So introducing Faust’s Footpads, Averlander Mercenary Warband.
First up the heroes:

First shot, left to right, is Curt (youngblood, sword & buckler), Herrick Faust himself (captain, sword, brace of pistols) and Mallory (sergeant, sword, axe).
Second shot shows Werner and Clovis, the two bergjaegers, both armed with longbows and an unerring ability to miss easy targets. bah.

And the henchmen:

First is Cohen’s Clashers (a pair of greatsword armed mountain guard) and Dolph’s Dividers (a single halberder).
Second shot is Mungo’s Munchers (three bow armed halfling scouts).

You can see from the greatsword armed mountainguard I’m going for the tradtional yellow and black colourscheme. ‘proper’ painting like this really shows up my lack of brush skill, but never mind. The other two mountainguard and the captain and sgt will get similarly spangly outfits. The youngblood less so but along the same lines.

The bergjaegers and halflings will be in browns and muted tones.

Really like the halfling models, they’re from Black Hat Miniatures, who incidentally were very quick, with decent communication letting me know exactly what’s going on. Unlike Maelstrom and Wayland who both seem to prefer leaving me in the dark. Bah.

Anyway, that’s Faust’s Footpads. Need to get them all painted now.

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Spent ages trying to decide which one to go with, and ended up with the Averlanders. Why? Simple, they get halflings!

Here’s where we are so far:

That’s a youngblood with sword and buckler, and the captain with sword and brace of pistols. The second one show my mountain guard, two great swords and a halberd (obviously wip).

I love the greatswords, think it’s such an awesome looking weapon. And so long as they attack en masse they should do some real damage. WS4, so decent chance of hitting most things, then S5 if they connect will give even dwarfs and orcs something to think about. Just got to survive the enemy’s preemptive retaliation!

I’m also having a sergeant with a sword and an axe, then two bergjaegers with long bows. Then of course three halflings all with bows.

Ironically that’s 5 BS4 bow/longbows. There’s a good chance they’ll outshoot the Reiklanders. Which seems a little odd since they’re supposed to be all shooty n stuff. If they get that far I really want one of those old empire ogres, with the big floppy caps. That’d fit in perfectly here I think.

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