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October 11, 2019 at 3:13 pm #169714
Corso
ParticipantWonderful stuff! It has been a while since I played a game of pike and shotte, need to coax a couple of friends for a battle! 🙂
October 4, 2019 at 7:11 pm #169325Corso
ParticipantGreat start!
For contrast paint I suggest you use contrast medium with the dark colours like Wyldwood, otherwise they end up like normal paint. They are great to use, especially Blood Angels Red and Guilliman Flesh.
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August 19, 2019 at 7:06 pm #167185Corso
ParticipantAnother regiment restored – Grana Foot Regiment, raised in 1627. Francesco Antonio Grana, Marchese del Carretto, seems was quite unpleasant. Count Harrach, a relative of Wallenstein, received a letter from the generalissimus, that stated that Wallenstein ‘prefered hospital than being near Grana, and disliked him more each day’. Grana’s lust for material greed was shown during the sack of Bayreuth and Kulmbach, so much so that Wallenstein wished to send him to command a frontier fortress in Raab than giving him command, but Grana, being incompetent, wasn’t fit for fortress command. Grana took stock of Wallenstein’s displeasure and quickly joined the ‘anti-Wallenstein’ party in Vienna to plot against his commander. Many years later, in 1639, he was made Field Marshal. At Lutzen Grana commanded the leftermost infantry brigades, though why he was chosen instead of Comargo or any other senior officer puzzles me. His regiment was commanded by Lt. Col. Giulio Diodati, who left an eyewitness account of the battle. After Lutzen, Wallenstein sent Grana to Vienna to give the news of Gustavus’s death to the Emperor (probably to get rid of him), but on his way Grana got sick and Diodati had to ride to the imperial court himself.
The flags are speculative, though they carry the emblems of the Imperialists – the double-headed black eagle, the Burgundian Saltire, and the Emperor’s cypher (F monogram) for Ferdinand. Coats and hats repainted, a couple of pikes changed and sergeants added.
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August 16, 2019 at 5:53 am #166966Corso
ParticipantThanks both 😀
@CTG – The flags are purchased – I don’t have the patience and skill to paint them.
Obviously, like many imperialist/catholic regiments we don’t know what Comargo’s flags where. Since his regiment was Leaguist, I used the virgin as the flag ‘symbol’ – a common icon used by the catholics. Light blue and white where the colours of Bavaria, the mainstay of the Catholic League, so they fit nicely.
August 15, 2019 at 11:38 am #166906Corso
ParticipantThanks CTG – and thanks for the unit size tip. I used it!
Comargo Infantry Regiment done. A leaguist regiment, it was raised in February 1620 (Brzezinski says 1619) by Levin von Mortaigne. Six years later Jacob Ludwig von Furstenberg became its new colonel. Comargo took over leadership on the 20th of May 1629.
Theodor Freiherr de Comargo seems to come from Flanders. His youth is shrouded in mystery. At the beginning of the war, he was a captain in Guglielmo de Verdugo’s infantry regiment. A few years later he served under Fugger at Bergen op Zoom. According to Weber in 1626 Comargo was accused of murdering his ‘libertine’ wife in Gallarante, Lombardy (northern Italy) but was acquitted after an investigation. In 1627 he was back in the field under Tilly and served as commander of Stade. Augustin von Fristch, a junior officer, is reported to have described Comargo as quite a ‘rough’ man and wasn’t much liked by his soldiers. During Pappenheim’s attack on Maastricht he was wounded in the arm. Comargo’s last battle would be the battle of Lutzen in 1632. His regiment was pushed back by the Yellow regiment and withdrew. Joining with Baden’s regiment under Lt Col. Stopler, the new combined infantry stopped the Yellow Brigade in its rampage while Bredau’s cavalry smashed into the swedish flank. Comargo seems to have been taken out of action in the first phase of the fight, and Munchuasen took command of the regiment for the rest of the battle.
I painted Comargo from the p&s command group 4 pack, and also painted a drummer. The rest were ‘re-painted’ older models and rebased.
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August 10, 2019 at 7:51 pm #166700Corso
ParticipantThanks IO & RR
@RR Wallenstein did have a mounted bodyguard in 1632 but consisted of 2 companies of harquebusiers. The lancers that were part of his bodyguard in the first term of office were disbanded in 1630.
August 10, 2019 at 3:32 pm #166697Corso
ParticipantGreat post!
I confess of being a nerd too……and proud of it!
August 4, 2019 at 7:07 pm #166235Corso
ParticipantSimply awesome – well done indeed! 😀
Any plans for the next one?
August 3, 2019 at 6:09 pm #166198Corso
ParticipantAgree with CTG – whatever you and your buddies like, do it.
For smaller games, combined units are not good. Separate ones make for more ‘cinematic’ approach.
August 2, 2019 at 7:41 am #166112Corso
ParticipantHi Smalcomson
1) As far as I know no, unless they are in a hedgehog formation with the pike block.
2) From the thirty years war onwards, I would use the combined units rules. I find them much more historically accurate than separate units (unless for specific scenarios). You still get the option to field separate musketeer units as commanded shot. For 16th century battles I would keep units of pike and musketeers/arquebusiers separate.
Hope this helps 🙂
July 17, 2019 at 11:33 am #165263Corso
ParticipantLove that unit – nice paintwork and basing, well done!
July 10, 2019 at 7:03 pm #164886Corso
ParticipantI fully support in spirit (since I’m a bit far away) the Imperial cause and if I do some imperialists for my collection before I finish current hobby projects, I’ll have you to blame! 😀 😀 😀
June 2, 2019 at 9:34 pm #162847Corso
ParticipantGreat battle report!
To Kill a King has some very cool scenarios besides lots of cool rules and army lists.
June 2, 2019 at 9:26 pm #162846Corso
ParticipantLove him!
June 2, 2019 at 9:20 pm #162845Corso
ParticipantGreat work – well done!
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