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German foot knights later 14th century (AD)
« on: February 18, 2020, 05:07:58 PM »
We have just released German foot knights and foot command for our 15mm later 14th century range:
http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/late-fourteenth-century.html

These have German style armour and clothing.  As such they are also suitable for Poles, Serbs, Hungarians, and others who wore German armour.  The Serbs at Ankara would have looked like this (well, mounted versions, which we have already released).





Note that although we have a few models with cut-down lances, the models do not conform with the legend of Sempach, in which the Austrian men at arms are stated to have dismounted and fought in a phalanx using their lances as pikes.  The legend seems to transpose the character Arnold Winkelried onto this 14th century battle, when in fact an Arnold Winkelried was the commander of one of the divisions at the disastrous Battle of Bicocca (1522), where the Landsknechts would of course have used massed pikes.  Winkelried did die at Bicocca (who didn't?), but there's no contemporary record of a Winkelreid fighting or dying at Sempach.  In our opinion this does in the theory that dismounted German men at arms formed a spear hedgehog in the later 14th century!

« Last Edit: February 18, 2020, 05:16:39 PM by Khurasan Miniatures »
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