Relics, Britanan Colonel Tavistock and the Green Dragoons

 

His Britannic Majesty King Jorje, by the grace of the Realm, Royal Ways and other Dominions

across the seas. We do appoint you to the Rank of Colonel of Dragoons that you may serve and

protect Our Kingdom and prosecute our Will unto your last stitch and thread…

…Furthermore We do charge thee to end the pernicious and rebellious works of the traitor and

brigand known as Maverick Mike and all who would take up arms in his name.

By your designs and force of arms he is to be undone and laid before Our throne’

Excerpts from Col. Tavistock Commission of Office

In-between working on my Zenith Project I have been playing a lot of Relics and working through by Britanan leadpile. Because I have enough to field a force in every faction I move between them and tend to then paint up a unit in that faction. I have tried not to do that this year and stay focused on working on the Britanans. I have painted up several smaller units which I will post up later but wanted to focus on the completion of my dragoons and introduce Colonel Banister Tavistock!

Relics has a well written lore  and material to support each faction but does not have an ongoing narrative or much in the way of standout characters/events . The Mercenary Faction has Maverick Mike, St Nik and the Chronicler butt nothing else.I wanted to address this and my first character is Colonel Banister Tavistock. Building on the narrative around Maverick Mike and his rebellion from the Britanan Empire, Tavistock was created to hunt him down. 

The character is based on Tavistock and his Dragoons were inspired by the Green Dragoons and Colonel Tavington from the film Patriot which in turn was inspired by the historical British Legion Green Dragoons and their commander Colonel Tarleton!

For the physical figure of Tavistock I used a Britanan Dragoon with the top body of a CSM and then blended in and created extra belt and coat tails with Green Stuff

for the uniform  scheme the designs from the film and the historical Green Dragoons were a bit different

Historical Colonel Tarleton

Historical British Legion Green Dragoons

Fictional Colonel Tavington

Fictional Green Dragoons

in the end i decided to go with the fictional uniform as the mainly red uniform would tie them in better with the wider army.

Britanan Colonel Banister Tavistock.

Promoted CSM

To make him a playable character I also created a unit card for him drawing from the Dragoon, CSM and Maverick Mike cards

I have also created a PDF with the cards and his background lore which I posted on the Facebook Relics group and is available here:

Relican Enclave