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It's the 705th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn!

On the first day of the battle one of the most memorable single combats in medieval times occured. A young knight, Henry de Bohun, nephew to the Earl of Hereford challenged Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, in front of the assembling armies. Armed only with an axe and mounted on a smaller horse, the veteran Bruce still dispatched his opponent easily, cleaving his head. Later he complained about ruining a good axe. Even though it may have been a imprudent move, it surely helped to raise Scots morale in front of a seemingly overpowering enemy.

During the day the English vainly tried to bring their advantage in heavy cavalry and welsh archers to bear on the Scots. While Bruce held Gloucester and Hereford at bay, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray stopped the attempt of the medium division under Clifford (an old enemy of Bruce) and Beaumont to move into their rear at St. Ninians with his Shiltroms. Overall the Scots had the better of the first day, but the English host was much larger and still in parts arriving on the field.

The image is not meant to be a realistic depiction of the events - rather modeled after old fashioned battle paintings with the intention of showing the main personae and events. I'm quite aware that Christina MacRuairie was not likely present on the battlefield, but hey, she deserves the place and the picture looks better for her

Scots: Robert Bruce, Edward Bruce, Douglas, Campbell, Angus Og, Christina, Moray
English: King Edward, Bohun, Hereford, Gloucester, Beaumont, Clifford, Gray

Daz3D Iray Render, some PS postwork, 3 Main & 1 patch Render. Denoised with Declan Russels stand-alone denoiser. Both manual and automatic optimization of models and textures were used.

There are more about 50 individual Genesis3 models present and about 5 times the instances. Adding to that are a good hundred low res men-at-arms.

Description
It's the 705th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn!

On the first day of the battle one of the most memorable single combats in medieval times occured. A young knight, Henry de Bohun, nephew to the Earl of Hereford challenged Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, in front of the assembling armies. Armed only with an axe and mounted on a smaller horse, the veteran Bruce still dispatched his opponent easily, cleaving his head. Later he complained about ruining a good axe. Even though it may have been a imprudent move, it surely helped to raise Scots morale in front of a seemingly overpowering enemy.

During the day the English vainly tried to bring their advantage in heavy cavalry and welsh archers to bear on the Scots. While Bruce held Gloucester and Hereford at bay, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray stopped the attempt of the medium division under Clifford (an old enemy of Bruce) and Beaumont to move into their rear at St. Ninians with his Shiltroms. Overall the Scots had the better of the first day, but the English host was much larger and still in parts arriving on the field.

The image is not meant to be a realistic depiction of the events - rather modeled after old fashioned battle paintings with the intention of showing the main personae and events. I'm quite aware that Christina MacRuairie was not likely present on the battlefield, but hey, she deserves the place and the picture looks better for her

Scots: Robert Bruce, Edward Bruce, Douglas, Campbell, Angus Og, Christina, Moray
English: King Edward, Bohun, Hereford, Gloucester, Beaumont, Clifford, Gray

Daz3D Iray Render, some PS postwork, 3 Main & 1 patch Render. Denoised with Declan Russels stand-alone denoiser. Both manual and automatic optimization of models and textures were used.

There are more about 50 individual Genesis3 models present and about 5 times the instances. Adding to that are a good hundred low res men-at-arms.