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After some resistance I finally decided to make some defensive spearmen to use as northern spearmen (WOR) Castilian/Portuguese defensive spearmen, Hungarians etc. Offensive spearmen seems no problem as I use pikes bases in shallow or mixed bases BGs . But how to represent defensive spearmen baffled me. The basic figures with spear and shield look too much XIV century. A front rank with pavises/spear on BGs with mixed weapons figures could be a solution, but maybe not be appropriated for all the armies of late XV c. All advice will be very welcome.

Vexillia do 15C Polish armoured pavisiers that look the part. Code vxfe006 ...

http://www.vexillia.ltd.uk/vexillia/sho ... d.html#t-1

Thanks, unfortunately I forgot to say that we use 25/28mm . But something like that is really what I need, maybe with a mix of armored and unarmored for more flexibility.

Rekila wrote:After some resistance I finally decided to make some defensive spearmen to use as northern spearmen (WOR) Castilian/Portuguese defensive spearmen, Hungarians etc. Offensive spearmen seems no problem as I use pikes bases in shallow or mixed bases BGs . But how to represent defensive spearmen baffled me. The basic figures with spear and shield look too much XIV century. A front rank with pavises/spear on BGs with mixed weapons figures could be a solution, but maybe not be appropriated for all the armies of late XV c. All advice will be very welcome.

In 28mm you can use the Perry Merc's. They're meant to be Swiss/Burgundian pikemen, but being plastics it's not a headache to cut the spears down.

I think that the difference between defensive and offensive spearmen was in the training rather than weapon/protection. It was much easier to get men to stand in a shieldwall than to attack one.
I use Essex figures for all of mine as they have a good range of different figures.