Rounding out this expansive run-through of the Tlaxcalan army I finished last month is the 3 Commande rbases, and the ritual sacrifice that is the baggage camp.
13 Oct 2025
The Bosses - and the Baggage
8 Oct 2025
The Suits are here to see you now !
Mad as you like, and twice as dangerous, the Suit Wearers are the Military Orders of the Tlaxcalan army.
All of these figures are kind of dressed in the same suit - a bit like a crocodile onsie if I'm honest - but with a lot of bright contrast paints and drybrushing to pick out highlights I'm pretty pleased to have made them look as varied as they do.
4 Oct 2025
The Cortez-inspired Mercenaries
The Texcalans famously allied with Cortez and the Conquistadores (or perhaps "not" famously, as I suspect many folks believe that Cortez and a couple of dozen men beat the Aztecs on their own?).
In that alliance of Aztec-hating contingents were the Totomac levies and Chinantec levies, both of whom I have made by picking out some distinctive figures and conjured up a unit of each with little or no basis in historical reality - but at least they are colourful and can be easily distinguished from the other Tlaxcallan troops!
30 Sept 2025
Tlaxcalan Skirmishers
Every army needs some hapless peasants to screen the main body of warriors, and lurk around in the bushes taking nasty little pot shots at any enemy troops unwary enough to venture too close - and the Taxcallans are no exception with both slingers and archers in the roster.
27 Sept 2025
Otomi Warriors
The Otomi are mercenaries, which in ADLG terms are hard-charging Impetuous swordsmen.
The Fighting 15s ranges have limited poses in their "Otomi" bag so I added in a random scattering of chaps with obsidian-edged dangerous looking weaponry to make them a bit more fearsome.
These are more erratically coloured than my main set of guys, who have a lot more red on their limited items of clothing. These chaps are still mostly red, but with some exceptions.
24 Sept 2025
Tlaxcalan Archers
The Tlaxcalan army has a decent number of bowmen (in ADLG at least), some of whom count as half and half mixed bow/swordsmen, making them vaguely decent in combat as well as proper shooting archers, and some of whom are Mediocre in quality too.
Without wanting to create zillions of slightly different bases, and end up only ever using some of them, I ended up basing up 2 sets of 4 units of bowmen, and mixing in some warrior figures onto the bases of 4 of those units - this means (I think) I can categorize them as any sort of mix of bowmen, rubbish bowmen, and mixed bow/sword shooters & combat troops and not overly confuse myself or my opponent.
These are the ones with "some" warriors as well as archers on each base.
All of the archer figures do also have a standard pattern on their headdresses, which helps identfy the archers compared to the regular combat infantry (who are totally random and irregular in millinery).
These are the bow-only chaps, some of whom get low quality head wear as well.
19 Sept 2025
A few more Tlaxcalan Warriors
Running alongside the "red flower on the base" Tlaxcalan Warriors are these sets of "purple flower" and "yellow flower" chaps: