Total war winged hussars mod#

I hope they will be included in ETW, hussars were the only cav formation I know of that happily charged pike units head-on and tore them apart (thanks to monstrous 15 - 18 ft hollow lances, much too long for infantry to wield). Polish winged hussars are IMHO the coolest cav unit of all time pretty much anywhere in the world and now King Louise himself decided to make skins for it, moreover - your work looks fantastic mate (as always). Oh yes! I have drooled over your hoplite skins for a while now but this is something else again.

Total war winged hussars mod#

Here is unit for 'European Wars' (18th century mod for Rome Total War): Winged Hussar (in early 18th century, Polish Winged Hussars had winged helmets): Until the 18th century they were considered the elite of Commonwealth armed forces. In the battles of Byczyna (1588), Kokenhusen (1601), Kircholm (1605), KЕ‚uszyn (1610), Trzciana (1629), Chocim (1673) and LwГіw (1675), the Polish-Lithuanian hussars proved to be the decisive factor often against overwhelming odds. Down to and including the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the Polish-Lithuanian hussars fought countless actions against a variety of enemies, and rarely lost a battle. With the Battle of LubieszГіw in 1577 the 'Golden Age' of the husaria began. These Polish 'heavy' hussars were known in their homeland as husaria. By the 1590s most Polish-Lithuanian hussar units had been reformed along the same 'heavy' Hungarian model. When Stefan Batory, a Transylvanian-Hungarian prince, became king of Poland in 1576 he reorganized the Polish-Lithuanian hussars of his Royal Guard along Hungarian lines, making them a heavy formation, equipped with a long lance as their main weapon. Over the course of the 1500s hussars in Hungary had become heavier in character: they had abandoned wooden shields and adopted plate metal body armour. By the reign of King Stefan Batory the hussars had replaced medieval-style lancers in the Polish-Lithuanian army, and they now formed the bulk of the Polish cavalry.

Being far more maneuverable than the heavily armoured lancers previously employed, the hussars proved vital to the Polish and Lithuanian victories at Orsza (1514) and Obertyn (1531). Quickly recruitment also began among Polish and Lithuanian citizens.

Initially the first units of Polish hussars in the Kingdom of Poland were formed by the Sejm (Polish parliament) in 1503, which hired three banners of Hungarian mercenaries.