Battle of Novarra 1513 Valour and Fortitude Great Italian Wars 62

We had another V&F game, this time Novarra, Swiss/Milan,well mainly Swiss versus France, who had Landsknechts as they didn't have the Swiss. Once more Des got AI to come up with a scenario and plan which we followed.

Early exit for the Milanese heavy cavalry.

Swiss scirting rough ground

The Swiss pike kiels are hard as nails and once placed ,as per the scenario, French field artillery cant move , so their most potent weapon against the Swiss pikes is pretty much useless, the French cavalry took out the Milanese cavalry and the artillery ,then the Swiss pike munched through everything else, although the adventures crossbow men put up a surprisingly stiff defense, in the end the French cavalry got away but most of the infantry were destroyed, which is a historical result at least, still trying to work out what I could have done otherwise as the French player? What I am sure is that the French camp looks terrible and must be rectified! I have started on that. Another fun V and F game anyway, Ive got a backlog of AARs building up so probably more of those, Napoleonic, war of three kingdoms or Medieval!

All the best 

Iain

Cyprus trees terrain 34

 If your going to do the Great Italian wars , you could really do with cyprus trees, finally Ive finished making some.

Ive used some of  the artificial christmas tree branches Ive used before for my winter evergreens. Ive added pva and sawdust, which I had to do twice, then coated them with black emulsion , followed by two different greens to give some variety then I flocked them , finished the basing and flocked with a different flock. Bit late for summer of scenery but galvanised by that, so thanks Dave!

Next up , a few AARs, more Napoleonics , Great Italian wars and dark ages on the tray.

All the best

Iain

Italian pike block Great Italian wars 61

 Just to keep Alexie and Jonathan happy, here's a Great Italian wars post. We had a game of Agdanello 1509 in April 2024 and I thought I needed another Italian pike block, so two and a half years later here they are!

These are mainly from the Perry plastic mercenaries set with additional Perry metal 16th century heads and a couple of their  Swiss heads for variety, there are also some of the armoured knights plastic box set to give me a bit of variety in the first rank, including one of the command sets. The bases are warbases 45mm x 45mm and the flags are from Petes flags.

All the best 

Iain