Contemporary vintage Thirty Years War

Something to start soon (started Here!), Thirty Years War using Minifigs and Hinchliffe figures. Got some help from my friends.

I will base my army on the same base sized used for later periods, 50mmX50mm for infantry and cavalry, 50mmx100mm for artillery:

• Pikes, 6 figures. Pikes levelled will be based on 50×75 or even 50×100.
• Shot, 4 figures. I feel they should be on a more open order respect to pikemen and later infantry equipped with bayonets.
  • musketeers included in pike blocks will be on 50×25 bases, two figures per base.
• Infantry command figures: they will be on separate bases, 50×25, to allow to re-use the same pikes and shots for multiple nations . One officer, One standard and one drummer.
• Cavalry, 2 figures. May think of basing light cavalry on individual 25×50 pill-shaped bases or on round-cornered 50×50.
• infantry Skirmishers, 2 figures on 40mm round base
• Generals, 1 figure on 50mm round bases, higher grade Generals on larger bases, with more figures.

So far ordered to Hinchliffe:

• 20 Commands, Officer, Standard bearer and Drummer.
• 15 horses which were missing for my Horse.
• 2 medium guns and artillerymen for 3 guns, since I have stripper paint fro other artillerymen.
• 2 light guns.

To Buy:

• Minifigs commands for my Horse, an probably horses.
• Battalion guns and crew of two, a number of them.

Figures below were found very badly painted on eBay, then stripped out of paint. The quality of these cast is excellent, cannot be found on re-casts from old moulds which you may buy these days.

With these I may prepare 5 pike and shot regiments:

• 5 pike bases
• 2 shot bases
• I miss the following:
  • 5 command bases
  • 8 shot bases
  • I need to wait for the Hinchliffe order for the commands and I will take 32 musketeers from home.