New book in the collection

 Gabriele Esposito's Armies of the Medieval Italian Wars 1125–1325 (Men-at-Arms 523), illustrated beautifully by Giuseppe Rava, arrived today. This should calm my nerves a bit when it comes to planning out the painting of my Later Communal Italian army.

 

 

Note to Amazon: Please, for the love of all that is good and sacred, start shipping books so that they're better protected against damage!!! I bought this as "new" but it looks like it has seen plenty of action in the past; the cover has a couple of creases, corners bent, scuff marks, etc.

WRG resource books collection has begun!

First up:

Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300

by Ian Heath

Cities of the Lombard League

 The Lombard League (1167 AD - 1250 AD) was an alliance of Northern Italian cities formed as a defense against the Holy Roman Empire's attempts to assert influence over the Kingdom of Italy.

The cities represented in the League changed throughout its existence. These cities were as follows:

1167 - 1250 AD	1167 - 1208 AD	1226 - 1250 AD
Alessandria Bergamo Bologna Brescia Crema Ferrara Lodi Mantova Milano Padova Piacenza Treviso Vercelli Verona Vicenza	Alba Asti Bobbio Chieri Cremona Genova Ivrea Malaspina Modena Novarao Parma Reggio Tortona Venezia	Faenza Monferrato Torino Vigevano