Pike and Shotte - Landsknecht Starter Army - 28mm - Warlord Games CB232336B Bear height: 32cm/12

Bear height: 32cm/12

In the hours before the Allied invasion of Hitler’s Europe was to begin at Normandy

one medium mortar team

Paratroop Section (10) NCO and 2 soldiers with SMGs

infantry-shredding reaper chain-cleaver

Pike and Shotte - Landsknecht Starter Army - 28mm - Warlord Games CB232336B Bear height: 32cm/12The late 15th and early 16th centuries in Europe were defined by near constant warfare. National standing armies were unheard of and the ambitions of empires were reliant on the mercenaries they could afford to hire. Landsknechts were instigated by the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximillian I, as a reaction to the Swiss Mercenary Pikemen that had dominated battlefields for decades before the Italian Wars (1494 1559). Over the course of the Italian Wars,