RP No 140 More, Battle of Flodden Scots

These are not that recent, they were finished sometime in May, but what with the Boyne game and my current situation, they've been put on the backburner up until now.
These ten units represent the 10,000 men who fought on the Scottish left at The Battle of Flodden under Alexander Gordon, The Earl of Huntly and Alexander 3rd Earl of Home.
The Home and Huntly flags are from the period and can be found on my blog for download, while all the others are pure fiction and aren't on my blog, but if anyone wants then drop me a line and I'll send you the file.

On the left Alexander Gordon, The Earl of Huntly

on the right Huntley's men from Inverness.

Alexander Gordon, The Earl of Huntly

The Earl of Huntley's men from Inverness.

The Earl of Huntley's Men from Aberdeen

The Earl of Huntley's Gordon's

Alexander 3rd Earl of Home Retinue

and Home's Borderers from Merse.

The Earl of Home's 2nd Retinue

Home's Borderers from Tevoitdale

Cuddy Home, the Paladin of Fast Castle (The Earls cousin)

Clan Kerr

RP No 129 Battle of Flodden 1513 - Scottish Pikes

A this year is the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden, in 1513 I thought I'd have a crack at getting some figures painted up for the Battle. my original plan was to refight the Battle at the Broadside Wargames show in June, but I won't get all the figures painted up in time. My initial plans were to use the army lists from the excellent ruleset "Warfare in The Age of Discovery". This called for approx 17 units of Scottish Pike, so the said figures were duly ordered from a various number of companies. BUT after reading the Osprey's "Battle of Flodden" Order of Battle I decided to extend the armies slightly.........ok a lot!!!

So the first 15 pike units will now just be for King James IV's Battle, comprising 15,000 men and here they are below....

Lord Irskine and the Earl of Morton's pike blocks

The Kings Houshold troops and Lord Home's pike blocks.

(Lord Home's pikes were not part of  the King's battle, they were in their own battle)

The Men of Edinburgh and the Earl of Rothis' pike blocks.

Keith, the Earl Marishal and Lord Borthwick's pike blocks.

Hamilton, Lord Innerwick and more Kings Household pike blocks.

Lord Sempill and Lord Maxwell's pike blocks

The Earl of Cassillis and Lord Seton's pike blocks.

Lord Ross and Lord Herries' pike blocks.

Lord Home

All the Pikemen are from Peter Pig's WotR range, while the front rank troops

are a mix of MY minis, Frei Corps, Feudal and Essex

The Edinburgh regt

Once again the front rank are mixed manufacturers, this time we have

Frei Corps, Peter Pig, Feudal and Frei Corps again

These troops were entered into Curt's Challenge, where I was accussed of sandbagging 

again, oh the cheek of it!!, They earned me a massive 546 points!!!

Most of the flags are downloadable from my blog, here!

RP No 120 Flodden - The Bastard Heron's Border Horse

One of 4 units of English Border Horse, I've recently painted up for the Battle of Flodden in 1513. The figures are from Essex Minis and are carrying the Banner of Thomas Lord Dacre 2nd Baron of Gilsland, Warden of the English West March. The flag was drawn by myself on MS Paint and is available here to download for free.

This unit plus the three others earned me 136 points in Curt's Analogue Painting Challenge.

An account of the Battle, by James Bell
"On James IV's left flank The Border Pikes under Lord Home, broke ranks and charged the English right wing, commanded by Edmund Howard. Howard's forces were outnumbered in this attack by three to one and totally unnerved by the attacking Pikes of Home, panicked and ran, leaving Howard with a few loyal men standing their ground. Howard put up a desperate but losing fight and although his standard bearer was dead and he had been downed three times, he managed to regain his feet each time and continue his struggle. Just as Home's Pikes were about to charge him yet again, no doubt with a borderers eye to the ransom, 1,500 of Lord Dacres Border Lances (made up of his men from Gilsland and  Bell's of Farlam), charged the Scottish flank and held them. Then a handpicked band of Border Reivers under the outlaw John "The Bastard" Heron, hacked their way through the Scots around Howard and freed him. Heron's Reivers "making even work before them" cut their way through the Scots towards the English ranks; on the way they were confronted by a party of Scots lead by the young Sir David Home, who was cut down and killed by Howard."

RP No117 Flodden Scots Archers and Artillery

More figures for my Flodden Scots army,  three units of Scottish archers and three artillery pieces, these figures were my 6th entry into the Analogue Painting Challenge, and earned me 88 points. The archers are all MY Miniatures, Scots bowmen, with a few English bowmen thrown in for good measure. As far as I've read there were no Scots bow units at Flodden, but they were present at Pinkie a few years later. 

As for the artillery, I bought these from ebay a few years ago and haven't a clue what make they are, they could be Minifigs, but I'm not sure at all, any ideas?????

RP No115 Flodden 15mm Highlanders

MacLeans of Duart

Hot on the heels of Wigmore Warrior John's 25mm Flodden figures, come my first 15mm figures for the Battle of Flodden. These are 3 units of Highlanders that fought on the right flank of the Scottish battle line. They were under the joint command of Archibald Campbell, Earl of Argyle and Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox.
All the figures are from MY Miniatures, they sell a great range specifically for Flodden, check them out! I've actually had the figures for around 6 years and have been planning on getting them finished before the 500th anniversay of the battle, but you know what its like, that little lead demon comes out and bites you on the arse and before you know it you've bought another period to paint. But thanks to Curt's Analogue Painting Challenge, (spelt correctly Curt....this time anyway?), all the other stuff gets a lick of paint, I've still got hundreds of the buggers to paint up and only 53 days left!!! Talking of the Challenge I'm currently at No 8 in the chart, only 800 odd points behind the runaway leader James. But at least I'm beating Fran!
These happy looking chaps along with another 4 units earned me 188 points in the Challenge. They're based up for the rules Warfare in the Age of Discovery.

Campbell's of Glenorchy

 Clan MacKenzie

Wigmore Warriors at Salute 2013 - The Battle of Flodden.

Last year I was contacted by John from Wigmore Warriors, Wargaming Group. He sent me some photos of his growing collection of figures that he's painting up for the Battle of Flodden, he has used some of the Flodden flags that I previously posted, which I'm very pleased about! Its great to see someone else using them apart from me.

John went on to say

" The Wigmore Warriors will be staging the Battle of Flodden 1513, probably we wont be the only ones as its the 500th anniversary of the Battle this year. We are a small group of friends and like minded wargamers spread from Luton to Essex who have been putting on games at Salute for twelve years.  Flodden is my baby, a guy from the battlefields trust planted the idea two years ago and your flags and a copy of Barrs book prompted me to get it going.  All the units will be represented. The figures are a mix of old Glory, Dixon and Redoubt Enterprises.  Figure scale is 1:100.

As for rules, I am not sure what we will use yet.  I have in mind Peter Pigs Bloody Barons or Lance and Longbows Polaxed."

So if your at Salute on the 20th April this year, go check them out, by the look of the figures it should be a great game.