Tsardoms Total War - 1448 Campaign Strat Map Characters

[jurcek1987]

The strat map models for the 1448 campaign have been remade to fit the XV century. There will also be special strat map models for hero characters such as Skanderbeg or Janos Hunyadi or Vlad the Impaler.

Here is a selection from several factions:

Serbian faction leader

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Serbian faction leader, heir, noble houses and generic general

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Bosnian faction leader, heir, noble houses and generic general

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Milanese faction leader

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Sicilian faction leader

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Venetian faction leader

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Moldavian heir

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Moldavian faction leader

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Wallachian faction leader

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Wallachian faction leader (variant)

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Austrian faction leader

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Austrian noble houses and generic general

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Polish faction leader

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Polish faction leader and noble houses

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Hungarian faction leader

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Hungarian noble houses and generic generals

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Ragusan faction leader, heir and generic general

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Swiss faction leader, heir and general

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Albanian faction leader and noble house generals

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Wallachian faction leader, noble house generals and generic generals

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[Wallachian]

Reserved

[_TotalWar_]

Simply beautiful!

[Anubis88]

I'm so hyped for this campaign it's crazy

[jurcek1987]

A few more revisions

Vlad the Impaler

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King Matthias the Just

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Reference

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[Antiokhos Euergetes]

Beautiful, Matthias is not at all vain is he
It's rather frustrating I'm at this precise moment in the main campaign.
Do you know what each of the heraldic symbols on the Pavise are? I recognise Moravia, and I think Croatia

[jurcek1987]

Heh I was wondering about those symbols as well The top one could be Bosnia

[PavleSubich]

Noup
they used a hand with a sword for bosnia(rama)

[PavleSubich]

that coat at the lovest of the shueld is a frankopani coat of arms

[VINC.XXIII]

Outstanding work

[PavleSubich]

that armor is outstanding!
is it matias korvin?

BTW
do u people have any knowledge about military evolution ih hungary-croatia in the age of landsknehts,pikes and arquebuzes? I know of uskoks,husars but what unit where the backbone of hungaryan,croatian armies?
did they have their ovn unit that imitated the swis helbadier,pike fasion?

[MIKE GOLF]

Incredible work!

[Anubis88]

that armor is outstanding!


BTW
do u people have any knowledge about military evolution ih hungary-croatia in the age of landsknehts,pikes and arquebuzes? I know of uskoks,husars but what unit where the backbone of hungaryan,croatian armies?
did they have their ovn unit that imitated the swis helbadier,pike fasion?

Nope we have 0 knowledge... We are just putting fantasy units in

[PavleSubich]

so how where those armies?

[Brezkimra]

BTW
do u people have any knowledge about military evolution ih hungary-croatia in the age of landsknehts,pikes and arquebuzes? I know of uskoks,husars but what unit where the backbone of hungaryan,croatian armies?
did they have their ovn unit that imitated the swis helbadier,pike fasion?

I'm not a member of the team, but I can answer you.

So, after the death of King Mathias (1490) to the end of the mod timeframe (1530):


In Hungary-Croatia the main power was the cavalry. The backbone of the armies were the heavy cavalry in western style (The average heavy cavalry wore less horse armor, and used iron mace, straigt sword or heavy sabre after lance. Shield use was rare because the entire plate armor made it unnecessary.).
Of the light cavalry, the hussars were the most important (some of them wore light armor and helmet + horse barding at back). Their speed was essential against the fast Turkish raiders. (After the death of King Matthias, the Austrians also used a small number of Hungarian hussars as mercenaries.) (In Tsardoms you can't see the exact equipment of the age-appropriate Hungarian/Croatian hussar, only the light hussar after 1550.)

The most significant and widespread units in the Hungarian infantry were the arquebusiers (they did not wore armour or less and mostly used sabre and sword as melee weapon).

The domestic heavy infantry was not significant. (Full armoured Bohemian, and Polish heavy infantry fought as mercenaries in Hungarian armies with pole weapons and arquebuses, like in Battle of Mohacs-1526).

Hungarians preferred the more agile fighting style, so they didn't fought in pike/halberdier formations like the swiss or, landschneckts. But at the time of Hungarian-Bohemian personalunion (1490-1526.) recruited landschneckt units from Bohemia. (The king had 700 landschneckt halberdier personal guard too.)



The use of war wagons was also known.


Some contemporary illustrations:

[PavleSubich]

thaniks!
so there is not a big variet of units

[Brezkimra]

thaniks!
so there is not a big variet of units

There were another units too, I just listed the most important ones.
There was also medium lancer cavalry from lower noble class, royal hussars, light horse archers, székely horse archers, székely light lancer cavalry, székely foot spearmen, frontier warriors, armored spearmen, pavise infantry, halberdiers, saxon heavy cavarly, saxon handgunners, crossbowmens, hooked gunners, canons, peasant infantry.

[jurcek1987]

From the images I've seen I'd agree that the current Hussar Lancers are a bit out of our timeframe. They look more like our Serbian Gusar unit

[Brezkimra]

Yes, the Serbian Gusar more similar to the 15th century Hungarian Hussar then the current one.
In historical the first hussars in Hungarian armies was ethnically serbians under rule of King Sigismund. Then under the rule of Hunyadis more and more Hungarians appeared in the hussarship, and with that the shape of the weapons changes a bit.
King Matthias had already written in a decree what equipment the hussar should have, and there are written sources about the armament even after his reign. According to some decree, the hussar must wear chainmail and conical helmet (with iron nose guard stick, similar to the Turkish type helmet)

A correct reconstruction drawing:



If You want make remodelling the Hungarian Hussar, and if You would like, I can send photoes of original weapons from museums.

[jurcek1987]

Hungary will have access to Serbian Gusars as mercenaries from the start and the native Hussars unlock in 1470. I would actually be interested in creating a new model for those. Post the images in the research thread please.