So why did muslims have the coolest sounding troop names? >Tabardariyya

>Dirka Dirka Mohamed Jihad
>Gammala gammala alllaaaaaaaaaah

Yeah, nah.

I prefer Roman troop names. Janissary and mamluk do sound cool though.
>Equites
>Centurion
>Decurion
>Auxilia
>Legate

>>2588909
Indeed, romans are definately up there.

It's sad that during medieval (and later) times there were no cool sounding names for troops in European armies. Everything was just knight, archers, peasant etc.

I can only think of Landsknechts and Tercio as cool sounding troop names, but other than that, it was pretty fucking generic imo.

>>2588921
You do realize I hope that jannissary literally means just "new soldier", taberdariyya "axeman", sipahi "soldier (in persian), etc..
If you spoke turkish first language, you'd consider muslim troop names banal and western ones exotic.

You think it sounds good because it's an exotic foreign language.
I could be describing the anal prolapse your mom is suffering from and it would sound "exotic"

>>2588921
Knight is cool sounding to me. Also swordsman, cavalry, huscarl, hussar, dragoon, lancer, phalangite, legionnaire, hetaroi, etc.

t. non-English speaker

>>2588897
>tabbydiarrhea
>white girls name
>mamluk
>fair enough
>polackroach
>???
these don't sound cool at all

>>2588897
Assassin wasn't actually a troop name, and the word it originates from has pretty negative connotations over the Muslim sphere.

Similarly, the Turcopole is also a Crusader-originated word, to my knowledge.

>>2588954
Most of these are archaic terms in Modern Turkish. Mamluk refers to the state more than anything.

t. turk

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All of those save Assassin sound like Kirby Villains.

Islam is the most Aesthetically displeasing culture

>>2588921
>tagmata
>grenadier
Dunno why, I just like them

>>2590613
Kys any time

assassin wasn't a type of troop

Myth : The word assassin is derived from the word hashish.

It is a common myth that the word assassin comes from the Arabic word haschishin for hashish user.

The story is that al-Hassan ibn-al-Sabbah used hashish to enlist the aid of young men into his private army known as assassins (aschishin - or follower of Hassan). One of the primary sources for this information comes from the writings of Marco Polo who visited the area in 1273, almost 150 years after the reign of Al-Hassan.

There are many conflicting facts and sources for this information.

i like norse ones

huskarl
bersekr
ulfhednar
svinfylking

>>2590613
Kirby has great villains though

>>2594663
>berzerkers
So you're telling me you don't watch lindybeige?

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>>2588897
They also objectively had the most aesthetically pleasing armor..
Literally the perfect combination of Persian design and Turkic versatility