Coerls

For some light relief I have been painting some Saxon Coerls for my '1066 & All That' project. These are Wargames Foundry of course, sculpted by Matt Bickley early in his career. I started this collection not long after they were first released back in the day and if I recall rightly this is the fourth basing scheme I've used for them. Rebasing, one of the underated joys of the hobby giving the wargamer new units without having to paint more figures! I've already shown the two figures I used for a skirmish base, but in case you missed it, here it is ~

Skirmish bases are a new development for my Dark Age collection as we have moved from Neil Thomas's Ancient and Medieval Wargames rules to Hail Caesar following the release of the second edition.

When the figures were laid out on the tabletop battlefield in GHQ I thought I might add some so I ordered two packs of Saxon figures to populate a base of Coerls. In our games a unit can be represented by one base, or two skirmish bases, though as I almost inevitably add more that can evolve I'd guess! Anyway, here's the latest base of Saxons added to the game ~

Right now I'm painting some North Star Canadian Militia I picked up at Partizan. The figures are simple and cleanly cast so they seem to like the brush and suit my geriatric-in-waiting painting talents!