off their existing stock to someone else.)

Thus the setting would be, as in my previous attempt, my World in Chaos fantasy universe, where I could fight battles between various factions without having the need to adhere to historical authencity. If I can duplicate units for historical use, it's just the better.

Here's a few sets I would like:

- one or two box of knights, preferably early types, like the Italeri Teutonic Knights I have. 

- the Orion Vikings box, absolutely ahistorical but I have some toy soldier figures made in their fashion and like the horned helmets.

- HäT El Cid Spanish infantry, good early medieval to about 12th century mixed infantry, 8 units' worth in Rampant terms for cheap.

- Dark Alliance orcs and goblins, to represent the evil foe.

- Light Alliance Rohirrim (both the infantry and the horse), pretty good looking generic fantasy dudes.

When it comes to prices 1/72 scale is still king, most likely because it is unaffected by the rising production cost of metal figures. And the figures being of intermediate size, they are good for massed battles and small skirmishes too.

I'd like to wait a little before buying anything, because hopefully I'll be able to round up my 28mm 17th century Western European collection on the next Bloody Miniatures 'Not at Salute' sale, and don't wish to overspend.

Going Medieval

I've had 1/72 scale medieval armies before, and I made multiple attempts to organize the also very famous Aliexpress 200 troops pack into a core army on foot, with little success.

As always, the reason of my failure was a lack of cohesive plan, both rules- and concept-wise.

To start with the latter, my new concept involves a few things:

- late 13th/early 14th century Hungarian topics

- my World In Chaos fantasy setting

- my Schultze-Böhnstadt imagi-world, which can be in conjunction with the first one (I started on this before, my plan is to include noble houses named after German beer brands).

And the rules would be

- SBH for small actions

- Lion Rampant for large skirmishes

- Gudugan Pudugan house-rules for larger battles (I can remove the fluff from this and play as is)

The 1/72 figure market is very broad, and one thing I don't want to do is be especially pedantic, neither with period dress nor the painting. Further, 1/72 figures are at a decent intermediate scale, so they can be used both for skirmishes and big battles.

For small skirmishes I'll use figs on 40x20 cavalry and round 20mm infantry bases, while for larger battles a well tried-out method is to have 3 cav or 6 infantry on a 60x40 rectangular base, my WSS/GNW troops are based this way.

Now back to scouring cheapo kits.