15mm Welsh Bowmen

I enjoyed painting my four Forged in Battle 15mm Arab armies so much I wanted an excuse to paint one more FiB army before moving on, and so purchased some Early Medieval Welsh on a bit of a whim.

While the base DBMM army list calls for lots of warband there is an option in a South Welsh army to replace some or all of these with irregular longbow. These are classified in the rules as the rather deadly superior bow, so I decided to tackle these first:

There are sixty-two elements in total with ten based as light troops (psiloi) and the remaining fifty-two elements as superior bow, comprising one hundred and eighty-two figures in total:

The psiloi are two to a base:

With the irregular bow based in threes (if they were regulars they would be four to a base):

There are six different figures in the Forged in Battle bow packs, although these are based upon three distinct body types with different heads:

I tried to keep the colours relatively subdued with predominantly different shades of browns, greens and greys, and will stick to this for the remainder of the Welsh and their small contingent of Irish allies:

Next up will be the warband which will be almost exactly the same number of figures again. I have a fair bit on over the coming weeks but hope to have the bulk of these done by the end of June.