| The
renaissance period covers early modern warfare from the
end of the 15th Century until the end of the 17th
Century. It was period of transition in warfare. The
introduction of effective firearms, the replacement of
the galley with the sailing warship and a revolution in
fortification and siege craft.
Until the advent of DBR, renaissance wargaming
had been very much a fringe period in Glasgow and
District. Now, however, there is sufficient interest in
the period to run an Annual
DBR Competition for a Society shield. The
competition is done in knock-out formula, with armies
from all three Army List Books. Steve O'Grady and his
Polish army have dominated the competition in recent
years.
  
Eastern
armies including the Polish, Russian and Ottomans are
popular together with more conventional pike and shot
armies of the English Civil War and Thirty Years War.
Other rules used for the period are
Principles of War
and Warhammer Historical English Civil War (WECW).
Players tend to use 15mm armies although the advent of
WECW has again brought 25mm figures back onto the
tabletop.
A recently
fought scenario based on the popular
Polish armies using DBR with 25mm figures.
Wargames Society Link
Pike & Shot
Society |
