Oronegrean Conquistadors

Hello everyone today I have got something rather special, something for the very begining of Oronegro. These figures may also double as elite armoured troops for a later time period as Oronegro retained armoured troops for use in combat against native tribes or behind the main lines of infantry. The basic principal was that in situations where melee combat was likely to break out armoured troops would be superior to unarmoured troops. Certainly many of those who faced Oronegrean forces during the 18th century got a nasty surprise when these troops bushed their way to the front during a bayonet brawl.

These guys appear to be preparing to recieve the enemy. But what enemy? Native tribesmen? Pirate marauders? Something inhuman?

This figure I have shown off before. The first to be painted and all around one of my personal favourites. He is the officer of the group.

The pouch on the back may be for some supplies but perhaps he intends to fill it with gold stolen from native temples?

To more armoured soldiers. As can be seen there is no standardised uniform for these troops, something that was true for their entire existence.

The black and yellow man on the right was harder to paint than initially expected. Seems that the yellow paint refused to go on evenly despite my best efforts

I forgot that there was an even numer of figs so one special guy gets to be on his own. Although sadly the camera refused to focus for this pic.

The camera did focus for this picture however, the lighting doesn't really do this guy any favours though.

Two crossbowmen, the crossbow also continued to be used. Especially because of its silent nature which was quite useful when fighting native troops in the jungle or even against regular armies at night.

The guy in the tophat is one of the many Moorish settlers in Oronegro, although he appears to be dressed in red, white, and green so perhaps his loyalties really lie with Italy.

The gun however, was what truly terrified the native troops. These big and powerful guns are not to be messed with. Even in later times big rifled guns, often requiring stands, were issued to these troops in part due to the value of intimidation alone.

Hmmm perhaps more than one of these guys has questionable loyalty towards Oronegro.

Well that is all for today. I have a lot of work coming up (two rather large events that I will be cleaning at) so I won't be able to do much painting. But I am still chipping away at the little pile of figs on my desk (which is increadibly cluttered because of it). Hopefully I can get something out for you in a week or two but this will probably be the last post of this month. What a good way to start the year. I hope to be making many more posts in the months to come.

I hope you have enjoyed this post and I wish you all a good day/night. ::)