Sunday, August 05, 2018

Welsh Foote first Garden Wars Parade for ECW

The Welsh Brigade of Foote for my English Civil Warre Royalist Army takes to the Garden Wars field for its first exercises.

March past in column, with the senior (first painted) regiment leading.  Now all troops have their flocking and flags are flying in the morning sun.
The three Welsh commands, Army Command (to the left with cuirass and red plume), a horse commander (in green near the towne); both painted last year, and the new Foote Command, in white with red accents and many other little flourish details that only a Royalist Cavalier would appreciate.

The full line, with horse to the 'right' of the line (seen in the left of the picture)

Horse painted last year (soon to have three more new squadrons added)

Foote painted last year (the senior regiment)

All my Royalists will have white hat bands as much as possible (so as to quickly distinguish them on the field of battle)

These flags are all conjectural as I have not found that the Welsh actually used their own colors during the era, I wanted to have more distinguishing elements for the Royalists forces
Able to find many good samples of things to use on the flags for the Welsh forces I have set a 'color' of the Welsh Dragon on the white over green and the 'regimental' of some other pattern that I have found in reference to Wales.

That sets one full brigade, or 'division' as they called them in the era, for my Royalists; next after doing some commission works to pay a few bills, are going to be the Welsh Horse to complete the Welsh 1/3rd of the planned Royalist Army.  The others are Cornish, using some of the wars of religion minis so that force will have an antique feel in comparison to the Oxford 1/3rd which will be of the more modern sort of troops similar to the ones already standing in my Parliamentary Army.

2 comments:

Jonathan Freitag said...

Enjoyed seeing your troops on parade outdoors in the garden!

Mark, Man of TIN said...

Huzzah! Toy soldiers in their natural environment! A beautiful looking game.