Been selling off my legos, all the pirates are gone, Indians left last week, US Cavalry troops are leaving, Crown Knights and Black Falcons are gone....but alas the Northern Horde can't be caught.

They live like nomads, striking towns and villages fast, pillaging and looting and sneaking away into the fog before the local Garrisons can find them....

Let me know if you have any questions...

Close up pics at my flickr page...check it out here.......

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8537249@N04/8459471393/in/photostream/

thats beast! why would you sell lego though?

keep it up! I await a raiding MOC with these guys, that would be wicked

Why are you selling?

"Finally, consider what likely drives The Northern Horde. You have a culture who fill up a landscape until starvation or competition drives them out. These are not people who are terribly frightened by death. During the battle, they may not even know that half their number have fallen. The best way to defeat the horsemen is through a policy of razed earth which denies them utterly the option to forage the landscape. It means evacuating and burning your own crops and slaughtering the herds and women and children of the enemy. 'Just passing through' is still fully enough to back foot our civilization and where this becomes an active presense as with The Horde, you have to cut the cancer out by whatever means necessary or it will form a continual raider presence that butchers and torches everything and everyone around it. This is 'success' in the ultimate military sense of disrupting the rule of the existing govenment and supplanting it with chaotic effects that pull down The Empire by increments. This must not happen and I will stop this. I will destroy The Horde."
- The Emperor


It took years to defeat The Northern Horde, and it wasn't until the new strategy was developed and implemented. At the height of The Horde's threat, The Emperor raised a highly mobile force, The Imperial Cavalry, elite assortment of the best knights of the realm. These pursued The Horde wherever the Northmen moved, and slowly, through their sheer power and through the genius and leadership of their commander, they drove The Horde out of the boundaries of The Empire.



The Emperor, personally commanding his army. Head of the Dragon.
"If it's good enough for my man, I can use it. If it's not good enough for me, then my men shouldn't use it. Give me the same armour, same lance, and same shield. I just want my horse to wear the colours of my family."




Light Cavalry. The most valuable men of the Empyrial Cavalry. Eyes of the Dragon.
Scouting, pursuing, and liaison are the duties of a light cavalryman. Wearing just an ordinary gambeson, a small shield, and a light helmet, he isn't meant to join the melee.
"What's beyond those hills, beyond the forest? Who's hiding in the marshes? Be it Death himself, I shall take a look."




Heavy Cavalrymen. Main hitting force of the Army. Maw of the Dragon.
Each lancer wears  a cuirass over a thicker gambeson, as this proved effective enough against the enemy arrow fire, while being light to wear and cheap to manufacture; the great helm and large shield are necessary in the melee, He uses a long and heavy lance to outrange the short spears of the Northmen.
"I put my trust not into the talismans, spells, and prayers, but into my horse, my sword, and my shield. Not into the invisible gods, but into The Emperor that always rides before me."






Medium Cavalrymen. Split into two groups, these are the Wings of the Dragon.
These men use lighter lances and faster horses as they need high speed and agility. They support the main force after the initial clash, but they also pursue the fleeing enemy.
"Always think flank, flank, envelop! And always move, never stop!"



Mounted Bowmen. Extremely mobile support units. Claws of the Dragon.
Capable of delivering an intense hail of arrows, these cavalry archers are the scourge of the lightly armoured Horde.
"I saw the Northmen ride their horses, and I wasn't impressed. I saw them shooting their bows, and I wasn't impressed either. Then I saw them riding their horses AND shooting their bows... and I still wasn't impressed."


Best regards! :-)

Edited May 11, 20195 yr by Aine