Sunday, April 24, 2011

Drummond and Lawers Horse

This is the smaller of the two Covenanter cavalry regiments.  It represents the three troops of Morayshire cavalry, the remanants of Lord Gordon's regiment who did not defect to the royalist cause.  In game terms they really shouldn't be rated any different either tactically or in levels of experience or moral.  The balance of the unit is the troop of Campbell of Lawers.  Rather than have them in two small units it looks better to bulk them up.  Given most rule sets don't really make much of supports this is probably okay.

The flag is pure conjecture - there being no record of the original.  That being said I tried to use traditional motifs (cross-swords, thistles and covenant slogan) and chose a green back ground in contrast to the the red of the other unit (Halkett's).  This will probably be the last post for a while as I'm working on the Northern levies just now and it's going at a snails pace.












5 comments:

War Minister Crittumbo said...

Nice work, very well painted.

Christopher(aka Axebreaker) said...

They look just great and really like the basing as well.

Cheers
Christopher

Bedford said...

Some very nice brushwork here!

Great to see that this project is still on the go Roy.

Darrell.

Rank Bajin said...

Thanks Guys - lots of good inspiration from your work!

all the best

roy

Bluewillow said...

lovely, I am sure I seen a written refernce of the Lawers horse, I will have a look and get back to you.

cheers
matt