French mounted crossbowmen

 A new small unit - French mounted crossbowmen!

These could represent mounted 'archers' of the Ordonnance companies among other things. I don't think they'd ever be seen in actual pitched battles, but could see plenty of action in smaller scale warfare. Skirmishes involving scouting missions, ambushes, baggage convoys... plenty of fuel for gaming scenarios. I've shared these thoughts before on my previous posts on French light cavalry and mounted crossbowmen.

All five models are converted in some way or another. All Perry Miniatures, two are plastics and three are metal. All have had metal headswaps - two are hacked from some Wargames Foundry sculpts, and another two are from Crusader Miniatures. All of them have been put on the Perry metal horses (which are smaller than the plastic ones), and most have required at least part of their saddles to be sculpted from scratch. One of the horses is actually from the Agincourt range.

And here they are joining forces with my earlier 'generic' mounted crossbowmen, to make a larger unit of 10.

I really like the look of these and how they're positioned on the bases - I plan to do more light cavalry sometime in the future!