The Great Italian Wars- A 15mm Project

 

I had one of those flashes of inspiration, sadly infrequent, and suddenly realised I could write a set of rules for the Great Italian Wars . 

 

It arose from reading volume 2 of Massimo Predonzani and Vincenzo Alberici’s “The Italian Wars”.  

 

 

The ideas pretty much all arrived at once and I had to quickly take notes. Now, draft 1 is done.  There will need to be test games and much painting.  I’ll report back here as I progress.

 

Anyhow, I thought I’d better start to assemble the troops.  I have an A4 box file full of unpainted Venexia 15mm from Lancashire Games.  Also, I had managed to paint a couple of units a few years ago so I was off to a good start.

Pleasingly, I discovered that Alternative Armies, Museum, Blue Moon, Venexia and Legio Heroica figures all work nicely together.  I have some Khurasan on order too and hope they fit with the mix.

Here is the front half of a French pike block. A mix of Alternative Armies, Museum and QRF miniatures.

The face of the future- a Spanish Colunella all from Venexia, save the Museum drummer.

As for the rules they will be card activated with a card for each unit, mostly.  I've gone for casualty removal and units of variable size.  I'll cover the whole thing in a series of themed posts starting with the light cavalry.  My aim is to have French, Spanish and Italian armies. More on this project soon.