Crusades - Mix different liveries in BGs or not???

gavin · Post by **gavin** » Wed May 28, 2008 9:05 am

Hi all,

I am about to start painting my Crusade army, havign found some resource for livery form the period (plus the ones I will make up lol) but I was wondering...

Obviously, for the religious order BGs (later crusades list) I will have BGs all of the same livery, but for the non religious order BGs, should I have BGs of one livery only, or mix them up?

What are your thoughts?

Cheers in advance.

NealSmith · Post by **NealSmith** » Wed May 28, 2008 11:54 am

Mix them up!

If you are talking infantry, then you can have a lot of the same livery, but for knights you should mix it up.

Neal

expendablecinc · Post by **expendablecinc** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:31 pm

If you want to be ambitious do two bases of each spear with all identical shields. Adds lots of variety withtou them lookign piecemeal. Justify this by all of the foot from various sources may have been clustered together to form a decent sized unit, but being equiped by whichever baron dragged them across the continent.

The other thing it avoids is locking them down to battlegroup size. If you do 8 elements of spear with one heraldry and 8 with another that will look great if you always stick to the 8 base unit size but if wanting to try 12 or so it starts to look like they arent what they were originally intended. sticking to bases alike in pairs avoids this.

Anthony

gavin · Post by **gavin** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:54 pm

Good stuff!!

Cheers guys

hazelbark · Post by **hazelbark** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:54 pm

I used to be have a base or BG or all one livery.

I have now decided that looks too napoleonic parade ground. And have shifted to the mixed up livery and colors. It looks more like an army. It looks more like a movie. All around it is better.

So I try and mix up as much as possible now.

Probert · Post by **Probert** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:48 am

For non-order knights and infantry I would mix it up. Looks better, probably reflects history better, and allows you to be more creative.

Of course it takes longer too.

gavin · Post by **gavin** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:53 pm

Probert wrote:For non-order knights and infantry I would mix it up. Looks better, probably reflects history better, and allows you to be more creative.

Of course it takes longer too.

Not sure it takes any longer to be honest.

I'm painting my first BG of none Order Knights and I haven;t noticed it taking any longer. I paint the knights armout, then the horses, then the horses tack, the I break the BG down into Pairs, pick a colour and paint it on in a random livery that springs to mind. Then tot he next 2 minis.

The only addition to the time is the picking of the next colour/s and that's it.

Hopefully, if I get the time, I will have the BG finished this weekend so will post picks for comments.

OhReally · Post by **OhReally** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:00 am

gavin wrote:
Probert wrote:For non-order knights and infantry I would mix it up. Looks better, probably reflects history better, and allows you to be more creative.

Of course it takes longer too.
Not sure it takes any longer to be honest.

I'm painting my first BG of none Order Knights and I haven;t noticed it taking any longer. I paint the knights armout, then the horses, then the horses tack, the I break the BG down into Pairs, pick a colour and paint it on in a random livery that springs to mind. Then tot he next 2 minis.

The only addition to the time is the picking of the next colour/s and that's it.

Hopefully, if I get the time, I will have the BG finished this weekend so will post picks for comments.

I demand pretty pictures!

Crusades - Mix different liveries in BGs or not???

Crusades - Mix different liveries in BGs or not???

they all came marching two by two, hurrahh, hurahh