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Friday, 15 November 2013

Is this the first Elf of Xmas? (Mystery)

Have I spotted the first "elf" of Xmas?

According to my Renaissance campaign friends no, it is a legitimate element of a DBR (Thirty Years War period) Army List (see below):


In the manner of a "competition without prizes" but bestowing prestige and praise from friends on clever or correct answers .. "What is it"? He certainly rides a strange four-legged beast, but some may argue there should be more white, of a snowy nature, on the base (see below):

Note: This is not a extra cast-off from the second Hobbit film GW collection!


I will be intrigued if there are any answers, next week I will post the answer as it was told to me, in a comment.

Have fun thinking on this one :)

PS Sadly I do not own this figure, which is a composite from legitimate historical figure ranges and purchased from reputable historical figure manufacturers, nothing 'fantastical' at all about it.
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4 comments:

  1. Arquinsiel16 November 2013 at 05:45

    I'd guess at some form of Swedish or other nordic "moose cavaly". Apparently that was a thing, or so I've been told.

    I kind of WANT it to have been a thing too really.

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  2. Geordie an Exiled FoG16 November 2013 at 12:15

    Good thinking, you are definitely n the right region ;)

    The question is Arquinsel what did it fight ;)

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  3. Arquinsiel18 November 2013 at 19:53

    Anything it could catch? Moose are grumpy buggers.

    Google suggests regular Norwegian horsie cavalry.

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  4. Geordie an Exiled FoG22 November 2013 at 19:01

    Hats off to Arquinsiel, in DBR terms it is a ...

    "Lapps with reindeer or reindeer sledges which the Swedish Thirty Years War army can have (optionally 0-1 until 1634). It counts as LH(F)."

    Of course, but with or without Santa?

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