Arab Horse Archers and a Campaign

Digging through the depths of The Lead Pile brought up three more horse archers to add into the 28mm Reconquista project.  Enough cavalry linger in the stockpile to field two or three more cavalry units.  No more horse archers, however, but heavier cavalry wielding either lances or spears.

These three horsemen are from Black Tree Design and are fine sculpts.  The only problem I have with these light horsemen is that the galloping horses do not have solid connections to the base.  Points of contact are weak.  I always must use care in cleaning them up, basing, and in use on the game table. 

Out of curiosity, I tallied the number of figures painted for this collection and came up with totals of 130 cavalry and 479 foot.  For some reason, I thought the collection was larger since two armies deployed take up a fair bit of real estate.  Besides the horse units noted above, there are enough unpainted figures to field several more foot units.

Mitteleuropa map
courtesy My Wargaming Habit

On the gaming front, Richard (My Wargaming Habit) has launched a six-player PBeM game using his Mitteleuropa Campaign.  I take on the role of Duke of Brandenburg.  We will see how I fare.  In addition to the first turn's strategic landgrab on the map shown above, Richard hosted an introduction to Flower of Chivalry rules that will be used in fighting conflicts when empires collide on the map.  In this game, Ray and I fell in defeat to Steve and Dan. Perhaps our ineptitude on the field of battle was a ruse?  Should be fun and hats off to Richard for organizing this massive undertaking.  More details about the campaign can be found on Richard's blog.