... so I could not resist a roll call ...
*"Die Kaiserlichen Kommen" ("the Imperials are coming!") had the same intensity as "the Swedes are coming!" to most peasants and men and livestock in the German empire, one-hundred years later at the time of the Thirty Years War. A panic call to hide loved ones or run for life as fast as possible, as it meant, if not an approaching, plundering forage advance guards, then even a whole army with baggage train. A swarm of locusts that could defile a swath of land within days.
What a colorful and splendid collection, I'm jealous!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the compliment, Phil!
DeleteWe are waiting for the OOB and the Battle Report!
ReplyDeleteI will duly rapport the brutal incidents that will led to the demise of one army or the other, on my Landsknechts soul! ;)
DeleteThat is a great collection, you will have fun fielding them. I predict a bit of a bloodbath!
ReplyDeleteThank you Oli, you might be right there ... we decided to up the lines a bit to 3 pike blocks and two cav. battalias per side ... and as the pikes are metal, there is always a bit of a bloodshed. :)
DeleteAwesome looking imperial army!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain, will do my best to make it bigger :)
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