In the last few days before our Mohács game, I desperately tried to finish as many figures as I could.
One of them was Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The padishah is guarded by two solaks. The solaks were elite Janissaries who could fire a bow with either their left or right hand. This allowed them to surround and protect the sultan without ever having their backs to him.
In our Battle of Mohács scenario, King Louis II will lead the Hungarians. I wanted to represent him in a dignified manner, so I tried my best when painting him.
I am preparing for our Mohács wargaming scenario as part of the 500th anniversary commemorations. I have started creating representations of iconic commanders and historical figures from both sides.
There is only a short time left until the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Mohács. Until the 29th of August I am trying to paint us many figures as I can. This time two units of azab infantry archers are ready to face the Hungarians.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am preparing for the 500th anniversary of the battle of Mohács. The newest unit for my Ottoman Turkish Army is a unit of sipahis. They were the hard hitting cavalry force of the Turks.
The first cavalry unit of my Napoleonic Prussian Army is the 3rd Brandenburg Uhlan Regiment. This unit was one of he most experienced among the Prussian cavalry of the time, because from 1813 to 1815 they were present on every campaign. They fough in the following battles: Lauterseissen, Lowenberg, Coldberg, Katzbach, Bunzlau, Hochfirch, Rothnauslitz, Modern, Leipzig, Montier-en-der, La Chaussée, Châlons, Montmirail, Meaux, Laon, Sézanne, Paris, Ligny and Waterloo.
Two battalions of an other Silesian Landwehr Infantry Regiment were painted by my friend Krisztián Takács. Check out his blog: https://miniaturesoldiers.blogspot.com/ I only did the basing of the figures.
The first battalion has white, and the second has red shoulder straps.
One of the favourites among my wargaming stuff are the Ottoman Turks. I have started to paint them as an enemy for my Hungarians, but I fell in love with the topic. As the 500th anniversary of the battle of Mohács (1526) arises I would like to improve my Turkish force for the purpose of the event. Together with a couple of other Hungarian wargamers we are planning to replay the battle on the anniversary.
I had painted one battalion of Silesian Landwehr earlier this year. Normally Landwehr regiments had 3 or 4 battalions and Landwehr troops made up the bulk of any Prussian Army between 1813 and 14. Therefore I need to paint many of them.
As I wrote several posts about it - there is an annual historical wargaming event in Hungary, called Historikum. This time together with my friends we set up a Napoleonic game.
