Bretonnia got us again: 500 points now, 1000 soon
We’ve had one of those very familiar hobby moments lately: we looked at a few photos, played a few games, talked about lists for a bit… and suddenly Bretonnia was living rent-free in our heads.
Last week’s The Old World games in Dragon clearly did some damage. Michał dropped a gallery from the event and immediately followed it up with the kind of message every hobbyist understands: he’d just found beautiful photos of his biggest miniatures and was absolutely buzzing about them.
And honestly? Fair enough.
Then Staś came in with more tournament photos and the mood in chat shifted from “nice pics” to full-on Bretonnia appreciation society. There was admiration, disbelief, and at least a little bit of that dangerous energy where seeing a cool army makes you start planning your own.
A 500-point list that stays on the table
Wilini said he’s keeping his current 500-point Bretonnian list for our skirmishes, and honestly it sounds like a really fun little force:
- Damsel on Bretonnian Warhorse, General, Level 2 Wizard, Illusion
- 25 Men-at-Arms with standard and musician
- 8 Mounted Knights of the Realm with full command and Knight’s Vow
- 14 Peasant Bowmen as skirmishers
That’s exactly the kind of list we like at this stage: enough identity to feel like a real army, enough moving parts to learn from, and small enough that it still feels achievable on the hobby desk.
Even better, the next step is already in sight. Wilini has a 1000-point list ready as well — he just needs to buy a trebuchet and assemble the Pegasus Knights. Which is, let’s be honest, the most Warhammer sentence possible: the list is done, now we only need to buy a war machine and build some flying cavalry.
Bretonnia is spreading
The funniest part is how quickly this escalated. Michał admitted that he also got seriously hyped for Bretonnia — first after the weekend, then after playing against Wilini. Now he’s putting together a 500-point Crusaders force, and apparently he already has a very interesting paint scheme in mind.
The only tiny obstacle? He still has six other 500-point forces to paint.
A completely normal and healthy hobby situation.
What really seems to have grabbed us is the classic Bretonnian appeal: heraldry, banners, and those ridiculous freehands that can absolutely make an army. Michał summed it up pretty well in chat: Bretonnian freehands can just blow your mind.
Wilini is taking a slightly more grounded route for his own collection. Rather than going for the most eye-searing “every knight in a completely different scheme” version, he wants to paint them in his own style, mixing three colour schemes so the force still feels varied but more coherent on the table. We’re very into that idea — still knightly, still colourful, but with an army-wide look instead of pure chaos.
Games, side projects, and dangerous inspiration
There was also a small score update from the table: in that particular duel, Pan Strateg fell 13:7. We’re not naming and shaming beyond that, but the result has entered the record.
Meanwhile, Michał is also trying to arrange a Mordheim demo game, and maybe even some kind of academy/introduction event. So yes, while Bretonnia is currently stealing the spotlight, the broader Old World-adjacent energy is very much alive in the group.
And because hobby inspiration never arrives alone, a Reddit link also appeared in chat during the discussion:
Where we are now
So this is where we’ve landed:
- Bretonnia looks incredible in photos
- it apparently looks just as good across the table
- one 500-point list is already active
- one 1000-point list is waiting for a trebuchet and Pegasus Knights
- another 500-point Crusaders project is forming in the background
- and all of this is happening while we still have far too many other miniatures to paint
In other words: business as usual.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned again this week, it’s that The Old World is extremely good at making us want “just one small force” — and then immediately making us plan the next expansion.