George Gush's Renaissance Warfare - Airfix Magazine Articles

[Druzhina]

I have made new scans of the illustrations to George Gush's Renaissance Warfare - Airfix Magazine Articles and replaced the old .gifs with .jpgs. The download .zip of all 23 parts is now somewhat larger.
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Infantry weapons and organisation
Part 3: infantry missile weapons
Part 4: The artillery
Part 5: Cavalry weapons and organisation
Part 6: Henry VIII's army
Part 7: Irish army of the 16th Century
Part 8: The Universal Soldier
Part 9: Swiss
Part 10: The Turks - Part 1: the Spahis
Part 11: The Turks - Part 2: Janissaries and others
Part 12: The Scots
Part 13: the Polish Army
Part 14: Spanish infantry
Part 15: Spanish Ginetes to Caballos Corazas
Part 16: The French
Part 17: the Imperialists
Part 18: Persians and other easterners
Part 19: the Dutch army
Part 20: the Swedish army
Part 21: the Swedish army (continued)
Part 22: the Muscovites
Part 23: the Muscovites (continued)

These are old and sometimes inaccurate, but, still useful.

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Very useful - thanks

IanS

[Techno]

Indeed !!
Cheers - Phil

[Subedai]

Got the original book but as you say, it's quite informative.

[Steve J]

Thanks for this as they look to be very handy indeed

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice one D!

[sunjester]

Thanks for this. It's a lot more use that his WRG Renaissance rules!

[Subedai]

Thanks for this. It's a lot more use that his WRG Renaissance rules!

Still got a copy of them in my 'Sad Old Gits Rulebooks from the Distant Past' cupboard. How they worked for the rest of the Renaissance I have no idea, we only ever used them for ECW. When we started the options available were them or Newbury rules and they looked like a faster set.

[Orcs]

I am still looking for a good set of Rennaisance rules.

The only modifiers NOT in the melee table were

"Is your commander in need of a Sh*t" -2
"Did your Commander get laid last night" +1

[FierceKitty]

These things shape the destiny of nations!

[FierceKitty]

These things shape the destiny of nations!

....as they said of Helen of Troy.

[T13A]

Very useful, many thanks for posting. Should they go into the resources section?

Cheers Paul

[Druzhina]

I had a few requests for the next 2 parts (for nostalgic reasons), so here they are:
Part 24 – Converting Airfix figures for Renaissance armies by George Gush
Part 25 – Converting Airfix figures for Renaissance armies (continued)

Druzhina
16th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

[FierceKitty]

Woo hoo....bad old days.

[howayman]

Do you think anybody actually did all that ?
They must have been very committed to the period, or just committed.

[Ithoriel]

 Yes we did!   

[Steve J]

I think that was one of the joys of wargaming when I was young. I used to read my Dads old Airfix mags and attempt some of the conversions. Yes they were crude but I did enjoy them.

[Leman]

I remember around 1969 converting a load of WWI French into ACW zouaves and some French Cuirassiers into Charleston Dragoons.

[toxicpixie]

Just spotted this! Cracking, proper snarf of those tomorrow when at a real PC and not on the phone

[Druzhina]

Do you think anybody actually did all that ?
They must have been very committed to the period, or just committed.

There was no cavalry in the Airfix Ancient Britons box, so I made Gallic and British cavalry from US cavalry riders with Robin Hood upper half, with some having an Ancient Britons head. Pins for spears and paper cloaks billowing behind.

Druzhina
Ancient Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers