tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329505850202150980.post9159492028527103248..comments2023-03-06T07:54:34.092-08:00Comments on Threwdish Ways: Troop choicesEl Gregohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255734917358886698noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329505850202150980.post-5898856710644265352010-08-12T11:47:10.283-07:002010-08-12T11:47:10.283-07:00Troubardiers can be equipped with pistols, but the...Troubardiers can be equipped with pistols, but they are mostly an armored hand-to-hand assault unit.<br /><br />Your description of the combined halberd-firelock matches perfectly with the description of the weapons used by lesquins.El Gregohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15255734917358886698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329505850202150980.post-41387989591682000082010-08-12T05:27:12.725-07:002010-08-12T05:27:12.725-07:00he troubardiers are totally deprived of shooting a...he troubardiers are totally deprived of shooting ability? I know the setting belongs to Fantasy (well, to Science-Fiction, actually) but it seems a little 'extreme' for the 18th C.? Reputedly even the Highlanders shot a single volley before launching their wild 'celtic charge'.<br />Now there was an early 17th C. (unsuccessful but historical) proposal for a weapon suitable for abdul666https://www.blogger.com/profile/16172686098173637906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329505850202150980.post-19818793334862181722010-08-11T06:20:25.798-07:002010-08-11T06:20:25.798-07:00Haubardiers would be considered to be akin to stan...Haubardiers would be considered to be akin to standing grenadier battalions, not converged if I understand the sentiments in the books properly. No grenades though.<br /><br />You are correct in your statement that the troubardiers are not going to be easy to find!<br /><br />And the comment about staffslings is very perceptive - some of the monster-hunters, scourges, use staffslings to hurl El Gregohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15255734917358886698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329505850202150980.post-33691756339850506252010-08-11T01:56:08.568-07:002010-08-11T01:56:08.568-07:00According to an illustration on DM Cornish's a...According to an illustration on DM Cornish's art site, haubardiers are granted an unconventional headgear (not dissimilar to a mirliton without the flame, or a Grenzer hat): does this mean they are a kind of grenadiers -not as 'grenade-throwers' but as elite troops?<br /><br />For troubardiers, 'articulated' <a href="http://cardrichelieu.free.fr/henri%20IV.jpg" rel="nofollow"abdul666https://www.blogger.com/profile/16172686098173637906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329505850202150980.post-56658998496410699092010-08-08T08:32:37.966-07:002010-08-08T08:32:37.966-07:00Excellent ideas, thank you!
After seeing some art...Excellent ideas, thank you!<br /><br />After seeing some artwork of the troubardiers, you are probably correct in saying that they will need conversions. Not head swaps, though, probably at the torso! I am still researching this.<br /><br />There are many realms in the Half-Continent, and the Ottomans will make an appearance sometime after I get the first groups of minis settled.<br /><br />El Gregohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15255734917358886698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329505850202150980.post-29336345229333229302010-08-08T06:34:47.019-07:002010-08-08T06:34:47.019-07:00For possible ambuscadiers and foedermen, in additi...For possible ambuscadiers and foedermen, in addition to FIW / AWI rangers & LI, what about FIW <i>French Marines in Canada</i> -campaign dress, fatigue cap & waistcoat (specially fitting for foedermen?); and / or Spanish <i>Fusilieros de Montana</i> -they exist in 15mm, 'Soldadets' uses him for his WSS Catalan army...<br />The <i>Grassin</i> are quite 'exotic'-looking and abdul666https://www.blogger.com/profile/16172686098173637906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329505850202150980.post-59990927455014788432010-08-08T05:55:25.526-07:002010-08-08T05:55:25.526-07:00Inspirational - yet don't you fear some hetero...Inspirational - yet don't you fear some heterogeneity when mixing easily recognizeable* troops typs from different centuries?<br />What about late 17th C. Eastern European / Ottoman types, perhaps with tricorns -or lLandsknechts berets for the lesquins- thanks to headswapping? Was not the 'western european' coat derived during the second half of the 17th C. from 'Eastern' abdul666https://www.blogger.com/profile/16172686098173637906noreply@blogger.com