Last summer, during
one my usual “visit” to my favorite miniatures shop, Goblin Torino, I saw some War of the Roses Perry boxes. The
miniatures have excellent poses and they are in plastic … the material I
prefer. So I decided to buy three boxes:
two war of the roses and one of mercenaries.
It was the first time
I painted war of the roses and, so, I bought some Osprey publications to be
sure of choosing the correct colors schemes for the different liveries.
I concentrated my
attention on the first period of English civil war 1455-1461. The period that
ending with one of the bloodiest battles of the war: Towton.
Two weeks ago I played
with Saga rules: the tomahawk studios wargame. There are no official Saga
armies for those battles and, currently, I’m the only club member with the war
of the roses miniatures but I designed my “warbands” using this game system
Twelve Yorkish archers with their warriors
The first struggle of the war can be
considered the fist St Albans battle. It was a Yorkish victory even
if Edward IV had around 7,000 men against the 2,000 Lancastrian troops.
Henry Beaufort men
Other pictures of the two armies
And finally a particular of the two command groups
