Giving a look to some Renaissance wargames, I´m interested in knowing what others manufacturers (Apart from the wonderful Pendraken ranges, of course) are out there.
Apart from Pendraken, I only know Irregular, OG and Obelisk Miniatures.
Big period and big range of different scales. What period and scale are you thinking of?
Of course, 10mm, and first period, from 1494 to 1575 aprox.
Some of the GW Empire figures for Warmaster will work - lots of big hats.
The knights would make excellent gendarmes, except for the shields...
Agree, beautiful gendarme figures ruined by those bloody stupid shields. However the other figures, such as arquebusiers and artillery are excellent. In Pendraken the Late Medieval unbarded knights make excellent gendarmes. I prefer them to the barded figures. There are also some pretty good figures in the Magister Militum 10mm Medieval range, but you need to be picky. The later knights make good gendarmes and there is a very nice Italian pikeman with a roll of fabric around his helmet, again a later Medieval figure.
My two cents:
Games workshop: Italian Wars, (some Kislev and Araby could work for cossacks, polish, russians and turks)
Hinchliffe: 100YW
Irregular: Medieval, ECW, 30YW, Eastern renaiscensce, Samurai
Magister Militum: Late Medieval, Samurai
Obelisk: Conquistadores
Old Glory: Late Medieval, ECW
Pendraken: Almost all periods!!!
I play with GW and Pendraken mainly. ;)
Thanks chaps (we are considering 6mm indeed)
Also, what ruleset could you recomend? We are going to try Lansquenette, DBR, Warmaster Renaissance and a couple more. Any hint?
I think with 6mm there will be less choice...I can only think of H&R that do a decent range..And the irregular moulds are awful for that period ( I speak from experience)
Really? in their web they look "decent"
I recommend Warmaster Renaissance, or even better Warmaster Ancients + Medieval Armies if you can grab the books.
Currently I am playing some Renaissance scenarios with Warmaster Ancients/Medieval including some easy house-rules I am working.
FoG and HC (Pike and shot) seem to be popular but I haven't played.
What setting inside Renaissance period are you interested in?
By the way, according to your introduction in the forum you live in Spain?? I live in Madrid.
I bought some 3 or 4 years back...very 'flashy' and a bit deformed
I did a bit of Irregular Italian Wars some years back. They look better painted up and the range is pretty comprehensive for the Italian Wars, although they could have done with including a more generic pike figure without all the slashing etc. to accommodate the French and Italian states. I'll try and get a photo up at some stage today.
Rules - the Warmaster adaption is good, Pike and Shotte works well, but so does FoG - R and DBR.
Played all of em, at the moment we usually use Pike and Shotte.
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