Rallying the Knights

Lord Gawain's Crusade!

My Bretonnian army is on crusade in the continent of Araby, pursing the mischievous Tomb Prince who has slain Gawain's father among many of the Dukes of Bretonnia. Lord Gawain is the privileged lord to be assigned the task of pursing this Undead Fiend and to bring him to justice.

Most of my units will have white barding and various colour trim. For example, Knights of the realm will all have a red trim except for my lord's unit, who will be blue, matching my lords colour. Most of my peasants will also be in my lords crusading colour.

-Lord Gawain-

I used the Green Knight model for my Lord as I would never use the Green Knight as himself anyway. I like the pose of this model, it looks like he's preparing to engage a great opponent and cut off his head.

Usual Kit:

• Barded Warhorse
• Shield
• Virtue of Heroism
• Gromril Great-Helm
• Sword of Swift Slaying

-Prophetess Lauren-

For this conversion, I used the old Fey Enchantress model. I replaced the sword with a wood elf hero sword, replaced the chalice with a wood elf spellsinger staff, replaced the head with a glade guard head without armour or hood and rotated the body. I sculpted the hair with some cheap plastic putty that's really easy to use. I thimk I'm going to change her robes to be white with gold trim to make the model more interesting.

-Sir Armande, Battle Standard Bearer of Gawian's Court-

Sir Armande is a Grail Paladin who carries the army battle standard. Making the standard was reasonably simple. I used a metal frame that I found in my dad's masses of bits boxes and a spare high elf silver helm lace arm. Other than that, he's just an old Grail Knight model. I gave him a cross as his standard based on "the True Cross," a relic from the crusades.

usual kit:

• Barded Warhorse
• Enchanted Shield
• Dawnstone

This kit gives him a 1+ re-rollable armour save but he lacks offensive power. I might go back to using him with:

• Barded Warhorse
• Charmed Shield
• Dawnstone
• Sword of Might

This kit is more expensive but gives him a 2+ re-rollable aromour and strength 5.

-Sir Vallis-

Sir Vallis was a very easy conversion, all I had to do was put a knight of the realm head on a man at arms body. This Paladin is very useful when I'm stupid enough to take men at arms because he gives them a tiny bit of actual combat effectiveness but mainly, a good leadership without having to babysit them with a unit of knights. giving him the Crown of Cammand would also help if I am using the men at arms in horde formation as I doubt I'm going to be winning comabts much.

-Questing Knights WIP-

At least until the next book I'm going to be using these as cheap Paladins with great weapons to help my lances against stronger foes, like Warrioirs of Chaos for example. Having two in a unit along with either Sir Armande or Lord Gawain adds heaps of combat power as well as better protection for the unit.

I have painted them so far with a brown coat as questing knights will get very dirty. I am going to 'clean' them up a bit by adding patches of white as they wouldn't be coated in mud.

My painted army so far...