His Columbian Majesty's Martian Lancers. 28mm sci-fi cavalry miniatures.

Now here‘s a weird war/alternate history that’s worth developing! What if the Americas achieved independence not as a league of republican English colonies, but a union of English, French, and Spanish under a Christian monarch, who later contends with the Old World powers over the frontier worlds of Mars and Venus?

That’s all I have on the idea, alas!

These are from a Kickstarter I backed before my days of 3D printing. This was so long ago I was even playing 40K at the time. Oh well, better late than never.

I initially intended these to be used in the Xiandao campaign as a special mounted unit from Conestanz, since they vaguely resemble my Strato-Hussars regiment in their headgear, but as I repainted them I decided to abandon the red and green color scheme and go with the blue and gray on black you see here, whereupon I came up with the Martian Lancers idea. I will still use them on Xiandao, of course.

By Michael DiBaggio

Michael is an Orthodox Christian, husband to the winsome Shell Presto, and father of two children. A longtime miniature wargamer and RPG enthusaist, he is the author of several novels and short stories of heroic adventure set in his Ascension Epoch universe. He is the host of the Attention Span Labs channel on YouTube.

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