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Bretonnia 

My Bretonnian army is one that is far from complete- primarily because many of the guys I play with all collect them.  Therefore, it has been a low priority on my painting list (seeing how Bretonnian armies would never have a cause to fight each other and I always use them as field commanders when I have a scenario that utilizes a Bretonnian force).

 

That said, I have many models that are complete and many more guest photos from Tim Murray's collection that are displayed here.  Below is a shot of Tim's latest army riding out from his scratch-built castle.

 

 

As for my Collection Stats
232 models
73 painted (30%)
Largest legal force I can play with entirely painted models:  0 points
Estimated goal strength for the collection when completed:  Minimum of 3,000 points
 
Bretonnian Characters

 Morgianna le Fey

 

The Green Knight (painted by Josh Lyons)

 

Heroes on foot (painted by Donny Furbush)

 

Damsels (the one on the left painted by Tim Murray).  The Damsel on the right is an old Ral Partha model.

 

Mounted Damsel & Unit Standard Bearer.  The standard bearer is a converted Battle Masters model by Donny Furbush.  I haven't figured out a unit to assign it to, yet.

 

Tim's latest army theme is the army of "Morningstar" a Lord character converted from the Empire Valten figure from the Storm of Chaos era.  He uses a consistent paint theme throughout the army and has a method of "progression" as knights become more experienced and more powerful.  Above is his Battle Standard Bearer.  Note the shields embedded in the barding have been filed off.

 

The progression of Tim's knights from Knight of the Realm, to Questing Knight, to Grail Knight, to character.  Only unit Champions have the morning star painted on their shields.  The Knight of the Realm, pictured in the front, is not a unit champion.  Whereas the Battle Standard (a character) has full-red barding.

 

Tim chose to put his Damesels on yellow barded horses and used the Empire Battle Wizards color schemes to distinguish the lores of his Damsels.  This is the Damsel with the Lore of Beasts.

 

Green represents the Jade Wizards of old, which were the Lore of Life.

 

 Bretonnian Core Troops

Men-at-arms with Spears - This unit is a mixture of many old models made by Games Workshop, Reaper, Metal Magic, Ral Partha and Alternative Armies.

 

The Command Group with an obvious Empire themed banner that I drew freehand on paper many years ago.  It's been drafted into the Bretonnain army, since I'd be unable to detach it without ruining it.

 

Men-at-arms with Halberds - (Below) Most of these models are from Wargames Foundry.

 

The command groups have a more diverse character:  The Champion to the left is a Ral Partha model painted by Tim Murray.  The Bard is also Ral Partha, painted by my brother as a D&D character many years ago.  Elvis is also a Ral Partha model who got drafted into the Bretonnain army a few years back.

 

Knights of the Realm:  This is one of the units from Tim Murray's old Bretonnian Army back in the days of 4th Edition.  In these early days, he went with the traditional method of painting all of his Knights of the Realm in various colors.  The blue mage riding in with this unit is now part of my Empire Army.

 

Tim's current Knights of the Realm, in service of The Morningstar, sport green and cream half tones on their barding.  The squares at the top of the shields indicate the pattern of the next unit up (in this case, the Questing Knights) that these men aspire to become.

 

Tim's peasant bowmen are distinctively peasants- depicted by their drab brown clothing.

 

As a non-tournament player, Tim would not let the restrictions of GW rules limit what he could add to his collection.  So, he chose this unit of Empire Great Swords to represent heavy foot knights in his army (essentially Knights Errant on foot), but also uses them as regular men-at-arms when playing against more traditional opponents.

 

 Bretonnian Special Units

Mounted Yeomen.  These models from my collection were purchased on EBay.

 

Tim's mounted Yeomen maintain their peasant heritage rather than sporting the colors of their kingdom.

 

Tim's Questing Knights follow the 4th Edition guidelines where they use lances rather than great weapons.  Notice how they differ from the Knights of the Realm by having their barding colors quartered.  The shields show the checkered pattern of the Grail Knights.

 

 Bretonnian Rare Units

The Trebuchet.  I've grown pretty fond of this model.  The trebuchet is an old RAFM historicals model (and actually pivoted back & forth before I glued it down for convenience).  The crew are all from the Foundry villagers & peasants collection.  I use the wheelbarrow to track wounds against the war machine.  It's a GW piece.

 

The Rose Grails:  This attractive unit functioned as the Grail Knights for Tim Murray's 4th Edition Bretonnain Army and was the center-piece of the force.  He went with a unified theme for the unit and even custom made all of the decals.  They particularly stood out amongst the various individual paint schemes of his other knight units.

 

Here is the Morningstar leading his devout Grail Knights in Tim's latest army.  Rather than paint his barding red, Tim chose to pick out the separate chinks of the barding armor with the two primary colors of his force (green and cream).

 

For siege actions, Tim constructed several trebuchets from balsa and cardboard using my RAFM model as a guide.