Two Princes Miniatures
War Games Figures - Last Stand of the Knights of St. John
In 1522 after a bloody siege. The Knights of St.John were evicted from their island base on Rhodes, by the forces of the ottoman ruler, Suleiman the Great. Homeless for many years, they travelled the courts of europe, until given the island of Malta, by the holy roman emperor Charles V, for the payment of a Maltese Falcon every year. Here they prepared to make their final stand.
The company name comes from our two favourite historical princes, who Both marched through our home town of stockport. The dashing cavalier, prince rupert in 1644 And bonnie prince charlie in 1745. Sometime in the future we would like to design figure ranges Connected to them both.
We love our wargames to be on the scale of a hollywood epic and nothing Comes more epic than the siege of malta 1565. How the knights of st john. A kind of foreign Legion of knights, the maltese population and a few hundred european volunteers, defied the Might of the ottoman empire that summer.
We decided malta had to be our first range of figures. Just a pity hollywood Have not made a film of it. What an epic that would be.
