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Reconquista
Reconquista Wargaming Project
Posted 22 Oct 2002
Rules
DBM in the past, the dabbled with the idea of FOG, but mostly play DBA or HOTT.
Armies
I can field all the main players for the Reconquista using DBM
Later Visigothic 419 AD - 720 AD (DBM Book 2, List 82 )
Andalusian 710 AD - 1172 AD (DBM Book 3, List 34)
Feudal Spanish 711 AD - 1340 AD (DBM Book 3, List 35)
Fanatic Berber 1039 AD - 1529 AD (DBM Book 3, List 74)
Medieval Spanish or Portuguese 1340 AD - 1485 AD (DBM Book 4, List 68)
My favourites are Murabit Berber (circa 1110 AD) and Medieval Aragonese (circa 1455 AD). If you want to know why I like the Murabitun, just check out the first 5 minutes of the movie El Cid. And Medieval Aragonese ... because I like Almughavares ... fielding shieldless Javelin/Spearmen in WRG 7 edition was a fine way to get ones blood moving.
I have also fielded some contemporaries from other parts of the world:
Abbasid Arab 747 - 945 AD (DBM Book 3, List 37)
Tuareg 1000 AD - 1880 AD (DBM Book 3, List 69) ... Adrenalin pumping action it was too - this army has no reverse.
Catalan Company 1302 AD - 1388 AD (DBM Book 4, List 60)
And I'm working on ...
Granadine 1232 AD - 1492 AD (DBM Book 4, List 38)
Scale
15 mm
Figures
Predominantly from Essex Miniatures, although Irregular, and Table Top appear among the the Muslim Cavalry and the Almughavares.