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Title: The Battle of the Spurs, The Pikemans Lament - Devon Wargames Group
Post by: carojon on 03 May 2025, 07:42:03 AM

One of the games run a last month's meeting of the DWG was a modified use of The Pikemans Lament ruleset to recreate the action at The Battle of the Spurs 1513.

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9mDArzhfuQVSo4BgBeM7d5ud74b7EJC2o7_xv16O9UQLm0mOC9aZxKtmoS65m0gJhEWlG-udRa7054RlRhMRGN-bcH7LUEX0JLBVxY5iiK4tZ01Q9htGkZrvJanzcEA9QlCmiaVwvf1xrWAXea4q7X7BpVi1Dlo1wdj9XRRGqanILAwYpbVxmkuVuILM/s4436/P1170625a.JPG)

Plenty of flouncy shirts, longbows, crossbows and of course big men on big horses clad in plate armour were involved and much fun had by all.

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRsaUUOYQerUier5DT5ldEzUZoV6mjzRPlQ5dDg79z6J3OQ34BN7P04Vl3l4yKG2ka6GGXOd2mEI_ohLgMsfyWWdUPwg6UuDiR-PZwl2EhNsYFfrGt4ZlLlvm9NeDs46JP-Xd5PQE-ag41cV9Kl9KkmYHHX6VkKvZG8dU4IhyphenhyphenH3ncyqwOYS_dd56VJN2Q/s4815/P1170628a.JPG)

If you would like to know more then just follow the link to the club blog.

https://devonwargames.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-battle-of-spurs-pikemans-lament.html

JJ

Title: Re: The Battle of the Spurs, The Pikemans Lament - Devon Wargames Group
Post by: Codsticker on 03 May 2025, 04:00:33 PM

Wonderful report.

Title: Re: The Battle of the Spurs, The Pikemans Lament - Devon Wargames Group
Post by: commissarmoody on 04 May 2025, 06:34:51 AM

Great looking game.

Title: Re: The Battle of the Spurs, The Pikemans Lament - Devon Wargames Group
Post by: Atheling on 04 May 2025, 08:05:00 AM

Lovely looking game  8)- nice to see Federico Gonzaga the Duke of Mantua getting stuck in :)

Title: Re: The Battle of the Spurs, The Pikemans Lament - Devon Wargames Group
Post by: Stuart on 04 May 2025, 08:45:07 AM

Good effort, I like the mounted archer conversions

Title: Re: The Battle of the Spurs, The Pikemans Lament - Devon Wargames Group
Post by: Count Belisarius on 04 May 2025, 09:20:37 AM

Excellent looking game

Title: Re: The Battle of the Spurs, The Pikemans Lament - Devon Wargames Group
Post by: OB on 04 May 2025, 11:03:35 AM

Very enjoyable. On your blog you noted:

"The rules already accounted for most of the units used during the Italian Wars, but I made a few minor adjustments to unit profiles, including tweaks for longbowmen and stradiots."

Could you say what the tweaks were?

Title: Re: The Battle of the Spurs, The Pikemans Lament - Devon Wargames Group
Post by: Legiox217 on 07 May 2025, 05:22:39 AM

Impressive write up! I appreciate the time you took to share some knowledge, it was very interesting. Great looking battle. I was just browsing Pikeman's Lament the other day as an option to get stuck in with a reasonable model count.