The time of the mod is 1500 a.d., the epoch of Renaissance and the new era of the military science. Why this very date? The fire arms, which first shots thundered at the battlefields of Europe in the 14th century, acquires the importance to affect the results of campaigns in the beginning of the 16th century. Italian wars and some other conflicts, that started the 16th century, showed it. Hence starts the final breech in the medieval military system, the domination of the chivalry cavalry comes to an end and the long transition to the army of the new time begins. The time for musketeers and pikiners, reiters and cuirassiers has come. Bows and arrows are still used, especially by the ‘estern’ peoples and the muscovites, but a musket has already showed its power and meaning. The methods of leading wars change…
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uhm this is like a Fantasy-ish Units?
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yeah ive seen these guys in Warhammer total war
men they are polish winged hussars
No, you haven't...
no, they are some sort of eastern European dragoons i think, and they did dress like that. not fantasy.
This is the Polish hussars.
yes? its Polish hussars.
though in reality they are not put into combat wings - only for parades.
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yes but its better to remove the Wings.
You jerk, i come from Poland and hussars were one of the strongest units in that times. If anything should be removed then it's you!
Umm, but they *didn't* wear wings in this way *in renaissance.* So the only thing that should be removed is your comment.
no the wings shouldnt be removed, they were used in battle to scare enemy horses and infantry with the loud russling they made. kinda like how the sound of a tank nowadays would scare the **** out of a rifleman
No, that's false. Even now people are using sound-level metres to determine that the wings didn't make a sound at all, let alone loud enough to be heard during the immence din of a battle.
they were used in battle to scare enemy horses
it's just cinema myth )))
Yeah, but men equally as much. it was purely psychologial, especially seeing how, in renaissance, the wings were mounted on saddles and rarely taller than the level of a hussar's arms. The myth that they used sound to scare the enemy is false. Even now people are using sound-level metres to determine that the wings didn't make a sound at all, let alone loud enough to be heard during the immence din of a battle.
this is polish winged hussars :)
En.wikipedia.org
beautiful. And there's a theory with some pretty strong evidence supporting it that the wings *were* in fact used in combat, and that they were developed to counter the lassos of the Tatars. The lasso would pull the wings towards the back of the breastplate, allowing the lasso to slide off the hussar instead of pulling him off his horse. This made the wings practical in most mounted combat against the Ottomans, who used the Tatars as auxiliary light cavalry, as well as in fighting the Tatars themselves. Source: I'm a historian who studies early modern europe/west asia.
And again, awesome looking unit.
DO NOT REMOVE THE WINGS!!!!!
pls...
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