Originally Posted by
phoenix[illusion]
well, bosnia is done like typical medieval state, with spearmen, swordsmen, bowmen etc. we had research thread of bosnia, and there was not much info of some unique unit. that doesn't surprise me, since there are no much text about organization of bosnian army, mainly because of lost text during ottoman times, while we have in serbian documents unique units like pronijari, bastnici, krajisnici, almogavers, germans etc. serbia preserved some of medieval text cause of orthodox church which managed to take some of the documents, and preserve memory of glorious times. in bosnia after medieval times muslim religion was strong, so there was no attempt for people of bosnia to save any texts from those times. we could add maybe our own names like kopljanici, but that would only be translated name for spearmen from english.
btw, don't see this post as offensive, but realistic. church was in many nations keeper of tradition, while in bosnia many people were not so close to religion. not having strong "organization" like church, people of bosnia lost many traces of their medieval state