An unofficial champion upgrade for our men-at-arms. Something I just designed for fun but which could be used in friendly games.
The
Knights of Bretonnia are renowned all over the Old World for their chivalry and
virtues. But sometimes the constant loneliness and stress of facing death every
day breaks the pure spirit of a knight during a long and bloody campaign and
the woman´s touch seems like the only comfort left for them. So and now and
then a noble sires a bastard child with a wench of a wayside inn or a handsome
peasant maiden met on the road.
Sometimes
if a son is born and he is of good health the noble might recongnise the child
as his bastard and offer shelter for such offspring in his household.
Such
illegitimate sons have a wierd place in Bretonnian society – although loathed
by nobility they are still considered to carry some blue blood and thus treated
better than common peasant scumm. Although most of these bastards find their
path in pursuing mercantile careers found unfit for nobles, some end up in
Bretonnian military.
Fitzronald,
a bastard son of a minor baron from Lyonesse is one of such men. He can be
hired by any Bretonnian lord to be a training master for lord´s men-at-arms,
and the word among peerage is that he does a good job in turning peasant rabble
into descent infantry usable for unknightly missions on the battlefield.
Fitzroland
hopes, that if he pushes his men to their limits and shows personal valour
worthy of a knight on the battlefield he might caught his master´s attention
and be knighted one day. His masters on the other hand are not keen on such
prospect and tend to send Fitzronald in the most hopeless and bloody combats on
the field. So far he has survived...
One
men-at-arms unit in Your army may include Fitzroland instead of it´s Yeoman.
Fitzroland from Lyonesse 52 pts
M WS BS S T W I A Ld
4 4 3 3 3 1 3 2 7
Fitzroland
is Champion in all regards.
Equipment:
hand weapon, heavy armor, shield. In addition Fitzroland uses the same special
weapon as the rest of his unit.
Special
rules: Peasant´s Duty, Rigorous Trainer
Rigorous
trainer: Fitzroland is very demanding in drilling his men, known to
relentlessly train them in close combat fighting from dawn till dusk. Thus all
men in his unit have WS 3.
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