Need Alternative/kitbashed Huscarls ideas

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After spending a few hours googling I’m still a bit stumped on the best way to make some Huscarls units (I’d rather not buy the mega army).

The best alternatives I’ve been able to find are Asgard Rising Midguard Shieldmen, or the Umber Beseskers from the Game of Thrones game, neither of which have any size comparisons I can find. I think they’ll probably be ok size wise but neither fit in all that well with the look of the normal clansmen.

How have you guys made Huscarl units- I’m a total newbie to thr gaming but it seems like they’re pretty good so I’m guessing people have come up with some solutions!

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#2

game of thrones figures are enormous, they’re like ogres, so if you’ve already got minis mixing those in may look really out of place. Or you may dig the big look for the Huscarls.
Asgard aren’t too bad, but are 3D printed so if you’re not printing them yourself you may find slight size differences between sellers. Scale wise they’re a decent match to mantic.

Honestly though I’d go to Victrix and grab the Huscarls from the historic range. Same price as GoT but you get three times the amount of figures. Well armoured and you can give them a mix of dane axe or spears so they’ll look the part. https://www.victrixlimited.com/collections/saxons/products/huscarles-late-saxons-anglo-danes

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#3

Thanks for this, I’d read about the GOT range being big. I’ve seen those victrix before when looking to get into Saga. They look great, my only query is about the size- I’ve already got the mantic clansmen used as clansmen- do the victrix huscarls match up at about the same size do you know? The clansmen are pretty bulky due to their poses, and I was thinking that the huscarls should look a bit bigger or meaner in some way. I guess the mail does make them stand out as there is no mail on the clansmen

#4

Check out Fireforge miniatures they have some good looking viking and saxon type models.

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#5

they’re more realistic proportions, so they’re the same size roughly but not as chunky. I dug some out so you can see

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If you’re multibasing they’ll look about the same height as the clansmen, not as stocky but that’s cause they’re not swaddled in furs.

Cook brought up an interesting one which is Fireforge’s fantasy range they could work nicely. Stay away from the historic as the size difference would be more pronounced than the victrix.

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Northmen Warriors If cost isn’t an issue then the Fireforge are probably top of the pile

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#6

Thanks! Appreciate the time you’ve taken to reply! I’ll have a look at fireforge as well.
Also had a thought to ‘de-chaos’ some of the plastic GW chaos warriors with some head and weapon swaps

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#7

You’re welcome, there’s these too if you’re looking for heavy armour options.

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I’ve been eyeballing these myself lately been thinking about kitbashing some revenants outta these, they’re Russian infantry.

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#8

Main issue, as noted about, is that the mantic clansmen are massive - and will be bigger than most other fantasy ranges and certainly virtually all historical ones.

The fireforge northmen are decent and should scale ok - the cavalry range would work as mounted sons if going varangur. The gw chaos warriors (the ones with fur cloaks) are another decent option.

If i was starting from scratch I’d use frostgrave barbarians as clansmen and the mantic clansmen as huscarls

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#9

The victrix stuff is nice - i used then as huscarls in my dark age army

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#10

Those dark age huscarls look great.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I’m wishing I’d done the suggestion of using clansmen as huscarls and somehting else as clansmen, but I’ve already built up the shadows in the north starter set ‘as is’.

I really like all these ‘historic’ minis, maybe I’ll do a different human army using them at some point.

Leaning towards modifying some of the chaos warriors with the big fur cloaks to make sure they’re a bit beefier than the clansmen

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Edit: my mistake here, these are from the historic range, Gerrcinn pointed in his post above about there are size differences between the fantasy and historical and i didn’t pay attention, i apologise

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#12

I thought you meant the fantasy ones :slight_smile:

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#13

The fireforge Russian infantry and most skeleton sets work perfectly as revenants

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#14

The secret is to use the Mantic Clansmen as Huscarls ( fit really nicely on 25 mm bases) and use smaller models as clansmen. The Frostgrave soldier boxes work really; similar look with furs and boots but a bit smaaler and more suited to a 20mm base

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I’m printing the Asgard Rising ones at 85% to serve as huscarls. So far, so good. Aiming to get 15 on the base, and it’ll be close. I’ll try to post pics later this week when I finish.

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Here you go. 5 poses, so some variety, especially if you take the time to mirror them. They’re pretty chunky.

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#17

@Cartwright Ah! Forget about me asking in the painting topic :smiley:

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#18

Those look great for Huscarls. When you say ‘mirroring’ them do you mean that you can print them mirrored? If so that’s a great way to get extra variety.

I had a look on kickstarter yesterday to see what miniatures stuff is on there right now having not looked on it for ages… amazed at how most of it now is for printable files not actual models. Might have to look into the 3d printing option I just know though that it’ll end up being another hobby in itself!

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#19

Yes, exactly. You can take a 3D file and mirror it so right is left, etc. Adds a little variety. Some types of minis are also modular, so it’s similar to getting a sprue, where you can mix and match parts as you see fit (either gluing digitally or manually). This model isn’t modular but many are.

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#20

Another Huscarls question- is there any reason why Huscarls wouldn’t be made up of a mixture of the toughest/most elite humans and dwarfs in the same unit. I’m going down the converted chaos warrior model route but fancy a unit of those with some armoured stumpies mixed in

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