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ITALIAN CONDOTTA 1400-1493

This list covers all Italian armies of the Condatta era except those of the Venetian Republic or its overseas possessions or those of Genoa in Cypress until 1464. Armies can be Milanese [Mi], Florentine[F], Pisan or Paduan[Pi], Papal [Pa], or Neopolitan [N]. The minima marked * apply only if militia are used.

VENETIAN ITALIAN 1400-1493

This list covers the armies of the Serene Republic in the 15th century wars against Milan, Florence the Hapsburgs to expand its possessions on the Italian mainland.

VENETIAN COLONIAL 1400- 1493

This list covers the armies of the Republic of Venice that defended its eastern possessions in Istria, Dalmatia, Albania, Greece, Crete and after 1489, Cypress.

GENOESE CYPRIOT 1400 -1464

This list covers the Genoese army defending its rich holdings in Cypress until the Cypriot Kingdom and its Mamaluk overlords evicted them in 1464.

ORDER OF ST. JOHN 1400-1493

This list covers the land forces of the Knights Hospitaller in Rhodes from which they conducted continuous maritime and coastal piracy against the Moslem states in the region.. Their forces in Rhodes withstood invasions by the Mamaluks (1442-44 ) and Ottomans (1480 ).

LUSIGNAN CYPRIOT 1400-1489

This covers the Frankish kingdom of Cypress until the last queen sold it to Venice. At the beginning of the period the countries wealth was being siphoned away by the Genoese who occupied part of it until evicted in 1464. Thus weakened it was forced to become a Mamaluk tributary in 1426, and was a base for their attack on Rhodes in 1440 and 1443. A Mamaluk army successfully supported a rival to the legitimate queen 1460-64. Venice was made protector of the island in 1473, occupied it the next year and annexed it in 1489. Minimum marked * applies if any Hospitallers are used. A Mamaluk ally can have one element of artillery.

SICILIAN 1400-1442

This covers the army of the Kingdom of Sicily an ally of Aragon, who became part of the kingdom of Aragon in 1409, until its reconquest of and union with Naples in 1442. However the army Alfonso V used after 1421 for this conquest is covered by the Italian Condatta list [Neopolitan]. Aragonese allies may have Almughavars.

SPANISH RECONQUISTA 1400-1493

This list covers the civil wars in Castile, the Catalan Revolt in Aragon, and Ferdinand of Aragon's defeat of the Castilian rebels and their Portuguese allies that united the two Kingdoms (1479), and the final war against Grenada. The republican army of the Catalan Revolt (1461-72) can have no more than the minimum of Spanish men at arms and otherwise only jinetes, militia and Almughavar elements. The united Kingdom of Castile and Aragon fielded large armies in the war against Granada at times up to 30,000 horse and up to 50,000 foot especially at the end. Midway through the war the Hermandad militia was turned into a regular force of infantry modeled after the Swiss and cavalry forces were modeled on the French companies of ordonnance. Guns which were few at the beginning of the war became numerous by its end. * Bombards must be mobile after 1487.

GRANADINE 1400-1492

This list covers the Armies of Grenada until the Spanish conquest. Although Granada was a vassal of Castile there was some raiding back and forth with the Christians. Their capture of the border fortress of Zahara and enslavement of the garrison began the last war in 1481. It was one mainly of sieges, sorties and raids, the few battles came from attempts to relieve sieges or in one case as a result of civil war among rivals for the doomed throne of Granada.

PORTUGUESE MEDIEVAL 1400-1493

This list covers the Portuguese wars in Morocco, its intervention in Spain ( 1474 -76) and its own civil wars.

BERBER 1400-1493

This list covers the armies of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania to the end of the period. The Portuguese capture of Ceuta in 1415 triggered the downfall of the Marinids of Morocco who were for a short while supplanted by the Hafsid Caliphate of Tunisia. The Hafsids were expelled from Morocco by the Wattasids after the middle of the century, while the Ziyanids gradually drove them from Algeria. The Portuguese exploited these conflicts to sack Casablanca (1468) and seize Tangier (1470) and the Spanish captured Melilla (1471). Minimum marked * applies only if Maranids or Wattasids of Morocco. ** Bombards must be in Fortifications of a BUA on a WW, and are immobile.