Great video as always! My By Fire and Sword 2ed kickstarter just came in and I’m very excited to get started on it. Do you know of any good literature to read up on Polish / Ottoman history so I can get into a more ‘historical’ mindset?
Michał Paradowski has some good books published by Helion but their other titles dealing with the Ottomans are inconsistent in terms of quality. Check Robert Frost’s The Northern Wars and also The Last Muslim Conquest by Gábor Ágoston
Thank you for all the videos and research that you have done. Do you know if there were any cases during the classical era of Ottomans using heavy infantry in field battles in a similar manner to the English men at arms for example?
@@paracletus2923 we have some depictions of either dismounted cavalrymen or Janissaries in armor used to assault the breach in sieges. I think there are some examples of it in this video I did Ottoman Armor and Weaponry in the 1566 Siege of Szigetvar th-cam.com/video/kqPMj57KxPg/w-d-xo.html
@@Corvinuswargaming1444 thank you. Wargames Atlantic made a great set of stls of heavily armoured ottoman infantry, but I had the impression that such troops were ad hoc formations mainly used for storming fortresses etc. While the main striking arm of the ottoman army in field engagements was its cavalry.
Interesting work as ever. I do wonder how the Azabs, and cavalry equivalent, were deployed. One big mass feels unlikely so I presume they were brigaded in some form. Otherwise, how does this great mass work in front of a gun line? Cannon fodder I get, but not for their own guns!
@@theDexMcHenry its a good question, I’ll have to check some of the chronicles. I think the guns might have been set up to raise them to a higher elevation but that’s just a guess.
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Great video as always! My By Fire and Sword 2ed kickstarter just came in and I’m very excited to get started on it. Do you know of any good literature to read up on Polish / Ottoman history so I can get into a more ‘historical’ mindset?
Michał Paradowski has some good books published by Helion but their other titles dealing with the Ottomans are inconsistent in terms of quality. Check Robert Frost’s The Northern Wars and also The Last Muslim Conquest by Gábor Ágoston
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Thank you for all the videos and research that you have done. Do you know if there were any cases during the classical era of Ottomans using heavy infantry in field battles in a similar manner to the English men at arms for example?
@@paracletus2923 we have some depictions of either dismounted cavalrymen or Janissaries in armor used to assault the breach in sieges. I think there are some examples of it in this video I did
Ottoman Armor and Weaponry in the 1566 Siege of Szigetvar
th-cam.com/video/kqPMj57KxPg/w-d-xo.html
@@Corvinuswargaming1444 thank you. Wargames Atlantic made a great set of stls of heavily armoured ottoman infantry, but I had the impression that such troops were ad hoc formations mainly used for storming fortresses etc. While the main striking arm of the ottoman army in field engagements was its cavalry.
@@paracletus2923 those STLs are a little imaginative
@@Corvinuswargaming1444 really? I thought they were decently accurate, even if the back plates of the models with the mirror armour were kinda rushed.
Interesting work as ever. I do wonder how the Azabs, and cavalry equivalent, were deployed. One big mass feels unlikely so I presume they were brigaded in some form. Otherwise, how does this great mass work in front of a gun line? Cannon fodder I get, but not for their own guns!
@@theDexMcHenry its a good question, I’ll have to check some of the chronicles. I think the guns might have been set up to raise them to a higher elevation but that’s just a guess.
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