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It is safe to say that I have come late to the Renaissance, but come, I have! These beautiful Perry stradioti, painted by Shaun Watson, are Balkan light cavalry, originally of Albanian origin, who served in the Venetian and other armies.
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I really like their natty top hats, especially the officer with feather (below). Move over, Noddy Holder!
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Finally, here is a top-down view. I've mounted them on my FK&P6 bases. These days, I mount most of my minis on them, because I can use them both on 15cm grids (two bases wide) and 20cm grids (three bases wide). For the 15cm grid my light cavalry units will be 3-4 men strong, and for the 20cm stradioti grid they will be 10 strong, as below). I have a second unit under way, which I hope will be enough for my Venetians, and I also hope to muster two units of 18 vero armigero (men-at-arms) and various militia types (archers, crossbows, spearmen) by the summer. We'll see!
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In other news, chum "Balkan" Dave Watson has written nine new army lists, which I've combined with the four existing lists to make a comprehensive booklet of no fewer than 13 Medieval Balkan lists for To the Strongest! There are some super new lists- not least the Catalan Company, Vlad III "the Impaler's" Wallachians and Skanderbeg's Albanians. Oh and there's a Venice Abroad list with lots of stradioti. :-) You can download the booklet, for free, from here.
6 Comments
Close this window Jump to comment formNice unit! Love the hats too!
2 March 2020 at 20:52
They look magnificent!
3 March 2020 at 07:11
Thanks chaps!
3 March 2020 at 07:36
Very nice they look too.
3 March 2020 at 08:33
Great job; Stradiots are the quintessential Italian Wars Light Cavalry
4 March 2020 at 01:27
Lovely looking Balkan mauraders!
Best Iain
4 March 2020 at 06:12