After spending the last nine months on my Cossack Uprising project, I am moving back to my ongoing Italian Wars project for a while. I did purchase a 28mm Ottoman Army over the Christmas period, but that will have to wait a few months.
The main emphasis of the next few months will be rounding out the forces of the Italian City States. I am hoping to increase my forces for a possible large scale outing in the fall at Historicon, if the world returns to normal by then.
For the mounted troops, this will involve Condottieri and their retinue, Lance Spezzate and Famiglia Ducale. In my next blog post I plan to go into the organization of the cavalry in some detail.
For the foot troops, I have started with some generic Italian crossbows and arquebusiers. In this batch there are 16 figures from the Assault Group. This will be mounted on two skirmish bases, each with eight figures. The ones shown here will probably end up in the service of Venice. I have another 32 similar figures on the paint bench.
The figures are relatively easy to paint. After my cossack uprising project, I have found myself using a more subdued color palette than I normally use for the Italian wars. However, I am happy how these figures have turned out. I don’t need these City State troops looking as bright and colorful as the Gendarmes, Knights and Landschnekts.
Most of the Italian foot troops will be lighter troops like these. I plan to do a longer post within a week, with some details on how I organize the cavalry. The post will have some pictures of some mounted Milanese shot figures that I also painted this week.
I am enjoying your blog.
We both game the Italian Wars and mid-17th century Eastern Europe periods. I have been using DBR for the former, and have switched over to Husaria for the latter period
600 figures painted in nine months is extremely impressive!
Thanks for the comment. For club games I have being using Pike and Shot for both periods as they are very easy for people to pick up and play.
For the mid 17th century, I have been investing time in lock-down on understanding By Fire and Sword. The more I read the rules the more I like them for small and medium sized actions between two players. I have even invested in a load of three figure movement trays for this rule set.
I have never come across the Husaria rules, I will have to have a look at them.
I have got Furioso and Piquet, but I cannot say that I am a fan of either.