1/72 Ordenanza
Dated: Sept 15, 2011
These are HAT Spanish guerillas which I'm using as Portuguese Ordenanza. The Ordenanza were a home guard of sorts and were called out in times of national peril. Made up of every able bodied male, they had no uniform and were were armed with a mixture of firearms, pikes, scythes, slash hooks and like manner of improvised weapons. If I recall correctly they were mainly useful for eating up provisions and murdering their officers for suspected treason, which they did with a regularity that makes for depressing reading.
My Ordenanza are all armed with firearms as I haven't found the time to convert any chaps with pikes and I will probably be using them as guerillas once the Spanish expansion arrives.
Conrad Kinch
Ireland
http://joyandforgetfulness.blogspot.com/
Ordenanza advancing through the garden
Many thanks to Mr. Kinch.