The Assault Group aren't making an English Civil War range...

But, occasionally we do make the odd pack of English miniatures for the 17th Century range, and in that context I delighted to show you these ‘English’ pikemen for the period 1610 – 1650. They are completely unarmoured, except for helmets, which on the continent of Europe was almost complete unheard off, and are posed with their pikes up-right.

To an extent we get hung-up on the national differences of our miniatures in this period, this is not the Napoleonic period where each nation is represented in distinct uniforms, but a time when soldiers wore civilian dress onto the battlefield and as such, these Englishmen would be equally suitable as rear ranks of more heavily armour European pike blocks, or as poorly equipped European troops such as Saxons.

At present we do not make specifically ‘English’ command groups for these miniatures, but they could be lead by the Germans or Swedes we already produce, or alternatively you might like to see what I will be adding next week to our Workbench feature; generic Officers, Drummers and Sergeants/Ensigns, which will allow gamers to give much more variety to their units, rather than having the same four cloned individuals leading every unit, that some companies expect them to put up with.

These four new 28mm miniatures are, of course, sculpted by the superb Nick Collier.