Big Guns

 ...there was a heavy battery operating just beneath the ridge, at a kept interval of minutes, with unnerving inevitability, as a malign chronometer, ticking off with each discharge an exactly measured progress toward a certain and prearranged hour of apocalypse. (In Parentheses by David Jones. p.135)

I needed two more guns for Brequar Manor, so Don found an .stl for a First World War British 8 inch howitzer and printed a full battery of four. I was wrestling with various ways to get enough gun crew with my Coftyrans when the Tollyn-Mearyn were released. I got extra bodies and extra empty hands printed to make gun crew, as well as extra crew from the field gun set.

OK some of the poses are extra dynamic. But whatever, they're excited. I only had three plastic shells, so I gave a couple spare sponges from some black powder artillery equipment in my bits box to give their hands something to do. I've seen modern gunners use sponges to make sure the breech is clear of any burning cinders before the next charge is thrust in.

I did two crews with the hats and two crews with the helmets.
 

Since I issued their very modern looking recoilless rifle to the Crusaders and Toulmorese, I have given this misprinted German 150 mm infantry gun to the Tollyn-Maeryn. It's more old fashioned looking and I think fits better with the more old fashioned looking uniforms and spiked helmets.

I'm also getting Don to print me some trench mortars, I think these figures would look ok acting as crew for those as well, since I've got 4 sets of them.

They can also crew a Maxim gun set up on the edge of a trench at a pinch too.

I'm sure they'll welcome the extra firepower when defending against Crusader (or Coftyran!) assaults.

Now I just need three more gun pits so that I can lay out the battery at Brequar Manor properly.