Battle of Agnadello refight 1509
I was keen to try the Neil Thomas rules for the Renaissance. These are but posted on the io group website and are a variant of the AMW rules. I have a lot of renaissance figures which I rarely use and as a huge fan of the Neil Thomas rulesets was keen to give them a go.
The battle chosen was in 1509 between the French and the Venetians. Historically the Venetians outnumbered the French, but the French had the advantage of better heavy cavalry and Swiss mercenaries.
The game played very well and was true to the historical performance of various troop types. There were 15 French units and 18 Venetian. We don't play the two units exit that board rule, we play until one side has lost over 50% of its bases, at which point that side is considered to be broken.
It was very well balanced game, the dried up riverbed and steep hill gave the Venetians an initial advantage, the French gensdarmes were very unlucky, for a long time it looked as though the Venetians would reverse history. But once the Swiss mercenaries entered the fray it turned around as they quickly made mincemeat of the Italian levy Pike and the Venetian army was broken.
Renaissance rules are in One Hour Wargames AND in Introduction to Wargames ?
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