Campaldino wargaming

[JBaumal]

Giorgio, what an impressive thread. The figures are absolutely gorgeous! I find the topic very interesting and will follow it with interest.

[MGH]

Yes, fascinating thread and great paint jobs too!

[Basementboy]

Agreed- the figures look stunning

[giorgio]

Our analysis of Guelph army continues dealing with a special Florentine unit: pavesari (or palvesari). The unit is composed by long spears, crossbows and great shields called pavesi. Shield and spear are not brought by the same soldier, the big shield with a dedicated bearer allowed the crossbow to concentrate on aiming and shooting.


The tactic was: wait all together behind the pavesi, hitting with the long spears, while the crossbows (and archers and slingers) decimate the enemies, the shields advance one step after another and at the end all go out to hit and kill the routed enemies.



The bishop Guglielmino Ubertini, old and short sight leader of the Ghibelline army, arriving in the plain and looking at the guelph army asked: “Which walls are those?” The answer was “the enemies pavesi!”


The name pavese seems to derive from latin pavare, recover, and it seems it was early adopted by Florence. It was one of the best tactics of the period and a tactical advantage for guelphs.


There were 2 companies: red pavesari on the left horn and white pavesari, on the right guelph army one, their flags had reversed colours with Florence iris in the centre. We have represented them with two bases each. Most soldiers are Mirliton, but many figurines are modified with green stuff, Mirliton and Perry crossbows some Fireforge heads.
The crossbows companies were formed by citizens coming from all the sixth, and received a periodical training more frequent than the infantry companies belonging to the sixth (sestieri).
In a following post the 4 bases going to be completed.

[Daeothar]

That's really impressive and wonderful work, by all of you at your club! 

I especially love the Pagani miniature; that's a lot of painstaking dots.

All of this is really inspiring and rekindling old ambitions to paint up two armies to represent the Hook and Cod wars in the Netherlands. A bit later, for sure, but the same internescine fighting between neighbouring cities.

Please show us more of your project; it's absolutely one to follow

[giorgio]

That's really impressive and wonderful work, by all of you at your club! 

I especially love the Pagani miniature; that's a lot of painstaking dots.

All of this is really inspiring and rekindling old ambitions to paint up two armies to represent the Hook and Cod wars in the Netherlands. A bit later, for sure, but the same internescine fighting between neighbouring cities.

Please show us more of your project; it's absolutely one to follow

Daeothar, thanks for the kind words, hereafter Maghinardo the “Devil”  and other Pagani knights almost ready to be based! If you like Italian wars too, it is interesting to  underline that the area controlled by Pagani will be the country of gallant Italian pikes, often under Venetian command: the famous Romagnoli. Maghinardo survived to Campaldino and his friendship with Florence allowed him to enlarge his lands.

[Thew2]

Those are some very beautiful miniatures.  Many thanks for sharing these updates, they are very much appreciated.  It's going to be a spectacular project once completed!

[Charlie_]

Wow, that's truly stunning! Wonderful painting, and they look even better based up. Hopefuly we'll get to see them in some nice big units!

[NickNascati]

Stunning, simply stunning.

[Marco]

Really beautiful! I am doing a project on campaldino/montaperti too and this post are really inspirational.
Can I ask you how did you do your flags? Unfortunatly there isn't much on internet about this period

[Koyote]

Gorgeous work! The hand painted shields and heraldry are top notch.

[giorgio]

Really beautiful! I am doing a project on campaldino/montaperti too and this post are really inspirational.
Can I ask you how did you do your flags? Unfortunatly there isn't much on internet about this period

Thanks Marco. . Many flags are in "la Battaglia di Campaldino" Scramasax 2017, mainly pages from 57 to 61. Following this thread you'll see many of them and of main families Are you in Italy?

[fred]

Really beautiful figures - the painting is great and the attention to historical detail too

[pws]

Daje Giorgio! Continue on posting! 

[Marco]

Thanks Marco. . Many flags are in "la Battaglia di Campaldino" Scramasax 2017, mainly pages from 57 to 61. Following this thread you'll see many of them and of main families Are you in Italy?

Yes i'm from Bologna