awesome era for games and even more for movies as it allows for hand to hand and gunfighting to coexist in a logical manner. As well as making for awesome fight scenes.
>films
Rocroi
The Deluge (polish film about the invasion of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth by sweden) >games
the aforementioned pike and shot game, total warhammer's empire faction is very pike-and-shot influenced
>books
The 1632 series is great for it
(very well-researched alternate history fiction about the 30 years war)
Are those pallisades supposed to be like cannon-proof field crennelations?
Looks like they're pointing the wrong way.
Unless this is a position that the French captured, and Richelieu is promenading as a flex.
They look like they're there to keep a tall ship from pulling up directly to the dock.
The Réunion is something I have to look into, because it's mildly confusing when summarized, and aside from a few very references in obscure media, nobody seems to care about it.
Are those pallisades supposed to be like cannon-proof field crennelations?
Looks like they're pointing the wrong way.
Unless this is a position that the French captured, and Richelieu is promenading as a flex.
I heard that the whole pike thing did heavy cavalry in, and they were rather rare, having been replaced by those guys who shot a bunch of pistols from horseback
The pike and shot era was the dawn of the 'infantry revolution' which would last into arguably the 20th century. The gun and the development of effective soldiery would continue to erode the role of cavalry as the dominant maneuver and tactical arm on the battlefield.
>from the 1600s to the 1900s, cavalry just gets lighter and lighter, increasingly relegated to scouting and sacking targets behind the lines
Somewhat counterintuitively, it's the late 1500s to 1600s that see the "heaviest" heavy cavalry, with very thick armor intended to protect against guns and swords alike. Heavy cavalry at this point, the cuirassiers or gendarmes, often wears a "three quarter" suit of armor, without sabatons or greaves.
It's also where we get the word "Jackboot" and it's connotation from. Since cavalrymen didn't wear leg armor, they started wearing high boots with some chainmail strips sewn inside to stop slashes, which were called "Jacked" boots.
Over the next hundred years or so, heavy cavalry in europe abandons armor almost entirely, before the french reintroduce cuirasses for their heavy cavalrymen.
The spanish also implemented it. And its not that hard of a concept to come up with.
I heard that the whole pike thing did heavy cavalry in, and they were rather rare, having been replaced by those guys who shot a bunch of pistols from horseback
Firearms allowed the cavalry to offend at greater ranges than lances and swords are just better defensive arms when in a close melee. Still lancers (even heavy ones) were retained.
The pike and shot era was the dawn of the 'infantry revolution' which would last into arguably the 20th century. The gun and the development of effective soldiery would continue to erode the role of cavalry as the dominant maneuver and tactical arm on the battlefield.
>from the 1600s to the 1900s, cavalry just gets lighter and lighter, increasingly relegated to scouting and sacking targets behind the lines
Somewhat counterintuitively, it's the late 1500s to 1600s that see the "heaviest" heavy cavalry, with very thick armor intended to protect against guns and swords alike. Heavy cavalry at this point, the cuirassiers or gendarmes, often wears a "three quarter" suit of armor, without sabatons or greaves.
It's also where we get the word "Jackboot" and it's connotation from. Since cavalrymen didn't wear leg armor, they started wearing high boots with some chainmail strips sewn inside to stop slashes, which were called "Jacked" boots.
Over the next hundred years or so, heavy cavalry in europe abandons armor almost entirely, before the french reintroduce cuirasses for their heavy cavalrymen.
Cavalry always remained important for the strategic and tactical maneuver.
the pike and shot era is extremely cool, it's where you get this great mix of medieval and 'modern' ideas of warfare
awesome era for games and even more for movies as it allows for hand to hand and gunfighting to coexist in a logical manner. As well as making for awesome fight scenes.
any recommendations for games and movies? i don't know anything about pike and shot besides the wide brimmed hats and pointy mustaches
>films
Rocroi
The Deluge (polish film about the invasion of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth by sweden)
>games
the aforementioned pike and shot game, total warhammer's empire faction is very pike-and-shot influenced
>books
The 1632 series is great for it
(very well-researched alternate history fiction about the 30 years war)
thanks anon downloading the deluge right now and total war
Alatriste is a mostly boring film from my country but the artistic direction and battle scenes are cool, and that guy from LOTR is in it.
And it features "cuck" used as an insult,
Muy à propos of 4chinz
Cant be all bad.
Are those pallisades supposed to be like cannon-proof field crennelations?
Looks like they're pointing the wrong way.
Unless this is a position that the French captured, and Richelieu is promenading as a flex.
(me)
Nvm I'm moronic, I just realized this is a pier and those are barbs to frick tall ships.
They look like they're there to keep a tall ship from pulling up directly to the dock.
It's Richelieu at the siege of La Rochelle, they literally built a big seawall to trap the fleet within the channel
The Réunion is something I have to look into, because it's mildly confusing when summarized, and aside from a few very references in obscure media, nobody seems to care about it.
The whole Renaissance-Napoleon period is kinda crazy.
We need to go back
Push of pike is literally the most boring era or warfare. Just two armies of pikemen trying to intimidate each other until one side quits the field
You just described every war made in the history of mankind.
Also the final era of true heavy cavalry
I heard that the whole pike thing did heavy cavalry in, and they were rather rare, having been replaced by those guys who shot a bunch of pistols from horseback
Kind of an over statement, there was melee cavalry throughout.
The pike and shot era was the dawn of the 'infantry revolution' which would last into arguably the 20th century. The gun and the development of effective soldiery would continue to erode the role of cavalry as the dominant maneuver and tactical arm on the battlefield.
>from the 1600s to the 1900s, cavalry just gets lighter and lighter, increasingly relegated to scouting and sacking targets behind the lines
Somewhat counterintuitively, it's the late 1500s to 1600s that see the "heaviest" heavy cavalry, with very thick armor intended to protect against guns and swords alike. Heavy cavalry at this point, the cuirassiers or gendarmes, often wears a "three quarter" suit of armor, without sabatons or greaves.
It's also where we get the word "Jackboot" and it's connotation from. Since cavalrymen didn't wear leg armor, they started wearing high boots with some chainmail strips sewn inside to stop slashes, which were called "Jacked" boots.
Over the next hundred years or so, heavy cavalry in europe abandons armor almost entirely, before the french reintroduce cuirasses for their heavy cavalrymen.
Love this aesthetic which is the reason I played Empire in WH Fantasy back in the day.
Play Pike and Shot!
>40 dollars
eugh
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For me it's the Doppelsöldner.
did the japanese and dutch really invent countermarching independently at roughly the same time or was there an exchange of ideas?
The spanish also implemented it. And its not that hard of a concept to come up with.
Firearms allowed the cavalry to offend at greater ranges than lances and swords are just better defensive arms when in a close melee. Still lancers (even heavy ones) were retained.
Cavalry always remained important for the strategic and tactical maneuver.
Italian Wars mod for TW2 Kingdoms
https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-italian-wars