Renaissance 15th - 17th centuries
Italian City States
Size: Enough to do two large armies.Condition: Painted, based and recently played.Notes: I can cover any two of the Italian states from the wars of the 1490s through the mid sixteenth century. This includes the armies needed to run a campaign based on the old Avalon Hill game Machiavelli.
Imperialist or French
Size: Plenty for an HRE or French Catholic army.Condition: Painted, based, ready for subjugating small Italian republics and Heugenots.Notes: I could use some more lighter cavalry and a few more artillery pieces, but a very nice large army as it is. Lots of Landsknechts. Enough options to cover either an Imperial or a French army.
Swiss
Size: Lots of pike and halberd. Big enough to take on any of the other 15th or 16th century armies. A few Knights, some shot units.Condition: Painted, based. Looking for employers.Notes: Brutally effective in most rules, but not a lot of diversity in the army.
Spanish
Size: Big army. Might be a match for two other armies, certainly big enough for a large multiplayer game.Condition: painted, based, ready to play, mostly. Some stands need flocking, some cavalry needs rebasing.Notes: Ready for Italy or the Low Countries. Could use some more lighter troops.
Dutch or Huegenots
Size: Big enough to fight a scaled back Spanish or French army. Ritters, gendarmes, pike, shot, and could borrow landsknechts.Condition: Painted and ready to earn either religious liberty or a sack full of guilders.Notes: A nice 80 Years War campaign is beckoning. This set could cover either army, either Dutch Protestants or French Protestants.
Polish
Size: These are 16th and 17th century Poles. Not a large set, but several units of lovely winged hussars, cossacks and haiduk infantry. With German mercenaries, could fight an Imperialist (16th century) or Swedish (17th century) army.Condition: Painted, needs rebasing.Notes: This set makes me want to consider Muscovites. An early campaign against Gustavus Adolphus might be fun, also.
English Civil War
Size: Two armies, with some generic, and some specific troops present. Moderate size, as is, but with either more painting, or judicious borrowing from the TYW set, could put on a large battle.Condition: Most is painted and based. See TYW section for those troops. Artillery needs work, and some infantry needs painting, but plenty playable as is.Notes: one of my favorite periods, some of my troops go back to the 1980s.
Thirty Years War
Size: very large collection with several battalia each for all the main participants (Imperial, Swedes, Bohemians, Bavarians, Saxons, French, Dutch, Spaniards) plus cavalry, guns, commanders, etc.Condition: All painted nicely. Ready to play as is, but would like to do a complete rebasing to MDFstands.Notes: Again, this begs a multiplayer campaign.
Japanese/Samurai
Size: Two large armies. All elements including monks, foreigners, etc.Condition: All painted. Rebasing is desired, but could be played.Notes: Many different factions and clans are represented, could easily become a campaign.
Size: Large army, intended as a foe for the Japanese.Condition: Painted, needs organization and basing.Notes: I would like to build some turtle ships...
Ming Chinese
Size: Large army. Collection may also include separate Mongol horde, but needs to be sorted.Condition: Unsorted, unpainted.Notes: if I ever pursue this project, I may get the Mings professionally painted.
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Part 3 - Renaissance (this article)
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