WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED

>>3369468
where can I get this but with cataphrats?

>>3370019
you can't cuz cataphrats are shit compared to the mighty winded huussar

>>3369468
I'm gonna be that guy and say that they used smaller wings in battle. Bigger were saved for special occasions.
But yeah they did have them.

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>the Polish force at Vienna consisted of 3100 hussars, 6800 pancerni, 2300 light cavalry, 500 hajduks, 600 arquebuisers, and 11300 musketeers
>hussars get all the glory

>>3370862
Dude 3000 hussars. They pounded their enemies when they were insanely outnumbered. That ratio is reasonable.

>>3370862
>elite forces remembered better than non-elite forces

hmmm

>>3372118
Compare it to the hakkapeliitta, a ragtag bunch of farmers.

>>3370862
>500 hajduks
wat
croats were in the polish army?

>>3372233
The poles called their polearm infantry Hajduks.

>>3369468

FREEDOM HE'LL BRING
LION AND KING
LION AND KING

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>>3372233
>>3372511
In Polish army It was common name for Polish infantry trained like Hungarian infantry.
Equipped with firearms(main weapon) and sidearms like sabers, warhammers, etc. Polish infantry since very early 17thC didn't use any pikes.

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>>3369468
they promptly fell into a fucking lake thanks to ALEXANDER NEVSKY

>>3370862
"Hussar" has become a catch-all term for central/eastern European light cavalry.

>>3372142
>Hakkapeliitta
literally who

>>3372593
These were the Teutons

>>3372593

It's it funny how the heroes of one story can just as easily be cannon fodder in other person's story.

>>3372912
Well Nevsky fought teutonic knights and they seem like a universal European enemy.

>>3372620
In the PLC context hussars were the heaviest class of cavalry, with several lighter types around.

>>3369468
Did they wore those wings in combat ?

WAR
SAW
CITY AT WAR

>>3375843
Yes but smaller ones. Bigger when used during ceremonies.

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>>3375839
>Age of Empires lied to me

>>3370862
>Polish force

Polish-Lithuanian.

And Poles wonder why Liets dislike them...

>>3370519
>winded hussars
kek

>>3378918
hey you try carrying all that equipment all day

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>>3369468
cultural appropriation is not daijobu

>>3378906
Dominant culture gets the naming rights.
Nobody know what's Lithuania's problem. NOBODY.

>>3378906
cannon fodder

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>>3379290
>>3379260
HUSSARS LOOKED LIKE THAT?

>>3377779
Which one?

>>3380316
>>3380266
>>3378906
>Polish-Lithuanian.

Actually the Lithuanian part of the army didn't make it to Vienna in time (they were around modern Slovakia when the battle happened), it really was just the Polish forces taking part.

Though the Lithuanian army did take part in the later campaign.

>>3380347
It's far more than Vienna.

>>3380352
Yeah but the >>3370862 post was talking about Vienna specifically and >>3378906 took issue with the forces being called Polish.

It really were just the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland military forces at Vienna. They were mustered separately and had a separate command structure. Sobieski left without the Lithuanians because he was getting reports and letters from the Emperor and Pope that the situation in Austria was getting desperate.

>>3380374
>he was getting reports and letters from the Emperor and Pope that the situation in Austria was getting desperate.
b-but I thought germans would do just fine without the Poles. They had more army!

>>3380393
Even if you can do it alone why not get some Polacks to die for you instead? Three birds with one stone, you waste fewer men, the enemy gets beaten, and the Polacks get weakened so you can partition them later.

>>3380621
Historical literacy: the post.

>>3380321
2. the expansion pack has hussars as the top upgrade to your light cav

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>>3372142
>hakkapeliitta
trip dubs wew lad

>>3380639
Well that was the general meaning outside the PLC.

>>3374771
>universal european
Nobody gives a fuck about them outside of the baltic area. Unless you count their proddie evolution: Prussia.

>>3378906
Everybody called the whole place just Poland and everyone polish. Except maybe poles who had the benevolence of calling it rzechkopolita or whatever is the weird slavic name for commonwealth.

>>3380393
Well they did just fine without poles the other two times (against Suleiman no less). Let's be honest, we will never know. But of fucking course they're gonna ask for help if the Ottomans are reaching Vienna, you don't stop calling a potential ally against such a powerful threat and risk defeat.

>>3381462
Res Publica essentially.

>>3370862
Riders of Rohan got all the glory during the siege of Minas Tirith

>>3372233
>croats
you mean Serbs

>>3382028
>you mean Serbs
No.

>>3369468
Shut up reddit

Am I the only one who finds it rad that the Commonwealth never really fielded massed pike formations like pretty much everyone else on the continent and instead just screened their musketeers and artillery with shitloads of cavalry?

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>>3379260
You're right
>the term derives from the cavalry of late medieval Hungary, under Matthias Corvinus
> Sarnecki, Witold (February 2008). Medieval Polish Armies 966-1500. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-84603-014-7.