So with the advent of 8th incoming I naturally went back to thinking about armies and what to collect next (if you've been following my threads there's been Dwarfs, Goblin Vampires and now Border Prince mercenaries!)
The premise of the list is that it's a bunch of Empire knights who during the Araby crusades transported gold and refugees (mostly gold) through the border princes into the Empire and Bretonnia, this order was commanded by an exiled Bretonian lord but followed the Empire Knightly order system in principle.
The elite of this order were known as the Wardens who carried greatweapons into battle and patrolled the various trade routes. Overtime the order has modified from it's original purpose of refugee protection to protecting merchant convoys from Ind and Cathay and has come to include a large amount of Mercenaries and other ne're do wells however the core remains these original knights (order of the dragon).
Details:
List to be written using the Bretonnian book.
Knight errant = novice's to be used exactly as detailed
Knight of the Realm = Initiates to be used exactly as detailed
Questing Knights = Wardens
Grail Knights = Elvish mercenary company, an outcast of Naggarond who failed his 1st year long slave cruise he and his retainers have relocated as far from any coastline as possible. @ WS5, str6 they match Cold One Knights exactly and with a Paladin leading them (the Elf lord) with the Mane of the Truebred they'll be str4 on the charge also matching Cold Ones.
Infantry - all the infantry shall be mercenaries so using Empire spearmen, maybe through in some other units - contemplating even a unit of Ungor spears as well.
The Inner Circle of the Order will be the knightly characters. If it is 750pts for lord and 750pts for characters then I'm planning on having 3 Lord level characters that will all be fighters so I get 250pts per lord (110 base cost) and aiming at 3-4 paladin level characters (hopefully 1 for each unit of Wardens and for my Grail Knight COK Mercenaries). + 2 mages so 6 characters gives me 125pts per character at 60 base for a paladin and 70 for a damsel.
Pegasus Knights will be the Royal Dwarf Unofficial Flying Corps and will be modified Gyrocopters
Lord on Pegasus with KB will an Empire engineer on Pikass (no fishhead but spears and mini-guns for sure).
I'm thinking I'll have a Lord with the Mousillion virture (+2WS, +1I, +1A) on mechanical steed (the unnaturalness of the steed causes other horses and men to shy away in terror hence the -1ld for all within 6"
I plan on mixing the Bret platsic knights with empire goldswords to make my Questing Knights (as you get 20 swords in each gold sword box and I can mix-match heads etc.)
I'm getting excited about this list!! haha.
Oh colour scheme the knights themselves will be purple with bright silver finishes and they'll be the Order of the Dragon (based on the medievil Order that incl. Dracula) so all shields will have a very poorly freehand painted dragon eating its own tail...
Plus I have the old Siege defenders box which incls. 2 stone throwers which imo work perfectly as a trebuchet built from material available in the Border regions.
