More Croat recruits

[Friends of General Haig]

After a summer hiatus, when wargaming had to take a back-seat, my Imperial army for the Thirty Years War has some new recruits in the form of ‘Croat’ light horse.



The riders are a mixture of The Assault Group (TAG) and Warlord Games metals. The horses are mostly TAG, with some Perry and Foundry as well. 



These light horsemen will also be used to swell the ranks of my Polish ‘Cossack’ light horse in the future.



My Swedish baggage trayne will be looking suitably nervous!



More on my blog here: https://theviaregia.blogspot.com/2020/06/croats-and-cossacks.html

[Citizen Sade]

Lovely work and your basing is fantastic.

[Paul Richardson]

Very nice indeed. I must get round to doing something similar at some stage.

[Friends of General Haig]

Thanks, Citizan Sade and Paul - comments much appreciated. 

[Paul Richardson]

I see from your blog that in the past you've used Foundry 7YW Cossacks as Croats. I's love to do something similar - the Foundry Cossacks are great figures and I've always wanted to have an excuse to buy them. Looking at the Foundry website, lots of the packs are for riders armed with a lance (or spear). Did you try to avoid these figures? I've read somewhere I think that the Croats did use the lance after it had otherwise largely fallen out of use but I'm not sure how common it was among the Croats. Did you use the figures designed to hold a lance but 're-arm' them with a different weapon - perhaps a carbine or a pistol? 

[Friends of General Haig]

Hi Paul, the Foundry Cossacks are great! Definitely the most characterful of this type of horsemen from any of the manufacturers I have seen.  I will have to get some more for my expanding collection of Eastern European light horse.

In my Foundry unit I left a couple of riders with spears as I thought they looked good and I think there may have been odd light lance or spear in use.  I also used one such figure for the ‘cornet’, and the others I replaced with carbines and pistols from the spares box, as you suggest.

Here is my blog post from last year with the Foundry Cossacks:
https://theviaregia.blogspot.com/2019/06/we-march-for-plunder.html

The Warfare Miniature sculpts for their forthcoming mounted Cossacks also look interesting.

[Warboss Nick]

Lovely painting, and good to see you are at the TYW again. Truely inspiring!

[Friends of General Haig]

Lovely painting, and good to see you are at the TYW again. Truely inspiring!

Thanks, Nick!  I thought after the big Lutzen push last year I might be TYWed out, but I have got a really bad case of the 17th centuries, and it keeps pulling me in.  I’m shifting East a bit next with Poles, and then, if I have Poles, it would be rude not to do some Ottomans, and then back in the Three Kingdoms I’d like to do Kilsyth, perhaps the Cornish, and the wars in Ireland could be interesting.  Then what about Rocroi?  I may skirmish a bit with Naps and WW2, but all the big efforts are still 17th century  .

[Paul Richardson]

Many thanks for your earlier reply. That's useful to know.