Art De La Guerre

[76mm]

Hi, I'm just getting into ancients and medieval minis, and will be starting with some 13th century feudal armies. Before ordering/printing any figures, I want to clarify what kind of models I should use for medium knights (impetuous) vs medium knights (impact)? IIRC I read that impact knights rely on the lance, while impetuous knights...don't. So does that mean that impact knights should be depicted with a lance, while impetuous knights should have a sword or mace? Or is there some other convention that is used?

[borkil63]

There is nothing to distinguish the 2. They are the same models. But most of the time, the impact knights are often those of the religious orders (Templar, Hospitaller, Teutonic), of which you can try to make a sort of color code for those you wish to play in impact, and varied colors and emblems for the impetuous

[76mm]

Thanks, I'm glad I checked!

I'm having similar problems with other types of troops...for instance, I see that I can have "Heavy Spearmen" and "Heavy Spearmen with Armor"...what is a Heavy Spearman without armor? I have a bunch of similar questions for various unit types....is there somewhere that goes into some detail about what types of models should be used to represent particular types of unit?

More generally, I've never played or even seen a minis game, but I'm guessing that the etiquette would be for your opponent to be able to clearly tell what troop types you have by looking at the models, or isn't it that easy?

[madaxeman]

At 15mm scale it’s often tricky to even see if troops have armour - and especially so for medievals where they could easily have chainmail under a surcoat

What most (all..?) of us do therefore is to make sure that we have a couple of readily identifiable units of troops like spears, so we can say at the start of a game  “The dudes with red shields are armoured, the green guys are not” - as often that sort of approach is easier for your opponent than relying on them spotting a bit of mail peeking out under a tabard. 

It’s no more onerous than that - make life easy for your opponent, and you’re all good 
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[76mm]

Thanks, makes sense. I'd still like to use figures as close as possible to correct so I guess will try to figure it out as I go.

Also, I plan to go with 10mm...I suppose that will make it very difficult to find opponents, but there AFAIK there is not an active group where I am anyway, and I don't intend to play in tournaments, etc.

[kevinj]

In ADLG the most important thing in game terms is the base width, If you have 10mm figures on a 40mm frontage base they would be usable against an opponent's 15mm figures and most people who play ADLG are sufficiently relaxed to have no problem with that.

[Mark G Fry]

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[Mark G Fry]

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