Friday, 11 October 2024

More TYW French

 I've finished another unit for my TYW French army.

This unit is 'flagged' to be the Duplessis Joigny Regiment. You may be aware that this regiment didn't actually fight at Rocroi, however this will instead stand as the somewhat vaguley titled 'Mixed Infantry Regiment' instead - but they still needed a flag! The Duplessis Joigny regiment will mean it can of course represent that regiment in other engagements.

The mixed regiment at Rocroi consisted of a mix of the d'Harcourt, d'Aubetetter and de Gesvres regiments (source: Helion's "The Battle of Rocroi 1643).

The figures are a mixture of Warlord with some Redoubt thrown in. I've also replaced a couple of heads on the Warlord figs to give it a little more variety.






The base in the background is so I can take a few bases and use them in a friend's game using the 'Twilight of the Divine Right' rules. I have based them so they can be used for either Pike and Shotte or Impetus.

You may notice there are fewer pikes in this unit - the previous two units were - I think - slightly larger than most, so this number of pikes will be more likely to be the size of future units.

However - next up in TYW land will be a unit of Harquebusiers. These will be German in nature as the French army incorporated Bernard of Saxe-Weimar's forces later in the war.