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Renaissance Period

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.

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