Slitherine

I know this is tricky to do because things varied by nationality, time period, region etc, but if you were trying to pick a single source image for the following troop types what would you think woudl be the most typical and graphically pleasing. We're looking for something that would do for a Western Medieval setting.

* Early medieval infantry (spear, halberd, pike)
* Mid period infantry
* Late medieval infantry

* Early medieval missile troops (archer/xb, handgun)
* Mid period missile troops
* Late medieval missile troops

* Early medieval knight
* Mid period knight
* Late medieval knight

Any suggestions welcome

What dates, roughly, do you have in mind for early, mid and late?

Makes a difference especially for knightly armour

It does not need to be any specific date - it's just about showing progression from early cheap units to later more powerful & expensive ones.

Well for knights you could have a progression something like:

Early - take from Bayeaux tapestry; mail hauberk, kite shield, nasal helm, no horse trapper, etc.

Mid - full mail, enclosed helm, heater shield, surcoat, horse trapper/barding with heraldry. Much like the chap on the front of Strom of Arrows in fact.

Late - full plate armour in either Milanese or German style (German with sallet or Milanese with barbute would be fairly recognisable), no surcoat, etc, horse with partial plate barding.

Hello:
Early medieval missile troops (archer/xb, handgun) :Norman/French unarmored archer
* Mid period missile troops: English longbowman / Genovese crossbowman
* Late medieval missile troops :French/Burgundian ordonnance archer/Castilian Santa Hermandad crossbowmen/ German Handgunners
Mikel

You might want to start with Edge and Paddock's "Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight", its a nice summary of the evolution of arms and armour not just of knights but of all types of European soldiers, and neatly broken down by centuries...

Have fun!
Cole

korvus wrote:You might want to start with Edge and Paddock's "Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight", its a nice summary of the evolution of arms and armour not just of knights but of all types of European soldiers, and neatly broken down by centuries...

Have fun!
Cole

Which I think I have if you (Iain) want to borrow it.

Thanks Nik - it's not important that things are that accurate for this, just a rough progression so I'll probably just grab some images off the web and guess at it to keep it quick and simple