Command Cards: Robert de Vere

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I am perhaps best pleased with my representation of Robert de Vere from my first four command drawings and cards. I must be becasue I've started signing them - such vanity.

I don't have much of an imagination and I have to copy from other images which I merge. The happy coincidence is that I'm not very accurate so when I copy a face from another sketch it takes on a whole new look without even having to try. Essentially they are original creations.

I'd suggest that Robert de Vere was near his prime at Lewes and actively fought throughout the Montfortian campaign. This is a serious man. I have nevertheless kept his bonus attacks at two as a ward commander.

I invented the special rule Hold Your Lines as I am mindful he holds the left wing of the army and presides over the London militia who famously faced off the host of royalist horse. As I've posted previously, we do not know how long the lines held before they were carried off. I've decided to insert some chances for the outclassed infantry under Robert's command to stem their retreat, should they begin to faulter. In due course, we'll see how it plays out.

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