What to do with an old army

[Scruff]

Hello all,

I recently started playing FoG due to a move and now have a group who plays ancients

As I never got into dbm, I haven't played ancients since wrg 7th days and am trying to see what I can use one of my armies as. My pre 500ad armies are good to go with a few figure tweaks but I am stuck on my old 7th edition 100 yrs war english.

Back in 7th I used a pile of long bow and mounted knights (inc the king who is very nicely painted if i say so myself) and no dismounted knights and well looking at the lists I can only use 1 unit of english knights (4-6 strong) who are average drilled sword, or a unit of gascons (4-6 strong) who are superior/average undrilled lance sword.

So any ideas as to what armies I can use these troops for?

cheers

[gozerius]

Medieval Burgundians get plenty of longbow and up to 24 mounted knights.

[philqw78]

Free Company

[kevinj]

If you've just got Knights and Longbow then Burgundian Ordonnance is probably your easiest starter. You can field the Knights as Mercenaries so they can be Undrilled Superior. After that you'll only need to add a few bits to make other armies.

Some Billmen/Dismounted Knights will give you English HYW/WOTR or Free Company. You probably don't need more than 12-16 bases.
Some Pikemen (16 bases) will give you French Ordonnance (and would also help the Burgundians and WOTR).
Some LF (Crossbow/Handgun/Javelin) and 4 LH with Crossbow and 4 with Javelin could be useful in a number of these.

Early Anglo Irish would also be worth looking at from where you're starting as well

[Scruff]

Thanks guys, that gives me something to start with. I think theres some pike in the lead pile somewhere ... maybe lol

cheers

[hazelbark]

Middle Plant is all knights and longbows.

[ravenflight]

Middle Plant is all knights and longbows.

I think it's not a bad army either. You can really muck around with points taking totally unarmoured bow for the right circumstance (in front of enemy knights for example). Probably less attractive in V2 where you will have more people getting points for 2 points of armour.