Landsknecht Missile Troops Ready To Support Warlord
April 12, 2018 by dracs
Warlord Games have announced that they will soon be releasing a set of 28mm plastic Landsknecht Missile Troops to support your 16th Century lines.
The Landsknecht were German mercenaries who rose to become the premier mercenaries of 15th - 16th Century Europe. Although they primarily used pikes, they also made tactical use of their ranged weapons to support their pike blocks.
From the artwork Warlord have previewed, this set will include crossbows and arquebus, letting you kit them up with the appropriate ranged weapons for their period of history.
Personally, I want to see them with another weapon the Landsknecht were famed for using; the zweihander. I have been learning to use these swords and they are taller than I am!
Would you field a force of colourful Landsknecht?
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This is a fascinating historical era and I’ve flirted with pike and shotte many times.
All of this aside …. SAM what are you doing posting this??? It is a school night young man and you have three scrollls yo complete before tomorrow!!!!
Finally some support for my plastic pike block 😎
The WFB Empire forum went a bit nuts over these back in the day. Glad they’re coming to market at last.
I wouldn’t say premier mercenaries of the period. Most iconic maybe? I’m pretty sure the title of premiere mercenaries of the era were the Swiss.
Going to try and pick up some of these at Salute.
Premier mercenaries of the 16th century.
Swiss dominated most of 15th century but the development of greater firepower meant they were a lot less effective in 16th.