Welcome to the first release of Italians for our Spanish Century range of 16th Century miniatures.

These Italians are for the period 1495 - 1525, the start of the Great Italian War and could be of any of the main-land states or colonials fighting Turks in the Adriatic.

These are the full details;

• REN327    Italian Pikemen advancing with pike/pole-weapon at 60 degrees
• REN328    Italian Pikemen advancing with pike/pole-weapon at 45 degrees
• REN329    Italians standing with arquebus at port
• REN330    Italians advancing with arquebus at port
• REN331    Italian/Swiss Papal Guards with Halberds

Grand Ambition is another set of rules that uses the AB One system.

Having covered the Thirty Years War period and the English Civil War with previous versions, I wanted to finish off the seventeenth century by covering the wars of James II, Louis XIV and William III.

This later period saw the rise of the standing army: regular troops, funded by the state and employed all year round. This period also saw significant developments in weaponry and tactics and it is these changes that I hope are reflected in the rules. Included in the Grand Ambition rule book are sections detailing with the organisation of troops and the type of formations and tactics deployed.

Hello, and welcome to the first full release this year from The Assault Group

These six packs of 28mm miniatures represent the last of the Spanish Infantry we are making for the start of the Great Italian War.

The pack details are as follows;

• REN321    Spanish/Conquistador wardogs and handlers
• REN322    Neapolitan/Spanish with swords and bucklers I
• REN323    Neapolitan/Spanish with swords and bucklers II
• REN324    Neapolitan/Spanish firing arquebus
• REN325    Neapolitan/Spanish marching with arquebus shouldered
• REN326    Neapolitan/Spanish artillery crew

Welcome back to TAG in 2010, and thank you to everybody that made 2009 a record year for us.

This release, the first of the New Year, is a lot of tidying up from last year, all these items shown as listed on our shopping cart today are items that have been specifically requested by TAG customers which i had promised to add to the cart before Christmas, so this is us catching up and clearing the decks before the next full Spanish Century release.

These are the new items;

Just a few new packs to add to our shopping cart this week...

Firstly, a larger Ordinance piece of our going early Renaissance range. Guns such as these can be seen in large numbers in pictures and wood-cuts of the period, our is a copy of one from an Albrecht Durer illustration.

Secondly, we have a group of dismounted Cossacks, 3 miniatures with fire-arms holding and leading ponies. These miniatures were specifically designed to act as dismounted dragoon, which the Cossacks used in the 1650's.

Finally, a pack of Russian labourers, to act a gun crews for our Muscovite Russian range. Labourers are cast open handed and can be fitted with artillery equipments or tools, as requested.

Released today are the latest miniatures for our huge Thirty Years War range.

These two packets of Germans in boot hose are shown in standing and firing poses, to compliment the packs we already have on sale.

The full details of the packs are as follows;

• REN209    German musketeers in boot-hose standing with musket and fork
• REN210    German musketeers in boot-hose firing musket from fork

Escalade is a set of skirmish rules designed for keen Father Tilly players - and anyone else interested in seventeenth-century warfare. Escalade takes the basic mechanics used in Father Tilly and incorporates that extra layer of detail required for battles at the skirmish level. The rules feature organisation at the company level and focus on the role of officers and NCOs in low level engagements.

Also included in the rules are a number of different troop types: those interesting and exotic units that are too small or rare to feature in most big battles. Players can field units of Jägers, Shützen, Sturmtruppen and Trabanten.

This supplement is designed for the Father Tilly rules and covers the end of the conflict between King Gustavus of Sweden and his bitter opponent Count Jean Tserclaus, Baron of Tilly, commander of the Catholic forces in Germany.

Three scenarios are described in this booklet, the first (the skirmish at Werben) is a small encounter game that does not require huge numbers of figures and can easily be handled by two players.