How to make defensive stakes for your Bretonnian Bowmen.

 There can be two reasons to add defensive stakes to your archers. 

1- You have archer models from previous game editions and you need defensive stakes to play them.

2- You want to field archers using a frontage of 5 or 10 models and the stakes sold in the Bretonnian Archer box only cover 4 men , and two sets of them only cover 8 models.

1)Take a small piece of balsa wood 5mm thick. Size it to the dimensions you need. I have made two pieces 10cm long and 2 cm wide. In that way, if I deploy the archers on a hill, I'll use only one of them.

After you've cut the base, mark the points where you're going to glue the stakes. ( Post construction comment: I suggest you put the stakes at the backedge of the base. This will compensate for the weight of the wooden sticks moving the balance point back toward the center of the base and then the stakes will not want to fall ahead).

 2) Go in any garden or park with trees and look for very small and straight sticks, like the one below.

  3) Choose sticks of the right length. The official GW ones are 5cm long, like a cavalry base. 

4) Now it is time to make pointed stick from a simple twig. Use a utility knife.