Taking Stock - 15mm Collections pt. 3 - Renaissance

This is part three of my 15mm cataloging effort. This time, my Renaissance armies, to cover the late 15th through the mid 17th centuries.

 

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.

Joseon Korean

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.

This series includes

Part 1 - Ancients 

Part 2 - Medievals

Part 3 - Renaissance (this article)

Part 4 - 18th Century

Part 5 - Napoleonics
Part 6 - 19th Century