Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy 81

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We take a look at the Renaissance wars between the Italian city-states, and the role of the Condottieri, soldiers available to the highest bidder.

Theme: Rise of the Condottieri
  • Eoghan Kelly, ‘Mercenaries in Italy - The contract men’.
  • Andrew Lavoie, ‘Mercenary warfare in the age of John Hawkwood - Cry “Carne!”’.
  • Michael Leck, ‘With a Swedish connection - Life and Death of an Italian Condottiere’.
  • Eoghan Kelly, ‘The Battle of Fornovo, 1495 - Against the “Barbarians”’.
  • Simon MacDowall, ‘Refight of Ravenna 1512 - The Pope gets a bloody nose’.
  • Guy Bowers, ‘Building a Condottieri army - A fistful of Florins’.
  • Sascha Herm, ‘On the Cover - The Battle of San Romano’.
Features
  • Warwick Kinrade, ‘Bitesize battle for Soldiers of God - Richard I at Arsuf’.
  • Rob Harper, ‘Imperial versus Royalist French in 1815 - How Grouchy won his baton’.
  • Rolf Grein and Jim Hale, ‘What if? intervention in the Abyssinia War - A Beating for Benito’.
  • Jasper Oorthuys, ‘Results and developments in 2015 - The Great Wargaming Survey’.
  • Tony Harwood, ‘Building a classic ‘Spy-Fi’ vehicle - The Dragon Tank’.
  • Ruben Torregrosa, ‘Painting 15mm Gauls - The Gaul of it’.
Departments
  • Rick Priestley, ‘This Gaming Life’.
  • Richard Clarke, ‘Up front’.
  • Eric Lauterbach, ‘The irregular - Terrain Feng-Shui’.
  • Paul Burkin, ‘The new crusader game by Warwick Kinrade - Let’s play Soldiers of God’.
  • Miniature reviews
  • Game Reviews of Legion of Honour, Liber Militum: Tercios, Daisho, Maalintii Rangers and Frostgrave: Thaw of the Lich King
  • Book reviews
  • Parting Shots
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