In CWP Episode 7, James and Mike talk to Canadian wargames manufacturer Alex McCutcheon of Full Battle Rattle Miniatures. Thanks for looking and blessings to your brushes! Those sheep a few posts back are now in a lot more danger! One of the sets of rules I want to use for this sort of fighting is the Dux rules by Too Fat Lardies, and in the Dux the Raiders supplement there is some provision for small bands of raider cavalry, so these chaps will do nicely. As you can see by the one shield, they have received some arms and pay from Isengard, who find the Dunlendings useful for keeping Rohan off guard. They would likely have a small number of sturdy, smaller horses suited to the rough country and useful for raiding the occasional village. As I imagine it, they’ve been pushed into the hills and lower mountains over the centuries by the Rohirrim, fighting a guerrilla war against Rohan’s border forts and garrisons, and retreating where the Horse Lords’ cavalry can’t reach them. I don’t imagine that the Dunlendings would have mustered many horsemen. I had to drill out the hands to fit the spears supplied with the minis. Because they’re such simple minis, I painted them much more quickly and basically then I usually do for, say, Seven Years War figures. The horses supplied are likewise very basic, without a ton of detail. These are very basic sculpts, with minimal detail, but they have their own old schoo charm, rather similar to Minifigs in style. I have quite a few of their hillmen foot counterparts, which I’ve collected to use as allies of my Isengard orc and Uruk army in the service of Saruman, so it’s nice to have a small mounted capability for my Dunlendings. These are 28mm sculpts from the Vendel catalogue that was taken over a few years ago by Thistle and Rose miniatures.
These four rough and smelly riders are finished and mustered into the ranks of the wild Dunlending hillmen opposing the Kingdom of Rohan for my Lord of the Rings gaming.
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