Proxis ideas: Kislev

[jchaos79]

Hi,

Thinking ni kislev lately. Any ideas about proxis of kislev?

[andys]

Well the Pendraken Polish Winged Hussar is pretty much perfect:

http://www.pendraken.co.uk/P1-p2956/

[forbes]

Bend Sinister have Bears!
http://www.bendsinister.co.uk/product.php?ItemID=268435541

Pendraken are likely to give you a fair number of choices for the core units, as well as the winged hussars. They also do a variety of war wagons, from historical style, to ones with giant cannons in them!

Tzarina on sled might be difficult though.

[jchaos79]

Yep, Zaporozain with berdische is a great concept that could fit in axemen. But I do not like the sculpt too much, so still searching for new possibilities as proxis.

Anyway If nothing else pops up, I could use zaporozian.

wow I did not know bend sinister, great

[Stormwind]

No pictures though! =-<

[Aquahog]

Tridente Bologna's eastern europeans modelled on the Russians look nice. Or if you, like me, am more interested in the list than the theme, run Copplestone's Horse tribe as Kislevites. You only need to add treemanlike proxies for bears if you know what I mean.

[forbes]

That's a nice idea.

There are a good few treeman types out there.

[Stormwind]

Treemen instead of bears?

NO!

MADNESS!

Use Copplestone giant wolves, treemen are nothing like bears!
http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/images/TM8.jpg

[jchaos79]

I like both ideas! 

[jchaos79]

Searching for proxis of axemen I found that Mongols horsemen on foot form TB line are my taste. Not really axe, and not really rusian, but could be some Steppe infantry from Kislev lands.

http://www.tridentebologna.it/dettagli_E.php?id=TB4196

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi

I was just wondering if anybody had seen the Bend Sinister 10mm Bears?

http://www.bendsinister.co.uk/product.php?ItemID=268435541

Any photos available?

How do they match up in size to gw bears?

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[kyussinchains]

IIRC EmpireAddict has some bears in his Kislev contingent.... not sure if they are GW or other but they certainly looked the part.... will ask him what they are

[empireaddict]

Yes, I do.  Picture below.  They're GW.  The ones on all-fours are about 13mm in height and the upright ones are 20mm.

[Gorrin]

I've been looking at Kislev myself as I thought rather than paint a 4000pt army I might make a 2000pt empire army and a 2000pt kislev one. For ME campaign purposes I could therefore use either one as allies or mercenaries for the other.

The pendraken winged lancers are a no brainer but I'm planning to look at a mix of pendraken polish horse archers, mounted cossacks and polish dragoons for horse archers possibly mixed in with mongol light cav codes and/or some Eastern European horse archers from Kallistra.

That is providing I can get samples and they scale up ok.

[Gorrin]

Osprey do at least a couple of books on 16th and 17th polish troops (historical rather than kislev of course) but they are a great source of Kislev troop types if you can find a PDF online or on Scribd.

I'd also like to point out that many Ottoman (and Tartar allies) as well as mongol codes will be suitable as well. I'm going to try pendraken peasant polish archers, mongol dismounted cav and janissaries with bows as kislev foot archers.

For me "axemen" = generic infantry. So I'm going to mix pendraken cossack foot, hadjuk halberdiers and musketeers and kallistra janisary halberdiers and eastern European medieval peasants and militia. I think that pendraken 16th cent polish foot command will give even this mixed band of codes a kind of uniform appearance.

Just my tuppence worth...