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
