Eastern European Renaissance Troops

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  James MacLennan

  11/28/25, 11:45 AM

  We have a lot of Western Style troops available for Pike and Shot games but how about some Strelsi, or Polish style Musketeers with Pole-axe Musket rests. Not to mention Boyars and cossacks.

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  Brian Van De Walker

  12/1/25, 6:05 PM

  @James MacLennan the Russian Strelsi and PolishHaduks are pretty much a "two headswaps same set" and done issue, heck I think it is possible to do Vlad the Impalers' forces with another funny hat in the same set. Cossacks are even more general.

  Boyars might be an issue due to weapon used across time frame, but I could be really wrong on that.

   

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  Mithril2098

  12/2/25, 11:21 PM

  the Wallachian armies in the 15th century were equipped similar to russian armies, so yeah they and the Moldavian armies of the time could be covered mostly by headswaps.

  it is worth noting that that the polish Hajduk rarely used the bardich-gunrests. that seems to have been mostly a russian thing, most of the other cultures that adopted a similar approach to musketry seem to rely mostly on sabers for melee defense instead of the two handed axes and poleaxes the russians used. (pretty much all of them did use gun rests in general though)

   

  Boyars were a rank of the Nobility, roughly comparable to a Count or Marquess. they weren't really a type of soldier, more that they'd be the commander of several units of troops within a larger army. they'd be best represented by just making one of the cavalry figures extra fancy. that said the Boyars, their families, and a mix of closely associated lesser nobles did make up the "landed army" for the russian empire in the 15th century, which was a force of armored mounted archers.

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  timbus the thirteenth

  12/3/25, 6:36 PM

  i admit to not being much for historicals, but i feel like there's not a ton of games set in the renaissance era? i mean id buy the kits for fantasy reasons, but i'm curious how people would use them. 

  (also, if i see one more kit set in early dark ages/late roman western europe, i'm flipping out. it'd definitely be a welcome change of pace. but i digress).

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