Contents

Introduction The Later 3 The 3

Later Italian Wars Lists French Army 4 Italian Army 4 5 Swiss Army 5

The Battle of Ceresole Background 6 French Army 7 Imperial Army 8 Ceresole Map 9

French Wars of Religion Army Lists French Catholic Army 10 French Huguenot Army 10

The Battle of Dreux Catholic Army 12 Huguenot Army 13 Dreux Map 14

The Battle of Coutras Huguenot Army 15 Catholic Army 16 Coutras Map Sample file 17 Formations Infantry Square 18 Combined Pike & Shot Units 18

War Tokens Capture Standard 19 Regroup 19 Treachery 19 Who Will Die With Their King 19

Unit Cards Unit Cards for Ceresole, Dreux & Coutras 20

Photographs The front cover of this booket incorporates a photograph of infantry from the Artizan Designs Renaissance range of 28mm figures. The photographs used inside this publication feature figures from The Assault Groups Renaissance range including their excellent Italian Wars Spanish and Italian infantry

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This supplement for the Bad War rule-set comes in two the Bourbons and the Guise. This collection of battles, sections. The first section provides details of army lists, civil disturbances and religious conflicts is known as the scenarios and orders of battle for European warfare in French Wars of Religion. the mid sixteenth century and focuses on the later Italian Wars from the 1530s onwards. The second section deals Much of the countries gentry rallied to the Huguenot European warfare in the second half of the sixteenth cause and so their tended to have large bodies of century, specifically the French Wars of Religion. chivalric cavalry. These dashing and enthusiastic cavalry still employed the devastating charge with as they would have done in the Italian Wars. However, if these The Later Italian Wars noble horsemen considered the land and processions to be Following the battles of Bicocca, Sesia and Pavia, the at risk from Catholic neighbours they were likely to quit a importance of firearms was becoming increasingly obvious. campaign and return home. No longer were these weapons restricted to use at sieges German mercenary horse also featured in Huguenot or defending earthworks, the had been used armies, these may have lacked the dash of the noble successfully in the open field of battle. cavalry but presented a formidable mass when, as they Although the number of firearms employed by armies often where, deployed on the battlefield in large numbers. increased, it was recognised that troops armed in this way The Huguenot infantry was considered an altogether less could still be vulnerable, especially to cavalry attack. A reliable branch of the army relying too heavily on foreign way had to be found to combine the destructive power mercenaries with doubtful commitment to the cause. of the arquebus with the solid defensive prospects of the In contrast, the strongest arm of the Catholic armies was pike. Increasingly, shot armed infantry accompanied pike their infantry. Most of the established “old band” infantry squares into battle, often operating as a skirmishing screen arrayed themselves against the . - ready to dart back to the protective cover of the pike The Catholic commanders also benefited from an influx square when threatened by cavalry. Some commanders of Spanish troops fighting in the as well as deployed groups of arquebusiers in more solid bodies on the German auxiliaries from the Catholic German states. flanks of the pike square, enabling the shot to fire to front, flank or rear and still benefit from the protection offered Both armies featured unusually high numbers of cavalry, by the pike. Some arquebusiers were even organised to especially on the Huguenot side, and the opening stages of fire over the shoulders of their own front rank pikemen battles where usually fiercely fought and decisive cavalry into an enemy only metres away! battles. The losing horsemen would usually flee the field Sampleleaving file their comrades on foot to be surrounded and cut The later stages of the Italian Wars also saw the change to pieces. in tactics and tempo of the once mighty Swiss infantry. Following the slaughter at Bicocca, the Swiss pike-square By the 1590s the lance had almost completely disappeared became a weapon used with much greater care. Gone from the battlefield. Most noble cavalry could be better were the reckless charges and victory at any cost. The described as “cuirassier” and were equipped with full ferocity was still there, as we can see a Ceresole but it armour and pistol and fought in deep formations in the was now more disciplined and controlled. manner of Reiters. The slender lines of cavalry deployed to fight en haye proved to be too thin to resist more muscular In this supplement I have included army lists for the formations of cavalry deployed in six or more ranks, armies of the Italian Wars plus a Ceresole supplement, especially when these slowing moving cavalry formations a nicely balanced and challenging game for either side were supported by small bands of arquebusiers ready to and an excellent example of warfare in the mid sixteenth pour fire into the enemy just before the charge. century. Towards the end of the century, the infantry were still organised into awkward combinations of . The French Wars of Religion Mixed units of relative small size were becoming common, From 1562 to 1598 a series of wars were fought across pike and shot regiments of a thousand men or less took France between French Protestants and French Catholics. to the field, although these small regiments could still These wars also encompassed intense rivalry between be grouped together into great blocks of three to five some of the great aristocratic families of France such as thousand men.

 Later Italian Wars Army Lists

French Army

Horse Unit Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Number French Gendarmes 3 - 4 Ex Heavy Lance, sword Galloper Open 4 French Archers - 4 - 5 Heavy Lance, sword Galloper Open 4 Mounted Crossbowmen - 4 - 5 Armoured Crossbow, sword Shot Open/Skirmish 1 Stradiots Raiders 4 - 5 Armoured Javelin, sword Skirmish Skirmish 1 Argoulets - 5 - 6 Armoured Arquebus, sword Skirmish Skirmish 1 Arrière Ban Levy 3 - 5 Armoured Lance, sword Galloper Open 2

Infantry Unit Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Number Old Band Infantry - 4 Armoured Pike Mêlée Close 10 Italian Shot - 5 - 6 Armoured Aquebus, sword Shot Open 2 Landsknecht Infantry - 3 - 4 Armoured Pike Mêlée Close 8 Landsknecht Infantry - 3 - 4 Armoured Mêlée Open/Close 2 Landsknecht Skirmish - 3 - 4 Armoured Arquebus, sword Skirmish Skirmish 2 Double-Pay Men Doppelsöldner 3 - 4 Armoured Two handed weapon Mêlée Open/Close 1 Gascon/Breton Foot Aventuriers 4 - 5 Armoured Arquebus or crossbow Shot Open 10 Swiss Infantry - 2 - 4 Armoured Pike Mêlée Close 6 Swiss Skirmishers - 3 - 4 - Crossbow, sword Skirmish Skirmish 2 Legion Pikemen Levy 5 - 6 Armoured Pike Mêlée Close 5 Legion Shot Levy 5 - 6 Armoured Aquebus, sword Shot Open 2 Legion Halberdiers Levy 5 - 6 Armoured Halberd Mêlée Open 1 Artillery - 3 - 4 - Any Shot Skirmish 2 Sample file Italian Army

Horse Unit Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Number Men at Arms Condottiere 4 - 5 Ex Heavy Lance, sword Galloper Open 2 Lanze Spezzate - 4 - 5 Ex Heavy Lance, sword Galloper Open 4 Mounted Crossbowmen - 5 - 6 Armoured Crossbow, sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirmish 1 Mounted Arquebusiers - 5 - 6 Armoured Arquebus, sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirmish 2 Stradiots Raiders 4 - 5 Armoured Javelin, sword Skirmish Skirmish 1 Bande Nere Black Band 4 - 5 Armoured Arquebus, sword Shot Open/Skirmish 1

Infantry Unit Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Number Crossbowmen Condotta/Levy* 5 - 6 Armoured Crossbow, sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirmish 2 Shot Condotta/Levy 5 - 6 Armoured Aquebus, sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirmish 5 Pikemen Condotta/Levy 5 - 6 Armoured Pike Mêlée Open/Close 10 Halberdier Condotta/Levy 4 - 5 Armoured Halberd Mêlée Open/Skirmish 1 Sword & Buckler Condotta/Levy 4 - 5 Armoured Sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirmish 1

 Later Italian Wars Army Lists

Italian Army (continued)

Infantry Unit Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Number Bande Nere Black Band 3 - 4 Armoured Arquebus, sword Shot Open 3 Landsknecht* ------Artillery - 5 - Any Shot Skirmish 1

* See French army list for details of Landsknecht.

Spanish Army

Horse Unit Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Number Spanish Knights - 4 - 5 Heavy Lance, sword Galloper Open 2 Burgundian Men at Arms - 4 - 5 Ex Heavy Lance, sword Galloper Open 2 Italian Men at Arms Condottiere 4 - 5 Ex Heavy Lance, sword Galloper Open 2 Mounted Crossbowmen - 5 - 6 Armoured Crossbow, sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirm 1 Mounted Arquebusiers - 4 - 5 Armoured Arquebus, sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirm 3 Ginetes Raiders 4 - 5 Armoured Javelin, sword Skirmish Skirmish 10

Infantry Unit Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Number Spanish Crossbowmen Regular 4 - 5 Armoured Crossbow, sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirm 2 Spanish Shot Regular 4 - 5 Armoured Aquebus, sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirm 7 Spanish Pikemen - 4 - 5 Armoured Pike Mêlée Close 10 Spanish Halberdier - 3 - 4 Armoured Halberd Mêlée Open/Skirm 1 Sword & Buckler Swd & Buckler 3 - 4 Armoured Sword Mêlée Open/Skirm 1 Landsknecht Infantry - 3 - 4 SampleArmoured Pike file Mêlée Close 4 Landsknecht Infantry - 3 - 4 Armoured Halberd Mêlée Open/Skirm 2 Landsknecht Skirmish - 3 - 4 Armoured Arquebus, sword Skirmish Skirmish 1 Double-Pay Men Doppelsöldner 3 - 4 Armoured Two handed wpn Mêlée Open/Close 1 Italian Mercenaries - 4 - 5 Armoured Aquebus, sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirm 3 Artillery - 4 - 5 - Any Shot Skirmish 1

Swiss Army

Horse Unit Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Number Mounted Crossbowmen - 5 - 6 Armoured Crossbow, sword Shot Open/Skirmish 1 Mounted Arquebusiers - 5 - 6 Armoured Arquebus, sword Shot Open/Skirmish 1

Infantry Unit Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Number Swiss Infantry - 2 - 5 Armoured Pike Mêlée Close 10 Swiss Skirmishers - 3 - 4 - Crossbow, sword Skirmish Skirmish 2 Swiss Skirmishers - 3 - 4 - Arquebus, sword Skirmish Skirmish 2

 The Battle of Ceresole

Background Start-Line & Battle Readiness In the hope of drawing the Spanish and Imperial forces Players have the option of using the Battle Readiness into open battle, the young French prince Enghien laid rules (see main Bad War rules) where each unit is tested siege to Carignano early in 1544. With permission from to determine their readiness and starting position on the the king of France to risk an open battle, French forces battlefield. However, if players wish they can start the including eager members of the gentry began to gather in game after the first few hours of preliminary moves had Piedmont. The Imperial commander Del Vasto was keen to been made and both sides were fully deployed. In this send a relief force to Carignano and gathered a large force case, all units will be deployed, artillery will be in position of Landsknecht, Spanish and Italian infantry. and skirmishers ready to engage.

Leaving a small force masking Carignano, Enghien moved The start-line for both sides will be at least twelve inches to intercept the Imperial army at the village of Ceresole from the tables centre-line with opposing units being at d’Alba. On the 11th April both armies assembled in open least twenty-four inches apart (in the case of 15mm figures, ground, several miles from the village and prepared for the units will deploy no closer than sixteen centimetres battle. from the tables centre-line).

Order of Battle Further Reading The orders of battle shown on the following pages refer An excellent source of further reading for this battle is of to the units involved in the Battle of Ceresole. The course Sir Charles Omans The Art of War in the Sixteenth classification, grade, tactics and order are all terms used Century. Players can refer to this account for more details to describe the units profile (see Bad War rules). The of the battle and can compare their playing of the scenario “strength” of each unit refers to the number of figures to the real event! that make up each unit (either 15mm or 25/28mm, which ever are being used). Players can obviously scale down the unit sizes if they have insufficient numbers for some of the larger units.

Sample file

 The Battle of Ceresole

French Army Dampierre

Rearward Command Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Strength Gruyères Swiss - 5 - Pike Mêlée Close 49 Italian Foot - 4 Armoured Pike Mêlée Close 30 Italian Foot - 4 Armoured Arquebus, sword Skirmish Skirmish 6 Light Horse - 4 Armoured Crossbow, sword Skirmish Skirmish 8

D’Enghien (CinC)

Battle Command Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Strength French Knights Gendarmes 3 Ex Heavy Lance, sword Galloper Open 6 Mounted Crossbowmen - 5 Armoured Crossbow, sword Skirmish Skirmish 3 Swiss Infantry - 3 - Pike Mêlée Close 81 Swiss Infantry - 3 - Arquebus, sword Skirmish Skirmish 8 Infantry Skirmishers - 4 - Arquebus, sword Skirmish Skirmish 16 Artillery - 4 - Medium Shot Skirmish 5 de Boutières

Vaward Command Classification Grade Armour Weapons Tactics Order Strength Old Band French Foot - 4 Armoured Pike Mêlée Close 36 Old Band French Foot - 4 Armoured Pike Mêlée Close 36 Old Band French Foot - 4 Armoured Arquebus, sword Shot Open 6 Old Band French Foot - 4 SampleArmoured Arquebus, file sword Shot Open 6 French Knights Gendarmes 3 Ex Heavy Lance, sword Galloper Open 2 Light Horse - 5 Armoured Crossbow, sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirmish 5 Light Horse - 5 Armoured Arquebus, sword Shot/Skir Open/Skirmish 5

French Deployment At the Battle of Ceresole, the “vaward” command was positioned on the French right flank, the “battle” formed-up in the centre and the “rearward” took the left flank. The Gruyères Swiss and Swiss pike infantry will be formed into squares, i.e. frontage is equal to depth. For example, D’Enghien’s Swiss will form a square nine ranks wide by nine files deep. This is based on a figure ration of one to fifty men. Obviously this is quite a lot of figures so players can reduce the numbers if they wish. The French pike should also be deployed in squares but here players have the option of placing a rank of arquebusiers behing the front rank of the pike, an innovation that was used by the French at the battle. During the early stages of the battle it is recorded that the Swiss infantry under the command of Enghien laid down to avoid artillery fire. If players use this option, the Swiss will count as benefiting from hard cover when fired on by artillery. Players should also note that the Swiss infantry will not be classed as “impetuous” (see main Bad War rules).

The French artillery will consist of a mixture of “medium” guns such as Falcons, Minions and Sakers. These will be positioned in a central position to the front of deployed infantry and cavalry.