Foundry - Pike and Shot, all miniatures

In the first 50 years of the sixteenth century Spain and Portugal spewed out a stream of ferocious adventurers. The Portugese rampaged around the Indian Ocean taking on Swahelis, Egyptians, Indians, Malays and Javanese. One small army even helped defend Christian Ethiopia from the Ottoman backed Somalis.

Tiny Spanish expeditions, through treachery and incredible bravery, toppled the mighty Aztec and Inca empires, while stronger expeditions were bloodily repulsed. Other ill fated adventures disintegrated in mutiny, madness and civil war...

These models were sculpted by Mark Copplestone.