The Great Italian Wars for "Pike and Shotte"

[DonVoss]

Thanx for your comments...

The daily update:

In the last week I stumbled over the shiny new Renedra -Set.
Their plastik gambions... 

20 pieces for 10 Euro, not bad... :thumbup:

And since quite a few of the engagements of the italian wars were fought over fortifeid camps and the like, it will be a good addition to the collection...



I know the trees should have another colour than the gambions (which they actually have), poor photo skills ...

And I did a new command base. I need one for each battallia, so with 6 battallias in all I need at least 6 bases.



Not much for an evening of painting, but the weekend is near...
Well almost...

Cheers,
Don

[tomek917]

The renedra gabions look great, need to get some of those!

And the commander looks great, that's a lovely miniature!

[OSHIROmodels]

Great updates 

cheers

James

[Faust23]

Great work!  As one student of the period to another I say, "NOCH WEITER!"

 

[DonVoss]

Yesterday, I met with a good friend for a small game. Since I wanted to test my new landsknechts, I decided to carry theam to his place and start a little game.
Normally you play Black Powder or Pike&Shotte with big armies on big tables, but I saw so much great games on the i-net with just one or two battallias. So I thought: just give it a try with a small number.

We scaled everything down by half. So Infantry would walk just 3", cav 4,5"...
Played it out on a 1x1,2 table.

The mission was: Landsknechts try to take the City of Bolognese, italians and french try to hold it.

Each side had 2 Battallias, the italians had in addition the french gendarmes.

Landsknechts:
Gunter Büchsenberg
Landsknecht Pikeblock (large)
Landsknecht Arquebuiers
heavy gun

Johann Büchsenberg
Landsknecht Pikeblock
Landsknecht Arquebusiers
heavy gun

Italians und French:
Giaccomo Scudetto (verteidigt Bolognese)
Italian Pikeblock
Arquebusiers

1 unit Gendarmes

Vincenzo Caruso (on a flanking mission)
Italian Pikeblock (small)
Crossbows


Here are the brave citizans of Bolognese supported by a condottierie an his troops...



At the start of the battle, the landsknechts seemed not willing to march (scary french knights)...



...but after a few good command tests they managed to get things rolling..



But some of the landsknechts seemed more happy to stay behind...a cunning plan?



On the right side of the battle the Condottierie crossbows confronted the landsknecht pike block.



The gendarmes decided to confront the smaller pike block of the landsknechte too, hoping to have enough time, to march to the bigger pike block later, and if lucky flank it.
(the sheep are deco and later casultymarker if needed...



But the plan of the gendarmes failed after a blunder...args.



On the other side of the battlefield a shootout was on its way, won by the landsknecht arquebuse. The italian arquebuse fled from the field at the first chance...oh my



The way was open for the large pike block to confront the italian pike in the village. After a few heavy blows were delt, the italians gave way and the battle was won for the landsknechts



A great evening of gaming: you can really have fun with Pike&Shotte at small numbers of figures...

Cheers,
Don

[Sirolf]

The italian arquebuse fled from the field at the first chance

That sounds very italian-like  . Very nice game btw!

[DonVoss]

Okay, nearly two weeks without another mini...

Here is gendarme No.4. A lot of more work to do to get a decent sized unit...



Cheers,
Don

[moonshado]

Very nice, you have a nice painting style. Look forward to more gendarmes. I'm holding off waiting for Pro Gloria to start issuing their gendarmes.

[traveller]

Excellent work on this one!
Is it a Foundry model?

[DonVoss]

Yes, Foundry. I like the models, although they have very limitetd horse poses and are more on the small side...

DV

[moonshado]

@ Don - have a look at the Pro Gloria page on facebook, their gendarmes are getting close to completion( I think end of August was mentioned). The greens they have on the site include both armoured, part armoured and plain barded horses. With the different horse and gendarmes that are going to be supplied there should be 300+ permutations. I have some of their landesknects they are slightly heavier in build but fit very comfortably with the Foundry figures.

[DonVoss]

Thanx, moonshado, I have allready a big bunch of pro gloria-landsknechts in the army (the big regiment in the AAR the first 4 ranks). Still some more in the leadpile and ordered a big deal last weekend...

But I am really interested in more of the new pro gloria stuff.

...

[Lowtardog]

Beautiful work fantastic to watch it grow

[Galloping Major]

Really great stuff 


www.gallopingmajorwargames.com

[DonVoss]

Just finished another gendarme...





Cheers,
Don