1242 battle of lake Peipus

[Huron34]

Battle of lake Peipus

[Huron34]

Battle lac Peipus , russians archer and crosbow

[Huron34]

Peipus in 54mm

[batu]

Great so far!

[Huron34]

Good evening to all,
among the knights of Livonia where dependent on the territory of Livonia, we find as coat of arms (on the shields):
- red background with white star in the center
- red entirely
- black background with a white German cross in the center
- yellow background with a black German cross in its center
- shield split in two in the width direction: white at top/red at bottom
- yellow background with a black bull’s head in the center and pulling out his tongue (red)
- white background with a red chevron decorated with red cube/diamond placed on top
- yellow background with two black arrows crossing in its center.

That’s all for now.

[Huron34]

Hello,
I received my figures this weekend.
More than 30 models.
I'm going to start with the Russian infantry.

[Huron34]

The figures are very fine in the human anatomy.
They are full of detail.
This proves that the Northern Crusades Miniatures files are very accurate. The same goes for the printing by ‘Studio Historia’. Little or no retouching.
The resin is semi-rigid. It offers the quality of being slightly flexible, so very little breakage on more than 30 miniatures. The downside is that some very fine details are too flexible and therefore slightly twisted.
Nevertheless, in view of the quality of the engraving, I'm going to try to be as good as possible at painting.

Here are the first two. They represent the district militia (provincial levies no longer existed in Russia at that time). It was the towns that produced and equipped the inhabitants. District by district, according to the wealth of the merchants who paid for the militia's equipment). Here we have an archer, the youngest of whom were assigned to achers units, and an older man, the oldest of whom were equipped with pikes, shields and axes. The equipment worn was very light. A heavy coat to protect against the cold, or even a helmet and armour made of small iron plates. He could be equipped with a large leather rib or a fur cap.

[Huron34]

On the left are two militiamen in leather chaps. The 1st on the left is very well equipped in leather with a face protected by mesh and a helmet.
The second is more common. A mixture of leather and chain mail.
The other two on the right are both warriors, so the first can be part of both the militia and the Druzina on foot (a mix of armour and chain mail or leather). The second clearly belongs to the foot Druzina (armour and chain mail).
Northern Crusade Miniature offers a large number of warriors from the last two models.
But there are only single models for the other miniatures when they should represent the majority of troops, i.e. miniatures. Maybe more to come?
I forgot, there's also a heavily armed pikeman militiaman (first line of defence). But only 1. It's complicated to build up a line of defence. Here again, perhaps new miniatures will be added in the future.
Nevertheless, these 6 figures are of high quality.

[Huron34]

Good evening,
At the following link: ‘bibliodyssey.blogspot.com’ you will find ‘Baltic Heraldry’.
This will give you access to 24 coat of arms of medieval baltic knight:
LODE,
TISENHAUSEN,
ROPP,
BUXHOEWDEN,
MEYENDORF-VEXKUELL
PAHLEN-KOSKULLBREMEN,
UNGERN-STERNBERG,
WRANGEL,
LIEVEN,
ADERKAS,
ROSEN,
STACKELBERG,
LUEDINGHAUSSEN (WOlFF),
HAN,
ORGIES,
POLL,
FIRCKS,
MANTEUFFEL,
FOELKERSAM,
MAYDEL,
RUMMEL,
HOWEN.
The simplest are those that were available at the time.
Did they all take part in this battle?
They are known as the Knights of Livonia.

In Estonia, King Valdemar listed 141 lords. So far I haven't found the coat of arms of a single one!
Sorry

[terrement]

I remember watching Alexander Nevskii early one Saturday morning when one of the two channels that existed for some reason showed such films as well as multiple different serials (Rocketman, Flash Gordon, Ray "Crash" Corrigan, others).  May not have been historical, certainly was anti German propaganda, absolutely had a great soundtrack, most notably the battle on the ice segment.

[leadfool]

Very nice

[Huron34]

Good evening, gentlemen,

Thank you for the film. A bit retro.
Here is my first Russian pedestrian..: Druzina on foot (quality armour and yellow boots).
For the moment I still have to make the shield.
So easy to paint but be careful with the many details. It's easy to forget.

[LouieN]

A great warrior

[Marine0846]

I went back and looked at all the photos from the books posted.
Love the pictures.
Excellent painting on the first figure posted.

[Huron34]

Good evening,
A few new items following my research.
The combat sequence is in the form of 3 crusader units divided into 3 groups.
Each group was wedge-shaped (triangle with the point in front), the front and sides were made up of knights and the centre and rear of sergeants.
The Teutonic unit consisted of a central group made up of Teutonic knights, the group on the right by Teutonic confreres and the group on the left by crusader knights allied to the Teutonics.The Danish unit on the left fled under the effect of the horse archers allied to the Russians.
The unit on the right, made up of the Bishop of Tartu and his knights, fled when they saw the Russian horsemen led by Alexander. The crusaders allied to the Bishop of Tartu had suffered some time earlier against the Russian knights;
This left only the ?Teutonic? unit.The Teutonics swept aside the curtain of Russian skirmishers in front of them (archers and various skirmishers). It was at this point that the knights really saw the Russian army they were up against.
The Teutonic knights had two choices:
1- stop the charge, but the cavalrymen will become entangled and totally disorganised in the face of the enemy   
2- Continue the charge with the momentum of their horses and try to cross the Russian .

For their part, the Russians did not stand still;
Static cavalrymen cannot stand up to charging cavalrymen. They would be pulverised.
The Russian knights therefore counter-charged.
So it was really a cavalry battle that took place. Russians against Teutonics and allied crusaders. Hence the Russian accounts only mentioning the Teutonic knights as the enemy. The Russian infantry only arrived at the end of the battle.
A small number of Teutonic knights and allies were able to escape from the trap.
As a result, the Teutonic cavalry were overwhelmed by their numbers.