As there isn't a Phalanx show today Norm at Battlefields and Warriors blog has asked us to mark the date with a post.
Here we have a dream of Maximilian, standing on the battlements of a northern Italian city.
First to come to mind are the Spanish, 4 colunna a unit of genitors, command and a field gun.
Next (the closest to his heart) his creation, the landsknechts!
Next up the TtS Papal army, gendarmes, pike,mounted crossbow men and some stradiot pretending to be Turks! Plus a few cannon, because we all need artillery!
The Venetian TtS army ,gendarmes, pike mounted crossbow men with another unit of stradiot and a couple of cannons.
The French, Picard pike,adventurers with crossbow, artillery, command and a baggage train ( somewhere to keep your pornographic woodprints if you're Charles VIII!)
Three pike blocks of Swiss ,plus shot and artillery, near the French as often in their employ!
So that's the lot,here they are all together.
We can now say goodbye to Maximilian who should have travelled over the Atlantic over a year ago but I wanted him to oversee the parade and the building work overran (that almost never happens!)
That's a lot of figures, they seem to fill a 6' x 4' board ,however I am planning reinforcements, there is an under strength landsknecht pike block that needs 18 more figures to bring it up to par,that's happening. The Swiss will get another 108 pikemen, in one block or split in three and some command, I've started them but as most of them will be converted it seems to be taking some time! I have six further 8 figures gendarme units underway which both the French and Spanish need ( two Spanish, four French) another genitor unit for the Spanish and two mounted crossbow units for the French and four gun carts for Ravenna. That should be about it! Ideally I would like to be able to field four armies, Venetian, Papal, Spanish and French for a campaign, I think I have enough buildings to split among them. I hope it's not too late Norm!
All the best Iain
