Author Topic: Piquet and The Italian Wars in Olicanaland (Read 4010 times)

Yarkshire Gamer · « **on:** October 04, 2018, 05:19:27 PM »

https://yarkshiregamer.blogspot.com/2018/10/piquet-and-italian-wars-in-olicanaland.html

A few weeks ago I got to visit James in nearby Olicanaland and have a game with his cracking Italian Wars collection (plus a guest appearance from some YG units).

It was my first game of Piquet too, a quite old set of rules which played very well, I will definitely give them another go.

The post discusses the rules and the game but if you can't be bother to read there are lots of nice pictures.

Mixed fortune for the Yarkshire Gamer contingent, the Borgia Gendarme excelled, the Swiss Pike not so well.

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

bigredbat · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2018, 05:41:17 PM »

A great-looking game Ken! Love those Swiss...

fred · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2018, 07:14:49 PM »

Great report, I read all the way through and realised I'd not looked at the pictures. So went back just to look at the splendid eye candy.

Interesting write up of the Piquet mechanisms, not a rule set I have played either. But the activation and initiative system is certainly interesting.

Charlie_ · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2018, 07:37:35 PM »

Looks fantastic! I'll bookmark your blog to read later....

Your pikemen look great, very grim and no nonsense compared to his more colourful troops - I like.

The crossbowmen in the foreground of the top pic - do you know what make they are? Old Glory, or Front Rank?

Yarkshire Gamer · « **Reply #4 on:** October 04, 2018, 07:41:58 PM »

Quote from: Charlie_ on October 04, 2018, 07:37:35 PM

Looks fantastic! I'll bookmark your blog to read later....

Your pikemen look great, very grim and no nonsense compared to his more colourful troops - I like.

The crossbowmen in the foreground of the top pic - do you know what make they are? Old Glory, or Front Rank?

Cheers, mine and James' style are quite different but quite complementary.

As for the make of the Crossbow I will have to defer to James as they are not mine, hopefully he will pop on here and advise.

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

painterman · « **Reply #5 on:** October 04, 2018, 08:07:49 PM »

Great looking game!
Charlie - those crossbowmen are Front Rank Figures....
Simon.

Peter d · « **Reply #6 on:** October 04, 2018, 10:02:45 PM »

Great stuff Ken. Do it again please!

robh · « **Reply #7 on:** October 05, 2018, 01:07:27 AM »

Great looking game, wonderful troops and terrain.

Piquet is a superb set of rules which unfortunately seems to attract a lot of ill informed hatred.

Dr. Zombie · « **Reply #8 on:** October 05, 2018, 07:35:29 AM »

Wow!

That is one good looking game. Please do keep posting.

henerius · « **Reply #9 on:** October 05, 2018, 11:41:47 AM »

Excellent looking game! Thank you for sharing.

Erik · « **Reply #10 on:** October 05, 2018, 02:43:23 PM »

Great AAR. James was kind enough to mail me this ruleset a few years back but I never got around to playing it. Maybe I should give it another look. At the moment we don't have quite enough models for a full game. We need more cavalry, both light and heavy. My regular opponent hates painting horse, so I am stuck with the task.

As for renaissance rules I have had my eyes on Field of Glory Renaissance for some time. I bought the rules when they came out but have only played it a few times and only once with Italian Wars. I like the rules a lot, however. Especially the "nonsense movement" system (as opposed to P&S no-nonsense) that makes deployment very important and the difference between Impact combat and sustained melee combat.

Very detailed and rule heavy definitely has its place in my book!

Cheers
Erik

AdamPHayes · « **Reply #11 on:** October 05, 2018, 03:25:59 PM »

Great game report and explanation of this variant of Piquet.

Yarkshire Gamer · « **Reply #12 on:** October 05, 2018, 04:59:17 PM »

Cheers everyone,

Erik they are definitely worth digging out and giving a go if you have them. Tell your opponent that he only has to paint a tiny fraction of the horse as most of it will be covered in Armour

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

Antonio J Carrasco · « **Reply #13 on:** October 05, 2018, 08:49:05 PM »

Great report and explanation of the rules. I have had them for years, but never decided myself to try them. Maybe I will now. Thanks!

SteveBurt · « **Reply #14 on:** October 06, 2018, 12:47:04 PM »

Fields of Glory: Renaissance is a very good set (better than the ancient set IMO).
I like many features of Piquet - the card activation and initiative system.
What I don't like is the multiple dice sizes rolling off against each other. I find it clunky and you can get some really odd extreme results.
What I'm waiting for is the Renaissance version of 'For King & Parliament'

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