is a big fan of the Age of Sail, and these ships really speak to him - he loves transitional eras, and the Anglo-Dutch Wars was one of those.
Pike & Shotte Warfare
There's been a lot of talk of elegantly attired companies of men traversing tabletop battlefields of late… In this article, Jess Webb briefly examines the history, tactics and lives of the Landsknechts – the brightly-clothed and highly sought-after Germanic mercenaries of the Pike-and-Shotte era.