Why weren't le ebin Winged Hussars able to stop Sweden from

>>3034619
the real question is why are the swedes so brutal?

>>3034621
No one ever really bothered to slap them back. When they fought against people who were willing to do so, they were noticeably meeker.

However in the case of Potop, it was a plague rather than the Blonde horde.

Winged hussars did not wear wings when going to battle, they were only ceremonial.

Fucking hell this always gets me

>>3034644
Weren't the wings used to scare enemy horses or someshit?

>>3034685
An angel, an winged hussar, it's something religious, I think

>>3034619
internal problems, mutiny, plague etc

>>3034619
>Were they just a meme?
you answered yourself

>>3034644
Artistic liberty motherfucker, contain your autism and realize the artist can do whatever he wants. In this case, he correctly gauges that adding wings would ad a stronger impact in the picture as an method for the viewer to identify what he was referencing and to make the horsemen more intimidating.

>>3034722
if you think they only exist on paintings, go to a fucking museum, pleb.

>>3034619
By the time the Swedes were invading Poland, hand guns were in wide use, making heavy cavalry obsolete / raping them hard.
The glory time of Hussars was 1500-1600, when guns were not in wide use.

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>>3034619
Protestants only fear god

>>3034730
Artistic liberty doesn't only cover paintings you illiterate shitstain

>why didn't a specific type of cavalry single handedly win a war where half the Polish nobility was actively fighting for the other side?

Are you retarded?

>>3034619
>Why weren't le ebin Winged Hussars able to stop Sweden from completely destroying Poland and killing 1/3 of the population?

Swedish invasion was actually a dynastic dispute between different branches of the same dynasty. Polish king John II Casimir was extremely unpopular at that point due to his mishandling of the Khmelnytsky's Uprising and subsequent war with Russia. When the Swedes arrived, Poles deposed John II and instead elected his Swedish cousin, Charles Gustavus.

Only then the Swedes chimped out and looked only for loot. So, Poles rebelled, recalled back John Casimir and slowly drove the Swedes out.

It should be also noted that the Polish army as of 1655 was a shadow of its former self after 7 years of continuous warfare and fore-mostly due to the massacre of Batoh of 1652, where the Cossacks treacherously massacred the flower of Polish officer corps.

>>3034741

That's not true at all. Lance cavalry like Hussars remained relevant throughout the 1600's, and would see a revival in the Napoleonic wars, and I'd say remained relevant until the era of rifled muskets, where infantry could loose multiple effective shots before the range closed.

Lancers had a distinct advantage on the charge against sword cavalry like Reiters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kirchholm

Lance armed Hussars charged Swedish Reiters, and routed them through their own pike blocks, which made the infantry vulnerable to cavalry as well.

Then there's also the Vienna meme, which happened in 1683.

>>3034644
>muh wings
They were sometimes worn sometimes not, just like the variety of Templar gear that wasn't always used

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>>3034883
Are you trying to make a well written, non-meme response on /his/, son?

>>3035088
You've got mail.

>>3034691
Well there might be a symbolic interpretation but the wings made a very loud sound when they reached a high speed which frightened enemy cavalry and troops.

>>3034619
They have a 33% damage buff against kebab only

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>>3034619
>Sweden from completely destroying Poland and killing 1/3 of the population?
Except they didn't. And Swedish forces were only about 20% - 1 out of 7 - enemy forces which Poland fought during the Deluge.

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>>3034741
What BS. Winged hussar armour could stop musket fire and there is a miracle report of it stopping a small canon ball as well.
P.S. The winged hussars used pistols or muskets themselves btw, besides their long 6m hollow lances, sabres, 1,6m rapier-swords, war hammers or battle axes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbMhN2sk5nU