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Building my Royal Army

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  Battle of Lewes by Andy Gammon Before getting into the meat of this post, I'd like to refer you to the following website by illustrator Andy Gammon whose image I have included above:  https://andyggammon.myportfolio.com/projects His illustration is clearly of Lord Edward crashing into the London Militia, leading the vast cavalry host of the Royal army. *** Alright, onto my considerations for purchasing figures for my Royal army. I've not yet finished the rebels but they are all over bar the shouting. I will be retiring within the next 12 months and expect this and my other projects to start seriously accelerating toward their end-state ... and not before time. As is universally recorded, the Royal host was seriously larger than the rebels in both cavalry especially and in overall numbers. Some have it as high as twice as large as the rebel army. In figure terms I had previously resigned myself to having a number of figures half as large again as my rebel army. My rebel army ...